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SYLLABUS FOR THE ENGLISH COURSES OFFERED BY THE LANGUAGE CENTRE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC

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UNIVERSITY OF NARIÑO LANGUAGE CENTER

LEVEL: CHILDREN I HOURS PER WEEK: 8 HOURS

TOTAL OF HOURS: 128

COURSE DESCRIPTION The course is designed to encourage students to continue studying English because it is based on

nice material special for children. We will use pictures and information about Disney characters in

order to talk about real information interesting for kids. The activities used in the classroom will be

develop in different ways such as pair work, role play, games and songs. These activities will be

carried out to motivate children so they have fun as they learn.

COURSE OBJECTIVE The main objective is to develop students´ communicative competence in English since the first

semester.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES At the end of the course the students will be able to:

- To talk about likes and dislikes

- To understand short tales

- To give and receive personal information

- To follow up simple instructions

- To talk about abilities

- To describe people using adjectives

METHODOLOGY The methodology will be mainly communicative. Students will have written tasks and oral

exercises to present in class, Besides they will have listening and reading practices with short

stories to develop fluency. All these exercises will be done thinking about the fact that they have

to use English in a meaningful environment using authentic communication. Also they will increase

their listening in the laboratory sessions.

COURSE MATERIAL

JOSE LUIS MORALES- ANNE WORRALL (2006).ENGLISH ADVENTURE 4, Pearson, Longman.

(INCLUDED DVD)

GRADING INFORMATION AND CRITERIA Students will participate in class in different activities such as reading comprehension, role play,

written exercises etc. If a class is missed then it is the responsibility of the student to catch up with

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the last class. When an evaluation is missed the grade will be zero, the absence can be justified

only by a doctor’s certificate.

First oral and written exam 20%

Second oral and written exam 20%

Complementary activities as class work, quizzes, oral presentations etc. 20%

Final oral and written exam of all the units 40%

GOALS OF EACH UNIT

Unit 1: TWO WORLDS

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To describe cities and countries and understand short reading

comprehensions.

Unit 2: RUN FAST, JUMP HIGH

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about the abilities that every student has.

Unit 3: BRAVE AND STRONG

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about feelings, describe people, animals and objects using adjectives.

Unit 4: I LIKE SWIMMING

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about likes and dislikes using sports and other activities.

Unit 5: LIONS EAT MEAT

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about animals and recognize the food they eat.

Unit 6: BUGS

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To identify the types of bugs that exist and talk about the food and habitat

they have.

Unit 7: MY DAY

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about your daily routine and the routines of other people.

Unit 8: THEN AND NOW

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To describe different activities using Simple present and Simple past.

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CLASS CONTENT

Schedule Class work Independent work

Week 1-2

Unit 1

Personal information

What’s your name? My name’s…

How old are you? I’m…

What color is…? It’s…

Commands: Sit down/ stand up/

open your book etc.

Ordinal numbers

Listen vocabulary about nature

There is- There are

Life in the country- Life in the city

Listen and read Phocahontas story.

To practice at home the way to

introduce themselves.

To prepare with a classmate a short

dialogue including greetings.

To describe places using there is

there are and use postcards for it.

Write similar stories to the ones you

listen and read.

Listen and read “What are homes

made of?

Week 3-4

Unit 2

Modal Verb Can

Question and short answer

Listen the story of Hercules and Meg

Adverbs

Listen and read “ They`re great”

REVIEW OF UNITS 1 AND 2

Talk about the abilities that people

have.

Increase listening using the activities

in the book.

Develop puzzles to increase

vocabulary.

Week 5-6 Unit 3

Adjectives

Verb to be affirmative, negative,

interrogative

Read Aladin Story and answer the

questions.

Read the story pg 46 and answer the

questions

Listen and read “Treasure in caves” and

do the reading comprehension activity.

FIRST WRITTEN TEST FIRST ORAL TEST

Listen and read and write a role

play.

Sing the song Pg 45

Tell a story similar to the ones that

you have in the book and present

them to your classmates in an oral

way.

Week 7-8 Unit 4

Likes and dislikes

Simple present with different verbs

(Affirmative, negative, interrogative, WH.

Questions)

Reading comprehension Pg. 54

Tell a story Pg 55

Skateboarding description

Sing a song Pg. 57

To write a composition about an

activity people develop in their free

time and mention it in front of your

classmates.

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Week 9 Unit 5

Animals

Food vocabulary


Answer questions giving information

about what animals eat.

Reading Comprehension Pg. 69


Role play Pg. 67

Sing a song Pg. 71

Give information about students pets

if it is possible bring pictures and

describe them in front of your

classmates.

Week 10-

11

Unit 6

Vocabulary about bugs

Prepositions (in front of, next to, under,

etc.

Reading comprehension Pg. 81 and

practice your listening.

Reading comprehension “ Bug Tricks” Pg.

85

Review Units 5 and 6

SECOND WRITTEN TEST SECOND ORAL TEST

Role play Pg. 79

Activity Pg. 80 Match the pictures

with the numbers and practice

listening

Talk about your favorite bag

Sing a son Pg. 83

Week 12-

13

Unit 7

What time is it? It is…

Daily Routine

My daily routine

“From Morning to night” daily routine



Role play Pg. 93

Do a puzzle

Week 14-

15

Unit 8

Adjectives to describe people

Sentences to describe people using verb

to be

Simple past with verb to be

Contrast between present and past


Reading comprehension “ Hercules, Greek

Hero”

Review units 7 and 8

Role play Pg. 105


Sing a song Pg. 109

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Week 16 CHECK PICTURE DICTIONARY AT THE END

OF THE BOOK.

FINAL WRITTEN TEST

FINAL ORAL TEST

COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES In first level of English it is important to focus on all the skills, for that reason it is necessary to

exercise at home listening to the C.D. that comes with the text book, to develop listening and

reading. Besides as a complementary activity, students will assist lab sessions to increase all their

abilities and to feel motivated to keep on studying English with joy.

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LANGUAGE CENTER LEVEL: CHILDREN II HOURS PER WEEK: 8

HOURS PER SEMESTER: 128

COURSE DESCRPITION:

The purpose of this course is to encourage students to practice their English based on different

activities to improve their speaking using the latest communicative teaching techniques; also

improving their grammatical performance through activities like songs and games that motivate

children both amusing and learning. This process will be controlled with skills activities to ensure

children make good process and acquire a solid foundation in English. Also it is based on fun

characters like animals, Pocahontas and Aladin.

COURSE OBJECTIVE: Develop in the students the communicative skills through practical English useful in their every day

life.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

The students will be able to:

- Use useful expressions for their diary context.

- Improve their listening and speaking by means songs.

- Use the English language as a tool for entering to real world.

- Maintain a strong English level based on communicative and grammatical techniques.

