IMPORTANT - MLI 3 / MAGISTRALE 1

      Magistrale 1 /  MLI3   Instructions for submitting assignments

Please follow these instructions carefully

1)      Submit all  work  in  Word format , no  PDFs .

2)      Use Calibri  12 -1,5 spacing

3)      In subject box of email specify name,  course,  attending / non attending student , assignment name . Here is an example: Maria  Rossi , Mag 1, attending student,  essay 1. Here is an  image of an  email  with  the subject box :

                   

4)      Precedence will  be given  to  attending students’  assignments.

5)      Do  not send work  I have not assigned . Wait for the next assignment to   be set

MAGISTRALE 1 - IMPORTANT ESSAY SUBMISSION

As you may imagine,  it is taking me considerable time correcting the many essays that  you are sending me for correction. I would like to  use this time fruitfully and the fact that  some of you are commiting plagiarism means it is taking even  longer for me to  correct your work  . I realise at  this point that  some of you may not know the best practice rules to  avoid falling into  the trap of plagiarising so  please look at this link which  will  guide you through  the rules: https://www.ed.ac.uk/institute-academic-development/undergraduate/good-practice/referencing
Essay must be accompanied by a bibliography and sent from  your uniroma email  address.

Keep  up  the hard work  and 1 metre apaprt!

MAGISTRALE 1 SELF - STUDY - 9th -13th March

Here is my version of the translation  we started in  class. Compare it with  your version . If possible , try to  work  together remotely  ( I metre apart!) and compare your versions. Non -native speakers should try to  put the English  text into  their own  language. I'm  also  publishing another translation for you to  do. I'll publish the  key next Tuesday.  I know that  you are also  working on  essays. I am  currently correcting them  but this will  take some time due to the large class size . Once I've corrected a fair number we'll  have our first remote lesson on  error analysis. 

He looked around more carefully. In the limescale-bordered glass there was only one toothbrush and next to it was a basket filled with jumbled objects:  creams, a red elastic band, a brush covered with hairs and some nail scissors. There was a razor on the shelf under the mirror with tiny / miniscule    hairs still stuck underneath the blade. There had been a time when, sitting on the bed with Alice, he could look around her room, spot something on a shelf and say that he had bought it for her. Those gifts were there to mark out a path, like those little flags pinned to a map of a journey. They marked out the rhythm of the Christmases and the birthdays. He could still remember some of them: the first Counting Crows record, the Galileo thermometer with its multi-coloured vessels floating in transparent liquid, and a book on the history of maths that Alice had scoffed at but had read in the end. She looked after them with great care and put them on display so that he could see that she always knew where they were. Mattia realised  this as he did everything else/ was aware of all  this  as he was of everything else/ all  the rest  / but he couldn’t move/ budge  from where he was. It was as if by giving in to the pull Alice exerted over him, he would find himself trapped or would drown and lose himself forever. He had shown no reaction and had stayed silent, waiting for it to be too late. Now there wasn’t a single object around him that he recognised.  He looked at himself in the mirror, his hair was a mess, his shirt collar askew and that was when he understood. In that bathroom, in that house, just as in his parents’ house, in all these places there was nothing left of him.  He stood still so as to let the decision he had made sink in until he realised that time was up. He folded the towel carefully and, with the back of his hand, rubbed off the drops of water he had left on the sink.

Era tutto a posto? Aveva ricordato ogni dettaglio? Tutto perfettamente legale? Clive si andava ponendo queste domande tra gli angusti confini di un Boeing757 bloccato dalla nebbia sulla pista dell’aeroporto di Manchester. Secondo le previsioni, il tempo doveva migliorare e il pilota intendeva mantenere la propria posizione nell’ordine di decollo, perciò i passeggeri sedevano in accigliato silenzio cercando un po’ di conforto nel carrello delle bevande.  Era mezzogiorno e Clive aveva ordinato caffè, un brandy e una stecca di cioccolato. Occupava il posto accanto al funestino in una fila vuota e, tra un banco di nebbia e l’altro, scorgeva altri velivoli in agguerrita attesa. …….

La risposta era sì, ricerca e organizzazione erano state meticolose. Sarebbe successo e Clive era emozionatissimo. Sollevò una mano per richiamare l’attenzione della radiosa ragazza in impudente cappellino azzurro, la quale sembrava deliziata dal fatto che lui avesse deciso di farsi un secondo brandy e onorata di poter glielo servire.  La banca gli aveva assicurato che viaggiare con diecimila dollari in contanti era perfettamente legale, quindi non avrebbe dovuto dare alcuna spiegazione all’aeroporto di Schiphol. Quanto all’incontro con la polizia di Manchester, lo aveva affrontato magistralmente, a suo parere, facendosi trattare con rispetto. Gli pareva addirittura di provare quasi nostalgia per quell’atmosfera vigorosa e quegli uomini un po’ imbarazzati con i quali aveva lavorato così bene.

