Semana 1 – apresentação do curso
Prezados alunos e alunas,
Tudo bem? Espero encontrar todos e todas com saúde e em paz.
Boas-vindas. Parabéns por ter chegado até aqui!
Eu sou o Professor Marcello de Oliveira Pinto. Estarei com vocês aqui nesta disciplina. Nesta apresentação, vou descrever um pouco o curso que você está iniciando e o que você lê aqui reverbera o que já comentamos em sala. Espero que ao conhecer o curso, você perceba a sua relevância e o quanto ele poderá ajudá-lo a enfrentar melhor os desafios da vida acadêmica.
Organização
A disciplina será ministrada em 15 aulas de acordo com o calendário da faculdade. Ao longo dos semestres, faremos os ajustes necessários para que o curso possa se adaptar ao seu contexto. Caso seja preciso fazer algum evento on-line o link será postado aqui
Aproveite para conferir a ementa do curso
Recursos didáticos
o material do curso está aqui
Importante – para ativar e rever o conhecimento da língua que o curso demanda apresento algumas atividades de prática linguística que deverão ser feitas em paralelo ao conteúdo apresentado no curso e serão listadas aqui.
Avaliação
Vocês serão avaliados da seguinte forma: Duas notas comporão sua média final (MF).
A primeira (N1) será composta pela soma das atividades que vocês farão ao longo do curso, totalizando 10 pontos.
A segunda (N2) será composta por uma atividade final, totalizando também 10 pontos.
A média final será a soma das duas notas e para aprovação imediata é preciso que essa média seja igual ou maior que 7 pontos.
importante: somente os alunos devidamente inscritos podem participar da disciplina. Caso você não esteja inscrito, por gentileza procurar a secretaria do seu curso. O docente não inclui ou faz a inscrição do aluno na turma.
Qualquer dúvida sobre as médias para aprovação, prova final, o que é o CR, calendário acadêmico e demais regulamentos, visitem o site da UERJ
Bom trabalho!
Class activities
Hi, let´s take a look at a video based on a famous novel from Saul Below to warm it up. Would you say yes to the idea proposed?
Now take a look at the extract taken from the book itself. How many sentences can you count?
“But it was the figure you cut as an employee, on an employee’s footing with the girls, in work clothes, and being of that tin-tough, creaking, jazzy bazaar of hardware, glassware, chocolate, chicken-feed, jewelry, drygoods, oilcloth, and song hits—that was the big thing; and even being the Atlases of it, under the floor, hearing how the floor bore up under the ambling weight of hundreds, with the fanning, breathing movie organ next door and the rumble descending from the trolleys on Chicago Avenue—the bloody-rinded Saturday gloom of wind-borne ash, and blackened forms of five-storey buildings rising up to a blind Northern dimness from the Christmas blaze of shops.”
I hope you have answered the questions with no problems! No? Well, if you haven´t can you say why?Probably it has to do with some basic concepts you need to review, and I guess they are these:
No? Maybe this?:
Now do you know why you did not give the right answer?
Hey, maybe you do not know what a sentence is!!
this leads us to our …
fIRST tASK
This is our Padlet, an interactive wall where we can post some notes (posts), images, comments.
Our first activity is TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.
1 – Did you answer the number of sentences in the extract correctly? If not, why? Reflect on your reasons to give the answer you gave.
2- what is the concept of “sentence” in the English language? Research (this is your main job here) and also refer to the class material.
This activity already guarantees you 1 point for the first grade. You have until the next class to guarantee the point. Attention: if you send it before the deadline, the work will be worth 1 point. If you send it after that, it becomes half, that is, 0.5 All activities scored and with a deadline for delivery will follow the same logic.
To go further
A SHORT OVERVIEW OF ENGLISH SYNTAX Based on The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
Semana 2
Hi! By now you have probably reviewed the concepts highlighted in
the last class an have tried to research the concept of sentence. Hope so. But if you haven´t, the video below might help you! take a look.
This is a promotional video for the cartoon Steven Universe, a coming-of-age story
told from the perspective of Steven, the youngest member of the Crystal Gems, a
team of magic guardians who protect the planet Earth.
The animated series was conceived as part of the “Shorts Development Initiative” at
Cartoon Network Studios, and is created by Emmy and Annie Award-nominated
writer and storyboard artist, Rebecca Sugar, Cartoon Network’s first solo female show
creator!
Fusion Gems are the product of multiple Gems (or half-Gems, who can fuse with both
Gems and humans). Fusions are formed when the participants are emotionally
harmonious with each other. This state can be spontaneous, but it is usually achieved
deliberately through a synchronized dance (as the one in the video below). If you
were a Gem, who would you like to fuse with?
Now, lets take a look at some sentences How many clauses are there in the sentences below?
- 1. We took a taxi home after the theatre
- 2. The policeman was not impressed by your alibi
- 3. As soon as I heard the news, I rushed straight to the police
- 4. Amy watches football on television, but she never goes to a game
- 5. If you give your details to our secretary, we will contact you when we have a vacancy
Now lets do the following activity. check your answers. How many have you scored? Was it difficult or not? If it was, what is the challenge?
https://www.grammarbank.com/sentence-meaning-exercise.html
As I tried to show here, the sentence is a kind of “fusion”. The way it is build has to do with how we organize the communicative experience in language.
this is for you to think about until next class! now:
Time to work:
Do the following activities in the English grammar: a
university course (some we might have done in class alrerady).
unit 1, page 28 – ex 1 and 2.
And to end today. Something to soothe our minds.
Semana 3 – Cup of tea.
Learning a language is not supposed to be a hard thing. But even for native speakers there is the challenge of learning the multiple “languages” within a language. This is one os the themes of Pygmalion, a play by George Bernard Shaw, first presented in
English on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life.
