Hillan - La Sapienza: maggio 2019

All students in Group B passed the written exam.

The dates for the oral exam are listed below. If you cannot come on the date assigned to you, please try to swap your date with fellow student’s. If this is not possible contact me via email. If you intend to do the exam in pairs , please inform me as soon as possible.

Here is the reading list for the oral:

Sebastian Barry Days Without End

Alan Bennet The Uncommon reader

Anna Burns Milkman

Jonathan Coe Middle England

Ruth Gilligan Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan

Kazuo Ishighuro The Remains of the Day

Never Let Me Go

The Buried Giant

Ian McEwan Amsterdam, Nutshell

Edna O’Brian The Little Red Chairs

Maggie O’Farrell I Am. I am, I am

Kamil Shamsie Home Fire

Graham Swift Mothering Sunday

Monday, 3^rd June

Starting at 9,30 – students will be examined in alphabetical order

CARPINELLI VERDIANA	1704261
CATALDO MATTEO	1607611
D’ARPINO FEDERICA	1667950
ESLAMI AYLAR	1872655
FEDOTOV SERGEY	1836754
FERRITO FABIOLA	1667757
FUSCO CASSANDRA	1456309
GALLI MARTINA	1868275
GARGANESE GAIA	1867827
GATTI ALESSIO	1664628
GRILLINI FRANCESCA	1608817

Thursday, 6^th June
Starting at 9,30 - students will be examined in alphabetical order

HROMADKOVA VENDULA	1718414
KUZMINA ANASTASSSIYA	1871825
LA ROSA ELISABETTA	1620833
LI YANG	1871806
MARGIOTTI FEDERICA	1650782
MERGE’ LUDIVICA	1588371
NEJAT BEHNAZ	1872484
OLIARO CARLOTTA	1851268
PICCIONE MICHELA	1705534
ZAMPELLA LAURA	1612308

Instructions: All student the paraphrase and summary activity. You have 1hr 50 minutes to complete this task. Additionally, 12 cfu students write an essay. You have 1hr 30 minutes to complete this task.

Viewpoint: are e-cigarettes really a menace?

E-cigarettes, devices that give you a nicotine-hit by heating up a liquid which you then inhale, have become (1) all the rage. But is the concern about them justified, asks Michael Mosley.

A few years ago they were a rarity, but (2) now there are nearly three million e-cigarettes out there. Many people think that they are as bad for you as normal cigarettes. But are they? I've recently spent a couple of months making a documentary about e-cigarettes, trying to find out truth behind the headlines. I took up heavy vaping (that's what you do when you inhale vapour from an e-cigarettes). I have never smoked anything before and I wanted to see what effects inhaling nicotine in the form of an e-cig would have on a non-smoker. The results surprised me.

(3) Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you and can lead to lung cancer. It also increases your risk of dying from a range of other conditions including heart attack, stroke and dementia. If you're a man you might like to know (but then again you might not) that smoking is one of the main causes of impotence.

Fans of e-cigarettes say vaping can reduce the burden of smoking either by making it easier for smokers to quit or by providing them with a safer way for them to get a nicotine hit. (4) Critics, however, say that we are gambling with a technology we don't understand and that there is no convincing evidence that e-cigarettes help people quit smoking. It may even encourage non-smokers to start.

(5)Some countries have warily embraced e-cigarettes, while others have effectively banned them. The UK has so far adopted a liberal approach, but on Friday new European legislation will come into force which will limit the size of refills and the nicotine content of the fluids. Vaping will become more restricted. So, who's right? Are e-cigarettes one of the greatest public health measures ever invented, with the potential to save millions of lives, or (6) are they just another cunning way to keep us hooked on nicotine? I was keen to find out. The scientific consensus is that vaping, at least in the short term, is a lot safer than conventional smoking. A recent study for Public Health England concluded that e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful than normal cigarettes.

To be honest when I took up vaping I wasn't that worried about the short term health effects. What I was far more concerned about was getting hooked on nicotine. Yet as the weeks went by and I puffed away, nothing happened. When I leapt out of bed I didn't feel a longing to reach for my machine. If anything (7) I found it a bit of a chore. Chatting to experts I discovered, to my considerable surprise, that although cigarettes are highly addictive, nicotine alone may not be. Although no-one knows for sure, research in animals suggests that nicotine is far more addictive when delivered in combination with the other chemicals found in regular cigarettes. And nicotine in its pure form may have an upside. There's evidence it can help patients with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

The National Institute on Aging in the US has recently funded a trial of 300 patients with mild cognitive impairment (a precursor to Alzheimer's). The patients, none of whom are smokers, will be randomly allocated to either nicotine patches or placebo patches. Over the next few years they will have regular health checks, as well as memory and cognition tests. A similar, smaller study, published in 2012, found that non-smokers given nicotine patches saw improvements in memory, attention and reaction times.

But before you start slapping on the patches or firing up an e-cig you should be aware that though nicotine may help people who already have impaired memory, there's no evidence it will help the rest of us. Although I was tested before and after doing a month of heavy vaping, the nicotine didn't enhance my brain, apart from a small improvement in my fine motor skills.

