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: Thursday, June 2, 2022 Date of update: Thursday, June 2, 2022

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 consist of three units. Unit One, This is me, my
home and my routines, 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, How I like to live: interests, and activities,
focuses on the description of leisure activities, sports, places, weather and clothes.
And finally, Unit three, My past and my desires, is intended to foster linguistic skills to
ask for and give information about past experiences, desires for the future, and talk
about quantities.

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 Objective 1: Describe and relate personal information by creating basic
questions and answers in short interactions.
Learning Outcome 2: Interpret and discuss basic speech based on different kind of
contextual activities, by reading and writing short texts.
Learning Outcome 3: Analyze and explain past and future events by using different
ICT resources in different basic spoken and written interactions

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 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: Initial activity.

• Task 2: My family and Daily routine
• Task 3: My family and daily routine Test
• Task 4: My city
• Task 5: My city Test
• Task 6: My experiences
• Task 7: My experiences Test
• Task 8: Final Activity
• Task 9: Final Test

5. Course Contents and Bibliographic References

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Unit 1: This is me, my home, and my routines.
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:

Paula Flores Kastanis. (2015). English 1 (3a. ed.). Grupo Editorial Patria.
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t=true&db=edselb&AN=edselb.39471&lang=es&site=eds-live&scope=site

Prasoon, S. (2015). English Vocabulary Made Easy : The Complete Vocabulary Build
up for Improving English. V&S Publishers.
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t=true&db=nlebk&AN=1586152&lang=es&site=eds-live&scope=site&ebv=EK&ppid=Page-__-
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Richard Hudson. (2003). English Grammar. Routledge.

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t=true&db=nlebk&AN=76528&lang=es&site=eds-live&scope=site

Cendales, C. A. (2022). Hábitos para empezar a estudiar inglés.

[Objeto_virtual_de_Informacion_OVI]. Repositorio Institucional UNAD.
https://repository.unad.edu.co/handle/10596/49880.

Cendales, C. A. (2022). The verb To Be. [Objeto_virtual_de_aprendizaje_OVA].

Repositorio Institucional UNAD. https://repository.unad.edu.co/handle/10596/50596.

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Unit 2: How I like to live: interests and activities.
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.

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

Paula Flores Kastanis. (2015). English 1 (3a. ed.). Grupo Editorial Patria.
https://bibliotecavirtual.unad.edu.co/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direc
t=true&db=edselb&AN=edselb.39471&lang=es&site=eds-live&scope=site

Prasoon, S. (2015). English Vocabulary Made Easy : The Complete Vocabulary Build
up for Improving English. V&S Publishers.
https://bibliotecavirtual.unad.edu.co/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direc
t=true&db=nlebk&AN=1586152&lang=es&site=eds-live&scope=site&ebv=EK&ppid=Page-__-
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Vasudha Malik. (2020). The English Language Companion. Laxmi Publications Pvt Ltd.
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t=true&db=nlebk&AN=169615&lang=es&site=eds-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_8

Cendales, C. A. (2022). There is and There are. [Objeto_virtual_de_Informacion_OVI].

Repositorio Institucional UNAD. https://repository.unad.edu.co/handle/10596/50083

Unit 3: My past and my desires

In this unit, the following contents will be addressed:
• Past activities.
• Food: countables and uncountables

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

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Leech, G. N. (2006). A Glossary of English Grammar. Edinburgh University Press.
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t=true&db=nlebk&AN=169615&lang=es&site=eds-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_8

Paula Flores Kastanis. (2015). English 1 (3a. ed.). Grupo Editorial Patria.
https://bibliotecavirtual.unad.edu.co/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direc
t=true&db=edselb&AN=edselb.39471&lang=es&site=eds-live&scope=site

Richard Hudson. (2003). English Grammar. Routledge.

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t=true&db=nlebk&AN=76528&lang=es&site=eds-live&scope=site

Tony T. N. Hung. (2005). Understanding English Grammar. Hong Kong University

Press.
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t=true&db=nlebk&AN=322115&lang=es&site=eds-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_Cover

Vasudha Malik. (2020). The English Language Companion. Laxmi Publications Pvt Ltd.
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t=true&db=nlebk&AN=169615&lang=es&site=eds-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_8

Cendales, C. A. (2022). Simple Past Tense Affirmative.

[Objeto_virtual_de_aprendizaje_OVA]. Repositorio Institucional UNAD.
https://repository.unad.edu.co/handle/10596/50602.

6. Organization of Weekly Academic Activities and Course Evaluation Plan

Initial Moment:

Task 1 Initial activity

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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 My family and Daily routine

To be developed from week 3 to week 8
This responds to Learning Outcome: 1 and 2
The activities are: to develop exercises according to each one of the 4 language
skills: speaking, reading, writing and listening.

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 90 points.

Task 3 My family and Daily routine Test

To be developed from week 6 to week 8
This responds to Learning Outcome: 5
The activities are: to answer the questions of the questionnaire.

Evaluation of Task 3
The evaluation criteria for this activity are: Comprehension of written and oral
questions according to the unit contents.
The highest score for this activity is 30 points.

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Task 4 My city
To be developed from week 8 to week 11
This responds to Learning Outcome: 2 and 4
The activities are: to develop exercises according to each one of the 4 language
skills: speaking, reading, writing and listening including an oral presentation.

Evaluation of Task 4
The evaluation criteria for this activity are accuracy and pronunciation. Fluency and
correct use of grammar structures.
The highest score for this activity is 85 points.

Task 5 My city Test

To be developed from week 9 to week 11
This responds to Learning Outcome: 5
The activities are: to answer the questions of the questionnaire.

Evaluation of Task 5
The evaluation criteria for this activity are: Comprehension of written and oral
questions according to the unit contents.
The highest score for this activity is 30 points.

Task 6 My experiences
To be developed from week 12 to week 14
This responds to Learning Outcome: 3
The activities are: to develop exercises according to each one of the 4 language
skills: speaking, reading, writing and listening.

Evaluation of Task 6
The evaluation criteria for this activity are: Clear and accurate use of structures and
vocabulary.
The highest score for this activity is 85 points.

Task 7 My experiences Test.

To be developed from week 13 to week 14
This responds to Learning Outcome: 5
The activities are: to answer the questions of the questionnaire.

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Evaluation of Task 7
The evaluation criteria for this activity are: Comprehension of written and oral
questions according to the unit contents.
The highest score for this activity is 30 points.

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

Final Moment

Task 8 Final activity

To be developed from week 15 to week 16
This responds to Learning Outcome: 5
The activity is to record a final video presentation responding to the contents from
the whole course.

Evaluation of Task 8
The evaluation criteria for this activity is Clear and accurate use of structures and
vocabulary.
The learning evidence for this activity is the video link.
The highest score for this activity is 75 points.

Task 9 Final test.

To be developed from week 15 to week 16
This responds to Learning Outcome: 1 and 4
The activity is to answer the final questionnaire.

Evaluation of Task 9
The evaluation criteria for this activity are the correct answers of the questionnaire.
The learning evidences for this activity are the answers presented in the
questionnaire.
The highest score for this activity is 50 points.

The highest score for this activity is 125 points, corresponding to 25% of the course
evaluation.

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 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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