CI - STUDENTS ELIGIBLE FOR MID-MODULE TEST

The students below are eligible for the mid-module test. Please don't panic if  your name is not on the list and you think  it should be. Contact me as soon as possible and I will rectify any errors.

SURNAME	NAME
Abbreccia	Iolanda
Aloi	Bruno
Ammoscato	Chiara
Anella	Massimiliano
Arroyo Murillo	Geovanna Estefania
Bagnato	Alessandra
Baldonero	Lucrezia
Bearzotti	Sara
Brescia	Vittoria
Brescini	Valerio
Cacciatore	Sara
Campanelli	Enrica
Cancelli	Clarissa
Caramia	Lavinia
Cardoni	Silvia
Cavalieri	Claudio
Cavallari	Alba Matilde
Cecili	Mara
Cesare	Valentina
Cicione	Ilaria
Correani	Martina
Coscia	Valeria
D’alessio	Chiara
D’Anastasio	Paola
D’Ottavio	Giulia
Della Corte	Giulia
Dino-Guida	Lucia Antonia
Domsa	Diana
Felli	Serena
Fiacco	Veronica
Frassineti	Benedetta
Gasperoni	Alessandra
Giovannini	Giorgia
Graziani	Ilaria
Guerra	Noemi
Gusta	Andrea Cristina
Kamneva	Katia
Korkuc	Natalia Anna
La Fortezza	Federica
Lanci	Giovanna
Lucarelli	Jessica
Marinelli	Francesca
Mascolo	Fabiana
Mascolo	Rachele
Medici	Antonella
Micheluz	Martina
Morello	Cecilia
Moretti	Alessandra
Muzzarelli	Giulia
Napoleoni	Sara
Nevi	Tiziana
Park	Sion
Passa	Davide
Pei	Lucrezia
Pierbattista	Liliana
Pomponi	Roberta
Quintavalle	Leonardo
Radicioni	Andrea
Ragona	Eleonora
Rea	Silvia
Salvati	Lavinia
Sarti	Elena
Scardamaglia	Giorgia
Scarsella	Alessio
Sifounaki	Zaira chrysovalantou
Sillani	Valeria
Siracusano	Giuliana
Sonego	Ilaria
Stefanelli	Federica
Tulli	Beatrice
Urtone	Laura
Viri	Selenia
Zaccardelli	Ariannna

 

 

C1 - Exam Preparation

See post on Prof. Wilson's blog : C2 EXERCISES FOR THE COURSE (2014-15) .Complete these exercises in preparation for your mid-module test.
A list of those students who  have enough  attendance to  be eligible for the test will  be posted here shortly.

C1 & C3 - VARIOUS

December Lessons

C1

Tuesday, 2nd December

Friday, 5^th December

Tuesday, 16^th December – Mid-module test – Aula VI, 8,30 -10,30

C3

Thursday, 4^th December

Friday, 5th December

Thursday, 11^th December

Thursday, 15^th January , 2015 – Mid-module test –Aula V ,8,30-10,30

The tests will  begin at  8,30  promptly. Students are required to  be in the classroom at least 15 minutes before the start.

Dictionaries are not permitted. Non-core lexis will  be glossed.  

 Lesson Preparation  - C1 & C3

Here is the key to  the test we did in class on Friday  28^th November. Check  your answers .The translation will  be discussed in class.

Translation – This is not identical  to  the text you were given  to  put into  English but rather the news item  the Italian  version was based on. Please pay special attention to use of tenses

Pizza Hut Waitress Gets $10,000 Tip

It was just a typical day on the job at the Pizza Hut  for 20-year-old Jessica Osborne when out of the blue, she received a gift that would change her  life: a $10,000 tip from one of her customers. The tip of a lifetime came from a family of regular customers who  want to  be known as  Becky and her family. Becky said Osborne always came to the table with a smile on her face. "She was sweet and bright and cheerful and never complained," Becky said. "She was just a sweet waitress. "But Osborne had recently been let down by financial troubles that were keeping her ambitions at bay. She had enrolled in a local college but was forced to withdraw because of a lack of financial aid. She told Becky's family about the textbooks she had bought and kept in the trunk of her car and her dreams to become a photographer.

"I thought, 'This is a very generous person,'" Becky said, "and we enjoyed just talking to her, finding out about her life." Osborne got to know Becky and her family through their weekly pizza dinners, but she didn't realize that they had recently suffered a great tragedy. Becky's husband and eldest daughter were killed in a car accident, and she had been left with a large settlement.

Once Becky heard about Osborne's broken dreams, she decided to use some of the money from the settlement to make them come true. "We decided we needed to help Jessica and she was there, we were there, and it just seemed like the right thing to do," Becky said.

C1 Mid- Module test- key

Transformation Exercises

1)      He is always late and it really annoys me. WISH

I wish  he wouldn’t always be late.

2)      Most people think  global  warming is the reason for the recent  freak  weather. THOUGHT

Global  warming is thought to  be the reason for the recent freak  weather..

3)      He  realized that  the man  was following him. BEING

He realized he was being followed

4)      My advice for you is to  apply for the job. ADVISE

I advise you to  apply for the job.

5)      This is the first  time I’ve ever done an  exercise like this. NEVER

I’ve never done an  exercise like this before.

6)      I think  it was wrong of you to speak  to  him like that. SHOULD

You shouldn't have spoken  to him like that.

Cloze Text

 According to a poll of 2,000 people, 5.4 million British tourists have uploaded their pictures within just ten minutes of arriving at their holiday destination. Twenty-five per cent of British travellers share a photo within an hour, although the average time people wait before boasting is almost three hours.

