GRADO

GUA DE ESTUDIO DE LA ASIGNATURA

2 PARTE | PLAN DE TRABAJO Y ORIENTACIONES PARA SU DESARROLLO

2011-2012

|Ingls Instrumental II. Primer curso. GRADO EN ESTUDIOS INGLESES: LENGUA, LITERATURA Y CULTURA

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1.- PLAN DE TRABAJO/ WORK PLAN
This subject is divided into six main units, which make up six European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). Each credit corresponds to 25 hours of work on the part of the student. Thus the total number of hours the student will have to devote to this subject is 150. The students should bear in mind that this is one more of a series of six subjects that are specifically oriented towards the development of their instrumental skills in using the English language, so a great part of the hours will have to be invested in doing tasks related to varied language skills. The units are organized around a given topic and different language abilities, specified broadly as follows: UNIT 1: MARRIAGE AND LOVE AFFAIRS
of study/practice

I CREDIT ECTS 25 hours

Oral competence: describing events Written production: narrating personal experiences

UNIT

2:

ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES

I CREDIT ECTS 25 hours of

study/practice

Oral competence: comparing opinions Written production: for and against; argumentation UNIT

3:

SHRINKS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

I CREDIT ECTS 25

hours of study/practice

Oral competence: interviews Written production: newspaper articles and reports UNIT 4: HEALTHY DIETS

I CREDIT ECTS 25 hours of study/practice

Oral competence: a debate Written production: formal and informal letters

UNIT

5:

BUGS, PESTICIDES AND THE FOOD CHAIN

I CREDIT

ECTS 25 hours of study/practice

Oral competence: presentations Creative Writing: describing graphs and pictures

UNIT

6:

URSULA AND OTHER INSPIRING WOMEN

I CREDIT

ECTS 25 hours of study/practice

Oral competence: telling stories

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Carranza, A., Ibez, A.; Pomposo. L.; Teomiro, I. Creative Writing: biography

These obligatory units will be available to the students on the book (Strands of Language II, Edited by Ramn Areces, 2011) for them to read, study and do the corresponding activities in the indicated time and manner (See Table 2 and section 3). Each unit is structured in a similar way, containing the following sections and types of activities, which the student should distribute according to the following schedule:
SECTIONS IN EACH ONE OF THE SIX UNITS A) WARMING UP B) ORAL COMPETENCE: DIALOGUE ACTIVITIES IN EACH SECTION CREDITS/TIME DEVOTED TO EACH SECTION IN THE C O U R S E ( A P R O X .) 0.2 cr. 5 hours 1 cr. 25 hours

Preparatory questions for the dialogue in B) Listening to a dialogue Questions and discussion related to the dialogue Working with a text Studying grammar in the grammar capsules of the unit. Activities oriented towards developing various skills simultaneously: look, listen, read, study, write, summarize, etc. Activities related to the study and mastering of vocabulary Activities oriented towards the mastering of English spelling Activities focused on the formation of words: prefixes, suffixes, roots, inflectional and derivational morphemes, etc. Working with different grammar and language points. Studying the content of the grammar capsules in the units Multiple-choice exercises for selfassessment Oral and written assignments Working with the units for evaluation with the Tutor in the Centro Asociado

C) MULTI-TASKING ACTIVITIES

1 cr 25 hours

D) TACKLING VOCABULARY E) NOW, HOWS YOUR SPELLING? F) ANDHOWS YOUR FORMATION OF WORDS? G) USING ENGLISH APPROPRIATELY AND PUTTING IT INTO MOTION H) CONTINUOUS EVALUATION/SELF ASSESSMENT

0.5 cr. 12.5 hours 0.3 cr. 7.5 hours 0.5 cr. 12.5 hours

2 cr. 50 hours

0.5 cr 12.5 hours

Total: 6 cr. 150 hs.

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2.- ORIENTACIONES PARA EL ESTUDIO DE LOS CONTENIDOS/ ORIENTATIONS FOR THE STUDY OF THE COURSE CONTENTS

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Each one of the six units includes diverse language points and intends to develop different can dos (=resultados de aprendizaje), which the students should try to cover in a certain period of time. The following table provides the main contents, can dos and time schedule for each unit. The audio files and videos of these units can be found in the virtual course (Alf), to which you could access using your user ID and password provided when enrolling in this course. Since there will be presented in pdf format1, you will be free to download all of them in your computer, print them out or even work with them in the screen.
UNIT CAN DOS LANGUAGE/GRAMMA R/CULTURAL POINTS DUE DATE FOR FINAL SELFEVALUATION

1 Marriage and love affairs

Catch the main points in a TV programme on familiar topics Follow a film in which visuals and action carry much of the storyline Understand a large part of a TV talk show Understand a large part of a TV interview and a TV news report.

