Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Course Syllabus Format

1. COURSE IDENTIFICATION

Faculty or Unit: Vicerrectoría de

Initial: VIREL
Relaciones Internacionales
Training Field: Formación
Level: Profesional interdisciplinar básica común
Course: Write the course name Code: 900003
Course Type: Práctico Number of credits: 3
Course Designer: Angela Inés Páez
Course Editor: Angela Inés Páez Solano
Solano
Development Day: February 1st 2019 Updating Date: May 19 th 2019
Course Description:
UNAD, faithful to its mission as a leading organization in open and distance education,
plays an essential role in the advances related to the topic of globalization. Therefore,
its internationalization policy seeks to guide the steps of the national and international
community towards bilingual scenarios.
According to the above, this English B1 course is part of the foreign language
component present in the curriculum guideline of academic programs UNAD is a
theoretical.
According to the above, this course English B1 is part of the component of foreign
language present in the curriculum guidelines of academic programs UNAD is a
theoretical and practical course which has three (3) academic credits, which include
independent study and tutorial accompaniment, for a total of 144 hours of academic
work; distributed in 106 hours of independent study, 38 hours of tutorial support and
monitoring for the purpose of:
 Recognize and appropriate the basic contents of English.
 Understand the foreign language through the different skills: Oral
comprehension (audios and written reflection of audio- visual materials) and
written comprehension (Writing, interpretation and content development)
 Encourage in the student the importance of learning English for their work,
academic and personal environment.
 Take advantage of the techno-didactic resources to learn a foreign language
with autonomy and tutorial accompaniment.
 2. TRAINING PURPOSES

Purpose of course training: To develop the student’s communicative skills in the

English language so that they can understand and use a standard language on familiar
subjects such as work, study, leisure activities, etc. Likewise, you can obtain and
supply information to others on topics related to the environment, using idiomatic
expressions.

Course Competences:
 Identifies essential information in an oral text related to predictable or everyday
subjects, as long as they are articulated clearly.
• Extract the subject from a conversation or short text with simple language.
• Understands descriptions of places or routines, referring to specific aspects.
• Understand situations with a concrete need to achieve or respond.

Describe the course competences

 Narrates oral or written events from the past.
 Handles exchanges within a conversation helped by your interlocutor to maintain
it effectively.
 Uses simple techniques to start, maintain and close conversations.
 Uses media and technology tools placed at his disposal.

3. Course Contents

Units/topics Required Bibliographic References

1. Giving UNAD Florida, (2016) Fasten your seat belt taken from:
advice http://129.150.75.48/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=16
UNAD Florida, (2016) You should keep your passport taken
from:http://129.150.75.48/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=17
UNAD Florida, (2016) What's the weather like? taken
from:http://129.150.75.48/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=18

OVA Unidad 1- What did you do on weekend – past simple.

Esta ova titulada past simple contiene una explicación completa del
 uso del tiempo verbal pasado simple, teoría que es fundamental para
la comprensión en el curso Inglés B1.
Recuperado de: http://hdl.handle.net/10596/23502

2. Talking UNAD Florida, (2016) Going on a trip taken

about from: http://129.150.75.48/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=20
recreational UNAD Florida, (2016)What did you do last weekend? taken
activities
from: http://129.150.75.48/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=21
UNAD Florida, (2016) Summer jobs taken
from: http://129.150.75.48/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=22
3. Past simple UNAD Florida, (2016) Job Interview taken
from: http://129.150.75.48/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=24
Unit 3.2 At the supermarket
UNAD Florida, (2016) At the supermarket taken
from: http://129.150.75.48/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=25
Unit 3.3 At the restaurant
UNAD Florida,(2016)At the restaurant taken
from: http://129.150.75.48/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=26
Unit 3.4 What´s on the news?
UNAD Florida, (2016) What´s on the news? taken
from: http://129.150.75.48/invil21/mod/resource/view.php?id=27

Additional bibliographic references for this course:

Unit 1: Englishexercises.org (2010) [Simple Present] Taken

from:http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=5917

Unit 2: This references will help and support the student knowledge from the main
tense explained along the unit
Englishpage.com (2012). [Modal Verbs] Taken
from: http://www.englishpage.com/modals/modalintro.html
Unit 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFWVbV3fd3I