METHODOLOGY

For improving and developing the communicative skills, the methodology for this course will be:

- Speaking and writing activities and a variety of pair work activities.

- Sing songs and another listening activities

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- Word searches and challenging puzzles.

- Games a pair work activities and role models in stories.

COURSE MATERIAL JOSE LUIS MORALES- ISABELLA HEARN (2006).ENGLISH ADVENTURE 5, Pearson, Longman.

(INCLUDED DVD)

GRADING INFORMATION AND CRITERIA:

First exam: oral and written 20%

Second exam: oral and written 20%

Complementary activities like: workshops, role play,

oral and writing composition, participation in class and quiz 20%

Final exam: oral and written of all units 40%

GOALS OF EACH UNIT

UNIT 1: HOBBIES

OBJECTIVE: To talk about hobbies that people have

UNIT 2: DIRECTIONS

OBJECTIVE: To give the right direction to arrive to a different place

UNIT 3: SUMMER VACATION

OBJECTIVE: To talk about vacation using simple past

UNIT 4: MY SCHOOL DAY

OBJECTIVE: to talk about the normal activities students do at school

UNIT 5: WEEKEND ACTIVITIES

OBJECTIVE: To talk about the activities people do the weekends

UNIT 6: WHAT`S THE MATTER

OBJECTIVE: To talk about health problems

UNIT 7: I`M TALLER THEN YOU

OBJECTIVE: To compare and describe people, animals, and objects

UNIT 8: WHERE DID YOU GO?

OBJECTIVE: To talk about activities that happened in the past.

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CLASS CONTENT:

SCHEDULE

CLASS WORK

INDEPENDENT WORK

Week 1-2 Units 1

Personal information

Ordinal numbers from 1 to 1000

Phone numbers


Talk about hobbies and likes and

dislikes

What are you good at?


Copy your classmates `phone numbers

Role play Pg. 13

Week 3-4 Unit 2

Places in the city

Vocabulary to give the right directions

in a city or a different place

Reading Comprehension Pg. 20

“Sightseeing Tours”


Give directions to arrive to a different

place

Role play Pg. 19

Make a presentation about touristic

places in our country

Week 5-6 Unit 3

Regular verbs

Simple past with different verbs

(affirmative, negative , interrogative,

WH. Questions)

Reading comprehension about

summer camps


Role play Pg. 27

Write a composition about a wonderful

summer camp

Talk in class about your best vacation

Complementary grammar activities

Week 7 Unit 4

Vocabulary about subjects

Days of the week

Describe my schedule at school

Reading comprehension “My school

Day”


Write the schedule of your school in

English

Role ply Pg. 33

Write about your school day

Sing a song Pg. 35

Week 8-9 Units 5

Vocabulary about activities to do the

weekends

“Going to “

Role play pg. 41

Write a postcard to a friend

Talk about the plans you have this year

Sin a song Pg. 80

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Reading Comprehension “My

adventure” Pg. 43

Week 10-

11

Unit 6

Vocabulary about illnesses

Illnesses treatment

Advises using “should”

Reading comprehension “ e- cards”

REVIEW UNITS 5 AND 6 SECOND WRITTEN TEST SECOND ORAL TEST

Role play Pg. 47

Talk about your experiences when you

visit the doctor.

Write and e- card to a friend who

doesn`t feel very well.

Sing a song Pg. 80

Week 12-

13

Unit 7

Comparatives

Possessive pronouns

Vocabulary to describe physically a

person.

Reading Comprehension “Animal

Quiz” Pg. 56

Compare members of your family and

famous people. Also compare places.

Role play pg. 55

Write a composition about an animal

Sing a son Pg. 80

Week 14-

15

Unit 8

Irregular verbs

Simple past with different verbs

Countries Location

Reading comprehension “Around the

world in 80 days”

Review of units 7 and 8

Role play Pg. 61

Pretend you traveled around the world.

Write about your trip.

Sing a song Pg. 80

Extra grammar activities

Week 16 FINAL WRITTEN TEST FINAL ORAL TEST

COMPLEMETARY ACTIVITIES

The complementary work that will be developed in the course will be:

- Quiz about new vocabulary per each unit.

- Written composition about personal information using the new structure.

- Developing extra grammatical activities

- Practice of dialogues and oral reading for ensuring the good pronunciation

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LANGUAGE CENTER

LEVEL: CHILDREN III HOURS PER WEEK: 8

HOURS PER SEMESTER: 128

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to provide students new language features that allow them to improve

their communicative skills through activities such as role-play, interviews, interpretation of

situations, songs, chants, conversations and games that help them to interact using the language

they are learning. Besides, the topics are contextualized and are based on real situations so that

children will engage in them orally, visually and kinesthetically to maximize their participation.

COURSE OBJECTIVE

At the end of the course students will be able to put into practice the vocabulary and grammar

learned through the course, so that they can communicate with other speakers of English and

increase their level of proficiency.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

• Revise some grammatical items to put them in practice into a variety of communicative

tasks.

• Identify places and objects that are around them, as well as situations they can interpret

and explore through the foreign language.

• Read short stories that motivate students and provide them with opportunities for

classroom discussion.

• Listen to songs, dialogs and short stories so that students will be familiarized with the

sounds and structures of English.

METHODOLOGY

The methodology will be task – based so that it will allow students to practice the language they

are learning. Students will work on conversations they hear, practice and reinvent description of

pictures, association of vocabulary and songs or chants that supply review of the new grammar

patters and vocabulary. Grammar is presented through conversations that students will analyze

and exercises that will serve as controlled practice for the target language.

COURSE MATERIALS JOSE LUIS MORALES- ISABELLA HEARN (2006).ENGLISH ADVENTURE 6, Pearson, Longman.

GRADING INFORMATION AND CRITERIA

Students are expected to do the assigned homework, reading and practice, and participate in

class. If a class is missed is responsibility of the student to catch up with the class work. If an

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evaluation is missed then the grade will be zero unless the absence can be justified within the time

limit.

- First test: oral and written 20 %

- Second test: oral and written 20 %

- Final test about all units: oral and written 40%

- Complementary activities and class work 20%

GOALS OF EACH UNIT

UNIT 1: AT THE RESTAURANT

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about favorite food and favorite restaurants

UNIT 2: THEY`RE THE BEST

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about different things and activities using Superlatives.

UNIT 3: INVENTIONS

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about important inventions.

UNIT 4: EXPERIENCES

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about past experiences using simple past.

UNIT 5: SEE THE WORLD

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about future activities using “WILL”

UNIT 6: MY DREAM JOB

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about different professions and describe the activities developed in

some of them.

UNIT 7: WHAT WAS HE DOING?

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about activities that were developed in the past.

UNIT 8: PARTY TIME

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about parties details.