Conditional constructions Preposition + Gerund construction Reported Speech Past Perfect Simple Pragmatic markers (vocatives) Turn taking in the structure of American and British talk shows. Compound nouns Time adverbs Position of adverbs in the sentence. Quantity and distribution determiners. Subject and object questions. Used to/would Question/answer adjacency pairs in interviews Comparison of a British and an American TV news report. Noun and verb formation March 21st March 7th

2 Alternative energies today

3 Shrinks and

Recognize significant points in straightforward

Please be sure your have installed in your computer Acrobat Reader Version 9 (at least)

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psychoanalysis newspaper articles on familiar subjects Recognize the line of argument in the treatment of an issue in a newspaper article Identify the main conclusions in clearly signalled argumentative texts. find and understand relevant information in brochures and short official documents Scan longer texts in order to locate desired information Gather information from different parts of a text or from different texts Take follow up questions Ask for repetition if necessary Give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic Explain the main points of a presentation with reasonable precision Solving a crossword Polysemic words Noun formation Verbs taking a gerund or an infinitive Phrasal verbs Reported speech Past obligation/permission; wish/if only; -ing/-ed Adjectives Advertising language strategies in English. April 19th Articles Modal verbs Thematization of important points in newspaper headlines Information structure of newspaper articles. April 5st (DEADLINE FOR TASK 1)

4 Healthy diets

5 Bugs, pesticides and the food chain

Review of present and past tenses Use of gerunds Phrasal verbs Adjective formation Review of prepositions Review of comparatives and superlatives Features of argumentative prose Words of Greek origin. May 4rd

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6 Ursula and other inspiring women

Identify unfamiliar words from the contexts on topics related to a field of interest Extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context Deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar

Modals of ability Past and present Conditional constructions Adjectives (attributive, compound, etc.) Revision of prepositions and articles so/such constructions Adverbs Reading and commenting on literary works where identifying cues and inferring are strategies used by the characters. May 19th (DEADLINE FOR TASK 2)2

2.1 Extra/Optional work and activities// Mock oral exams Apart from the work and information included in each of the units of the course book, there will be optional and extra activities available in the virtual course, for those students who need or wish to devote more time and effort to the subject. There will also be mock oral exams in the virtual course for the students to practise along the year. It is of utmost importance that they do these model exams for them to be prepared for the final oral exam in May.

3.- ORIENTACIONES PARA LA REALIZACIN DEL PLAN DE ACTIVIDADES/ ORIENTATIONS FOR CARRYING OUT THE ACTIVITIES
3.1 Steps to follow when working with the learning units Since all the units are structured in the same manner, we recommend the students to take the following steps when studying each and all of them: 1. Read the Warming up questions at the beginning of the unit and try to answer them. Discuss your answers with your Tutor or in the virtual course3 with your workmates.
Task means that they are the two activities that you can send to your tutor in order for him/her to assess them. They count up to 0.40 points of the final mark, that is, 4% each (8% together). This does not mean that they are obligatory for you to take the final exams.
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Carranza, A., Ibez, A.; Pomposo. L.; Teomiro, I. 2. Read the main can dos of the unit carefully. These will guide you along the different activities by letting you know what skills you have to develop and what the expected results of your learning will be by the time you are done with the unit. 3. Listen to the Dialogues you will find in the CD that comes with the course book. You can listen to them as many times as you want. You can read it at the same time, or try to understand it without resorting to this option the first time you listen to it. 4. In order to be able to do the Multitasking activities, read the introductory text carefully and look up all the words you do not know in a good English-English dictionary (See recommended dictionaries in Part I of the Study Guide). Then do the different activities based on the text, and check them with your Tutor. 5. Study all the grammar points by reading the Grammar Capsules provided in the units. Do all the Tackling Vocabulary tasks. If there are still some items of unknown vocabulary, look them up in an English-English dictionary. Check your results in the book key. 6. Do all the Now, hows your spelling exercises. Again, use a dictionary if necessary. Check your results in the book with your Tutor. 7. Do all the And.. hows your formation of words exercises. Again, use a dictionary if necessary. Check your results in the book key. 8. Now, using all the knowledge you have about the text, the grammar points, and the word formation and spelling points, you are ready to combine them all in order to carry out the activities included in the section entitled Using English appropriately and putting it into motion. Here you will have to focus on some other grammar points, whose explanations will be available to you through new grammar capsules. 9. Once youve completed all the activities of the unit, you can check your results in the PRACTICE KEY section of the course book. 10. Now you are ready to take the final self-evaluation of the unit, which you will have at your disposal in the Evaluation section of the virtual class. There will also be self-evaluations in the section Time to relax of the course book, where you will also find some links videos, for you to practice your listening abilities. 11. The due dates for the completion of the activities and final self-evaluation of the virtual class are provided in Table 2 above and they are announced in the virtual course in due time. 3.2 Evaluation types and criteria The final exam (=prueba presencial final + examen oral) as well as the continuous evaluation (which includes the completion of the tasks after units 3 and 6, as well as the self-evaluation included at the end of each unit) will be designed to measure the students successful achievement of the can dos for which they are trained along the course. 3.2.1 Continuous evaluation The so-called continuous evaluation (=evaluacin continua = 20% of the final grade) will be carried out by means of the following procedures: Written/oral assignments to be handed in at the end of unit 3 and at the end of unit 6. The Tutor will correct these assignments to provide feedback (4% each, 8% of the final mark altogether). Completion of the SELF-EVALUATION TEST at the end of each unit. This test consists of multiple choice questions that are automatically corrected by the system in the virtual course, so that

You will find threads and forums ready for you to do this kind of activities.

