CURSO : ENGLISH LANGUAGE II
TRADUCCION : LENGUA INGLESA II
SIGLA : LET1312
CRÉDITOS : 10
MÓDULOS : 08
REQUISITOS : LET1311
CARÁCTER : MINIMUM
DISCIPLINA : LINGUISTICS
I. DESCRIPTION
The course English Language attempts to develop, in the first four semesters of the Licenciatura, the four
abilities pertaining to the learning of a foreign language in progressive levels of difficulty. Regarding the
Licentiate's profile, English Language II represents another step towards the development of bilingual
competence, through the acquisition of functional and pragmatic management of the foreign language at an
upper-intermediate level of proficiency.
II. OBJECTIVES
General:
1. To develop the four linguistic skills -receptive and productive- at an upper-intermediate level of
proficiency.
Specifics:
1. To listen comprehensively to a variety of authentic and adapted texts.
2. To improve their auditory discrimination as a pre-requisite to their own performance, and to (auto)
evaluate their own/someone else's performance.
3. To identify a variety of written and oral texts: informative, descriptive, narrative and argumentative.
4. To interact in a range of everyday situations using appropriate structure and vocabulary.
5. To read comprehensively texts of different lengths and with an increasing degree of complexity.
6. To increase lexical availability.
7. To develop awareness of cultural issues and develop critical thinking.
III. CONTENTS
1. Lexicogrammatical area.
1.1 Lexical fields pertaining to.
1.1.1 Careers and Studying.
1.1.2 Socializing.
1.1.3 Transport and Travel.
1.1.4 Health and Medicine.
1.1.5 Life Events.
1.1.6 Banks and Money.
1.1.7 Food.
1.1.8 Business.
2. Grammatical.
2.1 Verbal Phrase.
2.1.1 Present Tense (simple, continuous, perfect).
2.1.2 Past Tense (simple, continuous, perfect).
2.1.3 Future Simple: will and be going to, continuous.
2.1.4 Question formation: Polar questions, Wh-questions, Question tags.
2.1.5 Passive Form.
2.1.6 Modal verbs: possibility/probability; obligation/prohibition, necessity.
2.1.7 Frequency adverbs and adverbial phrases.
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2.2 Noun Phrases.
2.2.1 Articles and Determiners.
2.2.2 Comparative and superlative adjectives.
2.2.3 The -ing form.
2.2.4 Noun groups.
2.2.5 Countable and uncountable nouns.
2.3 The Complex Sentence.
2.3.1 Conditional Sentences; unless and when.
2.3.2 Reporting verbs.
2.3.3 Defining relative clauses.
2.3.4 Conjunctions.
2.4 The adjective phrase.
2.4.1 Simple and compound adjectives.
2.4.2 The order of adjectives in phrases.
2.4.3 Possessive and demonstrative adjectives.
2.5 The adverbial phrase.
2.5.1 Adverbs of frequency, manner, place and time.
2.5.2 Subordinating conjunctions.
2.6 Prepositions.
2.6.1 Time.
2.6.2 Place.
2.6.3 Movement.
3. Functional contents.
3.1 Describing good & bad aspects of one's job.
3.2 Talking about celebrations & dealing with awkward situations.
3.3 Analysing features and problems of different kinds of vehicles.
3.4 Discussing about major life events & complaining about annoying habits.
3.5 Dealing with banks and money.
3.6 Apologising & expressing regrets.
3.7 Talking about different kinds of food & explaining how to cook things.
3.8 Talking about markets, companies & products.
IV. METHODOLOGY
- Reading and discussion of texts.
- Group and peer interaction on given topics.
- Production of written and oral texts.
- Lab sessions
- Interactive and reflective teaching.
V. EVALUATION
- Written Test 1: 10%
- Mid-Term Exam (oral & written): 20%
- Written Test 2: 10%
- Additional Modules: 15%
- Hypermedia Presentations: 5%
- Make-up Test.
- Final Exam (oral): 40%
- Attendance: 70% and extra modules: 75%
VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dellar, Hugh & Andrew Walkley Outcomes, Upper Intermediate. UK, Heinle, Cengage, 2010.
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