SYLLABUS AÑO: 2019 TIPO: NUCLEAR CÓDIGO:

UNIDAD DE ESTUDIO:
UPPER INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH
MODALIDAD: CRÉDITOS: DURACIÓN: HORAS AC. DIRECTO: HORAS T. AUTÓNOMO: HORAS TOTALES:

PRESENCIAL 5 SEMESTRE 90 150 240

FACULTAD O INSTITUTO: PROGRAMA:
V.0 | CÓDIGO: FRN-001-F4-2 | 17/08/2016

HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES LENGUAS MODERNAS

UNIDADES DE ESTUDIO PRE-REQUISITO: UNIDADES DE ESTUDIO CO-REQUISITO:
BASIC BUSINESS ENGLISH I N/A
BASIC BUSINESS ENGLISH II
INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH
PROPÓSITO DEL CURSO (Justificación / Motivación / Aportes al perfil del egresado)

Upper Intermediate Business English provides students of English with opportunities to practice
their communication skills. Course work focus particularly on communication accuracy
(vocabulary, grammar) with a strong emphasis on autonomous learning.
Based on the CEFR (B1+) a student who passes this course can:
• Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered
in work, school, leisure, etc.
• Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is
spoken.
• Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest.
• Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons
and explanations for opinions and plans
COMPETENCIA GLOBAL
• take messages communicating enquiries, COMPETENCIAS
explaining problems; ESPECÍFICAS (C.E.)
•CEFR
provide Students can discuss options, (e.g.
concrete information required in an interview/consultation make decisions
describeand solve problems to a
symptoms
B1+ A
doctor) but does so with limited precision;
At this level users should already be
•able
explain whylinguistically
something isinaaproblem;
range of summarise and give his or her opinion about a short story,
B Students can analyse a written text and write an analytical response
to cope
article, talk, discussion, interview,
everyday situations which require a or documentary and answer further questions of detail;
•largely
carry out a prepared
predictable useinterview, checking and confirming information, though he/she may
of language.
Students
occasionally have to ask for repetition if theCother can use correct
person’s responseword stress, pronounce
is rapid weak and strong forms
or extended;
• describe how to do something, giving detailedcorrectly and say numbers
instructions;
• exchange accumulated factual information onStudents
familiar routine and non-routine matters within
can listen to and comprehend conversations and dialogues
COMPETENCIAS TRANSVERSALES (C.T.)* D
his/her field with some confidence.
EM SH IN CO TE
Students can use relative clauses, narrative tenses, passive voice, articles,
REF REF ENF REF ENF E
modals and reported speech in context

METODOLOGÍA RESUMEN DE CONTENIDOS (Temas generales)

The methodology is based on the Unit 7 - Design

constructivist approach which aims to Unit 8 - Business
foster foreign language learning based Unit 9 - Engineering
on the elements that this implies: Unit 10 - Trends
· Students do not only learn about a Unit 11 - Arts and Media
language but a new system of thinking. Unit 12 - Crime
They will receive culturally rich data and
information for intercultural
communication, along the
communicative skills and new sentence
patterns and vocabulary.
· Students need active and meaningful
*Las competencias transversales corresponden a: EM: Emprendedoras, SH: Socio-humanísticas, IN: Investigativas, CO: Comunicativas,
interaction
TE: toLos
Tecnológicas. practice
niveles deand question
desarrollo de las the
competencias son: INT: Introducción, REF: Refuerzo y ENF: Énfasis.
language that they are attempting to
learn. Language holds a social
SESIÓN 1 CONTENIDOS ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE

C.T. C.E. Introduction to Upper-Intermediate Introduction to Upper-Intermediate: Contents,

A
EM ✔ methodology, assessment and dates.