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CLASS CONTENT

Time Class work Personal work

Week 1-2

Meeting new friends

Oral exercise: introduce yourself

Unit 1

Numbers from 1000 to one million

Vocabulary about food

Explore grammar “What would you

like?”

Reading comprehension “Money

around the world”

Write a paragraph about your

personal info. (to hand in)

Talk about your favorite food

Role play Pg. 13

Write about a currency

Week 2-3 Unit 2

Superlatives

Musical instruments

Reading comprehension “The best

Ever”


Role play Pg. 19

Write about your favorite bank or

book

Play a game Pg. 23

Week 4- 5 Unit 3

Saying years

Simple past with verb to be

Past expressions

Pronunciation of regular verbs

Reading comprehension “The right

brothers”

Reading comprehension “AIBO : The

robot dog” Pg. 28


Role play Pg. 27

Invent and draw your own robot.

The write a story.

Sing a song Pg. 79

Week 6-7 Unit 4

Past participle of the regular and

irregular verbs

Present perfect (affirmative, negative,

interrogative)

Reading comprehension “travel

experiences” Pg. 34


Role play Pg. 33

Write about your last vacation

Sing a song Pg. 79

Week 8-9 Unit 5 Role play Pg. 41

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Future using “WILL”

Reading comprehension “SOUVENIR

QUIZ” Pg. 42

Write about a souvenir and then talk

about it in front of your classmates

and show pictures.

Talk about you future plans.

Week 10-11 Unit 6

Vocabulary about professions

What do you want to be ?

Reading comprehension “Special

Jobs”

REVIEW OF UNITS 5 AND 6 SECOND WRITTEN TEST SECOND ORAL TEST

Role play Pg. 47

Describe the activities that are

develop ion different professions

Write and draw your dream job

Sing a song Pg. 49

Week 12-13 Unit 7

Past progressive

Vocabulary about different activities

Reading comprehension “That`s

embarrassing” Pg. 56

Role play pg. 55

Write and tell your classmates about

an embarrassing moment.

Sing a song Pg. 80

Week 14-15 Unit 8

Food vocabulary specially for parties.

Present perfect interrogative

Reading comprehension “Party

Snacks” Pg. 62

Review of unit 7 and 8

Role play Pg. 61

Talk about the food that you offer in

a party in your house.

Sing a song Pg. 80

Talk about recipes

Week 16 FINAL WRITTENT TEST FINAL ORAL TEST

COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES

The complementary activities will be given whenever students need them. Besides, students are

supposed to read, write and get some oral practice at home. They will have laboratory sessions

too.

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LANGUAGE CENTER

LEVEL: I NUMBER OF HOURS: 8 HOURS A WEEK

TOTAL NUMBER OF HOURS PER SEMESTER: 128

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This program has been designed in order to provide students a variety of strategies which can be

used in each class to improve every single skill in each student. Total English has different kind of

activities of interest and those are up to date. Students will enjoy learning in every single class

because the course will be leaded with excellent teachers ready to lead students to start speaking

English since the first classes. The most attractive thing will be that students will participate in

class and they will do it with no fear and that would be useful to improve their speaking. Besides

the classes will always be interactive not only with the teacher but with their classmates and

students of different classrooms too. Also to support classes videos, magazines, internet and

presentations will be used in this course in order to improve all the skills to start learning a second

language are needed.

COURSE OBJECTIVE To select different kind of activities as realistic as possible so that learners can see how the

language they are learning can be applied outside the classroom.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES In addition, students will be able to:

• Use English through a variety of tasks.

• Design their own material to understand vocabulary and given structures

• To take part in role plays

• Talk about their own experiences in a natural way

• Express their own opinions according to a given topic.

• Read and write about the studied topics

• Individual and group presentations

• Give generals ideas about different videos.

METHODOLOGY We will apply task-based activities with controlled and free activities but using communicative

techniques most of the time. The students will have a lot of opportunities to use the target

language to communicate with each other by reading and writing, doing comprehension activities,

listening activities, descriptions, oral presentations, sketches, storytelling and situational activities.

COURSE MATERIAL Jonathan Bygrave. (2008). TOTAL ENGLISH – STARTER (Units 1 to 10) Pearson – Longman.


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The students will be evaluated in class through written and oral exams and different activities such

as workshops, debates, reading comprehensions, guides, assigned readings and oral

presentations. When an evaluation is missed the grade will be zero, except for those who have

health problems and present a written permission, for that reason the test will be programmed in

advanced so everybody will know when it will be.

The final grade for the course is established as follows:

- First written and oral exam 20 %

- Second written and oral exam 20 %

- Final Written and oral exam 40%

- Complementary activities 20%

GOALS OF EACH UNIT:

Unit 0: Classroom Encourage students to understand different kind of vocabulary and start participating in class to

be confident with themselves. Also, use commands and classroom rules in English in order to set

up an English environment, and to assess students’ former knowledge.

Unit 1: ARRIVALS SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To ask for and give personal details by talking with their classmates in class

using conversational activities. Learning numbers to mention phone numbers.

Unit 2: MY LIFE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To encourage students to talk about their families , favorite people and

favorite things and write a short personal profile.

Unit 3: TRAVEL

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To write compositions about describing places and ask for tourist

information.

Unit 4: IN TOWN SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about customs places and homes in which they live and the locations

in which they would like to live. Also, talk about food, drinks and prices used in some towns.

Unit 5: PLACES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: Give a very nice description of a place mentioning important details about it

using the expression there is – there are.

Unit 6: PEOPLE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: Talk about personal routines and routines of people they know. Mention

likes and dislikes.

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Unit 7: WORK SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about jobs, professions, and personality, learning different

vocabulary related with these topics specially work phrases.

Unit 8: LEISURE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To explain why they like different kind of activities in their free time and use

adjectives to talk about it.

Unit 9: THE PAST SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about people from history using regular and irregular verbs and give

short descriptions of past experiences.

Unit 10: STORIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To understand a simple narrative of past events, give a simple summary of a

news event and to talk about immediate and long-term plans.

CLASS CONTENT

SCHEDULE CLASS WORK-EXTRA ACTIVITY PERSONAL WORK

Week 1

UNIT 0

Introduce classroom commands

Practice short dialogues specially to

introduce people.

Practice new vocabulary.

Getting to know each other.

Practice new vocabulary at home.

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Week 2 UNIT 1

Practice the alphabet and numbers

Sing the alphabet song

Makes spelling exercises

Discover who I am talking about

worksheet.

Practice dialogues, introduce

someone , start a conversation.

Check in to a hotel

Letters

Understand and say phone numbers

Start learning vocabulary to

introduce each other. Use

dictionaries.

Week 3

Week 4

UNIT 2

Present a family poster to describe it

and ask personal information about

those persons in it.

