Conoscenza lingua straniera inglese

• CFU 3
• Prerequisiti

  Quadro comune europeo di riferimento per la conoscenza delle lingue (QCER)-A1 -
  Livello elementare
  Comprende e usa espressioni di uso quotidiano e frasi basilari tese a soddisfare
  bisogni di tipo concreto. Sa presentare se stesso/a e gli altri ed è in grado di fare
  domande e rispondere su particolari personali come dove abita, le persone che
  conosce e le cose che possiede. Interagisce in modo semplice, purché l’altra persona
  parli lentamente e chiaramente e sia disposta a collaborare.
  

• Obiettivi formativi

  Questo corso offre agli studenti universitari una solida base in lingua inglese, nonché
  l'opportunità di studiare, praticare, approfondire, migliorare le proprie capacità di
  comunicazione scritta e orale contemporaneamente all’apprendimento delle
  competenze richieste ad un professionista dei beni culturali.

• Programma del corso

  • Imparare/rielaborare le struttura delle frasi utili in inglese e le linee guida per
  utilizzare gli articoli, le preposizioni e le forme verbali;
  
  • imparare le strategie per usare efficacemente la “nuova lingua”;
  
  • fare attenzione alla pronuncia e ai problemi grammaticali;
  
  • miglioramento della comprensione attraverso l’ascolto di podcast ed altri
  esercizi di ascolto pertinenti ai beni culturali;
  
  • apprendimento della terminologia rilevante per il settore dei beni culturali.
  
  
  Compiti scritti
  
  Gli studenti dovranno redigere una breve relazione (memo format) su un bene
  culturale (monumento, paesaggio, pittura, scultura o altra opera d'arte di loro
  scelta) situato in Italia. Gli studenti dovranno fornire una descrizione dettagliata che
  dovrà contenere informazioni sufficienti in modo che una persona o un turista,
  leggendo la descrizione, possa facilmente trovare il bene culturale indicato in un
  museo o zona della citta’.
  
  Esempio del compito
  
  Si veda l’Allegato
  
  Presentazioni Orali
  
  Utilizzando Power Point, i gruppi di studenti faranno una breve presentazione con
  delle slides su un tema culturale a loro scelta.
  
  
  THE LEANING TOWER OF PISA 2010-2011
  ENGLISH FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
  The tower in Pisa, Italy, is famous because it leans. It is a very good example of
  Romanesque architecture, and would probably be famous, even if it didn't lean. It is
  187 feet high and until 1990 it leaned at about a 10-degree angle. The top leaned
  17 feet more over than was originally intended. Experts estimated that the lean
  increased by one inch every 20 years.
  In 1172, a wealthy widow named Berta di Bernado, left sixty coins in her will to buy
  stones to build the bell tower. It is a bell tower to accompany the cathedral. No one
  knows who the actual designer was definitely, but construction began in August 9,
  1173. Because the people of Pisa had a lot of wars, the building was not completed
  until 1350.
  The tower is circular, and has eight floors of limestone and lime mortar, covered on
  the outside with marble. The outside of each level has columns and arches. The
  staircase has 293 steps from the ground to the eighth floor. The eighth floor
  contains the bells, seven in all.
  The first stage was the building of the first three floors from 1173 to 1178.
  Construction began again in 1275 with Giovanni di Simone, an architect. He built the
  next three floors, the work stopped again until 1319. The final two floors were
  added between 1319 and 1350.
  In 1178, people noticed the building leaned to the north. During the second
  construction phase, the lean was corrected by building the floors parallel to the
  ground, and not level with the leaning building. Then the tower started to lean
  south.
  The ground is only 6 feet above sea level and built on a riverbed. The ground below
  has layers of sand and clay. The layers are not even and the weight of the building
  has compressed them, and so the tower it has sunk more in some places than
  others.
  Some people think that the tower has not fallen because it took many years to build
  it. The ground became compact so the foundations were stronger. The Tower’s
  materials, limestone and lime mortar, can bend and resist forces that make other
  rocks crack.
  Many people developed plans to stop the tower from falling. Some of them were
  almost catastrophic. However, if 1999 a British engineering professor decided to
  remove ground from the high side, very slowly, so the building would not have a
  sudden shock. The work finished in June 2001 and the tower was straighened by
  16 inches, which is the position it was in during 1838. The engineers think the
  Tower is safe for another 300 years.
  Why didn’t the Professor and his colleagues make the Tower straight? Because it is
  the LEANING Tower of Pisa!
  

• Testi (A)dottati, (C)onsigliati
  • 1.  (C) D. COTTON - D. FALVEY - S. KENT MARKET LEADER, Elementary Business English, New edition Pearson longman 2007
• Altre informazioni / materiali aggiuntivi

  vari articoli e podcast da internet, i siti web di riviste ed articoli sui beni culturali.
  
  Un dizionario italiano-inglese e' consigliato.

• Metodi didattici
  • lezione frontale
  • esercitazioni
  • gruppi di lavoro
  • seminari
• Modalità di valutazione
  • scritto
  • orale
• Lingue, oltre all'italiano, che possono essere utilizzate per l'attività didattica

  inglese

• Lingue, oltre all'italiano, che si intende utilizzare per la valutazione

  inglese

MATERIALI DIDATTICI

• Lesson 1st December 1.8 MB

  Please read the World Wonder Memorials and Mysteries which is under part 1 of the Lesson on the 24th of November and underline any vocabulary you do not know. Please bring the papers we did not cover from last week's lesson to this week's lesson. Print out these pages and bring them to class.

• Lesson 24th November part 2 1.1 MB

  Please bring any papers we did not cover in the lesson from the 17th November to this week's class. Print this lesson and bring to class.

• Lesson 24th November part 1 1.4 MB

  Please read the World Wonder Walls and Towers and underline any words you do not know. Please bring the pages Memorials and Mysteries for next week's class on the 1st of December.

• Lesson 17th November part 2 1.3 MB

  Please bring the papers we did not cover from last week's lesson to this week's lesson. Print out this lesson and bring the papers to class.

• Lesson 17th November part 1 770.6 kB

  Please read World Wonder Mysterious Monuments and underline any vocabulary you do not know.

• 10 November Lesson part 2 1.2 MB

  Please bring the papers we did not cover from last week's lesson to this week's lesson. Print out this lesson and bring to class.

• November 10 Reading exercise part 1 719.7 kB

  Please read the article Puzzling Pyramids and underline any vocabulary you do not know. Please print it out, bring it to class and we will answers questions about it in class.

• 3 NOVEMBER LESSON part 2 1.6 MB

  Please print out the entire module and bring it to class.

• 3 NOVEMBER LESSON PART 1 714.7 kB

  Please read the World Wonder Built for Eternity and underline any vocabulary you do not know.

• 27 October part 2 1.4 MB

  Please print out the entire module and bring it to class.

• 27 October lesson part 1 753.4 kB

  Please read the Forts and Castles module and underline any vocabulary you do not know.

• 20 october lesson 1.6 MB

  Please print out the entire module. Please read the first two pages, and underline anything that you do not understand. Do not forget to bring your activity file.

• ACTIVITY FILE 1.3 MB

  You will need to print out these 11 pages and bring them to every class. They are for speaking exercises that we will carry out during class. Page 140 is out of place so you need to put all pages in order after you print them out.

• WONDERS OF THE WORLD MODULE 1 694.0 kB

  Homework for 13 October. Please read and underline any words you do not know.

• MODULE 1 1.8 MB

  These pages will cover 6 and 13 October lesson