Course Syllabus for Students’ Reference

Advanced Grammar One (AG1)

Course name: Advanced Grammar One

Course code: AG1

1. Course description:
Advanced Grammar is a course that aims at creating conditions for you to think critically and make
use of grammar features more confidently. The course also seeks to fine-tune your strategic use of
a wide array of grammar tools to meet a variety of personal communicative needs in different
contexts within a highly interactive student-centered approach.

Advanced Grammar One covers units 1 to 7 of the Focus on Grammar book. The course themes
appear below:

 PART 1: Present, Past and Future

Unit 1 – The Digital World
Unit 2 – Intercultural Marriage
Unit 3 – Travel

 PART 2: Modals and Other Auxiliaries

Unit 4 – Cultural Differences
Unit 5 – Mysteries

 PART 3: Passive Voice

Unit 6 – Crime
Unit 7 – Legends and Myths

2. General Course Goals

By the end of the course, you will be able to understand and use grammar structures related to:
 Major tenses (present, past, and future)
 Modals and other auxiliaries
 Passive voice

For more specific information regarding course goals, please refer to the “Student Self-Assessment
Form” uploaded in Chamilo.

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 3. Course Content
The content includes:

Language structures

Simple Present
Present Progressive
Present Perfect
Present Perfect Progressive
Part 1: Present, Past, and Future

Action and Non-action verbs in the present

Simple Past
Past Progressive
Present Perfect
Past Perfect
Past Perfect Progressive
Used to and Would
Future in the past

Simple future (will and be going to)

Future Progressive
Simple Present for future
Present Progressive for future
Future Perfect
Future Perfect Progressive

Modals for obligation (necessity): must, have to, have got to, be allowed to, can’t
Part 2: Modals and other

Modals for advice: should, ought to

Modals for warnings: had better
Modals for expectation: be supposed to, be to + base form
auxiliaries

Modals for suggestion: could, might

Modals for lack of obligation: (not) have to

Modals for speculations about the present: must, has (got) to, may, might, could
Modals for speculations about the past: must have, had to have, may have, might have,
could have
Modals for speculations about the future: should, ought to, may, might, could

Passive sentences
Passive
Part 3:

voice

Passive verb forms

The Passive with modals
The Passive Causative

4. Unit content and purpose / use:

Every unit includes:

Section Main purpose Description

It presents the target structures in reading selections where students

have the chance to encounter the form, meaning and use of the
grammar for the first time in realistic contexts. There are post
Grammar in Contextualization and
vocabulary exercises that help students focus on the meaning of
Context lead-in
words that will appear along the unit, and there are reading exercises
that help students check their understanding of opening reading
texts.

It presents an explicit overview of the target structures in detailed

Grammar Analysis, discussion,
charts and notes containing clear explanations and multiple
Presentation and noticing
examples of their form, meaning and use.

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 Guided and semi-
Focused This section contains varied controlled exercises that help students
guided practice, fine-
Practice build up mastery of the target grammar.
tuning

This section provides listening, and pronunciation tasks and also

Freer more
Communication communication activities that promote fluency and give opportunities
independent practice,
Practice for students to use the language in a more communicative and freer
evaluation
context.

This section provides one writing task divided into three moments:
From Grammar
Guided writing practice before, during, and after. This task gives students the opportunity to
to Writing
use the language in written meaningful communication.

Reviewing grammar The Unit Review allows students to monitor their own progress and
Unit Review
structures assess their understanding of the target structures.

Additional resources also include:

 In the textbook: Appendices, Glossary of grammar terms, Unit review answer key, and
Games and Pronunciation answer key
 Online: My English Lab (MEL) platform by PEARSON

5. Evaluation Criteria:
The evaluation system is based on three components as follows:

COMPONENT SCORE PERCENTAGE

A. Learning objectives/outcomes and quizzes 12 points 60%

B. Final written exam 4 points 20%

C. Portfolio 4 points 20%

TOTAL 20 points 100%

 The minimum passing grade for the level is 14 points equivalent to 80.
 If you are interested in learning more about each component, please refer to your “Evaluation
Guide” available in Chamilo.

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