PROGRAMA DE SEGUNDA LENGUA

SECOND LANGUAGE PROGRAM

INTENSIVE ENGLISH III-IV Group 3

2017-II COURSE PROGRAM

Professors: Anne Marie Shaughnessy, Jhoalmo Sibrian, Sebastian Fiquitiva

E-mail: ashaughnessy@unal.edu.co

1. GENERAL INFORMATION [Time allotted: 128 hours - Hours per week: 8]

Mondays Building 103 Second Floor (tentatively) 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Tuesdays to Thursdays Building 454 Room 201 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Course Materials: American English File Book 2 by authors Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig
and Paul Seligson

The course Intensive English III-IV has been designed to fulfill the foreign language requirements
proposed by the National University. The contents established for this subject will provide students
with the necessary tools in order for them to improve their proficiency level in English.

The class plans to continue the students English learning process and develop communicative skills
that will help them in their future professional contexts.

Attendance in this course is mandatory; tardiness will also impact your grade if it is excessive.
Twelve absences will result in a failing grade for this course and four tardies are equal to one
absence.

2. GENERAL OBJECTIVE

The purpose of this subject is to approach the English language from an expansive point of view.
Therefore, students will develop their linguistic abilities listening, speaking, reading and writing- with
communicative intentions by employing their previous knowledge.

3. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

3.1 To study and analyze simple and complex grammar structures used to give advice,
hypothesize, and talk about past, present and future events.

3.2 To create conversations to complain, apologize and request information.

3.3 To develop reading and listening strategies for identifying general and specific information
and for predicting and inferring meanings from different contexts.

4. METHODOLOGY

The class will develop a theoretical and a practical perspective. It is a class and a workshop at the
same time. The aims of the course will be attained by developing individual and group activities
including meaningful games, competitions, tests, discussions and debates that will promote
communicative contexts.
 5. CONTENTS

WEEK 1
Use of English: Tense review Verb to be Present Simple and Present Continuous - Basics in the
English language
Listening and speaking: Professions, routines and habits

WEEK 2
Use of English: Expressing events in the past simple and the past continuous
Reading: Establishing a sequence of events and the main characters of a story.
Listening and speaking: Getting information in order to sequence events.

WEEK 3
Use of English: Expressing events in the past simple and the past continuous
Reading: Establishing a sequence of events and the main characters of a story.
Listening and speaking: Getting information in order to sequence events.

WEEK 4
Use of English: Making predictions and expressing events in the future.
Reading: Understanding the meaning of diverse superstitions around the world.
Listening and speaking: Expressing ideas about the future (Promises, offers, and decisions)
Writing: Paragraphs to state plans, using connectors to put ideas together; stating the steps of a
plan.

WEEK 5
Use of English: Expressing events in the past and unfinished events relevant in the present. (Present
Perfect)
Reading: Getting information to find reasons associated to specific topics.
Listening and speaking: Justifying opinions and ideas: I agree
I disagree in my opinion I think
Writing: Descriptive paragraphs relating past events and events that are unfinished or relevant in the
present.

WEEK 6
Use of English: Expressing events in the past and unfinished events relevant in the present. (Present
Perfect revision / ever, just, already, yet)
Reading: Getting information to find reasons associated to specific topics.
Listening and speaking: Habits and changes people, things, and places have gone through Writing:
Descriptive paragraphs relating past events and events that are unfinished or relevant in the present.

WEEK 7 UNIVERSITY WEEK (Class on Monday, September 19 and Tuesday, September 20)
Use of English: Expressing similarities and differences (Comparatives and superlatives)
Reading: Events throughout time: sequence of events
Listening and speaking: Expressing opinions and ideas about definitions, stories and narrations
Writing: Comparison and contrast paragraphs.

WEEK 8 - FIRST EXAM

Use of English: Infinitives and Gerunds
Listening and speaking: Expressing opinions and ideas about social relations, hobbies, likes and
dislikes
Writing: Paragraphs to state plans, using connectors to put ideas together; stating the steps of a
plan.

WEEK 9
Use of English: Infinitives and Gerunds
Listening and speaking: Expressing opinions and ideas about social relations, hobbies, likes and
dislikes
Writing: Paragraphs to state plans, using connectors to put ideas together; stating the steps of a
plan.

WEEK 10
Use of English: Modal verbs of advice and obligation
Reading:
Listening and speaking: Expressing suggestions, recommendations and prohibitions
Writing: A formal e-mail

WEEK 11
Use of English: Conditionals (real and unreal)
Reading: Cause and effect descriptions
Listening and speaking: Expressing possibilities, probabilities and hypothetical situations.
Writing: Paragraphs to state plans, using connectors to put ideas together

WEEK 12 SECOND EXAM

Grammar: Modals to express possibility
Reading: Levels of generality and connectors
Listening and speaking: Expressing possibilities, probabilities
Writing: Writing: Comparison and contrast paragraphs.

WEEK 13
Grammar: Expressing events in the past and unfinished events relevant in the present. (Present
Perfect) (Used to) (Passive voice)
Reading: Inventions, findings and devices
Listening and speaking: Habits and changes people, things, and places have gone through
Writing: Comparison and contrast paragraphs.

WEEK 14
Grammar: Past Perfect
Reading: Changes people, things, and places went through (Sequence of events in the past)
Listening and speaking: Making arrangements / Leaving and taking messages

WEEK 15
Grammar: Reported speech (simple forms in the simple past and the simple present) / Revision
Reading concepts: Introduction to types of discourse
Listening and speaking: Making arrangements / Leaving and taking messages
Writing: Opinion Essay

WEEK 16 FINAL EXAM

6. ASSESSMENT
Students will be evaluated according to the following assessment percentages:

60% divided as it follows:

First Exam 20% (Listening and reading comprehension; speaking and writing production)
Second Exam 20% (Listening and reading comprehension; speaking and writing production)
Class Work 20% (workshops, tests, quizzes, class activities in general)
FINAL EXAM 40%
Oral Expression 10%
Writing production 10%
Listening comprehension 10%
Reading comprehension 10%

7. BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brown, H, D., (1994). Teaching by Principles: An interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy.

Prentice Hall

Cotton, J. (1995). The Theory of Learning Strategies. Kogan Page Limited

Nunan, David (1996). Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom. CUP