VICERRECTORÍA ACADÉMICA

FACULTY OF EDUCATION
ENGLISH III
LEARNING GUIDE # 3

Identification Data
Subject: English III Guides number: 3
Unit: Guide # 3 Academic term: 2020-2
kind of subject: Theoretical- Credits: 3
Practice
Independent working hours: 24 In class working hours: 12
Weeks: 4 Total: 36

INTRODUCTION TO THE LEARNING GUIDE

English has become one the most important universal languages spoken around
the world. Colombia government trough MEN has proposed the National
Bilingualism Program, its mains to improve English communicative competence in
all educational levels and to strengthen the national competence throughout
Colombian educational system. Antonio Nariño University, through Spanish and
English Language Program, has established the subject English II to strengthen
students’ oral and written skills. Students will be given the necessary strategies
and techniques to achieve the goal of the course. They will be led to reach
Independent user´s level A2.
This guide is the basic tool to direct the work during the second academic term.

GOALS

This guide aims to strengthen students’ oral and written English language skills
by promoting their communicative competence using teaching methodologies
and strategies that will help them to achieve the proficiency level required for
users A2. It provides cultural, pedagogical, didactic, and technological
guidelines, encouraging learners towards research, autonomous work, and the
use of technology inside and outside the classroom.

Unit skills Receptive Skills Productive skills

Recognize the importance of
conceptual clarity about the
Identify how to use Support a main idea,
target linguistic resources
the Present Perfect talking about life
involved when expressing

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 and Past simple in the experiences in different orders, requests, suggestions
same idea. moments and wishes.

KNOWLEDGE

-Present perfect tense

-Regular and irregular verbs in past participle
-Time expressions
-Comparatives and superlatives

LEARNING ACIVITIES

You will always have the same link to attend class:

https://meet.google.com/okq-cixp-nzf

November 7th: the teacher will explain the present perfect tense and the
students will do an exercise in the chat about present, past, future and present
perfect by a timeline. Then each student must prepare a timeline to talk about
important facts of his/her life. See the example. This timeline will be socialized
on November the 14th during the class.

November 14th: The students will socialize their timelines and the teacher will
explain some issues about grammar.

November 21st: The teacher will explain comparatives and superlatives and
she will give some directions to present the final exam.

November 28th: Students will exam in Flipgrid

Tutoring

The time assigned to tutoring classes is on Monday since 16:00 to 18:00

If there is any student who can´t attend at this time must ask to the teacher for
schedule the meeting in another moment.

Tutorial Activities

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Week 1:
Students who had problems with the exercises are going to work in all mistakes
that they had, teacher will explain it and solve all questions about the review test
topics.
Week 2:
Students will present the exercises again.

Learning Outcomes

To develop English language skills through Task Based Learning and

Communicative Language Teaching methodologies, using learning strategies and
technology tools to improve communicative competence to enhance autonomous
and collaborative work.

Cognitive Procedural Attitudinal

Work and understand
all topics that the
students have worked
in this guide.
Develop all exercise Have a critical and self-critical
which appear in this attitude towards work with
guide to remember educational responsibility,
different topics. evidenced by their
participation in class.

Evaluation Criteria

The evaluation for this diagnosis guide is going to take into account every activity
provided in this guide and others that the teacher considers important to do in class
or in the feedback.
Skills to Skills Assessment
Assessment
evaluate strategy %
Progra
institutional
m
Understand all Hetero-
Class
topics which are x evaluation 60%
presentation
in the guide.
Develop all
exercises which x Exam Exam 30%
are in the guide.
x Self-reflection Self-valuation 10%
Total 100%

Corte Actividad Porcentaje

Actividad 1: 15%
Second
Actividad 2: 20%

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Corte Actividad Porcentaje
Actividad 3: 15%
Partial evaluation 40%
Autoevaluación 10%
Total 100%

Information Source and References (Digital and Printed)

Main Text
Platform Ellevate to practice all English skills to improve the language level.

Complementary Texts

Foley, M & Hall, D. (2007). New Total English. Elementary level. Student´s and
Workbook. Edinburgh: Pearson education limited.

Moor, P & Cunningham, S (2001). Cutting edge. Student´s and workbook. Edinburgh:
Pearson education limited.

Murray, D. E., & Christison, M. A. (2011). What English Language Teachers Need to
Know, Volume II. New York, NY: Routledge.

UAN- SINABI - Referencies

*Texting, techspeak, and tweens: The relationship between text messaging and
English grammar skills

Cingel, Drew P ; Sundar, S. Shyam

Blended approach to learning and practising  English grammar with technical and

foreign language university students: comparative study

Simonova, Ivana

Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2019, Vol.31(2), pp.249-272

Reconsidering English Grammar Teaching for Improving Non-

English Majors' English Writing Ability

Shen, Yuru
English language teaching (Toronto), 2012, Vol.5(11), p.74

Using Supplementary Readings (Short Stories) in Increasing the Conceptual Fluency,

the Case of Idioms in English

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Mokhtari, Elahe ; Talebinezhad, Mohammed Reza
Advances in language and literary studies, February 2014, Vol.5(1), p.134

Pure and Short-Term Phonics-Training Improves Reading and Print-Specific ERP

in English: A Case Study of a Japanese Middle School Girl
Okumura, Yasuko ; Kita, Yosuke ; Inagaki, Masumi
Developmental Neuropsychology, 19 May 2017, Vol.42(4), pp.265-275

CONTROL DE CAMBIOS
Fecha Descripción del o los Persona y cargo de quien realiza el
cambios cambio
Ajustes correspondientes a
25/09/2020 las características del Angélica Aguillón Lombana
curso asignado

DOCENTE (ELABORÓ) DECANO (REVISÓ Y APROBÓ)

Firma:

Firma: Nombre:

Nombre: Freddy Cuellar Fecha:

Fecha: 28/07/2020

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