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22354: LIVE ENGLISH!

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22354: LIVE ENGLISH!

 

 

 

I. GENERAL INFORMATION

 

SUBJECT

Live English!

ACADEMIC YEAR/SEMESTER

From June 7th to November 22th , 2008

COURSE CODE

22354

COURSE HOURS

Theoretical hours: 50

Practical hours: 50

SCHEDULE

Saturdays: 8-12

OFFICE HOURS

Saturdays 7:30-8:00 by appointment

INSTRUCTOR

Lisis Sofía Gómez

E-MAIL

Teacher_sofia@hotmail.com

TEXT BOOK

Opportunities upper intermediate

- Student’s Book

- Language Powerbook

 

 

 

II. COURSE DESCRIPTION

 

Live English! is an English course designed to provide students with the development of skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening in English language at an upper intermediate level. The course has three kinds of content: Topics related to the student’s own world, cross-curricular themes and cultural input in order to lead up clear communicative outcomes.

 

 

 

III. GENERAL GOAL

 

Given a set of activities, quizzes and exams, students will be able to acquire patterns and lexicon proper of the English language within a community language learning approach. The method to be used will be the direct method. This will allow the students to handle the target language in social contexts by using everyday vocabulary and focusing on pronunciation at an upper intermediate level.

 

 

 

IV. OBJECTIVES

The students will develop abilities on the four skills by reaching the following objectives:

 

LISTENING

Given a set of listening exercises, the students will be able to

·         Check predictions.

·         Identify speakers/contexts.

·         Match speakers/texts.

·         Answer multiple choice, open-answer and “who said what?” questions.

·         Give sequence to given events.

·         Identify important words.

·         Take notes.

·         Complete texts, notes and charts.

 

READING

Given a selection of texts, the students will be able to

·         Check predictions.

·         Answer multiple choice, open-answer, inference, true/false and “who said what?” questions.

·         Match headings or topics with paragraphs.

·         Find mistakes or discrepancies.

·         Complete gapped texts with sentences and/or paragraphs.

·         Complete notes, tables.

·         Express personal reactions.

·         Work out meaning of words.

·         Focus on linkers or other elements of text cohesion.

 

WRITING

Given a set of tasks, the student will be able to

·         Write formal and informal letters, personal anecdotes, descriptions of people or places, film reviews, articles, discursive essays, transactional letters, reports and letters of complaint.

·         Make effective use of grammar, capitalization and punctuation.

 

SPEAKING

Following a set of language functions, the students will be able to

·         Interact with others by telling jokes, clarifying and asking questions, giving and asking for advice, disagreeing and contradicting, making polite requests, asking for information, justifying arguments, making suggestions and by arguing.

·         Describe people and things that make part of real settings.

·         Speak clearly and properly in each intervention.

·         Use appropriately the vocabulary learnt in the course.

 

 

 

V. CONTENT

 

The content of this course is shown in detailed in the table content of the Opportunities upper intermediate students’ book.

 

 

 

VI. METHODOLOGY

 

This course is based on a community language learning approach and is mainly focused on the use of the direct method. It also has a variety of techniques which includes explanation of procedure, setting of time limit, use of language for communication, use one task at a time, cooperating strategies and encouraging of creative thinking.

 

All the students must bring the original book to class and to do the tasks proposed by the instructor.  They are expected to participate in class, bring material, do assignments and to perform well in the quizzes and tests.

 

Teacher’s role: Counselor and paraphraser.

Student’s role: Collaborator and whole person.

 

 

 

 

VII. STUDENT REQUIREMENTS

 

 

The students are supposed to have an intermediate level of English

 

 

 

 

VIII. EVALUATION AND GRADING

 

CLASS ATTENDANCE                                                                                        15%

 

This will involve arriving to class on time and leaving the classroom when the class has ended.

 

ASSIGNMENTS                                                                                                    15%

 

This will involve individual and group work in class and at home.

 

QUIZZES                                                                                                                30%

 

There will be one quiz per module, that is, the average of quizzes will be taken from a total of 10 quizzes.

 

PROGRESS TEST 1                                                                                             20%

 

This test will include content from module 1 to module 5 from the Opportunities student’s book.

 

PROGRESS TEST 2                                                                                             20%

 

This test will include content from module 6 to module 10 of the Opportunities student’s book.

 

 

 

 

IX. BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

HARRIS Michael, MOWER David, MUGGLESTONE Patricia, SIKORZYSKA Anna. Opportunities Upper Intermediate. Student's book. Longman, Pearson Educational Limited. Madrid, 2002.

 

HARRIS Michael, MOWER David, MUGGLESTONE Patricia, SIKORZYSKA Anna. Opportunities Upper Intermediate. Language Powerbook. Longman, Pearson Educational Limited. Madrid, 2002.

 

 

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