0. PRESENTATION

CONTENTS

-English in ADE Plasencia is a course whose main goal is to provide useful language for different business situations.
-Our main focus is on the use of English language for the special purpose of business, paying attention to reading, writing, listening an speaking.
-Our course is divided into 12 units.

Temario de la asignatura

Denominación del tema 1: You and your Company Contenidos del tema 1: 1.1  People in business Grammar: The Present Tenses Vocabulary: Nationalities Functions: Checking spelling Talking about your company Grammar: Information questions. What...? Where...? How many...? Vocabulary. Company activities. Manufacture, make, employ, etc. 1.2  Company facts and figures Grammar: Yes/no questions. Is it...?/ Does it...? Vocabulary: Numbers. Figures and prices. Functions: Checking numbers. 1.3  Work and leisure Grammar: Adverbs of frequency. Vocabulary: Leisure activities Descripción de las actividades prácticas del tema 1: Writing, listening, speaking activities about the contents. Presentations.

Denominación del tema 2: Preparing a trip Contenidos del tema 2 2.1  Choosing a hotel Grammar: Tenses to express the past. Vocabulary: Hotel facilities. Functions: Asking for information. 2.2  Booking a hotel Vocabulary: Hotel reservation. Functions: Making requests. 2.3  Flying out Grammar: Time questions. Vocabulary: When? What time? How long? Descripción de las actividades prácticas del tema 2: Writing, listening, speaking activities about the contents. Presentations.

Denominación del tema 3: Away on business Contenidos del tema 3 3.1. Arriving Grammar: Countable and uncountable nouns. Functions: Checking into a hotel. Going out Vocabulary: Telephone language Functions: Suggesting, accepting and refusing. 3.2. Arranging to meet Grammar: Tenses to express the future Functions: Making arrangements 3.3. Finding your way Vocabulary: Maps. Functions: Giving directions. Revision: Information questions. 3.4. Eating out. Functions: Ordering, complaining, paying. Descripción de las actividades prácticas del tema 3: Writing, listening, speaking activities about the contents. Presentations.

Denominación del tema 4: Visiting a company Contenidos del tema 4 4.1. Arriving at a company. Grammar: The present perfect simple and continuous.  4.2. Meeting new people Vocabulary: Vocabulary for socializing. Functions: Introductions and conversation openers. Grammar: The passive voice. Revision of questions. 4.3. Explaining company structure Vocabulary: Company departments. Functions : Describing company organization. 4.4. Apologizing Vocabulary: Written and spoken apologies. Functions: Apologizing. Descripción de las actividades prácticas del tema 4: Writing, listening, speaking activities about the contents. Presentations.

Denominación del tema 5: New developments Contenidos del tema 5 5.1. Current activities Grammar: Relative sentences Functions: Describing current activities. Describing objects. Explaining functions and positions in a company and in different departments. 5.2. Company developments Grammar: Countable and uncountable expressions. Vocabulary: Retailing. Personal developments Descripción de las actividades prácticas del tema 5: Writing, listening, speaking activities about the contents. Presentations.

Denominación del tema 6: Arrangements Contenidos del tema 6 6.1  Future engagements Grammar: Conditional sentences. Vocabulary: Time expressions. Functions: Describing travel plans. 6.2  Fixing the date Grammar: Ordinal numbers. Vocabulary: Dates and times. 6.3  Getting connected Vocabulary: Telephone language. Functions: Taking and leaving messages. 6.4  Appointments Vocabulary: bring forward, postpone, cancel. Functions: Making and changing appointments. Revision Telephone language. Descripción de las actividades prácticas del tema 6: Writing, listening, speaking activities about the contents. Presentations.

Denominación del tema 7: Describing and comparing Contenidos del tema 7 7.1  Comparing Grammar: Comparative and superlative adjectives. Vocabulary: Means of travel. Functions: Comparing. Revision: Questions with How...? 7.2  Describing products Vocabulary: Products. Functions: Describing physical qualities. Revision: Comparatives and superlatives. 7.3  Evaluating products Vocabulary: Adjectives for describing products. Functions: Asking for and giving opinions. Revision: Comparatives and superlatives. Descripción de las actividades prácticas del tema 7: Writing, listening, speaking activities about the contents. Presentations.

Denominación del tema 8: Success stories Contenidos del tema 8 8.1  A life story Grammar: Past time reference. Vocabulary: Personal history. Functions: Describing career history. Revision: The Reported Speech. 8.2  Lending and borrowing Vocabulary Financial vocabulary. Save, afford, owe. 8.3  A family business Grammar: Sentence linkers. Describing company history. Descripción de las actividades prácticas del tema 8: Writing, listening, speaking activities about the contents. Presentations.

Denominación del tema 9: Dealing with problems Contenidos del tema 9 9.1. Making decisions Grammar: Connectors and rephrasings. Functions: Deciding. Changing plans. Revision: Describing travel plans 9.2. Complaining Grammar: Predictions with modal verbs. Function: Written and spoken complaints 9.3. Thinking ahead Grammar: Rephrasing with predictions. Vocabulary: Marketing. Descripción de las actividades prácticas del tema 9: Writing, listening, speaking activities about the contents. Presentations.

Denominación del tema 10: People at work Contenidos del tema 10 10.1. Suggesting and recommending Grammar: Modal verbs to express obligation and suggestions. Vocabulary: Language of suggestions and obligation. Functions: Making suggestions. Recommending action. Revision: Language of marketing. 10.2. Job responsibilities Grammar: Modal verbs. Vocabulary: Jobs. Functions: Obligation and permission. 10.3. Correcting information Vocabulary: Contrastive stress. Functions: Correcting information. Revision: Describing a history. Descripción de las actividades prácticas del tema 10: Writing, listening, speaking activities about the contents. Presentations.

