Contenidos y secuenciación temporal

 Contenidos

Los contenidos de este curso se estructurarán en seis unidades.

Cada unidad consta de cuatro temas.

Los contenidos de cada unidad son los siguientes:

Unit 1. What Next?

LESSON 1: To infinity and beyond

- Vocabulary: Longevity, cloning, robotics, artificial intelligence, cryonics; phrasal nouns.

- Grammar: Infinitive patterns: They were lucky to find a hotel on such short notice. She daren’t go out alone at night in that country. Infinitive of purpose: He’s gone to buy the bread.

- Pronunciation: Dropped syllables.

- Functions: Expressing doubt, checking and clarifying information.

- Culture: Alan Turing, A Space Odyssey, Life on Mars.


LESSON 2: It's The End Of The World

- Vocabulary: Idioms related to war; Words that mean catastrophe; Reduplication; Natural disasters; Religion and Atheism; Church;

- Grammar: Conjunctions and linking expressions: It’s very kind of you to invite us. All the same, we feel that it would be unwise for us to attend.

- Pronunciation: Dual AmE vs BrE: secretary...

- Functions: Posing hypothesis or suppositions; rectifying; agreeing or disagreeing, totally or partially.

- Culture: Orson Welles, Carl August Sandburg, Hurrican Katrina, The Impossible.


LESSON 3: Youtubers and Online TV

- Vocabulary: Youtubers, Online TV channels, and other 21st century apps (classroom apps like kahoot, quizlet, quizizz, menti…)

- Grammar: Word combinations: insist on, a demand for, be annoyed at finding; Phrasal verbs/nouns/adjectives: I made the story up; I made up before going to work; It's a made up story although very believable. Collocations: light meal, poor health, make an enquiry, do the shopping, have a chat, take turns...

- Pronunciation: Tone units and chunks: give me those, in an hour, from the start...

- Functions: Expressing knowledge or lack of it about a fact or the origin of some information.

- Culture: Influencers. Stephen Hawking.


LESSON 4: Keep on truckin'

- Vocabulary: Skiing; Neologisms; idioms.

- Grammar: Formal vs. Informal register

- Pronunciation: Intonation and Inflection practice.

- Functions: Clarifying, rectifying, repeating, reformulating and summarising aspects.

- Culture: Shakespeare and Macbeth and All's Well that Ends well; Edward Hopper'sNighthawks.


Unit 2. Healthy Competition

LESSON 1: Libraries and print or visiting the clouds?

- Vocabulary: Digital libraries, historical issues regarding libraries, writing and codes and cyphers.

- Grammar: Prepositions and prepositional phrases; gerunds; -ed vs -ing adjectives

- Pronunciation: Connected speech. Revising "s" at the beginning of a word; Pronunciation of "s" versus "c"; "th" versus "z": sensible, city, thing, zoo.

- Functions: Expressing knowledge or lack of it, remembering and forgetting. Expressing preference.

- Culture: Windtalkers.

LESSON 2: On Air

- Vocabulary: TV, soap operas, reality TV, binge watching, radio shows, phrasal verbs and expressions, word formation; idioms of comparison: cool as a cucumber.

- Grammar: Reporting verbs: advise, threaten, refuse, deny, warn, etc., Like, as and as if. The subjunctive.

- Pronunciation: Dual pronunciation: record (v) / (n).   

- Functions: Expressing annoyance, persuading and convincing. Writing a (TV )review.

- Culture: The Soap Opera, Desert Island Discs, A mad king?, The 60s.


LESSON 3: Congratulations! You suck!

- Vocabulary: Negative prefixes. Words that mean shine. Portmanteau words. Awards and un-awards.  Untranslatable words. Plagiarism and piracy. Action verbs.

- Grammar: Dependent prepositions. This and that. As and like.

- Pronunciation: /dʒ/ and /j/

- Functions: Telephone conversations: answering, asking for somebody, asking somebody to hold on, etc.,

- Culture: Charles Darwin. Pokémon Go. Tall poppy syndrome.


LESSON 4: Let the games begin

- Vocabulary: Sports, Olympic games, Breaking world records and sports and health.

- Grammar: State verbs: It means ‘stop’. You’re always meaning to call but you never do. Sense verbs: hear; Performative verbs: thank...

- Pronunciation: Assimilation and coalescence.

- Functions: Making wishes for oneself or for other people; expressing and asking about health, symptoms and physical sensations.

- Culture: Irish, Scottish and American sports. Wimbledon; the Superbowl. Particularities regarding the sports world; Spanish words in US English


Unit 3. City Life Just Gets Better

LESSON 1: Lesson 1. Urban renewal

- Vocabulary: Architecture, skyscraper construction, gentrification.

- Grammar: Future review. 

- Pronunciation: Foreign words in English. 

- Functions: Attributing, affirming, assenting. 

- Mediation:Taking notes and reporting them to others.

LESSON 2: Cities of the Future

- Vocabulary: Futuristic cities, vertical construction, man-made islands, sustainability.

- Grammar:Future review/ future in passive voice.

- Pronunciation: One-stress phrasal verbs. 

- Functions: Speculating. Predicting.

- Mediation: Summarizing and reporting to others.

LESSON 3: Invisible Cities

- Vocabulary: Pollution in cities, cities in literature and in fiction.

- Grammar:Connecting past and present.

- Pronunciation:Prominent function words.

