CURSO: ENGLISH LANGUAGE IV SIGLA: LET1314 CREDITOS: 10 MODULOS: 06 REQUISITOS: LET1313 TIPO: CATEDRA CALIFICACION: ESTANDAR DISCIPLINA: LINGUISTICA I. DESCRIPTION The four-course sequence of the English Language courses, in the first four semesters of the Licenciatura en Letras Inglesas, attempts to develop the four skills pertaining to the learning of a foreign language in progressive levels of proficiency. English Language IV reaches an advanced level. II. OBJECTIVES General: 1. To achieve linguistic competence in the management of inter-cultural and inter-language issues at an advanced level of proficiency. Specific: 1. To improve reading skills and strategies through the exposure to a variety of text types and genres in authentic reading passages. 2. To understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognize implicit meaning. 3. To interact in communicative oral situations fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. 4. To produce narrative, descriptive and argumentative written texts in relation to the contents of the course. 5. To listen comprehensively to a variety of aural texts of different lengths and about a wide variety of topics. 6. To analyze the way cultural patterns present in English-native speaking countries are represented in the English language and compare them with Chilean Spanish. III. CONTENTS 1. Lexical/ thematic. 1.1 Books, films and music. 1.2 War and peace. 1.3 Ceremonies, celebrations and culture. 1.4 Health and medicine. 1.5 The world about us. 1.6 Humour. 1.7 Food and cooking. 1.8 Crime & the law. 1.9 Beliefs and taboos. 1.10 Travel and tourism. 1.11 Celebrity and scandal. 2. Grammatical. 2.1 The Verb Phrase. 2.2 Tenses: revision of the present and past tense in their simple, progressive and perfect aspects. 2.3 Modal verbs: probability, possibility, necessity and obligation. 2.4 Verb Complementation: linking verbs; verb + wh-clauses. 2.5 Two- and three-word verbs. 2.6 The Noun Group. 2.7 Subject-verb agreement. 2.8 Nouns with ?ing, -ed or to + infinitive. 2.9 Adjective morphology. 2.10 The Complex Sentence. 2.11 Subordinating conjunctions. 2.12 Adverbial Clauses (participial, time, prepositional). 2.13 Adjectival clauses (relative and participial). 2.14 Conditional Clauses/Mixed Conditionals. 2.15 Indirect Speech. 2.16 Adverbials expressing degree, viewpoint, comment and focus. 3. Functional. 3.1 Describing situations related to our modern world. 3.2 Describing cultural manifestations of humour, believes and politics. 3.3 Comparing and Contrasting. 3.4 Giving Advice and suggesting possible solutions. 3.5 Narrating stories. 3.6 Reporting the past. 3.7 Expressing possibility/ probability /certainty about the future IV. METHODOLOGY - Individual and group work. - The teacher from presenting the topics or guiding the students? work or discussion. V. EVALUATION - 2 written tests. - Mid-Term Exam (written & oral). - Additional Modules. - Final Exam (oral). VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY Classwork: Dellar, Hugh & A. Walkley. Innovations, Advanced. London, Heinle, 2006. Norris R. & A. French. Ready for CAE. Macmillan, 2008. Complementary: Hewings, M. Advanced Grammar in Use. Cambridge, C.U.P., 1999. Jones, L. New Cambridge Advanced English. Cambridge, C.U.P., 1998. McCarthy, M. & F. O?Dell. Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge, C.U.P., 1997. Wellman, G. The Heinemann English Wordbuilder. Oxford, O.U.P., 1989. PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE FACULTAD DE LETRAS / Julio 2016