Among the top ten things people capture when using their smartphone or tablet on holiday are the “view from the hotel window”, “my bed” and the “surrounding area and landscape” such as the beach or pool. Almost three-quarters of those questioned  used smartphones to take and share photos while on holiday, with the most popular platform being Facebook.

What’s more, a third of Britons take and share photos that involve only themselves when they arrive on holiday, be it surrounded by cocktails, by the beach or pool, or pulling the latest trendy face, such as the  ‘duckface’ – pursing one’s lips and pouting at the camera.

The survey found that among the top ten photos taken were also “myself in sunglasses”, “myself in swimwear” and “my bed”. research found that 6.5 million people crop unflattering shots before posting. Men were more likely to do this than women – five percent of males admitted to doing so, versus two percent of women.

2) Complete the cloze  text below

It is the only (1) …………….. of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World for  which the location has (2) …………. centuries remained elusive. Now, though, an academic from Oxford University  (3) ………….. she has solved one of the world’s last great archaeological mysteries (4) …………. identifying the precise spot on (5) ……………. the Hanging Gardens of Babylon once stood. Dr Stephanie Dalley focused (6) ………… search hundreds of miles north of the site of the ancient city of Babylon  to support her theory (7) …………. the lush, elevated marvel (8)  …………….. in fact built near the city of Nineva. From piecing together clues (9)  ……………..ancient texts, the academic has uncovered evidence that the gardens were in fact produced (10) ……………… by the Babylonians and their king Nebuchadnezzar, (11)  …………….. has traditionally been assumed, (12) ………….. rather by their neighbours and foes, the Assyrians  around 2,700 years ago .

RICEVIMENTO

There will be no  ricevimento  on Tuesday,25th November.
 Next recevimento : Thursday,27th 10,30.

C1 - lesson Preparation

For Friday 21st November

Put the text below into  English

ROMA - La notizia della morte di Eluana arriva nell' Aula del Senato poco dopo le otto. La annuncia il senatore Villari. Il presidente Schifani invita a osservare un minuto di silenzio. Poi il clima si fa incandescente. «Eluana non è morta, è stata ammazzata», accusa il vice capogruppo del Pdl al Senato, Gaetano Quagliariello. Seguono momenti di tensione, si sfiora il contatto fisico fra i due schieramenti. «Si continua a fare l' ennesimo atto di sciacallaggio politico sulla morte di Eluana», replica il capogruppo del Pd, Anna Finocchiaro, alle parole di Quagliariello. Subito dopo arriva il commento del presidente del Consiglio. Una nota, dettata alle agenzie di stampa da Milano, dove Berlusconi ha trascorso la giornata. Il capo del governo ha appreso «con profondo dolore la notizia della morte di Eluana Englaro  ……… «È grande il rammarico che sia stata resa impossibile l' azione del governo per salvare una vita». La nota del premier appare accusare, fa riferimento all' impotenza del governo ma anche - senza indicare - chi quell' impotenza ha prodotto. Il resto del centrodestra è più esplicito. Gianni Alemanno dice che «questa morte si doveva e si poteva evitare».

For Tuesday, 25th November

Complete Worksheet 1 in Analysis Handout - The structure of English -after having read the relevant chapter in"Mastering English Language".

 

C1 & C3 - Lesson Preparation for Friday, 14th November

Put the text below into  English. 

Pay special attention to  tenses. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

E’ sempre stato  interessato  alla magia?

Da ragazzino ero un discreto  illusionista ed ero attratto   da qualunque cosa che avesse a che fare con la magia. Forse perché  speravo  che ci  fosse magia nel  mondo: l’ho  sempre cercata ma non l’ho mai  trovata. Sarebbe bello se qualcosa di  magico  potesse salvarci ma questa qualcosa

non esiste.

Che illusioni aveva da ragazzo?

Pensavo  che essere una movie star mi  avrebbe reso  felice. Che mi  sarebbe piaciuto  andare a Hollywood e vivere tra attori e attrici  bellissimi. Ma con il  tempo  mi  sono  reso  conto  che  a Hollywood non ci  volevo  andare. Che quella vita non sarebbe stata  la risposta a niente.

“ Se fossi  stato  meno  codardo il  mio  lavoro  sarebbe stato migliore” ha detto  una volta.  Che cosa intendeva?

Se  da giovani fosse stato  più  rigoroso e avessi  girato solo  quello  che volevo, cioè  storie serie e profonde, senza preoccuparmi del  successo  commerciale, forse avrei  diretto  film più  belli. Avrei  dovuto  avere più  coraggio.

Rimpianti riguardo  alla sua vita privata?

Rimpiango di  avere scelto troppo  spesso di  essere solo. E di  non essere stato  più  estroverso. Forse sarei  stato più  felice se avessi avuto  una vita sociale più  attiva.

E le donne? Rimpianti  anche con loro?

Rimpiango di  non essermi  sentito  più  sicuro: non osavo sognare che avrei  potuto  essere accettato.

Rimpiange di  non avere osato  con qualche attrice in particolare?

Quando  ero  giovane avevo  una cotta per Brigitte Bardot. Avrei  potuto  conoscerla , ma non ho  pensato  per un minuto  che qualcosa tra noi  sarebbe stato possibile.

Adesso è  più  sicuro  di  sé?

Adesso  sono  sposato  e sto bene. Ma non cambio personalità  da quando  avevo  14 anni e ho  ancora oggi  gli stessi  problemi di  allora.

        Interview with Woody Allen, adapted from  Io  Donna, Corriere della Sera. October,2011.