SYLLABUS COD: ESL-0004-38355-202010

UNIVERSIDAD SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO

SCHOOL: CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y HUMANIDAD.
Semester: 202010 - Primer Semestre 2020/2021
Schedule: LMIJ 10:00 - 11:20

INSTRUCTOR/TEACHER INFORMATION:
Professor: Maria Lorena Cruz Abril
Email lcruz@asig.com.ec
Office: H113
Office hours: By appointment. To schedule an appointment, please write an email to the
address provided

COURSE INFORMATION:
COURSE: ESL-0004 - INGLÉS NIVEL 4
NRC: 2608
MyEnglishLab: Course Name: ESL004_NRC2608

Credits: 0
Pre-requisites: Verify pre-requisites in Banner academic system.
Co-requisites: The course doesn't have Co-requisites

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course develops a lower intermediate level of proficiency in English, corresponding to
the lower threshold of the B1 Level of the Common European Framework of references for
languages. Students will develop skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, moving
beyond familiar and routine situations. Students will practice sustaining ideas through
connected texts and prolonged speaking situations.

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:

# Learning Outcomes Level

Understand the main points of clear standard speech in

1 Medio
most familiar situations.

Identify the main point of many radio or TV programs on

2 current affairs or topics of personal or professional Medio
interests.

Understand informational texts such as newspaper reports

3 Medio
or descriptive texts on familiar subjects or topics of interest.

Communicate in most situations likely to arise whilst

4 Medio
travelling in an area where the language is spoken.

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Participate, unprepared, in conversation on topics that are

5 familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life Medio
(e.g. family, hobbies, work, travel and current events).

Describe a story or relate the plot of a book or film,

6 Medio
including my impressions or reactions.

Write connected text on topics which are familiar or of

7 personal interests or that describe experiences and Medio
impressions.

COURSE CONTENTS:
The simple present and present continuous. The present perfect. The simple past and past
continuous. The past perfect: meaning, form, and usage.
Tag questions: usage and form, common errors.
Modal verbs may and might. Will be able to. Perfect modals. Predictions with modal verbs.
The modal verb must for drawing conclusions.
Causatives: get, have, and make, the passive causative.
Indirect speech: imperatives, say and tell, tense changes.
Future in the past: was/were going to and would. Usage, form, and common errors.
Comparative and superlative adjectives. Articles, determiners, and possessives in noun
phrases.
Prepositions of geographical place.
Noun clauses: usage, form, common errors, and embedded questions. Non-count nouns that
represent abstract ideas.
Adjective clauses with the subject or object relative pronouns who and that: usage, form, and
common errors.
Conditional sentences: review and common errors, the past unreal conditional: usage, form,
and common errors.
Verbs followed by objects and infinitives.
Punctuation rules, three comma rules, and FANBOYS.
Fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
Connector, conjunctions, transitions, linking words, and adverbs of time/place to connect
sentences.

METHODOLOGY FOR THE INTEGRATION OF THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL

CONTENTS:
The teaching methodology used in all courses at USFQ follows the liberal arts philosophy:
encourage dialogue and enable learning through opportunities to exchange ideas among
teachers and students. It is expected that all the theoretical content courses explore potential
applications to professional practice and work contexts through the integration of diverse
activities and simulations that foster the contextualized understanding of concepts using
reality and professional practice as frames of reference.

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ASSESSMENT:

Type General Description % of final grade

Exams Written exams based on listening, reading, 30

writing.

Oral evaluation Interview, presentation and/or video 20

recording.

Written work Quizzes and/or Writing assignments. 15

Homework English lab with listening, grammar, 15

vocabulary, reading and/or speaking
exercises.

Participation and classwork Participation and classwork 20

Description of Assessment Categories

EXAMS

MIDTERM EXAM

PROJECT 1 (pair work): Due September 21. The grammar that should be used covers units 1-4.
This is a comprehensive project (writing, reading, speaking, listening). 15%

Automatic translators are forbidden as the emphasis in this class is to have the student’s produce their
own work. Automatically translated work will be graded with a “0”.

Detailed instructions provided on D2L.

