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English Course Guideline 1a P

This 3 sentence summary provides the essential information about the English course 1A: The English course 1A is a 16 week course that meets on Fridays from 6-8:15 pm, aims to develop interpersonal and sociolinguistic communication skills in English for manufacturing engineering students, and uses a task-based learning methodology with student book/workbook resources, online dictionaries, and web 2.0 tools to cover communicative themes over 3 academic periods.

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English Course Guideline 1a P

This 3 sentence summary provides the essential information about the English course 1A: The English course 1A is a 16 week course that meets on Fridays from 6-8:15 pm, aims to develop interpersonal and sociolinguistic communication skills in English for manufacturing engineering students, and uses a task-based learning methodology with student book/workbook resources, online dictionaries, and web 2.0 tools to cover communicative themes over 3 academic periods.

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

The class sessions for this English course 1A follow the instruction system below:

Course information Modality Teacher data Student profile


Name: English Course 1A 2 hours + 15 Miss Claudia Sumoza Alfaro Basic English
Manufacturing minutes of class English teacher language skills
Engineering 1827-2 participation Institutional Project of are
Duration: 16 weeks Bilingualism required.(CEFR)
Academic periods: 3 E-mail:
Meetings: Fridays, 6:00 [email protected]
p.m.-8:15 p.m. University Foundation
Technological Comfenalco Cartagena

GENERAL PURPOSE

Develop interpersonal and sociolinguistic communication skills of the English language towards the academic, social and
professional students’ needs who belong to the Manufacturing Engineering Program.

REQUIREMENTS

Student Role

Students must be willing to work with their collaborative group, actively participate in the course tasks and work together in
both face-to-face and independent sessions in the construction of knowledge derived from the course contents.

For the fulfillment of the academic purpose at the English course 1A:

• The student must meet weekly in class sessions with their collaborative group to learn and practice strategies to improve
their communicative learning skills.
• Demonstrate a high level of commitment and punctuality.
• Complete all tasks and / or collaborative follow-up activities on time.
• The student is evaluated based on their attendance, participation and performance during the tasks.

METHODOLOGY

The learning strategy used for this English course 1A aimed at the academic
Industrial Engineering Program corresponds to “Task-Based Language Teaching” (TBLT), since it allows goal-oriented and
meaning-oriented activities. All tasks are designed to be carried out in collaborative groups in order to facilitate the
participation of students in significant activities This didactic learning strategy focuses on the use of language authentic and
in asking students to perform meaningful tasks using the English language (L2).

RESOURCES

Student book & Workbook

INTERACT-21 st. Century Communication Skills 1

Series Editors: Jon Edwards & Claire Cho –Compass Publishing.

KEY NOTE: This material will be available at the institution soon.


The material will be used in levels 1 and 2. Cost: $ 90,000
Online Dictionaries

Word Reference
https://www.wordreference.com/
Oxford Dictionaries https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/
Thesaurus Dictionaries https://www.thesaurus.com/

Key note: It is recommended to use these dictionaries. You can use them in physical (optional) or download them to
smartphones or enter to their official website.
The Google translator is not used for the purposes of this course.

WEB 2.0 TOOLS

Flipping Book https://flippingbook.com/

Vocaroo Online Voice Recorder https://vocaroo.com/


Padlet https://padlet.com/
PowToon https://www.powtoon.com/
Pixton https://www.pixton.com/

CONTENTS

Communicative themes:

1st. Academic Period


Greeting & Saying Goodbye
Self-Introduction
Exchanging basic information
Daily Activities
Expressing Possession
Describing People
Family Members
Expressing Opinions

2nd. Academic Period

Jobs & Occupations


Routine
Locations
Likes & Dislikes

3rd. Academic Period


Quantifiers
Suggestions & Arrangements
Simple Present facts
MID-TERM DATES

1st. MID-TERM Sept. 13th, 19


2nd. MID-TERM Oct. 18th, 19
3rd MID-TERM Nov. 29th, 19

GRADING AND ASSESSMENT

PER TERM:

CLASS Oral Production 20%


PERFORMANCE Written Production 20%
Listening Tasks 10%
Interaction Tasks 10%
FINAL ASSESSMENT Test 30%
INDEPENDENT I.App. 10%
WORK

Grading will be given to the student at the end of each Academic Period with the corresponding feedback, and suggestions.

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