English IV

Objectives

Inglês IV (925) develops English language skills at the upper-intermediate level (CEFR level B2). Students who successfully complete Inglês IV:

1. Can speak clearly and fluently, despite occasional first language interference, and can express opinions, give accounts, develop arguments, and engage in extended conversations on topics related to his/her field and experiences;

2. Can write clear, detailed, descriptive, narrative, analytical and argumentative texts;

3. Can read with a high degree of independence, and can select and process written content;

4. can follow extended speech and complex lines of argument, and can easily understand recorded or broadcast audio/video material in standard dialect.

Program

1. Listening and speaking practice: analyzing films, debating and discussing important issues, developing skills for public speaking.

2. Reading and writing practice: analyzing and responding to writing and films, developing skills for analytical writing, revising and editing written work.

3. Grammar focus: review and further study of nouns and determiners, adjectivals/adjective clauses, intensifiers, comparatives/superlatives, conditionals, noun clauses, logical connectors (additive, adversative, causal, sequential), paragraphing (spatial and climactic arrangement, cause/effect, comparison/contrast) followed by written and oral exercises (mainly from The Functions of English Grammar).

Teaching Methodologies

Inglês IV (925) utilizes a systematic and cumulative teaching approach that develops English language skills at the upper-intermediate level (CEFR level B2). The program is tailored to the needs of public relations and communications students, and focuses on relevant genres while exploring respective vocabulary and structures. Practice in the four skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking) is complemented by revision and consolidation of grammar and syntax.

Bibliography

Azar, Betty Schrampfer. Understanding and Using English Grammar. 3rd revised ed. New York: Pearson Education, 2004.

 

Bernard, Sheila Curran. Documentary Storytelling: Making Stronger and More Dramatic Nonfiction Films. 2nd ed. St. Louis: Focal Press, 2007.

 

Celce-Murcia, Marianne and Diane Larsen-Freeman. The Grammar Book. 2nd ed. Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 1998.

 

Field, Syd. Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. New York: Bantam Doubleday, 1994.

 

Giannetti, Louis. Understanding Movies. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.

 

Holschuh, Louis W. The Functions of English Grammar (The Holschuh Esl Grammar Ser.). Cambridge University Press, 1994. [updated in 2015]

 

Kent, Michael L. "The Power of Storytelling in Public Relations: Introducing the 20 Master Plots." Public Relations Review, vol. 41, no. 4, 2015, pp. 480-489.

 

Reid, Stephen. The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers. 9th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2011.