Universidad de Jaén

U nit 1: LET US TALK

• Vocabulary: communicating; prepositions and phrases; sayings, idioms.
• Grammar: time expressions with  Past Simple and  Present Perfect.
• Reading: fake nice; friendship overload.
• Listening: people discussing a book; interviews: who do you confide in?; favourite sayings.
• Speaking: getting to know you; discussion: what makes a good friend; a panel game: bluff.
• Writing: connecting words: addition; spelling: homophones.

Unit 2: REMARKABLE!

• Vocabulary: intensifying adverbs; adjective word order; adjectives: describing places.
• Grammar: relative clauses with prepositions; participle clauses.
• Reading: the cleverest man on earth; I lost my heart in Kerala; a tourist board website.
• Listening: radio programme about a painter; people talking about  memorable holidays; interview about tourism.
• Speaking: deciding which people should win an award; describing places you love or hate; recommending places to visit in your country.
• Writing: connecting words: time (1); punctuation: apostrophes.

Unit 3: WELL-BEING

• Vocabulary: connotation; positive and negative character adjectives; phrasal verbs: health; euphemisms.
• Grammar: introductory  it; inversion.
• Reading: born to lose?; great ways to well-being.
• Listening: interview with people about impostor syndrome; conversations about how to cheer yourself up; people being tactful in different situations.
• Speaking: giving both sides of an argument; persuading people to try your ideas; short role plays.
• Writing: connecting words: contrast (1); spelling: one word, two words or hyphenated.

Unit 4: CIVILISED

• Vocabulary: news collocations; near synonyms; newspaper language.
• Grammar: phrases referring to the future; future in the past.
• Reading: four news stories; the world goes to town; two newspapers splashes.
• Listening: discussion about TV programmes; radio programme: how  Star Trek changed the world; interview with the sub-editor of a national newspaper.
• Speaking: predicting the future of the media; describing and discussing strange inventions; creating a front-page news story.
• Writing: connecting words: contrast (2); punctuation: capital letters and full stops.

Unit 5: IT IS JUST A JOB

• Vocabulary: word building: prefixes with multiple meanings; verb + infinitive with  to or verb +  ing; verb-noun collocations; work expressions.
• Grammar: reflexive pronouns
• Reading: the Cincerellas of Hollywood; the young ones.
• Listening: interview with TV/film extras; interview with three 18-year-olds; discussion about work issues.
• Speaking: role play; discussion about how to improve schools; extending and role-playing dialogues.
• Writing: connecting words: time (2); spelling:  ei or  ie.

The continuous work on the four main areas under study ( grammar,  vocabulary,  communicative functionas and  linguistics skills) will follow the contents of the manual's first five units ( Face2face Advanced).

Given the instrumental nature of the course,  no strict divistion between theory and practice classes is feasible. Therefore, the four weekly hours of classtime will include the following activities:

• grammar explanations and exercises;
• use of English;
• reading comprehension;
• vocabulary exercises;
• listening and speaking tasks; and
• translation from Spanish into English.

The  writing skill will also be worked on: students are expected to submit  two written essay/assignment during the semester.

Finally, students will have to deliver  a group oral presentation.

It is of paramount importance taht students attend classes regularly. Continuous work with the textbook's materials, both during class-time and as homework tasks, will help students improve their use of English.

During  office hours (' tutorías ', in Spanish), the lecturer can meet students in his/her office with the purpose of following up students' progress in the course and giving them help on specific issues on the course activities.

Students with special educational needs should contact the Student Attention Service (Servicio de Atención y Ayudas al Estudiante) in order to receive the appropriate academic support

The purpose of the  course exam is to check the students' level of use of English. The exam will correspond to course's materials and objectives. 

The exam will have the following  sections:

1. Reading comprehension.
2. Writing.
3. Use of English exercises: vocabulary and grammar.
4. Listening comprehension.
5. Translation from Spanish into English.
6. Speaking.  It will be assessed by means of an oral presentation by each individual student. The students' participation in the oral activities in class will also be taken into account.