Lingua Inglese

Nome docente	Maria Lombardi
Corso di laurea	Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza
Anno accademico	2019/2020
Periodo di svolgimento	Secondo Semestre
Crediti formativi universitari (CFU)	6
Settore scientifico disciplinare	L-LIN/12
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Obiettivi del corso

Obiettivi formativi e modalità d’esame (I semestre) 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