GENERAL PRESENTATION OF THE COURSE The purpose of today’s course is to introduce the students to myth criticism (literary criticism seeking relationships between myth and literature) via two books WHOSE THIRD CHAPTERS/THIRD PARTS deal very explicitly with myth: Northrop Frye’s 1957...
1. Introduction 0.0 Freed (1976) defined ‘Aspect’ as ‘a notion of Time, distinct from Tense, that refers to the internal temporal structure of events and activities named by various linguistic forms….. in terms of such things as inception, duration, completion..’ The definition...
1. The Definite Article → the is used: - to refer to something which has already been mentioned: Open the door, please! - when we talk about something or somebody considered unique: the only one, the Earth, the Moon, etc; e.g.: The English like tea. - with plural states and...
Lecture 1 Activity 1: Discussion on the E – SOFTPROD case Description: E – SOFTPROD - American company - develops software for other companies (American & foreign companies; inside & outside the States) - employs offshore teams of engineers in two development centres located in...
When is communication effective? Only when others understand your message and respond to it the way you want them to Effective communication: - manage your work flow - improve business relationships - enhance your professional image - other important benefits: What do employers...
COURSE OBJECTIVES This course presents a basic introduction to the English of international business and economic topics. One of the course objectives is to show the way English is used to analyze and discuss various issues, focusing on terms, phraseology and discourse employed in...
3. Modality and modal verbs Syntactic properties of modal verbs Modals add to the lexical verb a special semantic component such as ability, obligation, permission, possibility. From a syntactic point of view, modal verbs have certain properties that make them similar to auxiliary...
UNIT 1 CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES Section A The Fundamental Law in the United Kingdom There is a learned debate about whether Britain actually has a constitution. It clearly lacks one in a widely used sense of the term: there is no single comprehensive written code, or document, which...
Written Communication in Business English COURSE LEVEL first year undergraduate students/ second semester of study INSTRUCTOR Silvia Mihuţ, Teaching Assistant, PhD Student COURSE OBJECTIVES This course introduces the university students to business writing for both print and...
GERUND: 1) expressing start, continuity or ending a) It started raining./ It started to rain. He began working earlier. b) She continued/ went on/ kept on talking. c) He finished writing the letter. (dupa ‘finish’ folosim obligatoriu forma de ‘ing’) 2) verbs of feeling: to like,...
To make up construction works is necessary to move high quantities of different materials such as aggregates, cement, steel, concrete, plasters or precast elements from a place to another. The transported products have different shapes, dimensions and densities; Construction...
READING SECTION Chapter 1 WHO ARE YOU ? Ann: Hello! Dan: Hello! Who are you? Ann: I’m Ann Smith. Dan: Who’s he? Ann: He’s my brother. His name’s Dave. Dan: Who’s she ? Ann: She’s my sister. Her name’s Rosie. Dave: And who are you? Ann and Donna: Yes, who are you? Dan:...
Decision tree is a popular classifier that does not require any knowledge or parameter setting. The approach is supervised learning. Given a training data, we can induce a decision tree. From a decision tree we can easily create rules about the data. Using decision tree, we can easily...
Topic 2. Shares – titles of property 2.1. Shares: concept, types and fundamental characteristics. Legislative aspects in the Republic of Moldova. 2.2. The methods of shares’ issuance and placement. Subscription right. The methods of shares’ issuance and placement in the Republic of...
Conjugare Afirmativ Interogativ Negativ I have Have I? I have not (haven’t) You have have you? You haven’t He,she ,it has has he, she, it? He, she, it hasn,t We have have we? We haven’t You have Have you? You haven’t They have have they? They haven’t VERBUL TO BE– A FI...