III Year Lettorato 1st Semester Class Test ("esonero") - results
Dear students, please find below the results of the first semester class test.
As a whole, I have been disappointed by the test results. What has been most frustrating is that so many of you did very poorly on the grammar exercise, especially since we concentrated heavily on grammar in the first semester, and because the exercise problems were all based on work you were supposed to have studied in Michael Vince's book. The specific problems on the test were very similar to ones in the exercises we studied. On the other hand, some responses in the translation section were very good, which is an encouraging sign.
In addition to checking your mark, please read the information below the list in order to prepare for the second semester.
As a whole, I have been disappointed by the test results. What has been most frustrating is that so many of you did very poorly on the grammar exercise, especially since we concentrated heavily on grammar in the first semester, and because the exercise problems were all based on work you were supposed to have studied in Michael Vince's book. The specific problems on the test were very similar to ones in the exercises we studied. On the other hand, some responses in the translation section were very good, which is an encouraging sign.
In addition to checking your mark, please read the information below the list in order to prepare for the second semester.
Abdipour, Atefeh 6
Ammoscato, Chiara 10
Aurizi, Veronica 18
Barone, Valentina 16
Bellano, Maria Grazia 21
Bernile, Giada 18
Bozzelli, Giovanna Fausta 14
Castrucci, Carola 16
D'Agnano, Camilla 10
De
Angelis, Maria Laura 17
De Santis, Luca 12
Dell'Aquila, Michele 15
Di Tullio, Ambra 13
Durand Herrera, Erick 15
Filizzola, Elisa 18
* Gentile, Alessia 13
Grillo, Giuseppina 14
Illiano, Giulia 16
Ingafu Del Monaco, Federica 15
Iuè, Andrea 13
La Porta, Valeria 10
Leone, Elisa 11
Macciocca, Giulia 12
Magnotta, Chiara 10
Marchetti, Rosamaria 12
* Mollica, Mara 15
Morgia, Martina 17
Mulargia, Elisa 13
Penta, Giada 11
Polito, Noemi 11
Pulicani, Valentina 9
Romualdo, Martina 17
Tagliavini, Tatiana 19
Tozaj, Gentiana 14
Tozaj, Gentiana 14
SPECIAL NOTE:
If you received less than 15/30 on the 1st esonero, you must also review intermediate level grammar. In addition to your 1st year lettorato textbooks, you should buy a good intermediate level grammar manual and do ALL of the exercises in it.
Here are some of the books I recommend:
Raymond Murphy. English Grammar in Use. Cambridge University Press.
John Hird. The Complete English Grammar for Italian Students. Oxford University Press.
Norman Coe & Anna Amendolagine. Grammar Spectrum. Oxford University Press.
Before our course resumes in the second semester, you should
all very carefully review grammar chapters 1-14 in Vince. You should also
review the vocabulary chapters 1, 3 and 4. In addition I strongly suggest that
each one of you confirm your knowledge of Upper-Intermediate level grammar
(corresponging to II year lettorato) by doing all of the exercises in the
Upper-Intermediate section of Grammar Scan. For the exercises you get wrong,
check the relevant information and explanations in Michael Swan, Practical
English Usage. After finishing the
Upper-Intermediate section in Grammar Scan, you may move on to the Advanced
section, which we started at the beginning of the first semester.
In addition to all
of this grammar work, you should be reading in English as much as possible – at
minimum 30 minutes every day. I suggest you get in the habit of reading an
English language newspaper every day (the online versions are absolutely fine, but the paper version is probably easier to flip through to quickly find articles that interest you). For
example, try The Independent ( http://www.independent.co.uk/ ), The New York Times ( http://www.nytimes.com/ ), The Los Angeles Times (
www.latimes.com/
), and the BBC ( http://www.bbc.com/ ). Another
good option is to read the English section of the Corriere della Sera website ( www.corriere.it/english/ ), composed
of English translations of articles originally written in Italian. In this case you can read
both the English translation and the original article (you will have to search for it on the Italian site) to get some more clues about how to write
good translations.
All of this will be helpful for the second semester and the next test.
All of this will be helpful for the second semester and the next test.
Good luck! I wish
you all the best!
