This document provides an overview of an English intensive course taking place from June 12th to July 21st 2014. It includes a course plan outlining the topics and dates of 13 lessons over 26 hours. It discusses the components of the course including grammar, pronunciation, video comprehension, and in-class work. It proposes using an online forum for students to post lesson summaries, grammar homework, and other topics they find interesting. Finally, it recommends resources for studying such as the English Grammar in Use book, dictionaries, video/audio practice from iTunes U and TED, and websites like BBC for reading practice.

1. English intensive
12 June–21 July 2014
13 lessons; 26 hours

2. Towards the end of poverty
IN HIS inaugural address in 1949 Harry Truman said that
“more than half the people in the world is living in condition
approaching misery. For the first time in history, humanity
possess the knowledges and skill to relieved the suffering of
that people.” It has took much longer than Truman hopes, but
the world is lately been making extraordinary progress in lifting
people out of extremes poverty. Between 1990 and 2010, there
number felt by half as a shares of the total population in
developing country, from 43% to 21%—a reductions of almost 1
billion people.
Now the world have a serious chances to redeem Truman’s
pledge to lift the least fortunates. Of the 7 billion people alive on
the planet, 1.1 billion subsists below the internationally accepted
extreme-poverty line of $1.25 a days...
The Economist – 1st June 2013
find 20 errors

3. Towards the end of poverty
IN HIS inaugural address in 1949 Harry Truman said that
“more than half the people in the world is living in condition
approaching misery. For the first time in history, humanity
possess the knowledges and skill to relieved the suffering of
that people.” It has took much longer than Truman hopes, but
the world is lately been making extraordinary progress in lifting
people out of extremes poverty. Between 1990 and 2010, there
number felt by half as a shares of the total population in
developing country, from 43% to 21%—a reductions of almost 1
billion people.
Now the world have a serious chances to redeem Truman’s
pledge to lift the least fortunates. Of the 7 billion people alive on
the planet, 1.1 billion subsists below the internationally accepted
extreme-poverty line of $1.25 a days...
The Economist – 1st June 2013
find 20 errors

4. Towards the end of poverty
IN HIS inaugural address in 1949 Harry Truman said that
“more than half the people in the world are living in conditions
approaching misery. For the first time in history, humanity
possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve the suffering of
those people.” It has taken much longer than Truman hoped,
but the world has lately been making extraordinary progress in
lifting people out of extreme poverty. Between 1990 and 2010,
their number fell by half as a share of the total population in
developing countries, from 43% to 21%—a reduction of almost 1
billion people.
Now the world has a serious chance to redeem Truman’s pledge
to lift the least fortunate. Of the 7 billion people alive on the
planet, 1.1 billion subsist below the internationally accepted
extreme-poverty line of $1.25 a day...
The Economist – 1st June 2013

5. English intensive
12 June–21 July 2014
13 lessons; 26 hours

6. Course Plan
1 Thursday 12 June
2 Monday 16 June
3 Thursday 19 June
4 Monday 23 June
5 Thursday 26 June
6 Monday 30 June
7 Thursday 03 July
8 Monday 07 July
9 Thursday 10 July
10 Monday 14 July
11 Wednesday 16 July
12 Thursday 17 July
13 Monday 21 July

7. date and time
to be confirmed
Course Plan
1 Thursday 12 June
2 Monday 16 June
3 Thursday 19 June
4 Monday 23 June
5 Thursday 26 June
6 Monday 30 June
7 Thursday 03 July
8 Monday 07 July
9 Thursday 10 July
10 Monday 14 July
11 Wednesday 16 July
12 Thursday 17 July
13 Monday 21 July

8. final
presentations
Course Plan
1 Thursday 12 June
2 Monday 16 June
3 Thursday 19 June
4 Monday 23 June
5 Thursday 26 June
6 Monday 30 June
7 Thursday 03 July
8 Monday 07 July
9 Thursday 10 July
10 Monday 14 July
11 Wednesday 16 July
12 Thursday 17 July
13 Monday 21 July

9. your approach

10. 60,924,000

11. 60,924,000
population of Italy

12. 2,014,000

13. 2,014,000
students in higher
education

14. 3.3%

15. 3.3%
% of uni students
in Italy

16. 3.3%
this number
means you are
special

17. in these lessons
I expect your approach
to show this

18. in other words

19. please bring your intelligence
and commitment to class

20. about learning English

21. intermediate is different
it’s difficult to make progress
don’t drift!

22. intermediate is different
it’s difficult to make progress
don’t drift!

23. ‘drift’

25. progress
time

26. progress
time
Can you describe
this graph?

27. progress
time
the
intermediate
plateau

28. English as
object of
study
English as
means of
communication

29. vocab:
1,000-3,000
words
vocab:
15,000+
words

30. grammar:
past, present,
future
grammar
as a
system

31. foreign
language as
alien
foreign
language as
culture

32. what can you do to get past
the intermediate plateau
?

33. about this course

34. components:

35. grammar

36. grammar
we decide the grammar syllabus
together

37. some ideas…

38. grammar verbs vs. main verbs
would have done
present perfect
future tenses
modal verbs
word order
something else

39. pronunciation

40. pronunciation
every Monday

41. pronunciation
the English phonetic system
is different

42. video comprehension

43. video comprehension
every Thursday

44. in class

45. in class
‘show and tell’
every lesson

46. in class
group presentations
instead of final exam

47. on the forum

49. 1. lesson summaries

50. 2. grammar homework

51. English Grammar in Use
Units 15-16
-----------
I’ve done the exercises. It took me
20 minutes.
I understood everything except 2.4
– why is “….” not right?
example post

52. examples of how you can get
English practice
watch a film in English
TED
iTunes U
BBC or other reading on the internet
reading a research paper for your subject
talking to Anglophone tourists in the pub

53. 3. anything you find interesting

54. The forum is your space. Use it
to post anything you find,
interesting, curious or useful.
You can ask for help and you
can propose problems for
discussion.

55. Remember that you can learn a
lot from your classmates
- read their writing homework
- try to answer their questions

56. resources for this course

57. all the links on the following
pages can be found at:
https://pinboard.in/u:davidatrome/t:Roma3/

59. resources: I
grammar book

60. buy, beg, borrow or steal …
English Grammar in Use

61. buy, beg, borrow or steal …
English Grammar in Use
OK not
‘steal’

62.  intermediate
 4th edition
 with answers
(CD-ROM optional)

63.  intermediate
 4th edition
 with answers
(CD-ROM optional)

65. resources: II
CLACSON

66. Moodle@CLA
http://clacson.uniroma3.it

72. no capitals
no spaces
no accents

73. resources: III
dictionaries

74. Oxford Advanced Learner’s
Dictionary (OALD)
www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com

76. Bi-lingual dictionaries
don’t use them!

77. Bi-lingual dictionaries
but if you must…

78. WordReference
http://www.wordreference.com/

80. Oxford Collocations Dictionary
http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com/o#.UbBFkha0
LzI

82. resources: V
video and audio practice

83. iTunes U
http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u

89. TED
(Technology, Entertainment, Design)
www.ted.com

91. The BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/inde
x.shtml

93. some good places to read:
BBC – www.bbc.co.uk
The Economist – www.economist.com
Wired – www.wired.com
The New Yorker – www.newyorker.com
and also
My paper.li – paper.li/f-1337027006

94. if you have any problems about
anything related to this course

95. write to me on
Moodle@CLA

96. or at
david@davidnicholson.it

97. www.davidnicholson.it