Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Syllabus of the Course English B2, Code 900005

1. Course Information

The course is part of the academic unit: Vicerrectoría Académica y de

Investigación VIACI

Training field: Interdisciplinar Básico

Academic degree level: Profesional
Común

Number of credits: 3 Course type: Methodological

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

Course updated by: Gloria Hernández

Date of design: Tuesday, December 14, Date of update: Wednesday,

2021 September 7, 2022

Course Description:
Aiming the purpose of afford the needs of learning a foreign language (English)
towards globalization, has a set policy to make efforts to guide bilingual environments.
With this, the course level English B2 belongs to the foreign language component that
appears on the curricula statements from the different academic programs by UNAD.

Students will have in this course, the availability of a virtual environment in which
three environments are prepared. Each environment fulfills a specific function within
educational intentions, which guide the work, through both individual and group
interaction, in order to enhance the learning and practice of English oriented activity
guides and accompanied by their respective evaluation rubrics.

This course has three (3) credits, which include independent study and tutorial
support, for a total of 144 hours of academic work, distributed in 96 hours of
independent study, 48 hours of accompaniment and tutorial follow-up aimed to:

1
- Recognize and appropriate the basic contents of English B2 specifically.

- Develop abilities and communication skills through listening (audio, written reflection
of audiovisual materials) and written comprehension (drafting, interpretation, and
development of the contents), to make use of the English language in different
scenarios of everyday life.

- Foster in students the importance of learning English for work, academic and
personal environment.

- Take advantage of techno-didactical resources and technological tools in the course

in order to learn a foreign language with autonomy and tutorial support.

2. Course Learning Purpose:

The course learning purpose is:

• To strengthen communication skills in English language so, the student is able to

employ an intermediate - advanced language on general topics in different situations
and contexts where the use of the foreign language is required.

3. Learning Outcomes:

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

• Learning Outcome 1: To show the management of the different communicative usages

seen in the online resources of the course based on the grammatical structures, related
vocabulary, reading comprehension and listening skills by reflecting the knowledge.

• Learning Outcome 2: To explain and justify in an oral defense on technology and human
development with the purpose of improving the argumentation competence by attending
to a synchronous conversation for giving points of view about the topic.

• Learning Outcome 3: To write a three-paragraph essay, by writing its paragraphs through

stages, to express the concerns about the impact of technology and human development.

2
• Learning Outcome 4: To design a website on Google Site about the impact of technology
in community life giving some points of view about positive and negative aspects in the
use of the technology nowadays.

4. Learning Strategy:

The Learning Strategy for the course is: based on tasks.

This Learning Strategy is based on the accomplishment of previous tasks to achieve the main
task that is composed of three stages, the preparation, the task itself and the report, and
finally, the subsequent tasks of language analysis and practice.

The Learning Strategy is organized in 7 Tasks

• Task 1: Review my knowledge

• Task 2: Oral defense
• Task 3: Technology and human development
• Task 4: Listening skill quiz
• Task 5: Technological website
• Task 6: Reading and comprehension quiz
• Task 7: General course review

5. Course Contents and Bibliographic References

Unit 1: Future Events

In this unit, the following contents will be addressed:

• Module 1 - Future Continuous: Talk about events happening at a given point in the
future. Describe future experiences. Talk about the past in the future. Understand and
speak about activities in progress in the future.

• Module 2 - Future Perfect: Talk about the future. Echo for active listening. Explore ways
to talk about future plans and expectations.

3
 • Module 3 - Past Participle: Speculate and hypothesize about the past. Make negative
deductions and speculations. Describe preferences for plans. Make deductions and
speculate about the present.

• Module 4 - Passive Voice: Talk about things that are done. Express emphasis on what
is done, in the past. Read and understand movie reviews. Change the direction of a
conversation.

• OVI – Phrasal Verbs

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

• UNAD, INVIL English (2019). Unit 1-1: Future Continuous. Inglés B2. Taken from: E-
book of B2 level located on the Learning Environment in the course.

• UNAD, INVIL English (2019). Unit 1-2: Future Perfect. Inglés B2. Taken from: E-book
of B2 level located on the Learning Environment in the course.

• UNAD, INVIL English (2019). Unit 1-3: Past Participle. Inglés B2. Taken from: E-book
of B2 level located on the Learning Environment in the course.

• UNAD, INVIL English (2019). Unit 1-4: Passive Voice. Inglés B2. Taken from: E-book
of B2 level located on the Learning Environment in the course.

• Hernández, Gloria. (2022) Objeto Virtual de Información – OVI: Phrasal Verbs English
B2. https://repository.unad.edu.co/handle/10596/44657

Unit 2: Past Events

In this unit, the following contents will be addressed:

• Module 5 - Past Perfect: Understand past events in reference to other actions in the
past. Introduce new information in an argument. Talk about habits and routines.

• Module 6 - Phrasal Verbs: Express actions with phrasal verbs. Express certainty,
possibility, and doubt. Talk about life in the future. Predict during a conversation.

4
 • Module 7 - Reported Speech: Report what someone said. Report commands. React to
conditions.