Denominación del tema 11: Getting a job Contenidos del tema 11 11.1  Job advertisement Vocabulary: Job advertisement vocabulary. Functions: Writing an advertisement Revision: Describing a job 11.2  Applying for a job Vocabulary: CVs and job application letters. Functions: Applying for a job. Revision: Describing career history. Grammar: Modal verbs. 11.3  The interview Grammar: Revision of personal questions Vocabulary: Language for socializing. Functions: A job interview Descripción de las actividades prácticas del tema 11: Writing, listening, speaking activities about the contents. Presentations.

Denominación del tema 12: Working in the XXI century Contenidos del tema 12 12.1  Changing careers Grammar: Used to, would Vocabulary: Employment. 12.2  Work environments Grammar: Too and Enough. Vocabulary: Computers. Vocabulary recording techniques. 12.3  Saying goodbye Grammar: Revision. Vocabulary: Social and work situations. Company rules. Functions: Talking about past obligations. Descripción de las actividades prácticas del tema 12: Writing, listening, speaking activities about the contents. Presentations.

ASSESSMENT

We will follow the instructions given in our teaching file:

Sistemas de evaluación

Evaluación continua La ponderación será la siguiente: -Exposiciones y proyectos de clase: 10% -Examen final: 90%.  Las pruebas intermedias (de carácter formativo) y el examen final constarán de las siguientes partes, evaluadas como se especifica: -LISTENING COMPREHENSION: 10% -SPEAKING: 10 % -USE OF ENGLISH AND VOCABULARY: 40 % -READING: 10 % -WRITING: 20 % Evaluación final de carácter global Según el Art. 4.6 de la Normativa de evaluación de los resultados de aprendizaje y de las competencias adquiridas por el alumnado en las titulaciones oficiales de la universidad de Extremadura, “El plan docente de cada asignatura preverá para todas las convocatorias una prueba final alternativa de carácter global, de manera que la superación de ésta suponga la superación de la asignatura. La elección entre el sistema de evaluación continua o el sistema de evaluación con una única prueba final de carácter global corresponde al estudiante durante las tres primeras semanas de cada semestre. La Comisión de Calidad de la titulación velará porque el derecho a la evaluación global no comporte discriminación respecto a la evaluación continua en relación con la calificación máxima que se puede obtener. En los sistemas de evaluación global, también se podrá exigir la asistencia del estudiante a aquellas actividades de evaluación que, estando distribuidas a lo largo del curso, estén relacionadas con la evaluación de resultados de aprendizaje de difícil calificación en una prueba final". El alumnado que opte por esta prueba de carácter global, deberá realizar: -Un examen escrito con las siguientes partes: LISTENING COMPREHENSION: 10% USE OF ENGLISH AND VOCABULARY: 40 % READING: 10 % WRITING: 20 %   -Una prueba oral: 20 % Durante las tres primeras semanas de clase se acordará con los alumnos que se acojan a esta modalidad la fecha y hora de la prueba oral.   Por lo demás, se aplicará el sistema de calificaciones vigente en la actualidad y es el del RD 1125/2003, artículo 5º. Los resultados obtenidos por el alumno en esta asignatura se calificarán en función de la siguiente escala numérica de 0 a 10, con expresión de un decimal, a la que podrá añadirse su correspondiente calificación cualitativa: 0 - 4,9: Suspenso (SS) 5,0 - 6,9: Aprobado (AP) 7,0 - 8,9: Notable (NT) 9,0 - 10: Sobresaliente (SB) La mención de Matrícula de Honor podrá ser otorgada a alumnos que hayan obtenido una calificación igual o superior a 9.0. Su número no podrá exceder del 5 % de los alumnos matriculados en una asignatura en el correspondiente curso académico, salvo que el número de alumnos matriculados sea inferior a 20, en cuyo caso se podrá conceder una sola Matrícula de Honor.

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT

-Students will prove their English skills in USE OF ENGLISH, READING, WRITING, LISTENING AND SPEAKING.

-Those following the course and attending lessons will have the opportunity to take 2 WRITTEN TESTS  and ORAL INTERVIEWS. They must also present a PROJECT. If they reach 50%,  they will pass the subject before January. If they don't reach 50% they will have to take the final exam in January.

Test 1

Parts: USE OF ENGLISH, READING, WRITING, LISTENING.
Date: November, 03rd. Thursday. 16.00-18.00


Test 2

Parts: USE OF ENGLISH, READING, WRITING, LISTENING.
Date: December, 20th. Tuesday. 18.00-20.00

Oral Interviews: during the lessons in diffent dates.

 

Video project
Percentage of the final mark: 10 %.
Topic: Presentation and description of a local company.
Individual or small groups (no more than 4 students).
Length: Between 4 minutes (individual projects) and 8 minutes (bigger groups).
Deadline: November, 18th. Thursday.


FINAL ASSESSMENT

-Students who decide not to follow continuous assessment must tell the teacher before October, 8th.
-Those students who don't follow continuous assessment, couldn't reach 50% with the continuous assessment or want to improve their marks will have a FINAL TEST in JANUARY.

-The final test will have a WRITTEN PART AND AN ORAL INTERVIEW.

-WRITTEN TEST: USE OF ENGLISH, READING, LISTENING AND WRITING.
DATE: JANUARY, ???

-ORAL INTERWIEW. In pairs
DATE: JANUARY
Students who passed the oral part through continuous assessment won't have this oral interwiew.