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The exam takes place at the end of the course and various methods of knowledge verification may be used: multiple choice questions; matching vocabulary with their meanings in simple English; identifying and rewriting irregular past verbs and plurals; basic reading comprehension with short answer and true/false questions; translation of simple sentences from Italian to English; the rewriting of various sentences in the form requested (e.g. from affirmative to negative, etc.).
Student should be able to pass an exam of an CEF (Common European Framework) level A2 in the English language.
Subject, object and adjective personal pronouns; the verbs to be and to have in present and past tense and their common elementary expressions; conjugations of basic verbs in present simple and continuous and past simple and continuous; simple uses and various modes of these same verbs; modal verbs can, must and have to; introduction to the verb tense present perfect; frequency adverbs; general and specific lexicon; the imperative; basic past irregular verbs; the grammatical structure for creating questions, negative sentences and short answers; the future tense with will and to be going to; introduction to simple present and past passive voice; zero and first conditionals; basic discourse connectives; basic agricultural reading and comprehension.
All materials for the course are in the form of handouts prepared by the lecturer.
All lessons with take place in the classroom/lecture hall and will involve theory and carrying out various exercises from the handouts. When possible, the student’s participation will be requested. Various multimedia methods will be employed such as listening and viewing short videos. There are no laboratory hours for this course.