- Functions:Encouraging and discouraging/Persuading and dissuading.

- Mediation: Rewriting a text for others.


LESSON 4: My Kind of City

- Vocabulary:City, town, village and in the country.

- Grammar: Modals and forming adjectives.

- Pronunciation:Two-stress phrasal verbs.

- Functions:Expressing opinions tentatively, hedging.

- Mediation: Paraphrasing and reporting others.


Unit 4. Did you have Something in Mind?

LESSON 1: Boutique Hotels

- Vocabulary:Lodgings, accommodation, wealth and poverty, where extremes meet.

- Grammar: Words that go together.

- Pronunciation: Words that lose a syllable.

- Functions: Expressing shades of opinion and certainty.

- Mediation: Emotional Intelligence and mediation 1.

LESSON 2: Faster'n Smarter

- Vocabulary: Technology and its critics, slow living.

- Grammar: Verbs + prepositions 1.

- Pronunciation: Falling and rising tones.

- Functions: Developing an argument systematically.

- Mediation: Emotional Intelligence and mediation 2.

LESSON 3: From Pong to Fortnite

- Vocabulary: Video games, films based on video games, crossovers, comic-con, cosplay.

- Grammar: Verbs + prepositions 2

- Pronunciation: Tails.

- Functions: Critiquing and reviewing.

- Mediation: Emotional Intelligence and mediation 3. 

LESSON 4: Edutainment

- Vocabulary: Streaming video platforms, cell phone apps, digital and hybrid curriculum in the classroom.

- Grammar: More phrasal verbs.

- Pronunciation: Question tags.

- Functions: Expressing reaction, e.g. indifference.

- Mediation: Emotional Intelligence and mediation 4.

Unit 5. The Cardinal Points

LESSON 1: Without Geography we are Nowhere

- Vocabulary: Geography, orientation, maps, representation of the world.

- Grammar: Confusing verbs: bring, come, take, go

- Pronunciation: Pronunciation problems for Spanish speakers

- Functions: Conceding a point.

- Mediation: Mediation and Mindfulness 1.

LESSON 2: Once Upon a Time in the West

- Vocabulary: Outlaws, bandits, railroads, rivers and plains.

- Grammar: Relative clauses and prepositions.

- Functions: Emphasizing a point, feeling, issue

- Mediation: Mediation and Mindfulness 2.


LESSON 3: A Love of the East

- Vocabulary: Great travellers (Marco Polo, Columbus…), the British Empire, India, decluttering and Marie Kondo, Feng Shui, Yoga, Anime and Manga.

- Grammar: Questions

- Pronunciation: Ellipsis and near Ellipsis.

- Functions: Defending a point of view persuasively.

- Mediation: Mediation and Mindfulness 3.


LESSON 4: North and South

- Vocabulary: The Poles, longitude and latitude, above and below the Equator.

- Grammar: Adverbs and word order.

- Pronunciation: Repeat questions.

- Functions: Responding to counter-arguments.

- Mediation: Mediation and Mindfulness 4.


Unit 6. Exploring Beyond the Earth

LESSON 1: Celestial destinations

- Vocabulary: Galactic, starstruck, cosmos, universe...

- Grammar: English Verb Tenses Review.

- Pronunciation: Keep conversation going.

- Functions: Expressing disbelief and incredulity.

- Mediation: Professional translation.

LESSON 2: Journey to the Center of the Earth

- Vocabulary: Science and science fiction, Jules Verne.

- Grammar: All, most, some, no / none, both.

- Pronunciation: Adding information and changing topic.

- Functions: Expressing suspicion and mistrust.

- Mediation: Academic translation.


LESSON 3: Reach for the Stars

- Vocabulary: High-tech future, aliens and extra-terrestrials, apocalyptic events, time travel.

- Grammar: Linking words for time.

- Pronunciation: Step-ups - contrasts and new topics.

- Functions: Expressing fear and anxiety.

- Mediation: Mediation in business.


LESSON 4: Where to go from here…

- Vocabulary: Learning and development, new skills for the workplace.

- Grammar: Eliminating False Friends.

- Pronunciation: Level tone in quoting and building suspense.

- Functions: Expressing hope and expectation.

- Mediation: Are you a good go-between?


Secuenciación temporal

Aunque este modelo de enseñanza a distancia se base en gran medida en la libertad que tiene el /la alumno/a para organizar su propio estudio, es aconsejable seguir algunas indicaciones sobre la temporalización. Dado que el curso completo consta de 6 unidades, y considerando a un/a alumno/a tipo que empieza el curso en octubre y desea acabarlo en junio, la secuencia de progresión aconsejada es la siguiente:

FECHA LÍMITE ACONSEJADA DE ENTREGA DE TAREAS PRUEBAS
Primer cuatrimestre
  • Unidad 1: 6 de noviembre
  • Unidad 2: 4 de diciembre
  • Unidad 3: 22 de enero
Evaluación Intermedia: 13 de febrero
Segundo cuatrimestre
  • Unidad 4: 25 de febrero
  • Unidad 5: 5 de abril
  • Unidad 6: 7 de mayo

Evaluación Final Ordinaria: 22 de mayo

Prueba de Certificación Ordinaria: Junio (Fecha por determinar)

 

Evaluación Final Convocatoria Extraordinaria y Prueba de Certificación Convocatoria Extraordinaria: Septiembre (Fecha por determinar)