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the student receives instant feedback about his/her performance (12%, that is, each one counts up to 2% of the final mark) The criteria used to assess this type of evaluation will be the same as those indicated for the final evaluation (See 3.2.2.) 3.2.2 Final evaluation The final evaluation consists of two main parts: a) Written Exam (=Examen final presencial), and b) Oral Exam. Both account for 80% of the final mark. IMPORTANT: After the exams, a review period of seven days is available for students who want to comment, change or confirm their final mark. In order to do this, they will have to fill in a questionnaire in ALF that will be accessible for a specific period of time (just after the public provisional announcement of the marks). Even when you do not get one of your marks summed, you have to fill in the form. This is the only way for the teaching team to keep a formal track on the requests and requirements made by students on this matter. a) WRITTEN EXAM (40%): The final written exam will contain the following kind of exercises: Multiple choice exercises to test items of vocabulary (verbs, adjectives, nouns, etc.) and the formation of words Multiple choice exercises to test different grammar and language points A reading comprehension (Multiple choice or True/False) exercise based on a given text. A composition related to the topics studied and discussed in the different units of study.

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These exams will be graded according to the following criteria, which will have to be fulfilled by the students up to at least a medium degree (in agreement with the B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages): Successful accomplishment of the can dos of the total course. Adequate use of the vocabulary and expressions studied in the course. Adequate use of the grammar rules learned in the course. Appropriateness to the text/discourse situation. Discourse cohesion (use of connectors and other cohesive devices). Discourse coherence.

b) ORAL EXAM (40%): Students will take the oral exam by getting into the e-Oral application in the virtual class (the link to the oral exam
http://tutoriaonline.unedaragon.org/EOral/WebSiteEOral

will appear in the virtual course, as well as the instructions to do have access to it). This exam will be subsequently corrected and graded by the Tutor of the corresponding Centro Asociado. In case the student does not have access to the application, s/he will have to take the exam in a face-to-face encounter with the Tutor. For any problems related to the application, contact: Jess Abizanda (jhabizanda@unedaragon.org)

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Carranza, A., Ibez, A.; Pomposo. L.; Teomiro, I. The questions in the oral exam will be related to the following aspects: The content of the dialogues in each of the units. The content of the reading comprehension texts in each of the units. The students personal opinion or experience in relation to the topic of the dialogues/texts. Other aspects of the students personal life or experience

The criteria that the tutors must follow for grading the oral exam are the following: Item Pronunciation Fluency Grammatical accuracy Vocabulary Comprehenshion Total Explanation Adequate pronunciation, stress and intonation Spontaneity, Discourse cohesion Adequate use of the grammar rules learned in the course Adequate use of the vocabulary and expressions studied in the course Comprehension of the content and main topic of the dialogues Successful accomplishment of the can dos (related to oral skills) required in the course Score (max. 2) (max. 2) (max. 2) (max. 2) (max. 2) (max. 10)

3.2.3 Levels of adequacy expected at the B1 level that will be used to assess the students performance in relation to the above criteria Following the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, the general level of adequacy (translated into can dos) expected for a B1 level for Reading, Writing, Listening and Spoken production are the following: Reading: Can understand texts that consist mainly of high frequency everyday or job-related language. Can understand the description of events, feelings and wishes in personal letters.

Writing: Can write simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. Can write personal letters describing experiences and impressions.

Listening: Can understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. Can understand the main point of many radio or TV programmes on current affairs or topics of personal or professional interest when the delivery is relatively slow and clear.

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Can connect phrases in a simple way in order to describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions. Can briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans. Can narrate a story or relate the plot of a book or film and describe my reactions.

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4.- GLOSARIO/ GLOSSARY

We do not include a glossary in this guide, given the nature of the subject. The items of vocabulary the student needs to work with are already included in the Course Units, and in many cases it is the task of the student to look them up in the (English-English) dictionary, on the grounds that this is a very important practice they need to be trained on if they are to use the English language in an instrumental way.

5.- TEACHING TEAM

Aurelia Carranza (aurelia.carranza@flog.uned.es - Tel. 91 398 9541/9438 Horario de guardia: Martes de 9,30 a 13,30 y de 15,00 a 19.00 Mircoles de 9,30 a 13,30 Ana Ibez (aibanez@flog.uned.es Tel. 91 398 9549 Horario de guardia: Jueves de 13,30 a 21,00 viernes de 10,00 a 14,30 Lourdes Pomposo (lpomposo@flog.uned.es Tel. 91 398 8719) Horario de guardia: Martes de 10,00 a 14,30 Mircoles de 9,00 a 14,00 y de 15,00 a 18,00 Ivn Teomiro (iteomiro@flog.uned.es Tel. 91 398 6138) Horario de guardia: Martes de 9,30 a 13,30 y de 16,30 a 20,30 Mircoles de 9,30 a 13,30

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