Tell them our own family tree using a

short funny story

Present a video Family.

Give basic information about your

family.

Bring pictures to describe them.

Practice expressions like great, good,

bad etc.

Ask for and give personal details

Talk about jobs included in their

families and people in general

Give information about other people

Write a short personal profile about

yourself and your family and then

presented in front of your classmates.

Show pictures about your family and

describe them in front of your

classmates. Prepare a nice

presentation using different kind of

technology.

Giving information about other

people write e-mails to your

classmates talking about your families

and then teacher verifies information

in class in a short speaking

presentation.

Develop the review and practice from

students book page 28. Also watch

the DVD according to the unit.

Week 5-6 UNIT 3

Look for information about different

Draw the home where they would

like to live and describe it

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countries.

Practice vocabulary and use There is

– There are to describe different

places and the objects which are

necessary to take with you when you

travel .

Ask about a new town and where

important places are

Ask for tourist information using yes/

no questions with to be

FIRST WRITTEN EXAM FIRST ORAL EXAM

Exercises from the workbook

Get information about trips to

different cities from travel agencies

and present brochures in class to

describe them.

Role play about a tourist guide in a

very famous place.

Week 7 UNIT 4

Talk about food. Can I have an

espresso, please?

Talk about diets

Ask for and understand prices using

this , that, these and those.

Ask about things and make simple

transactions.

Talk about plurals and singular.

Talk about possessions

Investigate about some menus in our

town and discuss about them in class.

Week 8 UNIT 5

Give a simple description of a place

using there is , there are.

Talk about different nationalities and

the customs people have in different

places around the world

Talk about general abilities using can-

can`t including the people who live in

different places around the world.

Talk about possible places where

people can enjoy their vacation.

Prepare a nice presentation about a

nice place you choose and use

technology for your presentation. Use

your imagination to create a nice

homework.

Week 9-10

Unit 6

Use the simple present to talk about

likes and dislikes.

Find out information about different

jobs people have and the activities

they develop.

Talk about your daily routine and the

routines of people you know.

SECOND WRITTEN PARTIAL SECOND ORAL PARTIAL

Games with regular verbs to practice

vocabulary

Interview your classmates using WH.

questions

Unit 7 Cover your classmate`s eyes and give

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Week 11

Imperatives

Months

Understand simple written and

spoken instructions (directions)

Adverbs of frequency

Say how often you do something

Work phrases

Would like

Ordinal numbers

instructions to arrive somewhere

Develop activities in the workbook

Watch the DVD

Week 12

Unit 8

Adjectives for describing activities

using I like… I don`t like

Explain why you want to do

something

What things you posses (have got /

has got)

Suggest places , activities you can do

in your free time.

Talk about places where people go to

have fun.

Practice vocabulary about rooms and

furniture

Develop workbook activities

Week 13 Unit 9

Past of the verb to be

Occupations

Expressions about the past

Give short descriptions of past

experiences

Requests and ask for permissions

Talk about some information about

school days, ask and answer

questions.

Video activity

Week 14-15

Unit 10

Past simple using regular and irregular

verbs

Understand a simple narrative of past

events

Give a simple summary of a news

event

Going to

Future plans

Talk about immediate and long –term

plans.

Talk about school days

Talk about past and future holidays

Prepare biographies of famous

people and present them in class.

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REVIEW UNITS 7-8-9-10

FINAL WRITTEN TEST FINAL ORAL TEST

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

During the course, the complementary activities will be given whenever students need them and

will include individual work as well as pair work and presentations.


During the present course, the students will have the opportunity to interact, put into practice and

improve their language acquisition by the use of complementary and supplementary activities.

Therefore readings, games, some homework assignments crossword puzzles and of course the use

of the computer and audiovisual lab will play an important role in the achievement of this goal.

Also the students will be able to take laboratory sessions in order to improve their listening skill.


LANGUAGE CENTER

LEVEL: II NUMBER OF HOURS: 8 HOURS A WEEK


COURSE DESCRIPTION The course will focus on listening comprehension and oral production skills necessary to create a

real communicative learning process. The course will include group discussion, conversational

strategies, individual oral presentations and note taking during class.

Through an integrated approach, students will develop their listening, speaking, reading, and

writing skills in English, with an emphasis on communicative as well as attention to grammatical

accuracy and vocabulary development.

COURSE OBJECTIVE

The goal in this course is to learn and practice basic communication skills. The course includes all

language skills and is based on different and interesting strategies with basic grammar and content

vocabulary. Practice includes classroom interaction, the use of video, audio tapes, newspapers,

computers, and the internet along with course textbooks.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

• Improve vocabulary.

• Demonstrate the ability to organize thoughts.

• Demonstrate listening skills during the class and within cooperative learning groups.

• Examine written, oral, and visual skills.

• Obtain life-long study skills.

• Use of computer lab, and other technological sources in order to take advantage of them

to promote an easier learning process.

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METHODOLOGY

As teachers, we are often faced with the challenging tasks of making our classes meaningful,

practical and, yes, even fun for our students. The communicative methodology that we want to

apply will be learner-centered and it will emphasize fluency over accuracy.

Students can benefit more if they know specifically on a class-by-class basis what language they

are trying to practice and in what context. Rather than practice language for the sake of language,

learners can be kept motivated and interested if, for example, they know that they will be

practicing the past perfect or within a specific context such as language used in a hotel. The

teacher can even write the lesson goal on the blackboard on a daily basis. All of this kind of

localized goal setting is more explicit and lets students know what they are expected to do. Hence,

it is useful to set small achievable goals on a daily basis and make learners aware of how they are

to accomplish these goals.

Communicative methodology is great for requiring our students to produce language albeit in a

somewhat loose fashion. But, it also creates a division in teaching style. At some stages, we are

expected to be strict about certain aspects such as regular attendance and punctuality. On the

other hand, we often have to assume the role of a friend-coach to make our learners feel

compelled to speak and not be afraid of making mistakes. This creates a stark contrast between

the teacher who can fail and the teacher that wishes to encourage speaking and, necessarily,

making mistakes.

COURSE MATERIAL

MARK FOLEY- DIANE HALL, 2009 (LAST IMPRESSION) TOTAL ENGLISH ELEMENTARY UNITS 1 TO 12 Pearson-Longman



as workshops, debates, reading comprehension, guides, assigned readings and oral presentations.

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and present a written permission, for that reason the test will be programmed in advanced so,

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First written and oral exam 20 %

Second written and oral exam 20 %

Final Written and oral exam 40%

Complementary activities 20%

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GOALS OF EACH UNIT :

Unit 1: YOUR LIFE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about where you are from and exchange information about your

family

Unit 2: ACTIVITES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about their daily routines.

Unit 3: FREE TIME SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: Talk about all the activities people do in their free time.

