ISO 20-21 ENG 1 is a 12-credit, 2-semester 'corso di lettorato' for first-year ISO students: all first-year English students! You need to pass my exams with an 18 (June, Sept, January and appelli straordinari) to take the Linguistica exam with the docente.

If you have a B2 certificate for a Cambridge or IELTS exam in the last two years, you will not have to take my ENG 1 exam.

We will be using the textbook KEYNOTE UPPER INTERMEDIATE, published by Cengage/National Geographic, and completing the first 8 units (the last four are covered in ENG 2). Each unit is built around an edited TED Talk and we study the key vocabulary and grammar that comes out of the talk, plus there is a separate limited grammar section and a third section with a themed reading.

In fact, my multiple-choice exam is all about the key vocabulary and key grammar in the first eight units of the book. Not so easy to identify those key terms, but all will be explained in class!

There may be an optional listening exam in class, but this depends on the way the pandemic goes.

WELCOME, ISO 20-21 ENG 1!