SECOND LESSON

• WRITING A QUESTIONNAIRE (12 questions)
  

1. Could you tell me if there's a particulary school that is necessary to attend before studying law?
2. Could you tell me where you come from?
3. Could you tell me what kind of difficulties you had in your first year of university?
4. Do you think that LUISS's website can help fisrt year students to resolve these problems?
5. Could tell me if it is necessary to attend all courses?
6. Colud you tell me if you have used the same studies method that you used at school?
7. Could you tell me if the university offers extra activities?
8. Could you tell me if it is useful to talk to tutors?
9. Could you tell me if it's important to have a relationship with other students?
10. Do you prefer to study at home or in the studying-room?
11. What do you think about the university's library?
12. What do you think about the carteen service?

TOPIC ONE: CINEMA & ENGLISH

I really like watching films: I go to the cinema sometimes but I prefer
to rent a film and to watch it of the armchair of my house with all of my conveniences.

So you can choose to watch the films in their original language or with subtitles. I think that this is a good way to learn the language, in fact few to the time you begin to learn the pronunciation and the typical english expressions.
But there are different pronunciations: for exemple the American accent is very difficult to understand because the words are cut at the end. In this case the subtitles can help you to understand better.
Instead there is a disadvantage: you assemble above all yourself on the meaning of the words without listening to the dialogues and to learn the pronunciation.
Around two mounths ago I watched a film about lawyers -"The Devil's Advocate"- american thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford starring Al Pacino and Charlize Theron.

GRAMMAR
Past Tense

• Past Simple (worked, stopped, went...)

What time did you wake up this morning?
I didn't have time to do my homework
They got merried last year

Use the past simple for finished past actions.

• Past Continuous (was/were+verb+-ing)

What were you doing at six o'clock last night?

Use the past continuous to describe an action in progress at a specific time in the past.

• Past Perfect (had+past participle)

When they turned on the TV, the match had finished
I felt nervous because I hadn't flown before

Use the past perfect when you are talking about the past and you want to talk about an earlier past action


EXERCISE
Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs. (Workbook pag.7)

1. I was waiting to play tennis yesterday when my partner called me to say that he couldn't come because his car has broken down.
2. Ireland beat England yesterday. England were winning 1:0 in the first half but Ireland scored two goals in the second half.
3. We were late. When we arrived evryone had finished their lunch and they were sitting in the garden having coffee.
4. I run to the station but the 6 o'clock train had already left. The station was empty except for three people who were waiting for the next train.
5. It started raining when he was walking to work. He stopped a taxi because he wasn't wearing a coat and he didn't have an umbrella.
6. They were driving to the airport when they suddenly remembered thet they haven't turned off the central heating.
7. I didn't recognize many people at my old school reunion because everyone was changing a lot in 20 years.
8. The match had already started when we turned on the TV. Scotland were losing 1:0 and they were playing very badly.