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1. COURSE IDENTIFICATION
UNAD, faithful to its mission as a leading organization in open and distance education,
exerts a really important role related to the globalization issue. As a result of this, its
internationalization policy looks forward to guide the path of the national and
international community towards the bilingual scene.
In view of the above, English 2 is part of the foreign language component established
in the curriculum guidelines of UNADs academic programs. Its methodology is
theoretical and practical and has two (2) academic credits by means of which the
students will have to study independently 48 hours and another 48 hours of tutorial
monitoring for a total of 96 hours of academic work. The purpose of the course is:
The strategy used within the course is Task Based Learning, where the student must
study and develop some contents and from that, do some activities which will
strengthen the learning process. English 2 course has 6 environments, as follows:
Starting information environment: In this environment, the e-student can find the
course agenda, course general forum, news forum, course presentation, duties &
rights.
Knowledge environment: In this environment, the e-student can find the syllabus
of the course, online content of the course among other resources which will
strengthen the students learning process.
Practice learning environment: The students will find documents related to study
the English language by their own, how to improve skills and some guidelines to
success in the development of the activities.
Monitoring & Evaluation environment: In this space the student will find 2 quizzes
where some questions related to grammar, reading and listening comprehension,
besides and the course final exam which measures how knowledge is acquired by
students.
This English course has a high volume of practical content, it is not only to take quizzes
or doing evaluations, but also developing some production activities as well as it is
suggested a constant checking of online content within the course and the practice
pages suggested for the development of different activities. The evaluation of this
course is going to have 3 moments, which are:
2. TRAINING PURPOSES
Comprehension competences:
Understand conversations related to specific topics in oral & written form with
people.
Find simple written specific information of daily use materials, like
advertisements, menus, lists and schedules which allow interaction in different
contexts like restaurants, movies, among others.
Sociolinguistic competences:
Recognize the past tense asking questions and giving answers to simple
actions in daily life.
Express preferences and make comparisons with objects and situations given.
Production Competencies:
Narrate oral and written events from the past interchanging information within
a conversation helped by the receiver to hold it and maintain it in an effective
way.
Use the technologies provided to learn the language, taking into account the
guidelines and/or suggestions given by the tutor.
Search and recognize strategies according to strengths and weaknesses, to
potentiate the language learning.
Use interaction strategies with other people by means of technology in order
to improve weaknesses and optimized strengths to improve language
knowledge.
3. Course Contents
Unit 1.2. You should keep your passport! UNAD (2017) Curso Ingls 2.
1. Unit 1 Recuperado de:
http://campus06.unad.edu.co/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=92
Giving
advice Unit 1.3. Whats the weather like? UNAD (2017) Curso Ingls 2.
Recuperado de:
http://campus06.unad.edu.co/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=93
Unit 1.4. Going on a trip. UNAD (2017) Curso Ingls 2. Recuperado de:
http://campus06.unad.edu.co/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=94
Unit 1.5. What did you do last weekend? UNAD (2017) Curso Ingls 2.
Recuperado de:
http://campus06.unad.edu.co/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=95
Unit 2.1. Summer jobs. UNAD (2017) Curso Ingls 2. Recuperado de:
http://campus06.unad.edu.co/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=97
Unit 2.2. Job interview. UNAD (2017) Curso Ingls 2. Recuperado de:
http://campus06.unad.edu.co/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=98
Unit 2.5. Whats on the news? UNAD (2017) Curso Ingls 2. Recuperado
de:
http://campus06.unad.edu.co/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=10
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Unit 1: http://campus06.unad.edu.co/invil21/mod/page/view.php?id=90
Unit 2: http://campus06.unad.edu.co/invil21/mod/page/view.php?id=96
4. LEARNING STRATEGY
Competencies:
Distinguish and differentiate modal verbs Ought to and Had better orally
and in written way in real and hypothetical situations in present.
Understand and apply the simple past grammar within negative and
interrogative statements using in a proper way verbs in sentences which
communicate events and situations that had passed.
Performance indicators:
Express orally his/er point of view using modal verbs should, ought to and
had better depending on the context.
Learning strategy:
Activity 3: Writing task forum & Quiz Act 4. Unit 1 Task: Giving
advice.
UNIT 2
Competencies:
Describe daily life situations using in a proper way the adverbs of frequency
in different related conversations.
Performance indicators:
Learning strategy:
Final moment: Final exam to verify knowledge acquired and course end.
The course English 2 tutors web look after a synchronic attention towards students
within the virtual class in the following scenarios:
Highest Evaluatio
Assess
WEEK Products to deliver according to Score/5 n
ment
NUMBER the Learning Strategy 00 Score/50
Stages
points 0 points
Activity 1 & 2. Recognition task & 25
1-2 Initial 5%
Pre-knowledge quiz
Intermed Activity 3. Writing task 19%
3-6 iate Unit
Activity 4. Quiz Unit 1 14%
1
Activity 5. Speaking task 19%
7-10
Activity 6. Quiz Unit 2 350 14%
Intermed
Activity 7. Self-assessment Writing
iate Unit 2%
task
11-14 2
Activity 8. Self-assessment
2%
Speaking task
15-16 Final Activity 9. POC Final exam 125 25%
Total Score 500 500
Points Points