SH
✔ ✔B
Design New Language Leader 7.1 (p. 66,67)
IN C - Reading text about designs - Reading: What is design?
- Word formation - Word formation (vocabulary related to design)
CO
✔ ✔D - Introduction to Hamlet - Pronunciation: word stress
Hamlet Graded Reader
E
TE ✔ - Introduction to the text and Act 1, scene 1

SESIÓN 2 CONTENIDOS ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE

C.T. C.E. Design New Language Leader 7.2 and 7.3 (p. 68,71,
EM ✔
A Design through the ages 138,139,160,163)
- Vocabulary: describing materials, shapes and
✔ ✔
SH B textures
- Listening: ideas for a new design
IN C - Grammar: modals of necessity and obligation

CO
✔ ✔D Innovations - Reading and listening: Innovative ideas
- Grammar: Modals for present deduction
E
TE ✔
Extension tasks related to design
SESIÓN 3 CONTENIDOS
Assignment: Writing skills - a product report (p. 75)
ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE

C.T. C.E. Speaking New Language Leader 7.4 and 7.5 (p. 72-75)
EM A - Scenario: Design Competition
Key language: expressions to describe a design
✔ B
SH (Preparation for speaking evaluation)

IN C Extension tasks related to design

Writing task: Writing a product report (Lesson 7.4)
CO
✔ ✔D - Study skills
- Hamlet
TE
✔ ✔E - Study skills: proofreading
Hamlet Graded Reader
SESIÓN 4 CONTENIDOS
- Act 1, scene 2-4 ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE

C.T. C.E. Written test (60%) Written test (60%) - Students are evaluated on Unit
7, including the writing of a product report.
EM A
✔ B
SH Speaking Evaluation: Our design (40%)
Speaking Evaluation (40%) In groups of 2 or 3 students, students will present a
IN C Feedback (20%) particular design. They will describe its concept,
materials, shapes, textures and functionality. They
CO
✔ ✔D will also explain which strengths and weaknesses
their design may have.
TE
✔ ✔E
* Students receive feedback about their
SESIÓN 5 CONTENIDOS
progression through the courseACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE
C.T. C.E. Unit 8. Business New Language Leader 8.1 y 8.2 (p. 76-79)
Business Tips In Business
EM A - Vocabulary: Business terms and roles
✔ B
SH - Reading and Listening: Tips to start a business

IN C Discussing business dilemmas Business Dilemmas

- Reading and speaking: Business dilemmas
CO
✔ ✔D - Grammar: Past continuous
- Pronunciation: weak forms and reduction
TE
✔ ✔E
SESIÓN 6 CONTENIDOS ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE

C.T. C.E. Business New Language Leader 8.1 y 8.2 (p. 80-83)
EM A Business Icons Business Icons
- Reading: Business Icons
✔ B
SH - Business collocations
- Grammar: Past Perfect Simple
IN C
Reader - Hamlet
CO
✔ ✔D - Reader Hamlet, Act 2: analysis of characters and
issues emerging from the act
TE
✔ ✔E
SESIÓN 7 CONTENIDOS ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE

C.T. C.E. Language Leader 7.5 (pages 74-75) and 8.5 (p.
EM A Writing Skills 84,85)
- Reading and writing a product report
✔ B
SH - Activities to practice using linkers in writing tasks
- Formal and informal register
IN C
Writing practice - Writing Practice: Editing - From informal to formal
CO
✔ ✔D - Extra practice on vocabulary for business (BEC
Preliminary or Vantage Practice)
TE
✔ ✔E
SESIÓN 8 CONTENIDOS ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE

C.T. C.E. Reader Hamlet Act 2 Reader Hamlet

EM A Writing an Essay - Analysis and discussion of issues emerging from
Hamlet, act 2.
✔ B
SH - Essay: definition, parts, DOs and DON'Ts
(evaluation rubrics will be used)
IN C
- Analysis and discussion of issues emerging from
CO
✔ ✔D Reader Hamlet Act 3 Reader Hamlet, Act 3.
Scenario 8.4 - Negotiation Skills - Language Leader, lesson 8.4 Negotiation skills
TE
✔ ✔E Laguage for negotiation (Preparation for speaking
evaluation)
SESIÓN 9 CONTENIDOS ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE

C.T. C.E. Written Evaluation evaluation (60%) Written exam (60%): Students are evaluated on
Unit 8. They also have to write a formal business
EM A letter.
✔ B
SH Speaking Evaluation (40%)
Feedback (20%) Speaking evaluation: Speaking evaluation (40 %)
IN C based on a negotiation role play.
Students receive feedback about their progression
CO
✔ ✔D through the course.

