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Course Syllabus English II PDF
Course Syllabus English II PDF
1. Course information
UNAD, faithful to its mission as a leading organization in open and distance education,
exerts an important role related to the globalization issue. Because of this, its
internationalization policy looks forward to guiding the path of the national and
international community towards the bilingual scene.
In view of the above, English 2 is part of the foreign language component established
in the curriculum guidelines of UNAD’s academic programs. Its methodology is
theoretical and practical and has two (2) academic credits by means of which the
students will have to study independently 48 hours and another 48 hours of tutorial
monitoring for a total of 96 hours of academic work. The purpose of the course is:
The strategy used within the course is Task Based Learning, which is focused on
the use of tasks as the central core of the planning and process to lead to language
learning.
The evaluation of this course is going to have 3 moments that involve six activities.
These moments are Initial moment, intermediate moment and the final one.
At the end of the English 2 course, the student will be able to understand the
main ideas in a clear and normal speech about everyday affairs that take place
in different places, besides the about of many radio or television programs
that address current issues of personal or professional interest.
3. Learning´s outcomes:
At the end of the academic course the student will be able to show:
Learning´s outcomes:1– At the end of the academic course the student will be able
to value the previous skill and knowledge required for the English 2 level, through a
preknowledge online test that allows knowing the amount of learning he/she has
acquired before.
Learning´s outcomes:3– The student will be able to understand texts about events,
feelings, and desires and to understand the main idea of audios of many radio or
television programs that address current issues or issues of personal or professional
interest, included in an online test, in a language of habitual and daily use.
Learning´s outcomes:4– The student will be able to describe orally experiences and
facts or dreams, linking phrases with fluency, self-confidence, vocabulary, and
pronunciation in an interview developed with the tutor by skype.
Learning´s outcomes:5– The student will be able to reflect on the process in the
English course, the topics appropriation, and the learning process through an online
test.
4. Learning strategy:
The course´s learning strategic is: learning based on task Task-Based learning
approach.
1. This strategy based on the development of tasks includes the use of the
language in communicative contexts. The student learns the language while
he/she solves a specific task like asking for personal information, the order in
a restaurant, ask for help, talk about a past event, etc.
UNAD, INVIL English (2020). Unit 1. Module 1: Asking and verifying information.
Taken from: https://ebooks.unad.edu.co/INVIL_V5/Ingles/templates/Level3/module-
1/?ord_id=1
UNAD, INVIL English (2020). Unit 1. Module 2: Modal verbs of obligation and
necessity. Taken from:
https://ebooks.unad.edu.co/INVIL_V5/Ingles/templates/Level3/module-2/?ord_id=1
UNAD, INVIL English (2020). Unit 1. Module 3: Describing feelings and emotions.
Taken from: https://ebooks.unad.edu.co/INVIL_V5/Ingles/templates/Level3/module-
3/?ord_id=1
UNAD, INVIL English (2020). Unit 2. Module 4: Use of gerunds. Taken from:
https://ebooks.unad.edu.co/INVIL_V5/Ingles/templates/Level3/module-4/?ord_id=1
UNAD, INVIL English (2020). Unit 2. Module 6: Negative Comparatives. Taken from:
https://ebooks.unad.edu.co/INVIL_V5/Ingles/templates/Level3/module-6/?ord_id=1
Intermediate moment
Final moment
The higher score of this evaluation moment corresponds to 70% of the course (350
points).
Final moment evaluation:
This standard represents 125 points of the activity, corresponds to 25% of the
course´s evaluation.