Syllabus Course English I

Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia
Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Syllabus of the Course English I, Code 518002
1. Course Information
The course is part of the academic unit: Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación

ECEDU
Academic degree level: Profesional Training field: Disciplinar
Number of credits: 3 Course type: Methodological
The course does not have a re-Take Course designed by:

exam Camilo Arturo Cendales Herrera
Course updated by: Camilo Arturo Cendales Herrera
Date of design: Friday, July 31, 2020 Date of update: Friday, July 31, 2020
Course Description:
The academic course English 1 corresponds to the specific professional training
component of the program Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages. It is a required
course for undergraduate students majoring in English at UNAD.
The course presents a set of different learning environments that provide the students
with an opportunity to develop language skills through a variety of materials,
activities, strategies, autonomous learning and the use of the target language for
communicative and interactive purposes. Accordingly, for the English 1 level, the
communicative approach is taken into consideration since it sees language as a
system for interaction and communication; it draws on the constructivist idea that
knowledge is constructed through social interaction with others and emphasizes
communication between students, and students and the teacher.
Students who participate in this course will be exposed to several didactical situations
devised to promote interaction and communication in the target language. Thus,
students will be presented with language content that allows them to become familiar
with the form, meaning and use of English in real life situations and in multiple
contexts at the A1 level. Finally, the course focuses on developing communicative
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skills in English and at the same time promote autonomous learning, self-assessment,
critical thinking, and intercultural competence.
The contents of the course English I are included in an interactive e-book, which is
available in the virtual room all along the academic term. They consist of three units.
Unit One, Talking about me and the others, is aimed at developing the communicative
abilities to express personal information and promote a basic interplay related to
favorite activities, family, and people’s preferences. Unit two, Talking about location
and places, focuses on the description of places and the abilities to provide directions
to get to any destination; it also emphasizes the personal plans, events and social
activities. Unit three, Talking about daily routines and past events, is intended to foster
linguistic skills to ask for and give information about travel and transportation, and to
talk about daily habits and past activities.
2. Course Learning Purpose:
The course learning purpose is:
• To develop students’ language skills as a whole in order to improve and

consolidate their elementary language command and knowledge and extend
this understanding of language to more basic communicative situations by
increasing their ability to communicate clearly, effectively and appropriately in
the target language while increasing their understanding of grammar points in
basic spoken and written interactions.
3. Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the course the student will be able to:

Learning Outcome 1: To use a basic repertoire of simple words and phrases related
to your personal data and specific situations through short written communicative
acts.
Learning Outcome 2: To recognize basic sentence structures, words and expressions
to communicate limited information in simple short audios and conversations.
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Learning Outcome 3: To comprehend basic familiar names, words and simple
sentences from written sources such as posters, catalogues and basic written news.
Learning Outcome 4: To interact orally by using relate vocabulary from basic
semantic fields, such as family and environment, and uses them in concrete and
basic familiar conversations.
Learning Outcome 5: To demonstrate comprehension of very short and simple texts,
phrases, and the highest frequency vocabulary related to areas of most immediate
personal relevance when it comes to reading, listening, and the usage of simple
grammatical structures and sentence patterns.
4. Learning Strategy:
The Learning Strategy for the course is: Task-based
This Learning Strategy is based on: Task-Based-Learning, according to Richards

(2010), refers to a focus on the use of tasks as the core of the planning process and
bring language learning approach. Some of its proponents portray it as a logical
development of the communicative approach. Some of the characteristics of TBL are
the use of:
1. Activities that involve real communication since they are essential to language
learning,
2. Activities that are meaningful to the student since they help the learning process,
3. Activities in which language is used to develop meaningful tasks since they
promote real learning the language.
The Learning Strategy is organized in 9 Tasks
• Task 1: Preknowledge activity.

• Task 2: Family tree
• Task 3: Test Unit 1
• Task 4: Creating a city.
• Task 6: Tale and daily routine.
• Task 8: Final Test
• Task 9: Final Activity
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5. Course Contents and Bibliographic References
Unit 1: Talking about me and others.