FINAL EXAM

PROJECT 3 (group work): Role Play or Short Skit: Due on Oct 19. This project is comprehensive: It
will include topics from units 1-10 15%

Detailed instructions will be provided on D2L.

ORAL EVALUATIONS

PROJECT 2 (pair work) : Job Interviews. Due on Oct 5th. This project is comprehensive: writing,
reading, speaking, listening. It includes all the topics from unit 5 to unit 7. 10%

Detailed instructions will be provided on D2L.

FINAL ORAL EXAM: It will consist of an on the spot interview held on Oct 20. 10%
Detailed instructions will be provided on D2L.
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WRITTEN WORK:

(a) Graded midterm & final review

These two reviews will be skill-based.

Review units 1-5 – September 22nd

Final review Units 1-10 - October 16th
(b) 4 Quizzes

There are going to be 4 formative quizzes (for specific topics and dates, please check the schedule
below). The quizzes are going to have different parts: one grammar part and one listening/reading
comprehension part. The reading/listening comprehension alternates in each quiz according to the
following structure:

Quiz 1: units 1 & 2, reading- September 12 th

Quiz 2: units 3 & 4, listening- September 19th
Quiz 3: units 5, 6 & 7 reading- October 1st
Quiz 4: unit 8 & 9, listening- October 13th

HOMEWORK:

Homework for this class is going to be found at the MyEnglishLab (MEL) online platform. It includes
exercises from unit 1 to unit 10.
This is the webpage: https://www.pearson.com/english/myenglishlab.html
There are specific dates to finish the online exercises of each unit. Please check the schedule below.
All the activities assigned in each unit have to be completed.

Course Name: ESL004_NRC2608

Course ID: UKXC-VWTN
Book and materials: Top Notch 3rd ed. Level 3

MyEnglishLab (MEL) Instructions:

● Units must be 100% completed on the date indicated on the

schedule. If not, the score for that unit will be 0.
● Please observe dates provided for the MEL online program on the syllabus and in the MEL
platform duly since the deadline will not be changed for any reason, and excuses will not be
accepted. There are NO MAKE-UPS for units not completed on time.
● Please remember that it is the student’s responsibility to buy the course book with the code for
the MEL platform the first week of class. Under no circumstances are you allowed to use the
account of another fellow student.

Homework Instructions:

● Homework, assignments, projects, are to be handed via D2L (if links to another platform are
provided, you must paste them in a Word document and submit them to the D2L platform in
due date). Under no circumstances will homework be accepted via e-mail, only D2L.
● Homework is due on the date specified by the teacher. Late homework will not be received
unless you attach a certificate which can be medical, domestic calamity, or an accident.
● Don’t wait until the last day of the semester to bring a certificate of an event that happened at
the beginning of the course. This will not be accepted.
● If a missing evaluation is properly justified, the participant will have a week to make-up for
such evaluation.

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● Assignments are checked for plagiarism. If an assignment has more than 30% of copied
content, it will NOT be checked and the score will be F.

ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND PREVIOUS PREPARATION OF MATERIALS:

Volunteering to read, answering or asking questions, responding to classmates or teacher,

useful group discussions are the main activities which count as active participation. A daily
evaluation of oral skills, grammar structures and vocabulary will be done through these
“participation activities.” The professor will assign points for class participation in every live
session.

● Also, previous preparation of materials is a great must! Outside of class time, students are
expected to do the assigned readings, prepare grammar information and complete homework
assignments and other exercises. Evidence of accomplishment will be requested by the
teacher. All the assigned activities will have to be submitted via dropbox on D2L and they
count towards the final grade for classwork.

LIBRARY BIBLIOGRAPHY:
* Brewster, Simon, Skyline, Oxford: Macmillan, 2001-2002

COURSE BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Saslow, Joan & Asher, Allen, Top Notch, 3rd edition, NJ: Pearson, 2017.