But the main health justification for e-cigarettes is that they can help those who are keen to quit smoking tobacco, quit. So do they? There have been very few randomised controlled trials, but the ones that have been done suggest it does. When (8) Horizon conducted a small study randomly allocating a group of hardcore smokers to either e-cigs, nicotine patches or simply giving up (going cold turkey), we found the vapers and those who slapped on the patches were far more successful at abandoning their cigarettes. E-cigs are not risk free and after a month of heavy vaping there were signs of increased inflammation in my lungs (which rapidly reversed when I stopped). Nonetheless I think that for smokers (9) e-cigarettes could prove to be a game changer.

There is a huge amount at stake. A billion people worldwide spend around £500bn a year on cigarettes and around half of them will die of smoking related diseases. In the UK alone smoking kills around 100,000 a year.(10) Anything which gets people off cigarettes is going to save a lot of lives.

Source:

Michael Mosley, BBC News Magazine http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine

PARAPHRASE

Re-state clearly and concisely the ideas expressed in the 10 underlined phrases bring sure to reference the subject of the sentence if a pronoun is used. You may need to reformulate the whole sentence as well as change word class to do this effectively. You do not need to find synonyms for: e-cigarettes and vaping.

SUMMARY

Using your own words write a clear, concise summary of the main idea and key points raised in this article remembering to attribute sources of information. You are advised to write a first draft and then work on that to produce a good copy. You should write between 140-160 words. You will be penalized if you write more.

SOME SUGGESTED ANSWERS

PARAPHRASES

(1) all the rage. Very popular / fashionable nowadays.

(2) now there are nearly three million e-cigarettes out there.

Today almost 3 million e cigarettes have been sold /produced / e cigarette production levels have reached almost 3 million

(3)Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you and can lead to lung cancer

It is common knowledge / well-known that smoking is harmful to our health and may cause cancer /causes health issues including lung cancer

(4) Critics, however, say that we are gambling with a technology we don't understand

Those who do not support vaping believe we are taking a big risk with a so far untested technological invention.

Those who criticize vaping point out that until further research is concluded we may be unknowingly putting our health at risk.

(5)Some countries have warily embraced e-cigarettes

E cigarettes have been cautiously welcomed/ given a provisional thumbs up by a number of states.

(6) are they just another cunning way to keep us hooked on nicotine?

Is it possible that e cigarettes are merely part of a sly /diabolical nicotine addiction plan?

(7) I found it a bit of a chore

Mosley found vaping to be a burdensome / unpleasant / hard task

Vaping was found to be a burdensome / unpleasant / hard task by the writer

(8) Horizon conducted a small study randomly allocating a group of hardcore smokers to either e-cigs, nicotine patches or simply giving up

A survey has been conducted arbitrarily dividing the group of heavy smokers into 3 categories: vapers, those wearing nicotine patches and those who suddenly quit.

(9) e-cigarettes could prove to be a game changer.

These types of cigarette might be a turning point for those wanting to quit smoking.

These types of cigarettes might provide the key to successfully giving up cigarettes.

(10) Anything which gets people off cigarettes is going to save a lot of lives.

Having an alternative to cigarette smoking would automatically mean many fewer deaths from smoking.

SUMMARY (160 words)

The article by Michael Mosley, a non-smoker who vaped for a month, published on http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine discusses whether or not e-cigarettes are as safe as their supporters maintain. Some countries have banned them, the UK has embraced them while the European Union has given e-cigarettes a cautious welcome. Those who support vaping claim that they provide an easier and safer way to stop smoking as research by the Horizon Group found for heavy smokers. Moreover, Mosley did not develop an addiction to pure nicotine and a 2012 report concluded that vaping might even prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s.

Nevertheless, Mosley noticed some lung inflammation when he stopped and the long-term effects of vaping are still unknown. There are similar concerns that the popularity of vaping might encourage young people to start. Even with these downsides Mosley is convinced that anything that provides an effective way to stop smoking, reducing the 100,000 UK deaths from diseases associated with smoking each year, should be supported.

ESSAY

Criteria for a successfully written essay are:

1.Organisation : paragraphing / appropriate structure for argumentative / balanced essay

2.Register: no abbreviations, short forms / formal linkers

3.Language: range, appropriateness, accuracy of grammar and lexis, paraphrasing source material

4.Content: relevance /exemplification/ integration of source material.

SURNAME	NAME
Amorelli	Luca
Ballacci	Davide
Barile	Maria Sofia
Cardamone	Vanessa
Celani	Camilla
Chillè	Riccardo
De Muner Sarmento	Gabriella
De Santis	Serena
Della Spina	Anna
Del Vecchio	Chiara
Di Bello	Erika
Fabbrizzi	Giulia
Frappi	Daniele
Furegon	Arianna
Galante	Anna
Giliberti	Giulia
Illerici	Sara
L’Abbate	Nicole
Massimiliani	Irene
Mauriello	Carolina
Mazzotta	Debora
Orsini	Eleonora
Panzironi	Yasmine
Patta	Giorgia
Pro	Giulia
Proietti	Chiara
Romoli	Marco
Sacripanti	Martina
Samà	Giulia
Scandurra	Maria
Seminaroti	Elisa
Tepsi	Melissa
Valeri	Arianna
Yeremenenko	Viktoriia

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