Silabus
Week 1
Introduction to the course. Revising language units. Introducing syntactic relationships;
Week 2
Parts of Speech - shedding light on the category of Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs;
Week 3
Parts of Speech - shedding light on the category of - Pronouns, Numerals, Determiners, Conjunctions, Prepositions and Interjections;
Week 4
Functions of Words
Week 5
Test 1 preparation
Week 6
Test 1
Week 7
The nature and role of phrases - noun, verb, adjective, adverb and prepositional phrases;
Week 8
The nature and role of clauses - finite VS non-finite, relative and comparative clauses;
Week 9
The nature and role of clauses - noun and prepositional clauses; nominal VS adverbial clauses;
Week 10
Sentences - communicative functions;
Week 11
Test 2 preparation
Week 12
Test 2
Week 13
Mechanisms in language - e.g. ellipsis, substitution;
Week 14
Illustrating hierarchy in language;
Week 15
Final remarks, Revision, Correction, Feedback