In this unit, the following contents will be addressed:
• Basic social conversations about life, work, family.
• Leisure activity and interests, likes, and dislikes.
To address the contents, the following bibliographic references are required:
Books & Books (2012). Unit 1, How are you? in Virtual English Online program. Level
one. Retrieved from
https://ebooks.unad.edu.co/basic_english_I/Ebook/Unit1/html/index.html
Books & Books (2012). Unit 2, How’s your family? in Virtual English Online program.
Level one. Retrieved from
Books & Books (2012). Unit 3, What kind of music do you like? in Virtual English Online
program. Level one. Retrieved from
Books & Books (2012). Unit 4, She loves to go dancing in Virtual English Online
Londoño, E. (2018). Basic Writing. [video file]. Retrieved from

http://hdl.handle.net/10596/19632
Unit 2: Talking about location and places In this unit, the following contents will be
addressed:
• Times, dates and locations of events.
• Talk about plans and invitations.
• Go shopping interactions and vocabulary.
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Books & Books (2012). Unit 5, Where are you going? in Virtual English Online
Books & Books (2012). Unit 6, How much is it? in Virtual English Online program.
Books & Books (2012). Unit 7, Is there a copy shop near here? in Virtual English
Online program. Level one. Retrieved from
• Books & Books (2012). Unit 8, Turn right at the light in Virtual English Online
Unit 3: Talking about routines and past events.
In this unit, the following contents will be addressed:
• Transportation
• Daily habits and routines.
• Past activities.
Books & Books (2012). Unit 9, Is this the bus to Rio? in Virtual English Online
Books & Books (2012). Unit 10, I like to sleep late in Virtual English Online program.
Books & Books (2012). Unit 11, Did you do the homework? in Virtual English Online
Books & Books (2012). Unit 12, What happened? in Virtual English Online program.
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6. Organization of Weekly Academic Activities and Course Evaluation Plan
Initial Moment:
Task 1 Pre-knowledge activity

To be developed from week 1 to week 2
This responds to Learning Outcome: 1
The activities are: to give personal information and identify the contents of the
course.
Initial moment evaluation
The evaluation criteria for this activity are: Accuracy, participation and interaction on
time on the forum.
The highest score for this activity is 25 points, corresponding to 5% of the course
evaluation.
Intermediate Moment
Task 2 Family tree

This responds to Learning Outcome: 1 and 2
The activities are: Recording of oral presentation about likes and dislikes and
creation of family tree.
Evaluation of Task 2
The evaluation criteria for this activity are: Pronunciation, participation and
interaction in the forum, correct use of grammar structures.
The highest score for this activity is 75 points.
Task 3 Test Unit 1

The activities are: to answer the questions of the questionnaire.
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The evaluation criteria for this activity are: Comprehension of written and oral
questions according to the unit contents.
Task 4 Creating a city

The activities are: Oral presentation of a city map and Shop creation.
The evaluation criteria for this activity are: accuracy and pronunciation. Fluency and
correct use of grammar structures.
Task 5 Test Unit 2.

Task 6 Tale and daily routine

The activities are: To write a tale in a written way and to present, orally, the daily
routine.
The evaluation criteria for this activity are: Clear and accurate use of structures and
vocabulary.
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Task 7 Test Unit 3.
The highest score for this evaluation moment is 350 points, corresponding to 70% of
the course evaluation.
Final Moment
Task 8 Final Test.

The activity is to answer the questions of the questionnaire.
The evaluation criteria for this activity is the comprehension of written and oral
The learning evidence for this activity is the quiz answered.
Task 9 Final Activity.

The activity is to develop a worksheet.
The evaluation criteria for this activity are the correct answers of the worksheet.
The learning evidences for this activity are the answers presented in the worksheet.
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The highest score for this activity is 125 points, corresponding to 25% of the course
evaluation.
7. Teacher’s Support
To develop the course activities, you will have the support of a teacher or tutor. The
options for this academic support are:
• Virtual Campus E-mail

• Collaborative Forums
• Skype Sessions
• Online Conference Sessions or Web Conferences

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Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

The course is part of the academic unit: Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación

Academic degree level: Profesional Training field: Disciplinar

Number of credits: 3 Course type: Methodological

The course does not have a re-Take Course designed by:

Course updated by: Camilo Arturo Cendales Herrera

2. Course Learning Purpose:

The course learning purpose is:

• To develop students’ language skills as a whole in order to improve and

At the end of the course the student will be able to:

The Learning Strategy for the course is: Task-based

This Learning Strategy is based on: Task-Based-Learning, according to Richards

The Learning Strategy is organized in 9 Tasks

• Task 1: Preknowledge activity.

Unit 1: Talking about me and others.

To address the contents, the following bibliographic references are required:

Londoño, E. (2018). Basic Writing. [video file]. Retrieved from

To address the contents, the following bibliographic references are required:

Task 1 Pre-knowledge activity

Initial moment evaluation

Task 2 Family tree

Task 3 Test Unit 1

Task 4 Creating a city

Task 5 Test Unit 2.

Task 6 Tale and daily routine

Task 8 Final Test.

The learning evidence for this activity is the quiz answered.

Task 9 Final Activity.

• Virtual Campus E-mail

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