Language Awareness 1 (LA1) - Course Syllabus: 

 

1. What's language awareness? + program + tips to develop learner autonomy during the course

2. Tense and Aspect - part 1

3. Tense and Aspect - part 2

4. Present Perfect vs Simple Past - contrastive analysis, debunking myths and preconceptions

5. Conditionals

6. Theoretical grammar vs spoken grammar (reported speech, meanings of get, phrasal verbs) 

7. Fluency practice  (participants' 3 to 5-minute presentation) + feedback and discussion

8. Introduction to the phonemic chart (segmentals of phonology) + common mispronunciation for speakers of Brazilian Portuguese

9. Introduction to Stress, rhythm and intonation (suprasegmentals of phonology)

10. Connected Speech   

11. Collocations 

12. Participants' choice

 

 

Language Awareness 2 (LA2) - Course Syllabus

 

 

1. Minimal pairs (similar confusing sounds - phonology - suprasegmentals)

2. Verb patterns

3. Passive & Passive Causative

4. Analysis of accents

5. Theoretical grammar vs spoken grammar: use of adverbs 

6. Academic writing vs conversational English (use of nouns, pronouns, transitions)

7. Practice of suprasegmental and segmental features of phonology

8.  Tips on how to study vocabulary & increase repertoire (concepts of design thinking, short term and long term memory)

9. Restrictive and non-restrictive clauses (Relative clauses)

10. Modifiers in Noun Phrases

11. Complex sentences (participle clauses; inversion; fronting; alternative to if-clauses)

12. Participants' Choice