Lingua Inglese

Nome docente	Maria Lombardi
Corso di laurea	Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza
Anno accademico	2017/2018
Periodo di svolgimento	Secondo semestre
Crediti formativi universitari (CFU)	6
Settore scientifico disciplinare	L-LIN/12
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Obiettivi del corso

Il principale obiettivo dell’intervento didattico è quello di favorire lo sviluppo di competenze linguistiche pari a un livello intermediate1/B1, come descritto dagli indicatori del Common European Framework (CEF), stabilito dal Consiglio d’Europa e finalizzato al conseguimento dell’idoneità della lingua inglese prevista dal corso di studi 

Programma

 Contenuti del corso
- Characteristics of Legal English Language
- Reading and understanding varieties of legal documents
- The practice of Law
- The language of Company law
- Writing formal letters
- Contracts: formation, remedies, third-party rights
- Employment Law
- Commercial Law
- Criminal Law
- Real Property Law
- International Law

Grammar
● Present Simple tense; Present simple passive; Frequency of expressions
● There is/There are; Have/Has got
● Present Continuous tense;
● Possessive ‘s and s’
● Common prepositions
● Expressions of likes and dislikes
● Past Simple; Use of Passive; Past continuous ; Past Perfect
● Present Perfect with still/yet; ever/never; for/since; Present Perfect
● Continuous; Present Perfect Passive
● Use of Pronouns/Adjectives
● Articles: a/an/the
● Quantifiers: much/many; too much/too many; not enough; a little/a few,very little/very few; some/any
● Comparative and superlative adjectives;
● Modal verbs: Have to and don’t have to; can and can’t; must and mustn’t; shall and shall not; should and shouldn’t; to be allowed, ought to;
● Time clauses with when/while/as soon as/after/until
● Future forms: Going to..; Will, won’t and might; will probably and probably won’t;
● First/Second Conditional
● Direct / Reported speech
● Phrasal verbs
● Common collocations (i.e. draft/breach a contract, incur costs, award damages, loss of earnings)

Testi Consigliati

 - Testo adottato

• A. Krois-Lindner, M. Firth Introduction to International legal English, CUP, 2008

- Testi consigliati per il consolidamento grammaticale

• Grammatica: R. Carter, M. McCarthy, G. Mark and A. O'Keeffe, English;
• Grammar Today, Level: B1-B2 , CUP, 2011, CD-ROM and Workbook Pack 9780521149877;
• Grammatica: L. Hashemi, B. Thomas, All in One Grammar for Italian Students, CUP, 2008