E4AC Free resources
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A note on free resources on the net
There are of course other free resources on the net. However, you have probably noticed that apart from ones on grammatical aspects of English, they are all written by native English speakers for native English speakers.
They are not written for Italians, or specifically for any other non-English speakers.
They tell you how to write a CV, but they don't tell you how to translate the names of Italian degrees into English. They tell you what kind of jokes you could tell at the beginning of a presentation, but they don't give you a list of useful phrases (in Italian and English) that you can use. They tell you how to structure a scientific paper, but they don't explain precisely which tenses you should use when referring to the literature.
Such resources also tend to be written in an English that is easy to understand if you were born in New York or London, or educated at Harvard University or Cambridge University, but probably not if you were born in Palermo and went to university in Milan.
We suggest that your department, rather than you personally, should open a subscription. In that way, everyone in our department can use the service.
Here are some useful links ...for learning about non-academic/scientific aspects of English usage - grammars, dictionaries, general English examinations, Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, etc.