• Module 8 - Expressing Habits in the Past: Express habits in the past. Synthesize and
evaluate information.

• OVI – If Clauses

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

• UNAD, INVIL English (2019). Unit 2-5: Past Perfect. Inglés B2. Taken from: E-book of
B2 level located on the Learning Environment in the course.

• UNAD, INVIL English (2019). Unit 2-6: Phrasal Verbs. Inglés B2. Taken from: E-book
of B2 level located on the Learning Environment in the course.

• UNAD, INVIL English (2019). Unit 2-7: Reported Speech. Inglés B2. Taken from: E-
book of B2 level located on the Learning Environment in the course.

• UNAD, INVIL English (2019). Unit 2-8: Expressing Habits in the Past. Inglés B2.
Taken from: E-book of B2 level located on the Learning Environment in the course.

• Gobronidze L. (2019) OVI-If Clauses. http://hdl.handle.net/10596/22447

Unit 3: Expressing feelings

In this unit, the following contents will be addressed:

• Module 9 - Will/going to for Prediction: Add additional information to nouns.

Paraphrase. Simplify additional information. Compare conditions. Describe feeling and
senses.

• Module 10 - Inversion with Negative Adverbials: Make predictions. Compare intentions

and spontaneous decisions. Use vague language and being imprecise for politeness.
Make strong negations.

• Module 11 - Relative Clauses: Understand additional information in communicative

exchanges. Take the initiative in an interaction. Encourage others to continue with the
conversation.

5
 • Module 12 - Mixed Modals: Express request, possibility, and permission. Make
assumptions. Suggest and give commands. Express obligation, ability, and possibility
in the past. Express sympathy.

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

• UNAD, INVIL English (2019). Unit 3-9: Will/going to for prediction. Inglés B2. Taken
from: E-book of B2 level located on the Learning Environment in the course.

• UNAD, INVIL English (2019). Unit 3-10: Inversion with Negative Adverbials. Inglés B2.
Taken from: E-book of B2 level located on the Learning Environment in the course.

• UNAD, INVIL English (2019). Unit 3-11: Relative Clauses. Inglés B2. Taken from: E-
book of B2 level located on the Learning Environment in the course.

• UNAD, INVIL English (2019). Unit 3-12: Mixed Modals. Inglés B2. Taken from: E-
book of B2 level located on the Learning Environment in the course.

6. Organization of Weekly Academic Activities and Course Evaluation Plan

Initial Moment:

Task 1 Review my knowledge

To be developed from week 1 to week 2
This responds to Learning Outcome: 1

The activities are: Evaluation of previous knowledge acquired by students in English

courses.

Initial moment evaluation

The evaluation criteria for this activity are: Knowledge of topics in previous English levels.

The highest score for this activity is 25 points, corresponding to 5% of the course
evaluation.

Intermediate Moment

6
Task 2 Oral defense
To be developed from week 3 to week 5
This responds to Learning Outcome: 2
The activities are: An oral defense on technology and human development through a
synchronous conversation.

Evaluation of Task 2
The evaluation criteria for this activity are: Oral defense exposing point of view on
technology and human development.
The highest score for this activity is 80 points.

Task 3 Technology and human development

To be developed from week 6 to week 8
This responds to Learning Outcome: 3
The activities are: A written essay as a result of individual work.

Evaluation of Task 3
The evaluation criteria for this activity are: An essay about technology and human
development.
The highest score for this activity is 90 points.

Task 4 Listening skill quiz

To be developed from week 8 to week 10
This responds to Learning Outcome: 1
The activities are: Development of listening quiz.

Evaluation of Task 4
The evaluation criteria for this activity are: Apprehension and study of the online academic
units of the course.
The highest score for this activity is 50 points.

Task 5 Technological website

To be developed from week 10 to week 12
This responds to Learning Outcome: 3
The activities are: Design of a website.

Evaluation of Task 5
The evaluation criteria for this activity are: Design of a website explaining how technology
impacts in community life.
The highest score for this activity is 80 points.

7
Task 6 Reading and Comprehension quiz
To be developed from week 12 to week 14
This responds to Learning Outcome: 1
The activities are: Development of knowledge quiz on reading and comprehension quiz.

Evaluation of Task 6
The evaluation criteria for this activity are: Apprehension and study of the online academic
units of the course.
The highest score for this activity is 50 points.

The highest score for this evaluation moment is 350 points, corresponding to 70% of the
course evaluation.

Final Moment

Task 7 Final Exam General Course Review

To be developed from week 15 to week 15
This responds to Learning Outcome: 1
The activities are: Submit an Online task which assesses the topics corresponding to the
academic units of the course through a Closed Objective Test (POC) which consists of 25
questions.

Evaluation of Task 7
The evaluation criteria for this activity are to evaluate the academic units studied during the
course.
The learning evidence for this activity are automatic online score.
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

8
• Skype Sessions
• Online Conference Sessions or Web Conferences
• Face-to-Face Field Practice Component
• Lab Practice Component On-site
• Support Sessions in Professional Practice Site