TE
✔ ✔E
SESIÓN 10 CONTENIDOS ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE

C.T. C.E. Reader: Hamlet Graded Reader: Hamlet

EM A Hamlet Act 4 - Analysis and discussion of issues emerging from
Hamlet, Act 4.
✔ B
SH
Hamlet Act 5 - Analysis and discussion of issues emerging from
IN C Hamlet, Act 5.

CO
✔ ✔D Debate based on Hamlet -Writing tasks related to Hamlet / Writing support
Writing practice
TE
✔ ✔E
SESIÓN 11 CONTENIDOS ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE

C.T. C.E. Writing test (60%) - Writing test (60%) based on Reader Hamlet:
EM A Essay

✔ B
SH Unit 9. Engineering Language Leader 9.1 (pages 86,87)
Dealing with global threats - Reading: Engineering and genre
IN C - Vocabulary: Collocations - Expressions related to
engineering
CO
✔ ✔D
Superstructures Language Leader 9.2 and 9.3 (pages 88-91,
TE
✔ ✔E 142-143)
- Vocabulary: Hazards and global threats
SESIÓN 12 CONTENIDOS
- Grammar: Passive Voice (p. 89)
ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE

C.T. C.E. The Mega Project Language

- Grammar:Leader 9.4 and
Indefinite, 9.5 (pages
definite and zero92-95)
articles
EM A Scenario: The Mega Prooject
- Reading: Superstructures
Listening
Speaking:and speaking:
Debate Discussing
- Investing options and (p.
in superstructures
✔ B
SH making decisions
91, 157, 163) to create a project
Unit 10. Trends. Assignment: Preparation of presentation of a
IN C New ideas and trends project (Engineering my city) for speaking
assessment
CO
✔ ✔D
Language Leader 10.1 (pages 96,97, 144-145)
TE
✔ ✔E Death of the music industry - Speaking and reading: New ideas and trends
- Vocabulary: Phrasal verbs related to trends
SESIÓN 13 CONTENIDOS ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE
Language Leader 10.2 (pages 100,101)
C.T. C.E. Infinitives and Gerunds -Language
Listening Leader 10.2 (pages
and reading: 100-101, 144-145)
Music habits
EM A - Grammar: Infinitives and Gerunds
- Verb patterns
✔ B
SH
Describing Trends Language Leader 10.5 Writing skills:
IN C - Strategies to learn vocabulary
- Describing Trends: vocabulary to describe graphs
CO
✔ ✔D Speaking evaluation (40%) and tables
Feedback (30%)
TE
✔ ✔E - Speaking evaluation (40%): Engineering my City
In groups, students will present a project to solve
SESIÓN 14 CONTENIDOS
one of the problems in the city ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE
- Student receive feedback about their progression
C.T. C.E. Unit 11. Arts and the Media New Language
through Leader 9.3 (pages 106-111)
the course
Types of media - Reading and listening: Reviews on types of media
EM A - Vocabulary: Media genres
✔ B
SH - Review of Infinitives and Gerunds

IN C Media recluses - Reading and vocabulary: Media recluses

- Grammar: Reported speech
CO
✔ ✔D
Foreign correspondents - Listening: The life of a foreign correspondent
TE
✔ ✔E - Grammar: Reported questions
- Reading:Me and my career
SESIÓN 15 CONTENIDOS ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE

C.T. C.E. Arts and the Media New Language Leader 11.4 and 11.5 (pages
Scenario: the Silver Screen 112-115, 146-147)
EM A - Listening and Speaking: Deciding on the
✔ B
SH production of a film/series
- Language for comparing and contrasting
IN C - Negociating a production

CO
✔ ✔D Study Skills - Listening and speaking: Outline and preparation
- Delivering a presentation of a presentation
TE
✔ ✔E - Writing a short formal report - Writing: reporting an event - outline and formal
register
SESIÓN 16 CONTENIDOS ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE

C.T. C.E. Unit 12. Crime New Language Leader 12.1 and 12.2 (pages
EM A Real crimes 116-120)
- Vocabulary related to crime
✔ B
SH - Reading: Criminal masterminds

IN C The Causes of Crime - Listening and reading: Why do people commit

crimes?
CO
✔ ✔D - Vocabulary: collocations about crime and
punishment
TE
✔ ✔E - Review of Conditionals 1 and 2
- Grammar: Third Conditional
SESIÓN 17 CONTENIDOS ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE

