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 |
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Primer cuatrimestre |
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Evaluación Intermedia: 13 de febrero |
Segundo cuatrimestre |
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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) |