Overall objectives:

1 - By the end of the second semester students are expected to have developed language competencies, such as: 1. Talk about incidents/ trends/ services/ regrets and resolutions/ past events/ business and economy
2 - 2. Describe how to prepare and cook a dish/ different types of people/ lifestyles
3 - 3. Report and describe what people say to you
4 - 4. Tell a funny story/ joke/ anecdote
5 - 5. Ask and answer questions about unusual places
6 - 6. Make comparisons about situations, places and people
7 - 7. Build rapport using email
8 - 8. Challenge, discuss and explain your own beliefs and opinions/ scientific evidence
9 - 9. Manage and uphold a conversation/ a debate
10 - 10. Write arguments for and against a point of view
11 - 11. Recognise and use idiomatic expressions
12 - 12. Identify varieties of English

Syllabus:

1 - I - English Language Speaking, Listening and Writing ? Spelling (commonly misspelt words) ? Pronunciation/Phonetics (IPA) ? Use of Abbreviations ? British English versus American English ? Varieties of English (Standard versus Non-standard Forms of English) ? Units of Language.
2 - II - Vocabulary and Reading
2.1 - Explore: exploring places and what to do in an area; trying different activities; urban change; old buildings; business opportunities; home; commuting; the weather; on the move; verb patterns and reporting; continuous forms
2.2 - Excess: food for thought; food and cooking; feelings; trends; habits; word building; complex comparatives; complex questions
2.3 - Success: kind acts, ups and downs; time of your life; successful and failing businesses; icons; Eureka; describing personality; winners; adjective and noun phrases; relative clauses; prepositions.
2.4 - Extensive Reading
3 - III - English Grammar
3.1 - Nouns: countable / uncountable; irregular plurals
3.2 - Word Formation: prefixes and suffixes
3.3 - Pronouns: reflexive pronouns
3.4 - Adjectives: comparison and superlative of adjectives, adjectives and intensifiers, compound adjectives; adjectives with -ed / -ing
3.5 - Modifiers: hard / hardly
3.6 - Irregular Verbs (LeRE 2 List)
3.7 - Verb Classes / Leading Forms / Finite / Non-finite Verbs
3.9 - Past Modals of deduction: must / might / can?t have
3.83.9 - Verb Tenses and Uses: narrative tenses / future perfect and future continuous / present perfect simple and present perfect continuous
4.1 - Phrasal Verbs with three parts
4.2 - Gerunds and Infinitives
4.3 - Reported Speech and Reporting Verbs
4.4 - Direct Questions, Subject Questions, Indirect Questions
4.5 - If Structures (2): First, Second, Zero, Third, and Mixed Conditionals
4.6 - The Compound Sentence and the Complex Sentence (Classification of Grammatical Units): Form classes of words; function classes within the phrase and within the clause
4.7 - Sequencing Devices: Having? / After?
4.8 - Relative Clauses: Defining RCl / Non-Defining RCl
4.9 - Passives

Literature/Sources:

Murphy, R. , 2012 , English Grammar in Use , Cambridge U.P.
Thomson, A. J. et al. , A Practical English Grammar for Foreign Students , Oxford U.P.
Carter, R. & M. McCarthy , 2006 , Cambridge Grammar of English: A Comprehensive Guide - Spoken and Written English Grammar and Usage , CUP,
Biber, D , 2004 , Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English , Longman,
Collins Cobuild , 2001 , Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary for Advanced Learners , HarperCollins
J. Fowler , 1993 , Phrasal Verb Organiser , Thomson Heinle & Heinle LTP ELT
H. Dellar and A. Walkley , 2020 , Roadmap B2+, Students? Book , Pearson
H. Dellar and A. Walkley , 2020 , Roadmap B2+, Workbook , Pearson
B. Bryson , 1990 , The Mother Tongue: English and How it got that Way , Harper Collins
D. Crystal , 2010 , A Little Book of Language , Yale University Press

Assesssment methods and criteria:

Classification Type: Quantitativa (0-20)

Evaluation Methodology:
Evaluation Methodology: Classes are of the expositive, theoretical-practical type. The syllabus material is taught through initial lecturer presentation and ongoing interaction amongst students themselves, through pair and group work, as well as class discussions. During lessons students will develop their oral and written production in English, both through individual and peer work. Students are asked (1) to use the Workbook, which will help them consolidate what has been studied in class; and (2) to undertake a systematic study of the structures learnt by doing the exercises recommended in the suggested Grammars. There will also be a focus on the development of oral skills, through reading aloud and communicating exclusively in English. Assessment: Type A was chosen from the Ass. Regulation of Madeira Univ. Hence, students are assessed during the semester according to possible variants in Assessment A, chosen by the lecturing staff member.