English Language Course: Week 5 - Final Exam and Oral Assessment, Slide di Lingua Inglese

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Week 5

Da lunedì 27 aprile tutorato

Prova finale scritta

• Prova finale scritta: composizione scritta di 200 parole. La traccia sarà una formal o informal letter (letter to a friend, letter of complaint, a description of a person, a description of a house/place). La valutazione tiene conto, oltre che della correttezza grammaticale e dell’uso di un lessico adeguato, del rispetto delle indicazioni fornite. - Tale prova è destinata a chi ha superato il parziale di dicembre.
• Gli studenti/studentesse che non hanno superato o non hanno sostenuto la prova parziale avranno un task in più ( esercizio di filling the gaps sul modello degli esercizi fatti a lezione). La prova scritta è cosı̀ composta: -
• • Per studenti/studentesse che abbiano superato il parziale di dicembre: **solo la composizione scritta
• • Per studenti/studentesse che non abbiano superato il/non si siano** presentati al parziale di dicembre: composizione scritta + esercizio filling the gaps

Prova orale

• conversazione in lingua inglese con domande sui testi analizzati dalla docente a lezione e domande sui volumi di riferimento (si veda programma nel sito docente).
• I materiali delle lezioni sono caricati su google classroom (codice ec4gdch). Verrà valutata la competenza linguistica a anche la capacità di analisi del testo dello studente.

1. C. Latham Koenig, C. Oxenden, English File Intermediate with Test and assessment CD ROM , Oxford University Press.
2. Biber D., Conrad S., Leech G. (2013) Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English , Longman (Pearson Education Limited), nello specifico i seguenti capitoli: 2 lexical words, function words (the structure of words, compounding, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, coordinators, subordinators, wh-words), 4 (concrete/abstract nouns, countables/uncountables, proper nouns, collective nouns, gender and nound formation, pronouns, articles, possessive determiners, demonstrative determiners, quantifying determiners, the formation of derived nouns), 5 verbs (verb formation, multi-word verbs, phrasal verbs, prepositional verbs), 7 adjectives and adverbs, (function and formation)

Writing a letter

• Introduction
• Body
• Conclusion
• Formal/informal

• The salutation directly addresses the person you're sending the letter to. It's always used in formal letters, but sometimes skipped in informal messages.
• Here are some examples of formal and informal salutations:
• If you're sending the email to a group, **address the entire group:
• Dear Students** ,
• If you've got the person's name you want to send the email too, it's proper to use their name along with any title the person has: - Dear Professor Smith ,
• Here's an example of a formal salutation without a name: - Dear Human Resources Director ,
• where you don't know a person's name or title, it's okay to use this salutation:
• To whom it may concern,

- Starting phrases

• Dear Tim, Good morning Tim, - Ending phrases
• Regards, With best wishes, With many thanks and best wishes,

Make clear why you are writing

• I am writing to:
• ask for further details about ... inform you that my new address is … complain about your customer service. say thank you very much for all your hard work. apply for the job as Teacher of Maths at your school.

Finishing a letter

• Regards, With best wishes, With many thanks and best wishes,
• Rgds, Cheers, Bye for now, See you soon

• Dear Mr Garcia
• Re: Roxanna Garbey
• Roxanna Garbey has been accepted for a position as Passenger Service Agent with Far Eastern Airways at Gatwick Airport.
• In order for Roxanna to work at Gatwick, she must have a special pass which would permit her to visit high-security areas. She has given your name as reference.
• I would appreciate if you could complete the enclosed form and return it to us as quickly as possible. She is due to start work with us on 15 March, but can only do so after we receive your reference.
• Thank you for your cooperation.
• Your sincerely,
• J. Dent
• Personnel Manager

Letter of complaint

• Dear Mr Green,
• I am writing to complain about the service I have received from your company.
• Last month I visited Cornwall with my family and booked one of your two-bedroom apartments. When we arrived at six o’clock in the evening on 17th May our apartment was not ready and we had to wait in the car for an hour.
• When we entered our apartment, we found that there was only one bedroom. The children had to sleep on the floor.
• The next morning I went to reception to complain. The receptionist was very rude and informed us that there were no two-bedroom apartments free. We left our apartment and booked in a nearby hotel.
• I am very dissatisfied with your service and I would like a full refund.
• I look forward to hearing from you soon,
• Yours Sincerely,
• Anna Jameson

• Hi Linda,
• How's it going?
• Sorry I haven't been in touch for such a long time but I've had exams so I've been studying every free minute. Anyway, I'd loveto hear all your news and I'm hoping we can get together soon to catch up. We just moved to a bigger flat so maybe you can come and visit one weekend?
• How's the new job?
• Looking forward to hearing from you!
• Helga
• Hi Helga,
• I've been meaning to write to you for ages now so don't worry! How did your exams go? When will you know your results? I'msure you did brilliantly as always!
• As for me, I'll have been in the new job three months by the end of next week so I'm feeling more settled in. At first I felt like Ihad no idea what I was doing but now I realise it's normal to feel like that. There was a lot to learn – there still is actually – and I soon had to get used to the idea that I can't know everything. I used to work late a lot and at weekends but I'm slowly gettinginto a normal routine.
• Which means I'd love to come and visit! We really need a good catch up! I can't believe we haven't seen each other since Carl'swedding. How does next month sound?
• Anyway, I'd better get back to work.
• Congratulations on the new flat! Can't wait to see you!
• Love,
• Linda