Curs 2007-2008

Llicenciatura en Traducció i Interpretació

12864 Gramàtica i Anàlisi del Discurs C (Anglès) II

General goal and assumed level

The general goal of this course is to perfect the students’ skills in their C language: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Furthermore, the course incorporates a grammar component that involves a revision of many of the grammar topics that the students met in previous Llengua C courses. The level is assumed to be just below Cambridge Proficiency.

Contents

A. Grammar and lexis

1. Revision of key grammatical and lexical structures that the students already dealt with in previous Llengua C and GAD C courses

Grammar: Verb tenses; Passive; Conditionals; Unreal time and subjunctives ; Modal verbs; Inversion; Emphasis ; Reported speech; Articles

Relative clauses and non-finite clausesVerbs + infinitive or -ing ; Making comparisons; Prepositions; Linking words

Lexis: False friends; Words easily confused; Word formation; Collocations; Phrasal verbs

2. Essential structure: exercises designed to raise awareness of how the language is constructed.

3. Manipulating language: exercises involving rewriting English sentences without changing the meaning to raise awareness of the different structural and lexical options as a prelude to translating.

4. Text analysis: reading and commenting on texts chosen to illustrate specific grammatical, lexical or cultural points of the kind likely to create problems in translation.

B. Active skills

1. Reading a wide variety of text-types designed to raise awareness of the possibilities of written discourse.

2. Writing based on the texts. Individual work.

3. Speaking: mainly discussion of issues raised by the texts.

4. Listening: video-based activities dealing with the topics raised by the texts.