Course description:

This English course will provide students with the fundamentals of the language and a

foundation for advancing through the four required levels of English proficiency. It consists of the

four Language Arts (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) in grammar context. The course

is online and uses multiple media tools to reinforce technological advances and adapt to the

individual needs of the students by integrating research skills, technology and collaborative work

to perform successfully at higher levels.

Objectives:
General objectives:
1. Use the four language arts (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) with basic

everyday expressions and short simple texts.

2. Construct simple sentences.

3. Demonstrate control of essential grammatical structures.

4. Reproduce simple oral and written communication to provide and obtain information.

Specific objectives:

1. Recognize and use appropriately the different parts of speech.

2. Produce sentences using the correct word order and punctuation marks.

3. Construct affirmative and negative sentences.

4. Construct a short paragraph on a familiar topic concerning home, family, friends and

holidays.

5. Use the basic tenses including the present and past simple, and present continuous
 correctly.

6. Use the basic auxiliary verbs (am/is/are/was/were) and a range of regular and

irregular verbs.

7. Demonstrate knowledge of the essential grammatical features and functions including

questions and negatives, plural nouns, frequency adverbs, possessives, pronouns and

determiners.

8. Listen effectively in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes.

9. Practice the behaviors of effective active listeners.

10. Assess strengths in listening and set goals for future growth.

11. Speak fluently in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes and audiences.

12. Practice the behavior of effective speakers.

13. Assess strengths in speaking and set goals for future growth.

14. Read fluently and confidently a variety of texts for a variety of purposes.

15. Practice the behaviors of effective strategic readers.

16. Assess strengths in reading and set goals for future growth.

17. Write effectively in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes.

18. Practice the behaviors of effective writers.

19. Assess strengths in writing and set goals for future growth.
Course Outlook
*the following dates are subject to change without any previous notice

Week Theme Activity Instructions and

due dates
1 • Introduction to the course Oral discussion via
• Syllabus discussion Skype
2 • Mapping out skills and Diagnostic test Take GRAMMAR
students needs http://www.ef.edu/ TEST using the site
english- (send through
resources/english- CANVAS a
grammar/ screenshot of
English level
placement)
3 Review chapter 1: Grammar Power Point Write a blog in
in presentation in Weebly with a
http://elibrary.bsu.az/books_ CANVAS comment and more
250/N_205.pdf for entire (Prof. M. information on
verb lessons. Acevedo) SIMPLE
file:///C:/Users/Joe PRESENT VERBS
• Verb Tenses /Downloads/Verb
• Simple Present %20Tenses.pdf (Post blog link in
CANVAS
platform)
4 • Verb Tenses Watch and react to Using the simple
▪ Simple Past YouTube video past verb tense
https://youtu.be/m create a short
oYDA4jbPy4 journal entry in
which you talk
about an important
past experience
post it in CANVAS
(graded by rubric)
5 • Verb Tenses Watch and react to Listening
▪ Simple Future the Podcast comprehension quiz
https://englishwith on CANVAS
kim.com/future-
forms-be-going-to-
will-decisions-
predictions/

6 • All verb tenses Review the Test on all verb

following tenses
 PowToon to clear on CANVAS
any doubts platform.
https://www.youtu
be.com/watch?v=I
R6wlbHVIWY

7 • Modal Auxiliaries • Definition and Students will create

examples with and publish group
Power Point Power Point
Presentation presentations in
(students) CANVAS.
• https://drive.go
ogle.com/file/d
/1l35BMllx5v
Ql8dtVLfvqCF
34O7dXHPa3/
view?usp=shar
ing
• https://drive.go
ogle.com/file/d
/0B4i73culbpq
yTG9WQi1BS
WVURUpKO
DYwSG1LUzd
helJ0bm9V/vie
w?usp=sharing

8 ▪ Prepositions Prezi presentation Assignment:

• Time in CANVAS Add a link in
• Place https://prezi.com/q CANVAS of one
• Location nxun_obqmcy/pre academic website
positions/?utm_ca to practice
mpaign=share&ut prepositions.
m_medium=copy

9 General review, questions and Final Test Test on CANVAS

answers. platform.

This course is intended for undergraduate students. These students need to complete ENGL

100 as a prerequisite to taking ENGL 101.

 The methodology that best suits the ENGL 101 course content is the constructivist theory.

This theory always places the learner as the center of his or her educational experience by

constructing knowledge from prior and current content and experiences. To achieve this, students

in this institution, have a complimentary educational tool in a learning platform called CANVAS

There are regular courses held at the institution with the complimentary use of the

learning platform, although this course in exclusively online supported by the CANVAS

platform.

Among the resources included in the ENGL 101 course there are Power Point

presentations by students as assignments, YouTube videos as complimentary resources,

interactive sites, social media and digital books selected by the professors to include in the
CANVAS platform. Evaluations will be graded in the platform because CANVAS provides a

grading system for assignments, quizzes and tests. These can be open ended questions, multiple

choice or true and false evaluations; the grading average and correct choices are selected by each

professor. Scores are automatically calculated by the platform.