Unit 4: FOOD SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: Talk about your diet and life style and order food in a fast food restaurant.

Unit 5: HOME SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about the important things you have in your home

Unit 6: CITY LIFE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about your past, understand and give simple directions.

Unit 7: PEOPLE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To write an informal letter describing family members

Unit 8: DAY TO DAY SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To Describe what you’re doing now.

Unit 9: CULTURE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: Make comparisons between things and people

Unit 10: JOURNEYS SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: Talk about personal experiences and places you have visited

Unit 11: LEARNING SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: Talk about future arrangements

Unit 12: AMBITIONS SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about likes , dislikes and ambitions.

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CLASS CONTENT

Schedule In class work Independent work

Week 1 Introduction yourself.

Diagnostic guide.

Group discussion

Reinforce activities.

Pair work: Simple present review.

Week 2 Unit 1

Subject pronouns + verb to be

Countries and nationalities

Possessive adjectives

Jobs

Start and finish a basic conversation with

a partner

Week 3 Unit 2

Simple present using different

verbs

Verbs

Holidays

Daily routine

Adjectives

This, that, those, these

Describe your best friend’s daily routine

and mention it in class.

workbook

Week 4 Unit 3

Simple present

Basic leisure activities

Can- can`t

Making suggestions

FIRST WRITTEN EXAM FIRST ORAL EXAM

Investigate about different kind of

activities people do in their free time,

prepare a survey.

Week 5 Unit 4

Countable and uncountable

nouns

Objects pronouns

Menus and prices

Talk about food in different countries

Watch DVD

Week 6 Unit 5

There is- there are

Equipment and furniture

Adjectives to describe places

Have got / has got

Design how to decorate an apartment

and describe and show your design in

class.

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Week 7-8 Unit 6

Simple past with verb to be and

different verbs

Preposition of place

Give directions

Transport

Describe your holiday

Show pictures in class about your best

holidays

Describe everything you can in past

Watch DVD

workbook

Week 9 Unit 7

Pronoun one / ones

Adjectives for describing family

members

Possessive pronouns

Phrasal verbs

Identify a person from a simple

description.

Write an informal letter writing family

members

Week 10-11 Unit 8


Clothes

Requests

Present continuous

Adverbs of manner

Weather

Health

SECOND WRITTEN EXAM SECOND ORAL EXAM

Workbook

Review for partial

Watch a video and use continuous to

describe the activities that happen

Week 12 Unit 9

Comparatives

News media

Superlatives

Films

Gerunds

art

Watch a movie and write a summary

about it.

Week 13 Unit 10

Present perfect

Travel, holiday activities, sports

Ing forms as a noun

Holidays

Types of transport

Write a holiday postcard to a friend

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Week 14 Unit 11

Can- can`t

Road rules and signs

Types of school

Education

Present continuous for future

Talk about future arrangements

Talk in class about the pros and cons

about public and private education.

Week 15 Unit 12

Be going to for intentions

Ambitions

Future time expressions

Infinitive and gerunds

Make future arrangements and

appointments

Watch DVD

Week 16 Unit 12

Review of unit 12

FINAL WRITTEN TEST FINAL ORAL TEST

Develop workbook activities

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

During the course, the complementary activities will be given whenever students need them and

will include individual work as well as pair work.


During the present course, the students will have the opportunity to interact, put into practice and

improve their language acquisition by the use of complementary and supplementary activities.

Therefore readings, games, some homework assignments crossword puzzles and of course the use

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LANGUAGE CENTER

LEVEL: III NUMBER OF HOURS: 8 HOURS A WEEK


COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course has been designed to provide students with useful strategies that they can employ to

promote learning by focusing on personal engagement, both intellectual and emotional. The five

skills will be practiced along with genuine communicative exchanges to articulate and organize

what students know and incorporate new information. The class will be conducted mostly in

English to encourage students to become more proficient, so, that they can communicate with

others English speakers.

COURSE OBJECTIVE

Provide students with motivating, relevant and exciting topics, to engage students in

communicative interaction and complement previous courses in order to prepare students to

success in an international examination.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

• Use English through a variety of tasks

• Develop fluency to encourage students “risk taking” and autonomy

• Think about what actually matters to them

• Develop constructive feedback to helps students improve their delivery

• Develop real life listening skills

• Read texts of an imaginative or emotional character and to appreciate the central sense of

the text.

METHODOLOGY

The methodology will be mainly communicative. Students will have written assignments in the

classroom and oral reports. The students will know how to communicate using daily experiences

and things of interest to them. The four skills will be included to have a better use of the language.

COURSE MATERIALS

Richard Acklan- Araminta Crace. TOTAL ENGLISH-PRE-INTERMEDIATE (UNITS 1 TO 12) GRADING INFORMATION AND CRITERIA



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First written and oral exam 20 %

Second written and oral exam 20 %

Final Written and oral exam 40%

Complementary activities 20%

GOALS OF EACH UNIT

Unit 1: 24 HOURS

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To ask and talk about personal likes and dislikes.

Unit 2: MUSIC

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about biographies and personal events in the past

Unit 3: TASTE

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk to your friends about your future plans

Unit 4: SURVIVAL

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To compare people, animals and places using a good range of vocabulary.

Unit 5: STAGES

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To exchange information and opinions with a friend and give as much

information as possible.

Unit 6: PLACES

Specific Objective: To Talk about geographical features , and make general predictions about the

future.

Unit 7: BODY

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE : To encourage students to describe a person´s physical appearance,

personality and others.

Unit 8: SPEED

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE : To talk for an extended period about a familiar topic

Unit 9: WORK

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE : To talk about different activities developed in different occupations and

respond to simple job interview questions.

Unit 10: WILDLIFE

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SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE : To talk about people who influenced you

Unit 11: TRAVEL

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE : To talk about people who can be a good travel companion.

Unit 12: MONEY

Specific Objective: To talk about what you would do in a hypothetical situation.

CLASS CONTENT

SCHEDULE CLASS WORK INDEPENDENT WORK

Week 1 Unit 1

Likes and dislikes

Daily routine

Simple present


Sleeping habits

Present continuous

Introduce yourself to the rest of the

class,

Write an informal e-mail to update

someone on your life.

Week 2 Unit 2 :

Simple past

Biographies

So and neither

Word families

Nouns and adjectives

Present perfect simple

Collocations

Talk about personal achievements and

experiences. Talk about summer

holidays.

Watch DVD

Week 3 Unit 3:

Going to

Food and restaurants

Future plans

Relative clauses

Present continuos for future

arrangements

Adjectives

Sense verbs

Write an informal letter to your friend

Plan your life for the future and talk to

your friend about it.

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Week 4 -5 Unit 4:

Comparatives

Superlatives

Indirect questions

polite request

Describe different places and people.