POLICIES:
All students taking courses at USFQ must follow the rules for ethics of learning, research, and
behavior detailed in the USFQ's Code of Honor and Coexistence. All courses should follow the
policies stated in USFQ's Manual del Estudiante.
Attendance and punctuality:

● This class follows the USFQ rules regarding attendance and punctuality. A student may be absent
three times during the course without penalty (UNEXCUSED ABSENCES).
● If a student is absent more than three times, i.e., four times or more (unexcused absences), the
final grade will have a 10-point reduction. As an example, an A will become a B, and so forth.
● A student is considered late for class if he/she arrives 5 minutes late (tardies). After the first 10
minutes the student is considered absent.
● More than five absences, i.e., six times or more (6 UNEXCUSED ABSENCES), will result in the
student receiving an F for the entire semester.
● Each time a student accumulates three tardies, those three late arrivals will count as one
absence.
● If a student has proper justification for an absence, i.e., proof of domestic calamity, an accident, or
a medical certificate, this will need to be provided during the first week after the event.

Classroom and Course Policy:

● Cell phone use in class is many times a useful tool for class, just as your computer; please give it
its proper use.
● Depending on the level that you are taking, cellphones might only be used for checking vocabulary
or important information needed for a specific classwork assignment. Due to the methodology we
are using now, class participation is of utmost importance. During live videoconferences chatting,
texting, facebooking, etc. will end in a 0 on that day’s participation.
● The language used in class is English.
● Passing grade is 65%. (P) 64.9% (F)

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● The total score is obtained during the whole course. There will not be any extra points at the end
of the course.

DEADLINE for purchasing the book : September 3rd

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES:

Since the course will have a Blended Flexible Learning format, there will be two live sessions (Z
classes) via Zoom and two asynchronous sessions every week in which students will work on their
own.

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Week Date Content & Activities Assignments (To express/Communicate) Grammar Structures to
be used in order to
communicate
Week 1 Mon Synchronic class (“Z Class”): Buy Top Notch 3 ebook. Present and past
Aug Getting to know each other Read syllabus bring questions
31st Intro and general info about
the course Deadline: September 1st before class time

Tues ZClass: Unit 1

Sept Provide guidelines for
1st Asynchronous classes Enroll in MyEnglishLab
Unit 1: Review vocabulary & grammar and
Start unit 1 complete assigned exercises. Unit 1 Tag questions
Past perfect

Wed ZClass: Unit 1 Complete exercises assigned by your Drawing conclusions

Sept Review Syllabus: Answer teacher with must.
2nd questions/Explain projects Will be able to.
(See detailed instructions on D2L) May and might

Check exercises/Answer Deadline September 3rd before class time

grammar questions

Thurs. ZClass Unit 1

Sep Jigsaw Reading p. 10
3rd Oral activity: Are you a Start of Project 1 Notice: Project 1 You
Dinosaur or a Chameleon? have 18 days until the due date on Sept
21
Make groups for project 1 .
Week 2 Mon Unit 2 Unit 2: Review all vocabulary & grammar and
Sep complete assigned exercises.
7th

(See detailed instructions on D2L)

Deadline September 8th before class time

Tues. ZClass Unit 2 MyEnglishLab Units 1-2

Sept Review exercises/Answer
8th questions Deadline: Friday, September 11 – 23:59
Practice

QUIZ 1_Units 1-2_Saturday, September

Oral activity: Chain Role play 12- 23:59

Wed. Unit 3 Unit 3: Review all vocabulary & grammar and Past perfect, tag
Sep complete assigned exercises. questions, modals, draw
9th conclusions.
(See detailed instructions on D2L) The causative.
The passive causative.
Deadline September 10th before class time

Thurs. ZClass: Unit 3 Work on Project 1 draft Make, let have, by.
Sept Review exercises/Answer
10th questions
  Practice
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Zoom survey: Are you a

procrastinator (Discuss)
Practice causatives
Discussion causes, & effects.

Week 3 Mon. Unit 4 First draft Project 1 due. (Upload D2L) Noun Clauses.
Sept Embedded questions if,
14th Unit 4: Review all vocabulary & grammar and yes no questions.
complete assigned exercises. Embedded information
questions: who, what,
whose, when, where.
(See detailed instructions on D2L)

Deadline: Sept 15th before class time

Tues. ZClass: Unit 4

Sept Review exercises/Answer MyEnglishLab: units 3 and 4
15th questions
Practice Deadline: Friday, Sept 18 – 23:59

Wed. Unit 5: Review all vocabulary & grammar and Indirect

Sept Unit 5 complete assigned exercises. speech:Imperatives
16th Indirect object of say
(See detailed instructions on D2L) and tell or ask. Tense
changes in indirect
Deadline: September 17th before class time speech imperatives.