                                                                                           Ian McEwan, Amsterdam (1998)

MLI - SELF- STUDY WEEK 9th March

Complete the translations below ( they  are also  in  your hand  out) . The key will  be published on Friday 13th.

December 2012

Gianni Moretti ha cominciato il casting del nuovo film che comincerà a girare l’estate prossima. Da qualche giorno la casting director Annamaria Sambucco  sta esaminando studentesse liceali romane,  cui si consiglia «abbigliamento semplice, niente trucco, niente tacchi».

Michael O’Leary è noto per le sue  idee  bizzarre. Come l’ultima di voler destinare la parte posteriore dei  voli della Ryanair  ai viaggiatori in piedi. Se le autorità dovessero accogliere la sua proposta , O’Leary assicura che una «corsa in piedi» su un volo Ryanair costerebbe appena 1 sterlina e si dice sicuro che “fra un posto seduto a 25 sterline e uno in piedi a 1 sterlina, tutti sceglierebbero subito quest’ultimo.”

I francesi detestano parlare qualsiasi lingua che non sia la loro. E soprattutto detestano parlare l’inglese. Sarà il dispiacere di constatare, anche se non l’ammetteranno mai, che l’inglese è oggi quel che era il francese ieri, cioè non una lingua ma «la» lingua.

D’ora in poi l’Inno di Mameli dovrà esser studiato e cantato nelle scuole italiane. Nello stesso tempo, viene istituito il 17 marzo il «Giorno dell’Unità nazionale, della Costituzione, dell’inno e della bandiera», allo scopo di  consolidare l’identità nazionale.

Exemption Test 2012

Si e’ aperta  a Doha, capitale del Qatar, la XVIII Conferenza delle Nazioni Unite sui Mutamenti Climatici. Fino al 7 dicembre prossimo, si discutera’ degli eventuali progressi registrati nella riduzione delle emissioni di gas-serra. I negoziati si svolgeranno peraltro all’ombra di eventi eccezionali ed estremi come la super-tempesta Sandy, che meno di un mese fa ha devastato gli Stati Uniti nord-orientali.  Si tratta della prima volta in cui la Conferenza Onu si tiene in Medio Oriente.

Un’infermiera dell’ospedale britannico King Edward VII, a Londra, è stata trovata morta oggi nella sua abitazione. La donna, Jacintha Saldanha, si sarebbe suicidata. Mercoledì  era stata involontariamente al centro delle cronache di mezzo mondo: mentre Kate Middleton era ricoverata nel suo ospedale, i’infermiera era caduta nello scherzo telefonico di un programma radiofonico australiano. 

Magistrale 1 / MLI 3 update

Dear students MLI 3 AND Magistrale 1 students

In view of the current situation lessons will be delivered telematically using the following systems:

• Webex meetings for attending students and only when instructed on your my blog (hillansapienza.blogspot.com) . Please ensure that you have a microphone and video camera. The link to download the programme is:

https://www.webex.com/downloads.html

• ASSIGNMENTS set for course attenders to be submitted via email. I am  currently correcting  your submitted assignments and I will email  them  back  to  you. Our first remote lesson  will be based on  an  error analysis of your essays so  please go  over my feedback  carefully.
• Lesson content will be published on this blog

We already have a student coordinator for Magistrale 1 but it would be better if she had some support   from fellow students so organise yourselves to give her some back  up.

MLI 3 students also  need coordinators . Are there any volunteers?

• 3RD OF APRIL EXAMS CANCELLED.
• NEW DETAILS FOR THE EXAM WILL BE PUBLISHED HERE SHORTLY.

 Remember:  #stayathome and take care .

IMPORTANT - Magistrale 1

Lessons will  be done remotely as of next week. Information will  be posted shortly.
In the meantime , complete the essay  below from Module 5 :

1     Essay  title :  Choose 3 words or phrases  from your native language that  you feel  have lost their value due to  overuse,  giving reasons for your choice.

Your essay  must contain at least 3 references to  reliable sources.

MLI3 - IMPORTANT

Lessons will  be done remotely as of next week. I will  post information  about this shortly. 

In the meantime,  please  write an  analysis of the NSPCC advert that  we  did in  class  and email  it to  me.