Watch a video .

Make a contest to create the best

survival program and the winner will

get a surprise!

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FIRST WRITEN TEST FIRST ORAL TEST

Week 6 Unit 5:

Should , can, have to

Present perfect with for and

since

Times of life

Used to

habits

Write a personal profile

Describe people you watch in TV

Workbook activities

DVD

Week 7 unit 6:

will

too, too much- many, enough

geographical features

machines at home

uses of like

describing natural places

Describe natural places you have in

your country and make presentations

about it.

Watch DVD

Week 8 Unit 7:

First conditional

Appearance

Gerunds and infinitives

Personality

Purpose –reason –result

illness and injury

Understand and talk about a magazine

quiz.

Workbook

Look for exercises in internet

Week 9-10 Unit 8:

Present simple passive

Verbs about change

Questions

Phrasal verbs about relations

Past continuous and past

simple SECOND WRITTEN TEST SECOND ORAL TEST

Talk for an extended period of time on

a familiar topic

Debates

Week 11 Unit 9:

Can, could, be able to.

Respond to simple job interview

questions

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Make_ do

simple past passive

Talk about your abilities

Rite a short adjective about a crime

Workbook

Week 12 Unit 10:

Phrasal verbs

Talk about people who

influenced you

Countable – uncountable

nouns

Animals and zoos

The definite article THE verb + preposition

Investigate more phrasal verbs in

internet and share them with your

classmates and practice them in class.

workbook

Week 13 Unit 11:

Present perfect simple with

just, yet and already

Holidays

Find a good companion for a

trip

Verbs with two objects

Greetings and presents

Past perfect simple

Write a composition about a place you

have travelled to

Achieve your aim in a typical travel

conversation

Week 14-15 Unit 12

Second conditional

Reported speech

Both,neither, either

Verb + preposition

Say what you´d do in a hypothetical

situation

Report what someone said to you

Describe similarities and differences

workbook

Week 16 LAST WRITTEN TEST LAST ORAL TEST


Communicative activities to support and reinforce the syllabus, as well as grammar exercises

reading, writing, speaking, listening activities exercises of vocabulary, games, sons, contest, videos,

etc. Also laboratory sessions.

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LANGUAGE CENTER

LEVEL: IV

NUMBER OF HOURS: 8 HOURS A WEEK


COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is intended to develop oral and written skills, through a communicative course. Using

as a base the textbook and helping with additional activities, so that students reinforce what has

been taught. The four skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking will be developed and

students will be exposed to the language through authentic and new resources.

COURSE OBJECTIVE

To develop oral and written skills to satisfy students’ communicative needs, in order to increase

students’ ability to understand written and spoken language.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

• Approach students to real language through a variety of authentic materials

• Encourage students to use English inside and outside the classroom

• Provide students with the necessary background so that they feel motivated to express

what they want and need

• Develop oral and written skills through a variety of activities and motivating topics.

• Provide students with the needed environment, so that they can speak freely.

METHODOLOGY

The methodology used in this course will be task based with a communicative purpose. Students

are required to do oral reports and written assignments according to real life topics and taking into

account students’ needs. The classes will be carried out in English most of the time, so that

students have a better use and exposure to the language.

COURSE MATERIALS

TOTAL ENGLISH - INTERMEDIATE (Units 1 to 10). Pearson- Longman




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The final grade of the course is established as follows:

First oral and written exam: 20%

Second written and oral exam: 20%

Final oral and final written exam : 40%

Additional activities .(oral presentations,

workshops, pair and individual work): 20%

GOALS OF EACH UNIT

Unit 1: FRIENDS

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To Talk about friends, relatives and famous people

Unit 2: MEDIA

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To agree or disagree about something

Unit 3: LIFESTYLE

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To Talk about the qualities of an ideal partner, family, relatives , etc.

Unit 4: WEALTH

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To Follow and extended piece of discourse.

Unit 5: SPARE TIME

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To Describe and talk about a film or a book, mention different kind of

activities to develop in free time.

Unit 6: HOLIDAYS

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about a trip students did and mention important details.

Unit 7: EDUCATION

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To describe a learning experience

Unit 8: CHANGE

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about everyday problems

Unit 9: JOBS

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about different jobs that there are in your city

Unit 10: MEMORIES

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about childhood memories

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CLASS CONTENT

WEEK GRAMMAR ACTIVITIES

Week 1-2 Unit 1

Auxiliary verbs

Verbs/adjectives+prepositions

Make generalizations

Present simple and present

continuous

Vocabulary about computers

Present perfect simple and past

simple/ use of FOR and SINCE

Time expressions

Phrasal verbs

Write a paragraph talking about your

expectations to this new English course.

(100words)

Write an informal e-mail

Relate a simple narrative in simple words

workbook

Week 3 Unit 2

The passive

Talk about the media

Defining relative clauses

Tv programs

Deal with problems

Common collocations

Simple past and past continuous

Do an oral presentation about some

news in the world.

Describe an important event from your

life

Prepare a presentation about the story of

your life.

Watch DVD

Report the news that students watched

days before.

Week 4-5 Unit 3

Talking about the future

Describing homes

Comparatives and superlatives

Adjectives describing places

Compare cities

Future possibility

Compound nouns


Write a letter of a complaint

Make a formal phone call

Prepare a presentation about some cities

or countries and compare them.

Week 6 Unit 4

Question tags

phrasal verbs

modal verbs of obligation

qualities

first conditional with if/ when

/unless / as soon as

Make a small talk at a party

make and respond to invitations

write a short classified advertisement

workbook

Week 7 Unit 5

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Present perfect simple Vs.

present perfect continuous

Vocabulary about creative

activities

Verb patterns with- ing or

infinitive

Vocabulary about describing

books and films

Countable and uncountable

nouns

Vocabulary about food

Suggest and respond to ideas

Describe a film/book

Recommend a restaurant and talk about

different restaurants in your city.

Week 8-9 Unit 6

Past perfect simple

Descriptive language

Uses of like

Places to visit in a city

Articles

Describing nature

Expressions with get

REVIEW EXCERCISES SECOND WRITTEN TEST SECOND ORAL TEST

Describe a memorable photo

Get around a new place

Describe natural places in your country

Debate: How to take care of nature

Week 10 Unit 7

Subject and object questions

Vocabulary about education

Used to / would

Vocabulary about teachers

Modals of ability past and

present

Vocabulary about old age

Idioms about learning

Present a brief story about learning

experiences

Describe a teacher from your past

Talk about the abilities in the past and

present

Talk about your school days

Watch DVD

Week 11-12 Unit 8

Second conditional

Talking about cities

Adverbs

Global issues

Third conditional

Talk about cause and results

Talk about change /lack of change

Describe the effect of important decisions

Talk about the time for a change

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Life changes

Week 13-14 Unit 9

Make, let, allow

Vocabulary about work

Reported speech

ing/ed adjectives

past obligation /permission

job requirements

Report different kind of information

State routine job requirements

Talk about UK and US English

Create Job advertisements

Talk about the ideal work place

Week 15 Unit 10

I wish / if only

Talk about memory

Review of past tenses

Phrasal verbs

Common phrasal verbs

The senses

Talk about wishes

Biographies about famous people

Write a thank you letter

A memory game

Week 16 FINAL WRITTEN TEST

FINAL ORAL TEST


As complementary activities students will see some videos, listen to some songs and through

additional written exercises, they will reinforce the taught topics. It is very clear that they need to

work additional exercises on their own.


