Temes 2020 Flashcards
Tema 1
Development in language teaching. Recent tendencies in teaching English as a Foreign Language. Communicative Approaches.
Tema 2
Theories about the learing and acquisition of foreign languages. Interlanguage. The treatment of errors.
Tema 3
The process of communication. Functions of language. Language in Use. The negotiation of menaing.
Tema 4
Communicative Competence. Analysis of its components.
Tema 5
Oral Communication; Elements and rules; routines and formulaic language; oral communication strategies.
Tema 6
Written Communication; different types of written texts. Structure and formal elements; norms of written texts; routines and formulas.
Tema 7
The English Phonological System 1. Vowels and their phonetic symbols. Strong and weak forms. Diphthongs and their phonetic symbols. Comparison of English vowels and diphthongs with the corresponding autonomous community.
Tema 8
English Phonological System II. Consonants. Phonetic Symbols. Comparison with the official language of the corresponding autonomous community.
Tema 9
English Phonological Sytem III. Stress, Rhythm and Intonation. Comparison with autonomous community.
Tema 10
The lexicon. Characteristics of word formation in English. Prefixation, Suffixation, Compounding.
Tema 11
The word as a linguistic sign. Homonymy, Synonymy, Antonymy, Lexical Creativity.
Tema 12
The concept of grammar. Some thoughts on language and language learning. From prescriptive to communicative grammar.
Tema 13
The expression of quantity.
Tema 14
Expression of Quality, Degree and Comparison.
Tema 15
Expression of Manner, Means and Instrument.
Tema 16
The Expression of Possession.
Tema 17
The Expression of Place, Direction and Distance.
Tema 18
Temporal Relationships and Frequency
Tema 19
Time: Tense, Aspect, and Mood.
Tema 20
Auxiliary and Modal Verbs: Forms and Functions.
Tema 21
The infinitive and the ING form. Their uses.
Tema 22
Multi-Word Verbs
Tema 23
Sentence Structure in English: Positives, Questions, Negatives, Exclamatives.
Tema 24
The Expression of Assertion, Emphasis and Disagreement
Tema 25
The Expression of Causal, Consecutive, and Final relationships.
Tema 26
Expression of Doubts, Condition, Hypothesis and Contrast.
Tema 27
The Passive Voice. Form and Function.
Tema 28
Linguistic Macrofunctions for everyday communicative intentions: initiating and maintaining social relations; asking and giving information about people, objects, and actions; expressing emotional and intellectual attitudes.
Tema 29
The analysis and articulation of discourse. Cohesion and coherence; Anaphora and cataphora; Connectors; Deixis.
Tema 30
Direct and indirect speech.
Tema 31
Text and Context
Tema 32
Narrative Texts; Characteristics and Structure.
Tema 33
Descriptive Texts: Structure and Characteristics.
Tema 34
Argumentative Texts: Structure and Characteristics.
Tema 35
Explicative Texts: Structure and Characteristics.
Tema 36
Dialogic Texts: Structure and Characteristics.
Tema 37
Literary Language. Literary Genres. Literary Criticism.
Tema 38
English for Science and Technology. Business English.
Tema 39
Text analysis strategies.
Tema 40
Communication Strategies: Definition and Typology.
Tema 41
The Romanisation of England. Borrowings and Calques.
Tema 42
The Norman Conquest. The Influence of French on the English Language. Loan words and calques.
Tema 43
Medieval Literature and the Oral Transmission. The Arthurian Legend. Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales.
Tema 44
Shakespeare and his age. Most Characteristic Works.
Tema 45
Great Britain in the 18th Century. Socio-economic development and political events. Cultural and technical activities. Great Novelists of this period.
Tema 46
The historical development of the USA. From the war of independence to the Civil War. Characteristic Novels. The Scarlet Letter. The Red Badge of Courage.
Tema 47
The English Industrial Revolution. Its influence as a model of historical transformation. The Political and Social Changes. The LIterature of the Time. Charles Dickens.
Tema 48
Romanticism in Great Britain. The Novel and Poetry.
Tema 49
Development and administration of the British Colonial Empire in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling.
Tema 50
The Victorian Novel.
Tema 51
Oscar Wilde. George Bernanrd Shaw.
Tema 52
The Historical Evolution of the United States. From Lincoln to Roosevelt.
Tema 53
The Novel, short story and poetry in the USA. Melville, Poe, and Whitman.
Tema 54
The Humour in Twain’s work. The cosmopolitan element in the novels of Henry James.
Tema 55
The Lost Generation. Faulker, Steinbeck, Hemingway and Fitzgerald.
Tema 56
Anglo Irish Relations. Irish authors. James Joyce and Sean O’Casey.
Tema 57
The United Kingdom from 1918 to 1945. Main Literary Figures.
Tema 58
The Political, social, and economic development in the UK and Eire since 1945. Literary Panorama.
Tema 59
Political, social, and economic development of the US since 1945. A present day literary panorama.
Tema 60.
The English Detective Novel. P.D. James. The American Black Novel. D. Hammett. R. Chandler.
Tema 61.
The Importance of the cinema in the diffusion of literature in the English Language.
Tema 62
The Commonwealth and cultural diversity. The Development of intellectual diversities. Intercultural influences and manifestations. The novels of E.M.Forster, D.Lessing and N.Gordimer.
Tema 63
The British Institutions; The Houses of Parliament; The Government; Political Parties and Electoral System; The Crown/Monarchy.
Tema 64
North American Institutions. Territorial Organisation. The Constitution. Electoral Process. The Congress. Political Parties.
Tema 65
The Educational System in English Spaeking Countries.
Tema 66
The Cultural Dimension of English Nowadays. British English and American English. English in Spain. Anglicisms.
Tema 67
Mass Media in English I. Journalistic Style. Quality Newspapers and sensational newspapers.
Tema 68
Mass Media in English II. Radio and Television. Advertising in English speaking cultures. Linguistic and semiological aspects.
Tema 69
Society and Culture in English speaking countries: emblems and stereotypes. The song in English as a vehicle of cultural influence.