UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO

FACULDADE DE LETRAS

DEPTO. DE ANGLO-GERMÂNICAS

INGLÊS I – LEG 101

Relações Internacionais
2011.1

Tutor

Rodrigo Borba

rodrigoborba@letras.ufrj.br

borba.rodrigo@terra.com.br

Monitor

Luisa Cesário

LUZCESARIO@GMAIL.COM
Dear all,

Welcome to Inglês I. In this booklet you will find important information about
this course, including its aims, outlines of each session, relevant reading and
details for the assignments for this course.

This guide can give you an idea of what to expect from this course, but we hope
that we will be able to make adjustments in order to address your expectations and
needs. To make the most of this course, it is important that you do all the
required reading and writing for each session and contribute to the face-to-face
discussions drawing on your readings and experience.

The readings listed in this guide may be subject to change depending on the
group’s interests, and we will of course keep you informed and try to give you
advance notice of changes.

The course is divided in two different modules, each of which has different aims and
are, therefore, distributed in different days of the week: Mondays (module on
speaking) and Wednesday (module on writing and grammar). The Mondays module
aims at discussing the role of English in a globalized world. To this end, the lessons
are mainly seminars prepared by you based on texts regarding this area of study.
This part of the course focuses on debating how linguistic studies are useful to
internationalists. The Wednesdays module aims at improving your writing skills.
This module is split in different writing workshops which will expose you to a variety
of textual genres useful to your area of studies.

Course Aims

The course is intended to (1) give you tools to develop critical thinking with regards
to English in a globalized world, (2) prepare you to write different kinds of texts with
linguistic adequacy and appropriateness and (3) provide you with tools to overcome
your linguistic difficulties regarding writing and grammar of the English language

Assessable Outcomes

By the end of this course, it is expected that you will be able to demonstrate:

• Critical understanding of the concepts discussed in class;

• Critical understanding of the relations between linguistics and international

relations;

• Autonomy to prepare and deliver high quality presentations;

• Autonomy to participate in class discussions in English;

• Ability to construct and defend a personal stance regarding the topics of the
lessons;

• Capacity to write different textual genres with linguistic adequacy and

appropriateness;
 • Awareness of your linguistic difficulties and the tools necessary to overcome
them;

MONDAYS’ MODULE OUTLINE

WEEK TOPIC(S) ASSINGMENTS

1 Placement test

14/03/11
2 Results of the placement test
Course overview
21/03/11 How to prepare a seminar
3 Lecture:

28/03/11 English as a global language:

globalization and its linguistic
implications
4 Seminar 1: CRYSTAL, David. (2003).
English as a Global
04/04/11 Why English? The historical Language. Cambridge:CUP,
context I p. 29-53.
5 Seminar 2: CRYSTAL, David. (2003).
English as a Global
11/04/11 Why English? The historical Language. Cambridge:CUP,
context II p.54-71
6 Seminar 3: CRYSTAL, David. (2003).
English as a Global
18/04/11 Why English? The cultural Language. Cambridge:CUP,
foundation p.72-85.
7 Seminar 4: CRYSTAL, David. (2003).
English as a Global
25/04/11 Why English? The cultural legacy I Language. Cambridge:CUP,
p. 86-122
8
EVALUATION I
02/05/11
9 Serminar 5: CRYSTAL, David. (2003).
English as a Global
09/05/11 The future of global English I Language. Cambridge:CUP,
p.123-157.
10 Seminar 6: CRYSTAL, David. (2003).
English as a Global
16/05/11 The future of English II Language. Cambridge:CUP,
p.158-191
11 Seminar 7: GRADDOL, David. (2006).
English Next.
23/05/11 English in postmodernity London:British Council,
p.18-22 + 57-66.
12 Seminar 8: GRADDOL, David. (2006).
English Next.
30/05/11 Learning English in a globalized London:British Council,
world p.70-72 + 81-102.
13 Seminar 9: GRADDOL, David. (2006).
English Next.
06/06/11 Global English and policy London:British Council, p.
implications 104-123.
14
EVALUATION II
13/06/11
15
FEEDBACK
20/06/11

All assignment must be completed in advance of the lesson. No assignment will be

accepted after the deadline.

LIST OF SEMINAR READINGS

CRYSTAL, David. (2003). English as a Global Language. Cambridge:CUP.

GRADDOL, David. (2006). English Next. London:British Council.

EVALUATION (MONDAYS)

Seminar preparation and presentation: 3 marks

Evaluation I: 3 marks

Evaluation II: 4 marks

Seminars involve preparation, patience, critical thinking, reading, researching and creativity.
For your seminars, you are expected to go beyond the texts themselves. This means that you
are expected to research related texts and issues, bring new information to class, discuss
sincerely what you think is related to IR and what is irrelevant (and why), prepare a summary
of the text you discuss, research news, videos, songs and so forth and put everything together
coherently according to the theme of the seminar. These aspects will be taken into
consideration in the grading of the seminars.
 WEDNESDAYS’ MODULE OUTLINE

WEEK TOPIC(S) ASSIGNMENTS

1 Placement test

16/03/11
2 Course overview
Common errors in grammar,
23/03/11 punctuation, and style
3 Writing workshop 1:

30/03/11 Summaries
4 Writing workshop 1: Bring a 100-word draft of a
summary on the text “In
06/04/11 Discussion and text review praise of cultural
imperialism?” by David
Rothkopf
5
Grammar
113/04/11
6 HAND IN FINAL VERSION
Grammar OF THE DRAFT!!!
20/04/11
7 Writing workshop 2: Read EVANS, V. (1998).
Successful Writing.
27/04/11 Opinion essays Swansea:Express
Publishing, p.71-75.
8 Writing workshop 2: Bring a 600-word draft of
an opinion essay on any of
04/05/11 Discussion and text review the topics suggested in
class
9 Grammar

11/05/11
10 Grammar HAND IN THE FINAL
VERSION OF THE OPINION
18/05/11 ESSAY
11 Writing workshop 3: Read EVANS, V. (1998).
Successful Writing.
25/05/11 For and against essays Swansea:Express
Publishing, p.61-65.
12 Writing workshop 3: Bring a 700-word For and
Against Essay on one of
01/06/11 Discussion and text review the topics suggested in
class.
13
Grammar
08/06/11
14 HAND IN THE FINAL
Grammar VERSION OF THE FOR AND
15/06/11 AGAINST ESSAY!!
15 Feedback

22/06/11

All assignment must be completed in advance of the lesson. No assignment will be accepted
after the deadline.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ALLISON, John; APPLEBY, Rachel; DE CHAZAL, Edward. (2009). The Business

Advanced.Oxford:MacMillan.

AZAR, Betty S. (1998). Understanding and Using English Grammar.New York:Longman.

CELCE-MURCIA, Marianne; LARSEN-FREEMAN, Diane. (1999). The Grammar Book.New

York:Heinle and Heinle.

EVANS, Virginia. (1998). Successful Writing. Swansea:Express Publishing.

POWELL, Mark. (2004). In Company Upper-Intermediate.Oxford:MacMillan.

YULE, George. (1998). Explaining English Grammar.Oxford:Oxford University Press.

EVALUATION (WEDNESDAYS)

Writing 1 (summary): 2 marks

Writing 2 (opinion essay): 3 marks

Writing 3 (for and against essay): 3 marks

Online lessons: 2 marks

The final grade of the course will be calculated as follows:

Mondays module grade + Wednesdays module grade/2