In the play, and also in the 1964 american musical drama adaptaion My Fair Lady, we see a
recreation ot the greek myth, when a professor tries to teach a working class flower girl to
talk like a duchess in three months.
Take a look at his methods
We do not need to remold our English but it would be a great idea to begin dealing with the the main elements that organize the sentences and how they are structured, so that we are able to deal with the myriad of possibilities we have available to express ideias. Let`s practice a bit?
Time to work
Do the following activities in the English grammar: a
university course.
unit 2 – Exercise 5 (p. 50)
unit 1 – Exercises 1 and 2 (p. 49)
unit 4 – Exercise 1 (p. 93)
To go further
1 – the cup of tea thing
2- linear what?
Semana 4 – “One morning…”
Hi
Can you please complete this sentence:
One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that he had been changed into….
Bet you had no doubts. Syntax is correct, semantics too. But you are wrong! check it out:
This is an example of literary mashup. the term refers to a piece of fiction which has combined with a completely different literary
genre to create a new narrative – essentially a hybrid text.
It is part of the remix culture we live in nowadays, when one is able to use the means to change, recreate and publicize cultural
experiences with few restrictions (fanfics, musical remixes, memes, and others here included)
Have you ever read any mashup?
When we deal with sentences in English, we always play a game of combinations as well
” Grammatically, the sentence is the highest unit. Traditionally, sentences are said to be simple, compound or complex.
A simple
sentence consists of one independent clause; a compound sentence of two independent clauses in a relationship of coordination.
A complex sentence consists minimally of one independent and one or more dependent clauses in a relationship of dependency”.
We can also notice some structures of a lower rank in conversation and some types of wtitten texts such as public notes anda headlines. they are non-clausal estructures that should be dealt with as independent rethorical units.
By dealing with these combinations a language user can use the repertoire of possibilities he/she has to create a whole new range
of possibilities.
Shall we mash it up a bit?
Time to work!
Listen to your lovely professor, accept the challenges and do the exercises proposed.
Then, at home, take a look at English grammar: a university course and read units 31 and 32.
Have fun
Semana 5 – I feel bad that you feel bad…
Hi!
Lets’s begin with the bussiness: do you know what recursion in language means?
If not, take a look here:
I guess this is nice now, right? Take a look at our old friend, Prof Caroline Heycock showing
how constituents can contain constituents of the same type:
Clear? No? Well, you need “Therapy” then.
Time to work!
Extra activities:
EGUC. Unit 2, exercises 3 and 4 – Unit 4, exercise 1 – Unit 5, exercises 1 and 2 – Unit 6, exercise 1a.
Semana 6 – Fundamental Friend Dependability
To start today let us take a look at a scene from Snoopy, Come Home (1972). Here Clara (Linda Ercoli) sings to Snoopy (Bill Melendez) th song Fundamental-Friend-Dependability, written by the Sherman Brothers for the film.
A toxic friendship is always something bad. Be careful! But for us, dependability in language is not a problem. Reviem the activities Take a look at the activities below and check out about dependency in clause combinatios.
English grammar: a university course and do the exercises form the unit on pages 280-281. Read Unit 33
Advanced Language Practice – pages 124-125 (pdf) exercises 3 and 4
Tarefa 2
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Semana 7 – “Cup of tea”
Learning a language is not supposed to be a hard thing. But even for native speakers there is the challenge of learning the multiple “languages” within a language.
This is one os the themes of Pygmalion, a play by George Bernard Shaw, first presented in English on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life.
In the play, and also in the 1964 american musical drama adaptaion My Fair Lady, we see a recreation ot the greek myth, when a professor tries to teach a working class flower girl to talk like a duchess in three months.
Take a look at his methods
We do not need to remold our English, but it would be a great idea to begin dealing with more ways of organizing sentences and how they are structured. Shall we?
Exercises:
EGUC – pages 281-282 exercises from unit 34.
ALP – page 59 and 61 (pdf)
Extra
Aula – “and the dense fog is densest'”
As I know you love the language, and literature is the place where it shines, let´s begin with some delight, before the grammar fog gets the densest!
Please take a look at the texts below, read, them, enjoy them.
Which is your favourite? why? what do you think make it enjoyable? anything calls your attention?
The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest near that leaden-headed old obstruction, appropriate ornament for the threshold of a leaden-headed old corporation, Temple Bar. And hard by Temple Bar, in Lincoln’s Inn Hall, at the very heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery. Never can there come fog too thick, never can there come mud and mire too deep, to assort with the groping and floundering condition which this High Court of Chancery, most pestilent of hoary sinners, holds this day in the sight of heaven and earth.
Bleak House – Dickens
“I don’t tell Ma about Spider. She brushes webs away, she says they’re dirty but they look like extra-thin silver to me. Ma likes the animals that run around eating each other on the wildlife planet, but not real ones. When I was four I was watching ants walking up Stove and she ran and splatted them all so they wouldn’t eat our food. One minute they were alive and the next minute they were dirt. I cried so my eyes nearly melted off. Also another time there was a thing in the night nnnnng nnnnng nnnnng biting me and Ma banged him against Door Wall below Shelf, he was a mosquito. The mark is still there on the cork even though she scrubbed, it was my blood the mosquito was stealing, like a teeny vampire. That’s the only time my blood ever came out of me.”
Room – Emma Donoghue
Off hand, I can remember seeing just three girls in my life who struck me as having unclassifiably great beauty at first sight. One was a thin girl in a black bathing suit who was having a lot of trouble putting up an orange umbrella at aJones Beach, circa 1936. The second was a girl aboard a Caribbean cruise ship in 1939, who threw her cigarette lighter at a porpoise. And the third was the Chief’s girl, Mary Hudson.
The Laughing Man – Salinger