LANGUAGE CENTER

LEVEL: V

NUMBER OF HOURS: 8 HOURS A WEEK


COURSE DESCRIPTION The course is designed in order to provide students with useful strategies that they can employ to

promote learning by focusing on a set of related tasks which have been selected to be meaningful

to most students. The five skills will be practiced along with continued study of culture, new

vocabulary and real-life conversations. Classes will be conducted mostly in English and authentic

material from internet sources will be used as much as possible so students become more

proficient so that they can communicate with other speakers of English. (Native - non Native).

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COURSE OBJECTIVE

Satisfy an increasing number of communicative needs in the target language and complement

previous courses in order to prepare students to be successful in an International examination at

the end of the course.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Use English through a variety of tasks.

• Follow the gist and understand specific information when listening to audio- tapes.

• Express themselves more fully and more precisely, both in speech and writing

• Talk about their own experiences in a natural way.

• Understand and comprehend discussions and debates.

• Analyze daily life and discuss it in groups.

• Read texts of an imaginative or emotional character and to appreciate the central sense of

the text.

METHODOLOGY

The methodology will be task-based but mainly communicative. Students will have written

assignments in the classroom and oral reports. The students will know how to communicate using

daily experiences and things of interest to them, sometimes learners speak more willingly when

they have a reason for communicating for example to solve a problem, talk about their personal

things, special occasions, etc. The four skills will be included to have a better use of the language.

COURSE MATERIAL

Richard Acklam- Araminta Crace (2006). TOTAL ENGLISH- UPPER INTERMEDIATE ( Unit 1 to 10) .

GRADING INFORMATION AND REQUIREMENTS



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- First Partial test :Written and Oral 20%

- Second Partial Test: Written and Oral 20%

- Last Partial Test: Written and Oral 40%

- Complementary Activities: 20%

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The students will participate in class in different activities such as discussions, debates, reading

comprehensions, assigned readings and oral presentations.

The final grade from the grades above will represent 60% of the total grade. The other 40% will be the grade obtained from the proficiency test (written, oral, listening test).

GOALS OF EACH UNIT: TOTAL ENGLISH

Unit 1: CONNECT

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To encourage students to talk about their family histories.

Unit 2: WORK

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about people’s jobs and talk about future plans and make

predictions.

Unit 3: OLD OR NEW

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about inventions in the world

Unit 4: RISK

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To compare and contrast photographs

Unit 5: THE PAST

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about memories and books

Unit 6: EXPLORE

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To discuss, ask and answer questions about unusual places.

Unit 7: EXCESS

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To talk about complaints and write formal letters complaining about

something and give possible solutions.

Unit 8: SUCCESS

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To report and write what people say to you and describe different types of

people.

Unit 9 : CRIME

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To speculate about past events

Unit 10 : MIND

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To ask about and give your own beliefs and opinions

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CLASS CONTENT: TOTAL ENGLISH

Schedule Class work-extra activity Independent work

Week 1 -

2

Unit 1

Talk about the percentages that the

semester has and the efficiency test has.

Talk about the parts that the efficiency test

has and make some examples and activities.

Question tags

Any/every/no/some

Making adjectives from nouns

Express agreement and disagreement

Present/future modals of possibility

Noises

Make speculations

Phrasal verbs

Watch a video to analyze how the

speaking ability is

Talk about your family history and

prepare a presentation about it using

pictures.

Talk about relationships, talk about

first dates

Grammar activities using question tags

Week 3 Unit 2

Future overviews

Verb phrases about work

Future perfect and future continuous

After work activities

In case

Talk about future plans and make

predictions

Do a survey and report the results

Write a formal letter of application

Workbook

Watch DVD

Practice listening exercises for

proficiency test

Week 4-5 Unit 3

Narrative tenses

Time expressions

Articles

Vocabulary about Materials

Adjectives and adverbs

Verb phrases with TAKE FIRST WRITTEN TEST FIRST ORAL TEST

.

Write short stories

Talk about materials, possessions and

inventions

Give a presentation about a place

Making nouns

Watch DVD

Practice reading comprehension for

the proficiency test.

Week 6 Unit 4

If structures

Expressing obligation

Physical movements

Write a diary entry

Explain how to do something

Compare and contrast photographs

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Emphasis

Phrasal verbs wit OUT Distances and dimensions

Take a risk

Develop activities using if

workbook

Week 7- Unit 5

Used to / get used to / would

Vocabulary about appearance

Expressing ability

Although / but/ however/ nevertheless

Idioms describing people

Time capsule

Talk about memories

Talk about food

workbook

FIRST ORAL PRESENTATION

Week 8-

9

Unit 6

Present perfect simple and continuous

Adjectives with –ED and –ING endings

Questions

Weather

Making comparisons

Verb phrases about moving /travelling


Write an informal e-mail

Ask and answer questions about

unusual places

Make comparisons about places and

people.

Investigate about the most famous

places in the world and talk about

them in class

Week 10

Unit 7

Countable and uncountable nouns

Food and cooking

Passives

Verbs phrases about money

Have/get something done

Animal expressions

Prefixes

Can I help you?

Describe how to cook and prepare a

dish

Write a formal letter of a complaint

Talk about services

Prepare a presentation about different

food in Colombia and different

countries

Week 11-

12

Unit 8

It´s time / I rather / I´d better

Describing personality

Reported speech

Adjectives and intensifiers

Hard and hardly

Phrasal verbs with three parts

Describe different kind of people

Report and describe what people say to

you

Write a report of survey findings

Talk about radio phone-in

Work book

Week 13 Unit 9

Sequencing devices. e.g after +ing

Law and insurance

Past modals of deduction must / might /

can´t have done

Tell a funny story

Speculate about past events

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Compound adjectives

Relative clauses

Write an article

Practice exercises similar to the

proficiency test

workbook

Week 14

15

Unit 10

Reflexive pronouns

Gerunds and infinitives

Advertising

If structures

How does your mind work?

