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This course description is for an English B2.1 CEFR level course consisting of around 140 hours over 150 minutes. The course will develop communication skills in various situations and functions through speaking, reading, listening and writing activities. Grammar and vocabulary will also be reviewed. Assessment will be through continuous assessment of classwork as well as exams testing reading, listening, writing and speaking. Exams must be passed to pass the course.
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- 2. B2.1 in English (CEFR)
- 3. Around 140 hours 150 minutes
- 4. Develop communication in many situations and functions (enquiries, expressing opinions, likes and dislikes, suggesting, persuading, reporting incidents). Speak and improve fluency and accuracy Read texts (authentic books, internet, newspapers) Listen (interviews, YouTube, radio, news, TV, documentary extracts) Write (forum entry, formal and informal email, report, opinion and discursive essay, description, story, letter of complaint and advice, book/film review, use of different linkers)
- 5. Review grammar (tenses, modals, quantifiers, prepositions, articles, types of sentences (conditional, relative, contrast, result, reason, purpose, etc.), complementation patterns in sentences, reported speech,. Review and learn vocabulary (new idioms and phrasal verbs, synonyms and collocations).
- 6. “Speakout, 2nd Edition, Upper Intermediate”, Pearson, with Workbook
- 7. Two authentic books from a selection of a list you can find on the wiki: http://coolenglish.wikispaces.com Two book reviews will be done about them: one to be handed in by 20th January 2017, the other one, by 5th May 2017.
- 8. 1) Oral presentation (5 minutes related to any topic discussed in class), from January 2017. 2) Article, entry, review, etc. for school magazine.
- 9. ENGLISH SPANISH: TOTALLY FORBIDDEN
- 10. OBLIGATORY ATTENDANCE OF 70%: NO NOTES TAKEN MISSING MORE THAN 70%: “PÉRDIDA DE OFICIALIDAD” POSSIBILITY OF DOING EXAMS IN JUNE AND SEPTEMBER BUT: March exam will not be considered.
- 11. Communicative, but YOU HAVE TO SPEAK
- 12. Work and study every week Check the class wiki: http://coolenglish.wikispaces.com
- 13. Listen to the radio in English, watch films in English, talk to native English Speakers, go to the school’s library. Come to class.
- 14. 1) CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT: through work in class, written assignments, oral tasks, etc. 2) EXAMS Progress exam in March: Written (21st/23rd February) and Oral (21st/23rd or 28th February) Final exam (June) (to be announced) September exam (to be announced)
- 15. The exams will test each of the following four skills: Each skill must be passed (60%) to pass the course If all of them are passed in June (or September), the course is passed. If one skill is passed in March and a minimum of 13 is obtained in June or September, the skill will be passed In September, only the skill that hasn’t been passed must be retaken. . Comprensión Lectora Comprensión oral Expresión escrita Expresión e Interacción oral 15/25 15/25 15/25 15/25
- 16. Tuesday/Thursday: 15:30-16:00 You can also contact me through the wiki: http://coolenglish.wikispaces.com
- 17. Library with 3 computers, WIFI, TVs with cable and where you can also check out books.
- 18. Read the information sheet on the classroom board
- 19. If you are disabled, please come and talk to me for your exams and classes to be adapted. Deadline for deregister in the course (Anulación Matrícula oficial) is 30th April 2017. “Renuncia” can be done in October, without any proof of anything. YOU WILL NEVER GET YOUR MONEY BACK. SORRY!!!!
- 20. Please don’t leave us! In October: “permuta”, look for another student who wants to change with you (there is a list on a notice board, steps to 1st floor) then go to Secretaría and talk to the teachers Later: talk to the teacher of the class you want to change to and go to Secretaría.
- 21. I HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD TIME AND REALLY ENJOY THE CLASS