Syllabus
Week 1: Unit 1A - What motivates you? text I didn´t get where I am today without...; discourse markers - linkers, Week 2: Unit 1A Working where the grass is always greener, Vocabulary bank: WORKWeek 3: Unit 1B - Who am I? grammar HAVE; quiz What is your personality type? Week 4: Unit 1B Listening The Family of Carlos IV, vocabulary FAMILY Week 5: Unit 1C - Whose language is it? text Whose language? grammar - pronouns.Vocabulary - language terminology. Language quiz. Week 6: Unit 1 - Family secrets (colloquial English); revise and check. Writing: A letter of application.
Week 7: Unit 2A - Once upon a time. grammar - narrative tenses, text When we were young. Week 8: Unit 2A - Vocabulary and pronunciation:World building - abstract nojns, words stress. Week 9: Unit 2B Are there really 31 hours in a day? text Multitasking.
Week 10: Unit 2B listening The Time Bandits. vocabulary expressions with TIME. Grammar: distancing.Week 11: Unit 2C Getting your own back - text. phrases with get. Love by numbers - listening. Week 12: Unit 2C grammar GET. Get questionnaire. Time and technology (colloquial English). Revise and Check.
Annotation
The aim of the course is to develop the four basic language skills further from the presupposed starting level of B1 of the
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. This is the first stage of a six-semester course. The teaching is based on a systematic work with a coursebook (see Jones, Bastow and Hird below).