4. LEARNING STRATEGY

Description of learning strategy:

Describe the learning strategy: The B1 English course is developed under the task-
based learning strategy, where the student must study and develop some content
and from this develop a series of activities that will strengthen their learning. The
B1 English course will be developed in 6 environments, which are: starting
information, knowledge, collaborative learning, practice learning, monitoring and
evaluation, student’s management.
 Starting information: Forum News, General Forum, Presentation of the
course, Agenda, Duties and conditions for course development and how to
navigate the classroom.
 Knowledge: Contents and learning supports and glossary.
 Collaborative learning: Guides and forum recognition activities, Writing,
speaking and Creating the Blog.
 Practice learning: Guide for the development of the practical component
and tutorial of resources for the interaction.
 Monitoring and evaluation: E-portfolio, submission links, Self-
assessments, evaluative activities, Final Evaluation.
 Student’s management: Support information and General of the university
for the student.
This English course has a high practical content, since the tasks are carried out
production activities, as well as the constant review on online content of the classroom
and suggested practice pages for the development of different activities. The
evaluation of this course will be carried out as follows:

Initial evaluation: Where the student must develope an exercise of recognition of the
course with a percentage value of 5%
Intermediate evaluation: Where the student must develop tasks, writing, speaking, in
which applies the knowledge learned according to the units of the course with a value
of 70%
Final evaluation: Development of the final national assessment of the classroom with a
value of 25%

5. DISTRIBUTION OF ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF THE COURSE

Week Contents to develop Activity to develop according to the

learning strategy
1 -2 Unit 1- Giving advice Task 1 Pre-knowledge quiz. Pre-knowledge
quiz.
3-4 Unit 1-1 Fasten your seat Task 2 Writing Assignment.
belt
4-5 Unit 1- 3 You should keep Task 2 Writing Assignment.
your Passport.
5-6 Unit 1-3 What’s the Task 2 Writing Assignment.
weather like?
6-7 Unit 2 Getting a job! Task 3. Comprehension quiz
gramar,vocabulary, Reading and listening quiz.
7-8 Unit 2-1 Going on a trip Task 3. Comprehension quiz
gramar,vocabulary, Reading and listening quiz.
8-9 Unit 2-2 What did you do Task 4. Speaking assignment oral production.
last weekend?
9-10 Unit 2- 3 Summer Jobs Task 4. Speaking assignment oral production.
10-11 Unit 3 Past simple Task 5. Technological component Wix
designing
11-12 Unit 3 – 1 Job interview Task 5. Technological component Wix
designing
13 Unit 3 – 1 At the Task 5. Technological component Wix
supermarket designing
14 Unit 3-2 At the restaurant Task 6: General course review Self-evalution of
course process.
15 Unit 3- 3What’s on the Task 6: General course review Self-evalution of
news course process.
16 Unit 3-4 What’s on the Task 7: Final Exam General review of all units
news.

6. STRATEGIES OF ACADEMIC SUPPORT

Description of academic support strategies to apply in this course

The English B1 course tutor network assists students synchronously in the aula:
Synchronous Attention by Skype: Different schedules are arranged to attend
student’s concerns and doubts in real time.
Web-Conferences in the course: Different meetings are organized at varios times
where students can interact with their tutors using the tools of web- conference.The
timetable can be found in the Knowledge environment, general forum and internal
mail.
Attention in CEADs: Students will be attend in person and in real time at the centers
and /or CEADs.

7. COURSE ASSESSMENT PLAN

Assessm Highest Evaluation

WEEK Products to deliver according to
ent Score/50 Score/50
NUMBER the Learning Strategy
Stages 0 points 0 points
Task 1 –Pre-knowledge quiz. Pre
1-3 Initial 25
knowledge quiz.
Intermedi
4-6 Task 2. Writing Assignment 90
ate Unit 1
Task 3. Comprehension quiz gramar,
Intermedi
7-9 vocabulary,Reading and listening 90
ate Unit 2
quiz.
Intermedi Task 4: Speaking assignment oral 350
10-11 70
ate Unit 3 production.
Intermedi Task 5:Technological component Wix
12-13 70
ate unit 3 designing
Intermedi Task 6: General course review Self-
14-15 30
ate unit 3 Evaluation of course process.
16 Final Final evaluation. 125 125
Total Score 500 500
Points Points