Ask about and give your own beliefs

and opinions

Write the argument FOR and AGAINST

a point of view

Talk about your regrets and resolutions

Practice written exercises with gerunds

and infinitives

workbook

Week 16 FINAL WRITTEN TEST FINAL ORAL TEST EFFICIENCY TEST


Additional activities will be given whenever students need them and will include individual work as

well as pair work. Also it is necessary to prepare students for the efficiency test which is going to

be applied at the end of the semester. The students will have laboratory sessions as well.

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LANGUAGE CENTER

LEVEL: VI NUMBER OF HOURS: 8 HOURS A WEEK


COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is designed for teenagers and young adults who are in the process of becoming

competent communicators. They have already acquired the necessary elements to respond well to

most of the communicative situations they are faced with although they have yet to work on the

correction of some elementary persistent errors. This course aims, then, to expand their

vocabulary, to provide them with more communicative strategies and to lead them to understand

where they are making mistakes so that there can be a process of self-correction through

awareness. The course will also provide them with the necessary elements and practice for them

to be able to present the FCE test if this is the case.

COURSE OBJECTIVE

This course aims to expand students’ knowledge of the language (vocabulary, expressions,

grammar) through introduction of new elements or correction of mistakes in the previous

knowledge when at the same time providing students with communicative strategies that will

increase their self- confidence for interaction or for responding to tasks that involve language such

as taking an international exam.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

This course is aimed to:

- Expand students’ knowledge of vocabulary, expressions and the use of grammar

structures so that they dare use more complex language.

- Guide students in the process of recognition and correction of their own mistakes.

- Improve students’ listening and speaking abilities.

- Train the students in the way to respond to the different kinds of tasks that they can

find in the FCE exam.

METHODOLOGY

The aim of this course is to improve the student’s command of language and their ability to

establish effective communication through the constant contact and use of language presented in

a wide variety of materials selected taking into account students’ interests and reality. The

activities of the course are mainly communicative and interactive, because communication and

socializing promote interest for learning. Students are expected to carry out meaningful tasks that

involve significant language, enhancing the quality of learning.

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The course will use activities that engage learners in authentic communication: ones aimed at

developing certain language skills and functions, but which involve communication and others

such as social interaction activities, conversation and discussion sessions, dialogues and role plays.

COURSE MATERIALS

TOTAL ENGLISH, ADVANCED LEVEL. (Units 1-10)

Cambridge First Certificate in English 6. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 2003


First exam: oral and written 20%

Second exam: oral and written 20%

Final exam: oral and written of all the units 40%

Complementary activities: workshops, oral presentations, etc 20%

At this level the students should take one of the International Exams available in Pasto. (FCE)

GOALS OF EACH UNIT

Unit 1: CHALLENGES

To discuss about language learning strategies

Unit 2: COMMUNITY

To talk about the recommendations for different places for a better service

Unit 3: TALES

To talk about anecdotes

Unit 4: PROGRESS

To describe the chances of something happening

Unit 5: FORTUNES

To talk about professional relationships

Unit 6: POWER

To talk and take notes from fluent connected speech.

Unit 7: NATURE

To talk about nature and talk about how to take care about it

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Unit 8: ISSUES

To discuss about lifestyle

Unit 9: VISION

To express a degree of certainty

Unit 10: FEELINGS

To discuss how feelings affect you

GOALS OF EACH UNIT (UNITS 1 TO 10)

SCHEDULE Class work-extra activity INDEPENDENT WORK

Week 1-2

Unit 1

Verbs/ adjectives with

prepositions

Vocabulary about learning

languages

Passives

Perfect aspect

Vocabulary about

achievements

Prefixes

Express their opinions about the

advantages and disadvantages about

learning a second language.

Discuss your language learning

experiences

Say how much you know/don´t know

about things

Talk about your achievements

Talk about changing yourself

Week 3

Unit 2

Verb patterns 1

Give advice/ make

recommendations

about places

Comparatives review

Distinguish between, and use,

features of formal and informal

language.

Adjectives to describe places

Phrasal verbs

Give advice/make recommendations

about places

Describe some important places in the

city

Workbook

Week 3-4

Unit 3

Narrative tenses review

Synonyms

Compound words

Vocabulary about books

Tell anecdotes

Describe a person in detail

Tell a joke

Telling stories

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Participle clauses / gerunds

Vocabulary about humor

Metaphors


Scary tales

Watch DVD

workbook

Week 5

Unit 4

Future probability

Future forms reviews

Vocabulary arrangements

Inversion

Special abilities

Two.part Expressions

Derscribe the chances of something

happening

Talk about plans and arrangements

Follow and extended piece of discourse

Workbook

Week 6

Unit 5

Emphasis

Conditional sentences

Sentence Adverbials

Expressing quantity

Idioms

Talk about professional relationships

Discuss financial decisions / regrets

Express priorities

Talk about how to spend a fortune

Talk about new adventures

Week 7-8

Unit 6

Articles

Vocabulary about Architecture

Whatever, whoever, whenever

Vocabulary about fashions and

fads

Link words of time and contrast

Vocabulary about personal

characteristics

Idioms


Describe an important building /

structure

Take notes from fluent connected speech

Write an autobiographical statement

Talk about ho is the leader in different

places

Workbook

Week 9

Unit 7

Relative clauses

Verb patterns 2

Vocabulary about descriptive

language

As…as and describing quantity

Vocabulary about buying and

selling

Explain procedures

Make inferences based on extended

prose

Write an ad for an object

Talk about the topic paradise island

Workbook

Exercises about efficiency exam

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Suffixes

Week 10-11

Unit 8

Reporting verbs

Continuous aspect

Vocabulary about life styles

Fronting

Cause and effect

Stall for time when ask a difficult

question

Discuss about lifestyle

Explain everyday problems

Agree and disagree about something

Workbook

Practice for FC

Week 12

Unit 9

Dependent prepositions

Discourse markers

Unreal past

Confusing words

Express a degree of certainty

Use colloquial expressions to explain your

tastes

Respond to hypothetical questions

Talk about business venture

Week 13-14 Unit 10

Modals (and verbs with a

similar meaning)

Modals of deduction (Past and

Present)

Vocabulary about strong

feelings

Phrasal verbs and particles

Discuss how feelings affect you

Make guesses about imaginary situations

Describe a childhood memory

Workbook

Week 15 Practice exercises about FC

test

Week 16 FINAL WRITTEN TEST

FINAL ORAL TEST


Since the emphasis in this course goes beyond grammar building, most of the activities that

require individual grammar work are left for home through the workbook tool. The teacher will

determine then which exercises are to be assigned according to the strengths or weaknesses their

students show. In this way the time of the class will be spent mostly in interaction activities,

discussions or practices. There are also some of the activities from the students’ book that are left

for home such as readings and text composing. The preparation of anecdotes is also left as

homework.

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