CINEMA & ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING

I usally go to the cinema, also because sometimes I am obliged by my friends!!!
I have never seen a film in English on my own.
Watching films in English language is a good way to learn the language itself (pronunciation, new words, grammar...).
Some pronunciations are hard to understand (Scottish, American...), and subtitles can help us to understand them better. There is a disadvantage; if you read subtitles you do not pay attention to the dialogues and to the stretches.
I used to see films in English at school; our English teacher used to do it. It was very useful.

PRONUNCIATION & PHONETICS

First of all I have to say that the pronunciation is very important because if someone goes abroad and speak a gramatically corrected English but with a bad pronunciation nobody will understand him/her. So it is important to improve it.
I use phonetic symbols only for difficult words. They help me in learning the right pronunciation of new or diffcult words. Usally I write the phonetic symbols over the word or near it, at the side, in order to see it quickly when I read.
Usually I learn the correct pronunciation by listening to my teachers. Sometimes I read it into the vocabulary if teacher have not said it; every vocabulary quotes phonetics symbols.

REFLECTION

I think that studying English at the University is very useful.
For what concern myself I think that I have been improving my English beacuse we have done many activities. First of all I think that is important to learn tenses constructions and new vocabulary. Also the pronunciation is important beacuse nobody can go abroad without speaking well the language; if I can't speak English in a clear way English people will not understand me also if I say gramatically corrected things.
I can say that I have achieved some goals. I have improved pronunciation and grammar very much.
I enjoyed in learning the other countries legal systems.
Now I would like to go on in learning English and to arrive to a very good level in order to have not problems when I go abroad or when in the future I will work with foreigners.

Copyright law. Presentation.

Good morning to everybody, my name is Andrea Giocondi.
Today we are going to speak about copyrights law e.g. illegal downloading, file sharing and piracy on the Internet. I will talk about these 3 main points.
I'm going to start by giving you some advices about illegal downloading. The authorities said that the phneomenon is increased by 4% during the last year. There are many people nowadays that do it. This happens because of the cost of the songs. I think that the record companies have to do something to reduce it in order to not let people download them from illegal sites.
Secondly I'm going to speak about file sharing. Everybody puts photos or videos on the Internet that show friends. A typical example is Facebook or Youtube. However it is not a real problem because evrybody does it and because nobody will denune you for it, except for very dangerous cases (for example pornography or defamatory videos and photos).
Thirdly I cans ay that the piracy on the Internet is increasing. The theft of credit card pins has become more widespread than some years ago. The phenomenon is based on stealing documents or information on the Web in order to steal money. To face this problem you could use cards with a limited amount and you should buy things only on protected sites.
In conclusion I wish you will be more cautious when you use the comouter because it is a very useful thing but it could became a problem. It's important to watch over better. So take care! I think that it is also important to sensitize users by using informative campaigns.
Do you have any questions now?

LESSON 27/10

*We studied the pronunciation...
[d] [t] [Id]
Where the stress is usally in prhases.
Words commonly confsed because of their pronunciation.


PRESENTATIONS:

A)Preparation=
1-objectives...tone/aims
2-audience...who they are/what they ned
3-content...important and interesting informations
4-organisation...logical, clear, sign posting language
5-visual information...some slides but not too much
6-practise...timing/more confident/find problems

B)Delivery=
1-nervs...breath deeply/speak not too fast
2-voice...speak clearly/loud voice/interesting sound
3-body language...high contact to the audience/confident/relax
4-visual information...some slides but not too much
5-questions...answer politily and diplomatically


*Some tenses or words that help in presenting something:
-To start:
Goodmorning...
This morning we are going to speak about...
I'm going to start with...
I'm going to start by looking at...
Today we are going to look at...

-During:
The first...the second...the third...the last...
For example...
I'm going to give you guide lines about...
Now before I move on...
In the second part of my presentation...
Now before I move on to the last part...
An important element is...

-To conclude:
So to sum up...
Well...
For this reason...
You need to consider...
If you have any questions I will be happy to answer.