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BA in Languages
ADVANCED ENGLISH
Professor:
Mtra. Ernestina Patricia de Dios Naranjo
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1. Course Description
7th. C Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 12: 00 – 14:00 hrs 40 days
GROUP AND SCHEDULE:
7th. F Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10: 00 – 12:00 hrs. 43 days
SUBJECT PRESENTATON
This subjet helps students improve their learning of the English Language, as well as to adquire the necessary competences to reach level B1 of the
Common European Framework for Languages. In order to reach such level, students practice the four skills (listening, reading, writing and speaking) to
increase his/her communicative competence as well as a deeper study into the linguistic system (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and functions) through
different tasks.
The teaching and the learning activities will be focused on the improvement of the students’ use of the language as a social and academic means. Therefore,
the constant use and practice of the language in classes is of primary importance. During the course, the teacher will promote the increase of responsibility
attitudes with their own learning, learn to learn strategies and become a more independent student.
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GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the course the student will be able to communicate with others with a reasonable fluency in oral and written situations, make
brief presentations about topics with enough clarity and reasonable precision. Besides, he/she will be able to write, simple, short and coherent
reports about different academic and social topics of interest. He will be able to understand the content of the information in most standard
language recorded material. He will also be able to search for different texts to find the required information.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
The student will:
Develop pretty good arguments that can be understood without difficulty most of the time.
Offer brief well taught explanations of opinions, plans and actions.
Write simple and detailed descriptions about a series of everyday situations.
Summarize, communicate and offer his/her opinion with certainty about concrete facts related to everyday matters.
Understand the main ideas of a clear discourse and in standard language about habitual topics related to a job, school, leisure time
including brief narratives.
Understand simple technical information, such as functioning instructions of frecuently used devices and will be able to follow detailed
instructions.
Find, understand and recognize relevant information in written common materials, such as letters, catalogues and brief oficial document
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METHODOLOGY:
The teacher should be proficient in the use of the language and know about English teaching methodology and technology in the language teaching. She
should also be involved in a permanent reflexive process about the bases of her practice in order to identify and solve problems. As part of her commitment as
a teacher, she will promote a kind of learning in which empathy, responsibility and motivation are included and respect and self-steem are promoted in the
students too. With the purpose of promoting an integral kind of learning, the teacher will help students to learn to learn.
English will be used as a means of communication and teaching and learning of contents.
Promote the use of English as a means of communicartion inside and outside the class.
The teacher must interact with the students in English and promote the use of the following languag functions.
Greeting people and responding to greetings
Asking for repetition and clarification
Asking for and giving the spelling and meaning of words
Expressing and responding to thanks
Making and responding to apologies and excuses
The teacher must implement task based activities related to real life and not only as a language system. Practices should be based on the knowledge of ddiscourse,
lexico-grammatical features, ssemantic & pragmatic meanings, ssentences & utterances, ffunctions, cohesion and coherence and features of spoken discourse.
Consequently, it is necessary to practice with communicative meaningful activities through individual, pair and group activities in which an an intelligible pronunciation
(sentence stress, intonation, pitch, etc.) is promoted. Besides, work on the writting skill should be fostered. Different instruments for learning must be used such as the
monolingual dictionary and technology such as internet.
Extensive reading
The students will read two books of intermediate-advanced level either from the library or any internet short story. During the first partial, a report
has to be given about what he/she has read. During the second partial period, a complete book must have been read and a book review has to
be written. During the third partial period, another review has to be written about the other book.
Workbook
Students will answer the workbook every unit. The workbook has the key to the exercises. So they have to check their answers and reflect
on their achievement. Every unit the students will hand in as part of their homework the unit answered and an achievement report in which they
answer the following questions:
What I learned from the unit / What I had problems at / what I will do to improve them (report on the use of strategies)
These two kinds of homework as well as other supporting material will be considered as homework.
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Portfolio
A condition to take each partial exam is that students form a portfolio progressively. It has to be handed in on the day each partial period exam is
presented. If the student do not have it, they will not be able to take the exam. The following are the parts of the portfolio:
1. A front page which includes: Name of the university, the name of the academic division (DAEA), language major and subject name; then the name of the
subject and the
student’s name.
Every partial period evaluation, there will be part of a mock exam for the PET. The results of the placement exam, as well as the pets and the
partial exams have the purpose of letting the students know what they are responsible of improving at.
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Unit No. I Information about the news, celebrities and travel. Information about stereotypes and book and movies
reviews. Descriptions about, dilemas, fashion and style
Esteimated time 18 hrs.
The student will be able to express and respond in a writeen and oral way feeling of
Pronunciation: -ed endings: /t/, /d/, /Id/ surprise, happiness, sadness, inerest and indiference. (pg.65, 66)
Writing: Writng a newspaper report, writing an essay.
Functions to express good or bad news and respond
to them.
