ENGLISH BASIC II - ID 307

Our Route of success

20% Lab.

• Macro-teaching.  Verbal tenses. September 6th.
• Roleplays.  Describing people, places, comparative and superlative. September 13th.

10% English club.

30% First final test. September 27th

40% activities:

1. Presentation-Introduce yourself: Thursday, August 30th.
2. Quiz-Parts of speech, verbs, verbal tenses and wh-questions: Friday, September 7th.
3. Quiz-Describing people, place, comparative and superlative: Friday, September 14th.
4. Quiz-Collocations (do-make) and linking words: Thursday, September 20th.
5. Interview (3mins): Why is important to have peace in Colombia?;  How teachers must teach their pupils? why? Friday, September 21st.
6. Participation in class: wednesdays, thursdays and fridays.

• Expositions
• Quiz. 
• Interviews (3 mins).
• Dialogues (two teams).
• Debates.
• Participation in class.

Contents:

--. Confidence in learning English.

“University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.” 

Mhairi McFarlane

Part of speech. Ex:   1   2   3   4   

Noun:                 1   2    3  

Adjectives:        1    2    3    4  

Adverbs:            1    2    3    4   5    6 

Prepositions:   1   2    3   4   

Conjuctions:    1    2    3   4    5 

Interjections:  1    2    3    4  

Pronouns:        1    2    3    4  

Regular and irregular verbs. Ex:    1   2   3   4

Present simple. Ex:    1    2    3    4    5

Past simple. Ex:   1    2    3    4     

Present continuous. Ex:    1    2    3   4

Past continuous. Ex:    1     2    3    4

Wh-questions. Ex:   1    2     3    4    5 

--. Description of countries, places, and people.

Describing countries:     1      2     3     4       

Describing people:    1     2    3

Personality.    0    1     2    3    4       

Directions    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   

Feelings.   1    2     

Collocations (do-make).     1     2     3    4    5     6    7     8    9 

Interview: (3 mins each one). 

1.- Why is it important to have peace in Colombia?
2.- How could you help to save the world? (global warming, pollution, illnesses, corruption, etc).
3.- How teachers should teach their pupils? Why?

SECOND TERM

Our Route of success

40% Activities

20% Lab.

10% English club.

30% Second final test. Wednesday, october 31st.

Participation in class: On wednesday, october 3rd.

• Directions. 1   2   3   4  
• Describing places.  1   2    3   4       
• Quantifiers and prices.   1   2   3   

Participation in class: On thursday, october 4th.

• Hot verbs/collocations   1   2    3    4     5    6 

         (have/go/come/do/make).

• Future (will-going to).   1   2    3   4   5     
• Relative clauses. (where/ when/ who/ which/ what, whose or that).   1   2   3   4   5

1st Lab. Video: On friday, october 5th.

Describing the university, how I can get to two-main offices at the U.P.C. and comparing them. 
Asking english students what is his/her opinion about the university and the usage of technology in the classroom as a resource of learning english.

Participation in class. On wednesday, october 10th.

• Gerunds and infinitives.  1   2   3   4   5   
• Modal verbs.   1   2   3   4  
• Phrasal verbs.   1    2    3  

Quiz. On thursday, october 11th.

2nd Lab. Debate. it must be developed on friday, october 12th. 

Discuss and argue with your partner the following questions:

What do you think about Halloween? Is it good or bad, why?

Is smartphone an addiction? why? (go to your blog, developing skills, bbc learning english)

Phonetic class: On wednesday, october 17th.

Phonetic 1.    /th/  - /t-x-ck/  -  /k-p-l-s..../

Phonetics 2.   sounds   2nd sounds.

Interview: On thursday, october 18th.

How do you learn to speak a language?(go to your blog, developing skills, bbc learning english)

What do you think about students with visual disability? they could be as good as us in a traditional class.

Writing activity. On friday, october 19th.

Street food: why is it becoming so popular? (200 words).

Listening skill and speaking skills. On wednesday,

october 24th.

Quiz: On thursday, october 25th. 

vocabulary and previous classes.

Final written test October 31st.

THIRD TERM

Our Route of success

30% Activities.

1.- Write three informal and formal letters.  1   2   3   4  5   6               Wednesday 13th. 

2.- Create and explain an interesting game to learn the different compound nouns.   1    2   3    Thursday 14th.

- Creativity in his/her presentation. (resources)

- Pronunciation.

- Fluency.

- Self-confidence.

- Written summary.

3.- Create a game to learn collocations  1   2   3   4   5   (go-do-make-have).

 Wednesday 20th.

3.- Develop a class in present perfect tense.  Thursday 21st.  (Lab 1).

(affirmative and negative sentences/questions/answers/for and since/adverbs of time). 1    2    3   4    5    6  

Creativity in his/her presentation. (resources)

- Pronunciation.

- Fluency.

- Self-confidence.

- Written summary.

4.- Talk about your past life (used to / adjectives -ed -ing )  Friday 22nd. 


5.- Quiz. Wednesday 27th.


6.- Develop a class about zero  1  and 
first conditionals   1   2   3   4   (warm up-body and closing). Thursday 28th.  (lab 2)

- Creativity in his/her presentation. (resources)

- Fluency.

- Pronunciation. (voice).

- Self-confidence to answer questions.

- Written summary.

10% English club.

Participate actively.

40% Third final test.  Thursday 7th.