The English Seminar 2016-17

The 1st Year Students- Fall Semester

Course Professor: Associate Professor Dr. Magda Teodorescu
Requirements:
- Students should be able to communicate both in writing and orally at the
intermediate level.
Objectives
- Students should acquire some of the key elements of their professional
vocabulary and use it in appropriate contexts;
- Students are required to use their English at an intermediate-plus level;
- Students should be able to debate seminar topics and defend their own
seminar assignments.
Seminar Topics
1.

3-7
Oct
10-14
Oct

Opening

17-21
Oct

Description of objects
+ Practice (2)

4.

24-28
Oct

Description practice +
Grammar of Relatives
Clauses and Articles

6.

7-11
Nov

7.

14-18
Nov

Grammar of Discourse
Tenses Part II;
Writing

Museum
brochure
About Towns; London:
Subjective discourse

8.

21-25
Nov

9.

28Nov
-2 Dec

5.

Description of objects
+ Practice (1)

Designs
by
Zaha
Hadid
[Applications]; Adjectives: CPE p.
128-130; EATB; Handouts
Designs
by
Zaha
Hadid
[Applications];
Adjectives
+
Adverbs: CPE p. 128-130; EATB;
Handouts

EATB; CPE (Articles) p. 214-216;

Relative Clauses- CPE, p. 195197; Handouts
30
Grammar of Discourse English for Architects to Be; CPE,
Oct -4 Tenses Part I
p.
6-9;
p.

Applications;
Nov
Handouts

Town description (1)

Use
of
English:
Prepositions
Relationship between
people and towns;
Whitby
+
South
Shields(2):
Factual
discourse

Writing for Architects to Be; CPE, p.

10-15 (+ 15-16); Handouts
Reading + Debate; Fragments from
Peter Ackroyds London Under
(ch.I)
Reading + Film (Dublin)
CPE, p. 17-19; EATB.

EATB. Architectural description.

10
.

5-9
Dec

11
.
12
.
13
.

12-16
Dec
3-6
Jan

14
.

9-13
Jan
16-20
Jan

Town
description: Town
vocabulary;
Fragments
London
(3): from Peter Ackroyds London,
Subjective
the Biography (ch. 77)
discourse
Tenses in translation.
English for Architects to Be;
English with a Key. Translation
Oral Test
Town presentation
Oral Test

Town presentation

Oral Test

Town Presentation

Bibliography
- Ackroyd, Peter, London Under. Vintage, 2012.
- Ackroyd, Peter, London. The Biography. Vintage, 2001.
- Teodorescu, Magda English for Architects To Be [EATB], 2011
-Teodorescu, Magda, Writing for Architects to Be, [WATB] 2010
- Vianu, Lidia, English with a Key, Teora, 2005
Evaluation: Seminar work: 50%; Test grade: 50%.
Note: Students should attend at least 60% of the seminars to be
accepted to sit the final test.

ATENIE
PENTRU EVALUAREA ORAL STUDENII TREBUIE S
PREZINTE TEMA MY RELATIONSHIP TO A TOWN
(CONFORM DATELOR DE MAI SUS).
STUDENII TREBUIE S PREGTEASC O SCURT
PREZENTARE A UNUI ORA (LA ALEGERE).
PENTRU EVALUAREA SCRIS STUDENII VOR
REVIZUI TEMELE DISCUTATE PE PARCURSUL
SEMESTRULUI, REGSIBILE N CELE DOU CRI
ALE PROFESORULUI INDICATE N BIBLIOGRAFIE.