Competences
Written narrative of a trip to a Grammar Modals of deduction and past perfect
place in the past. The student will be able to understna a brief narrative and predict what is going to
Vocabulary: Geographical Location, describing places happen.. (pg. 72)
Short presentation of a trip Fixed expressions: now or never, take it or leave it, etc.
that went wrong. Extra: Dictionary labels The student will understan the most important information from a brochure. (pg.69, 70)
Pronunciation:
Asking for and giving English names for famous geographical features The student will be able to understand the plot in a narrative and identify the most
directions for places to go to. Writing: important. (pg. 68, 72)
Narrative features
Paragraph organization The student will be able to ask for and follow detailed. (pg.68, 74)
Describing a place
Functions: Asking for and giving directions. The student will be able to explain his plans intentions and actionsPodrá explicar sus
planes,. (pg. 71)
Dictionary work
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Unit No.
II TOPICS: Expressing opinions. Childhood activities
Approximate time 30 hrs
Reporting the results of a survey from a group of Grammar : Reported statements and questions.
students about their interests in entertainment Competences
(books, films and music). Vocabulary: Books, films and music
-ed and -ing adjectives The student will be able to read newspapers columns or
Writing a film review. collocations interviews in which somebody expresses his/her opinion about a
specific topic. (pg. 77, 79, 81)
Pronunciation:
A debate about the advantages and Word stress The student will be able to start, maintain and finish
disadvantages of the use of internet. conversations about familiar topics. (pg. 76, 78)
Writing: a book and a film review
The student will be able to express and respond in an oral and
written way to feeling about sorprice, happiness, sadness,
interest or indiference. (pg.80,81)
The student will get involved with a book or movie and describe
his/ her reactions to them in a writen way. (pg. 79, 81)
Grammar: Competences
Narrating childhood experiences 1. Defining relative clauses
2. Real conditionals (first conditional) The student will be able to understand the main ideas in TV
Writing a letter of advice 3. Indirect questions programmes about familiar topics. (pg. 92)
Describing objects Vocabulary: Pronunciation: The student will be able to describe and understand descriptions
about everyday objects. (pg. 94)
Phrasal verbs Words with silent letters
Verb-noun collocations The student will keep a conversation (pp. 90, 91, 93, 94)
Proverbs Anecdote: an activity you
Make and let did as a child The student will be able to narrate about his/her activities or
Writing: hobbies as a child. (pág. 93)
Letter of advice The student will be able to tell a story using communication
Word families strategies. (pg. 89)
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Unit No.
III TOPICS: Age and clothing style.
Hrs. Estimadas 30 hrs
Writing the biography of a famous character for a Grammar: Adjective Order, have something done
magazine. The student will get the general idea in short
Vocabulary: texts and will find facts and relevant
Clothes information from them. (pp 104, 106 y 109)
Physical Description
Verb phrases The student will express his/her opinion
Extra: Exploring meanings about fashion and style using phrases related
to that topic. (pag 104)
Pronunciation: The student will be able to establish a
Sounds and spellings dialogue about someone he/she had met
recently and will express information about
looks (pp 107)
The student will identify physical
apprearance changes upon people’s
descriptions.
personality adjectives.
2 Evaluation Criteria
Attendance and achievement should be of at least 80% at the end of the semester in order not to take the final exam (not 7.5).
Less than 80% of attendance students have to take the final exam. Students with less than 60% of attendance will automatically take
extraordinary exam.
Absences are accepted only when they have been approved by the school administration or with a doctor’s prescription.
THE STUDENTS HAVE TO PASS THE ORAL AND WRITTEN EXAM IN ORDER TO PASS THE COURSE.
Students have to pass the oral exam and will be exempted from the final test if they have passed the oral and written exams.
The final exam will be oral and written and if any of them is failed, the student will fail the semester.
The oral exam will be based on micro and macro skills and the tasks practiced in the period.
The evaluation of listening skill should take into account the micro and macro skills as well as the tasks practiced in the class.
The different kinds of genres practiced in the class, in which the micro and macro skills have been practiced, are included.
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3 Bibliography
Barnes, A., Hines, J. and Weldon J. ( 1995) Have Fun with Vocabulary! Penguin Books. London, England.
Gaitàn, S and Parnwell, E.C ( 1989) The New Oxford Picture Dictionary. Oxford Univesity Press. NY. USA
Granger, C ( 1980) Play Games with English. Heinemann Games Series. Oxford. UK
Hewings, M. and Goldstein, Sh. (1998) Pronunciation Plus. Practice though Interaction. Cambridge Univesity Press. NY. USA.
Key, S. (2003) Inside Out Elementary ( Student’s book, Workbook, CD and Resourse Pack). Macmillan Publishers. Oxford. UK.
Marks, J. (2007) English Pronunciation in Us. Elementary. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. UK:
Murphy, R. ( 1990) Essential Grammar in Use. Cambridge University Press. Great Britain.
Seymour, D. and Popova, M. (2003) 700 Classroom Activities. Macmillan. Oxford. UK.
Stanley, N., Brown, L. and Kasprowicz, K (1988) Think in English. Macmillan. Mexico City. Mexico.
Vince, M. (2003) Intermediate Language Practice with key. Macmillan. Oxford. UK.
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