Lingua inglese

Nome docente	Maria Lombardi
Corso di laurea	Scienze Giuridiche per l’immigrazione, i diritti umani e l’interculturalità (classe L/14)
Anno accademico	2019/2020
Periodo di svolgimento	Secondo semestre
Crediti formativi universitari (CFU)	3
Settore scientifico disciplinare	L-LIN/12
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Obiettivi del corso

Obiettivi formativi e modalità d’esame (I semestre) Il principale obiettivo dell’intervento didattico è quello di favorire lo sviluppo di competenze linguistiche pari a un livello intermediate1/B1, come descritto dagli indicatori del Common European Framework (CEF), stabilito dal Consiglio d’Europa e finalizzato al conseguimento dell’idoneità della lingua inglese prevista dal corso di studi.

Programma

Contenuti del corso - Characteristics of Legal English Language - Reading and understanding varieties of legal documents - The practice of Law - The language of Company law - Writing formal letters - Contracts: formation, remedies, third-party rights - Employment Law - Commercial Law - Criminal Law - Real Property Law - International Law

Grammar ● Present Simple tense; Present simple passive; Frequency of expressions ● There is/There are; Have/Has got ● Present Continuous tense; ● Possessive ‘s and s’ ● Common prepositions ● Expressions of likes and dislikes ● Past Simple; Use of Passive; Past continuous ; Past Perfect ● Present Perfect with still/yet; ever/never; for/since; Present Perfect ● Continuous; Present Perfect Passive ● Use of Pronouns/Adjectives ● Articles: a/an/the ● Quantifiers: much/many; too much/too many; not enough; a little/a few, very little/very few; some/any ● Comparative and superlative adjectives; ● Modal verbs: Have to and don’t have to; can and can’t; must and mustn’t; shall and shall not; should and shouldn’t; to be allowed, ought to; ● Time clauses with when/while/as soon as/after/until ● Future forms: Going to..; Will, won’t and might; will probably and probably won’t; ● First/Second Conditional ● Direct / Reported speech ● Phrasal verbs ● Common collocations (i.e. draft/breach a contract, incur costs, award damages, loss of earnings)

Testi Consigliati

• A. Krois-Lindner, M. Firth Introduction to International legal English, CUP, 2008  

Testi consigliati per il consolidamento grammaticale

• Grammatica: R. Carter, M. McCarthy, G. Mark and A. O'Keeffe, English; 
• Grammar Today, Level: B1-B2 , CUP, 2011, CD-ROM and Workbook Pack 9780521149877; 
• Grammatica: L. Hashemi, B. Thomas, All in One Grammar for Italian Students, CUP, 2008