Thurs. Z Class: Unit 5

Sept Answer questions QUIZ 2_Units 3-4_Saturday, September
17th Review and practice 19- 23:59
  Activity for Indirect speech

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Tues Z Class: Units 1-5 review Formative assessment 1-5 review due
Sept until - 23:59
  22nd
Wed. Unit 6 Unit 6: Review all vocabulary & grammar and
Sept complete assigned exercises.
23rd
Expressing intentions
and plans
(See detailed instructions on D2L)
‘Was/were going to’ and
‘would’. Perfect modals.
Deadline: September 24 before class time

Thurs.
Sept Z Class: Unit 6
24 Answer questions MyEnglishLab 5 and 6
Review and practice activities
Preparing for an interview pg
69 & 70 Deadline: Sunday, September 27_ 11:59

 
Mon Unit 7 Unit 7: Review all vocabulary & grammar and Adjective Clauses with
Sept complete assigned exercises. Subject relative
28th pronouns ‘who’ and
‘that’.
(See detailed instructions on D2L) Adjective clauses with
Week Deadline: September 29 before class time object relative pronouns
5 ‘who’, ‘whom’, and ‘that’
Tues. Z Class: Unit 7 . Unreal conditional
Sept Answer questions review,
29th Review and practice activities Real conditional,
‘Wish’ and ‘unless’,
Past unreal conditional
Wed.
Sept
30th Work on project 2
Thurs Unit 7
day Practice conditionals
Oct
1st Forum: Writing activity in Quiz 3: units 6-7 _11:59
forum
Mon Unit 8 Project 2 due
Week 6 Oct
5th Unit 8: Review all vocabulary & grammar and
complete assigned exercises.

(See detailed instructions on D2L)

Deadline: Oct 6 before class time

Tues. Z Class : Unit 8

Oct Answer questions
6th Review and practice activities

Wed Unit 9 Start Project 3 Non-count nouns that

Oct Unit 9: Review all vocabulary & grammar and represent abstract ideas.
7th complete assigned exercises. Verbs followed by
objects and infinitives.

(See detailed instructions on D2L)

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Deadline: Oct 8th before class time

MyEnglishLab : Units 7 and 8.

Deadline: Oct 11th_11:59

Thurs. Z Class: Unit 9
Oct Answer questions
8th Review and practice activities

Week 7 Mon. Unit 10 Unit 10: Review all vocabulary & grammar
Oct and complete assigned exercises.
12th

(See detailed instructions on D2L)

Deadline: Oct 13 before class time

Tues. Z Class: Unit 10 Quiz 4: Units 8-9

Oct Answer questions
Prepositional phrases
13th Review and practice activities
Too+ adjective and
Review of project MyEnglishLab: units 9 and 10
infinitive
advancements Deadline: Friday, Oct 16 23:59

Wed
Self-study Review U. 1-10
Oct
Work on final project
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Thurs. Last day of class Z Class:
Oct 15 General Review
Answer questions
.
Fri Graded Final Review (Asynchronous) Units 1-10
Oct
16th
Mon Final Project due
Oct
Week 8 19th
Tues
Z Class: Final oral Exam: On
Oct
the spot interview
20th
Thurs Grades published on Banner
Oct
22nd

This syllabus was reviewed and approved by the coordination of the respective academic area or
department. All sections of this course must follow this syllabus. Any changes or adjustments to this
syllabus must be approved by the coordinator responsible for this academic area or department and
must be reflected in the Curricular Design system.'

During the sanitary emergency the learning process for this course has been designed to integrate
technological, telematic tools and alternative methodologies to facilitate virtual synchronous

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learning. All the learning activities aim to guarantee the accomplishment of the academic plans for
undegraduate and graduate programs and sustain the students' continuous learning; to protect the
physical integrity of students, preserving educational quality and academic rigor and to respect the
right to work, to preserve the personal health of faculty, administrative and support staff.

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