C.T. C.E. Crime New Language Leader 12.3, 12.4 and 12.5 (pages
EM A Crime reports 120-125, 148-149)
- Reading and listening: Spectacular robberies
✔ B
SH - Grammar: Modal verbs for Past deduction
You, the Jury
IN C - Speaking: Scenario 12.4 - Discussing court cases
and making decisions
CO
✔ ✔D Upper-Intermediate Business English: Review
Review: Vocabulary about design, word formation,
TE
✔ ✔E business collocations, companies and roles,
engineering collocations, phrasal verbs on trends,
SESIÓN 18 CONTENIDOS
adjectives about media, vocabulary on crime and
ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE
justice.
C.T. C.E. Session 2: Written test (60%) Written testmodal
(60 %)verbs
covering topics from
Grammar: for obligation andthroughout
EM A the semester:
necessity, modals for deduction, Past Progressive
- Listening
and comprehension
Past Perfect, Passive Voice, articles
✔ B
SH Session 3: Oral evaluation (40 %) and Feedback - Vocabulary (education, design, business,
(30%) engineering and trends)
IN C - Grammar (relative clauses, modal verbs,
narrative tenses, passive voice, articles, infinitive
CO
✔ ✔D and gerund forms)
- Reading comprehension
TE
✔ ✔E
Speaking Evaluation (40%): Presentation of a
piece of news and its analysis
Student receive final feedback about their
performance throughout the course

CONTROL DE CAMBIOS
VERS. FECHA ELABORÓ REVISÓ APROBÓ DESCRIPCIÓN DEL CAMBIO

1 1-12-2017 Ana Milena Góngora Maria Isabel Duque Héctor Manuel Serna Actualización del sílabo 2018-1

2 8-07-2018 Sarah Rutter Maria Isabel Duque Héctor Manuel Serna Actualización de contenidos y bibliografía 2018- 2

3 18-12-2018 Sarah Rutter Maria Isabel Duque Héctor Manuel Serna Actualización de contenidos y bibliografía
EVALUACIÓN RECURSOS TECNOLÓGICOS

Q1 (20%): - Rosetta Stone

Written exam (60%) - Language Leader - Free resources online
Speaking assessment (35%) - Competition - BlackBoard Virtual Room
Design
Virtual Classroom (5%)
COMPONENTE DE LENGUA EXTRANJERA
-Q2 (20%): LENGUA EXTRANJERA: PORCENTAJE:
Writing assessment (60%) - Product Report INGLÉS 100%
Speaking assessment (35%) - Negotiation Task
BIBLIOGRAFÍA
Virtual Classroom (5%)
Textbook: EAN library suggested readers:
-Q3 (30%):
-Cotton, D.,
Writing Falvey, D., & Kent,
assessment (60%)S. (2013).
- EssayNewon
Language
Hamlet
Leader Intermediate. Essex: Pearson Education -Alan Maley. He Knows too Much. Level 6.
Speaking assessment (35%) - Engineering my
Limited. Cambridge University Press.
City
-Penny Hancock. A Love for Life. Level 6.
Virtual Classroom (5%)
Cambridge University Press.
Reader: -Rod Neilson. The Sugar Glider. Level 5.
-Q4 (30%):
Cambridge University Press.
Written
-Hamlet. exam (60%) -Stephen Bryant. Business and the Speed of
Speaking assessment (35%) - Crime and
Thought. Level 6. Penguin Readers.
Punishment
-Susan Fearn. Benetton. Jonathan Mantle.
Virtual Classroom (5%)
Other reference books: Level 5. Penguin Readers.
Hancock, M. (2005). English Pronunciation in Use
Intermediate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

-Mascull, B. (2010). Business Vocabulary in Use : Intermediate .

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

-McCarthy, M. (2004). English Phrasal Verbs in Use.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

-McCarthy, M., & O'Dell, F. (2007). English idioms in use.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

-Pearson Education. (2007). Longman Business English

dictionary. Essex: Longman.

-Raymond, M., & Smalzer, W. R. (2000). Grammar in Use

Intermediate (Vol. 2nd). Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.

-Smalzer, W. R., & Murphy, R. (2003). Grammar in Use:

workbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

-Shakespeare, W. (2006). Hamlet Penguin Readers. Essex:

Pearson Education Limited.