Universidad de Jaén

Unit 1. Age

• Grammar / Function: Modal verbs and related phrases; Future perfect and future continuous; Persuading; Clarifying ideas; Informal style in an email.
• Vocabulary: Age;  Word building: prefixes;  Optimism and pessimism;  Collocations
• Pronunciation:  Connected speech: elision;  Weak forms: auxiliaries;  Intonation: persuading
• Reading:  Early and late successes;  Emails making arrangements
• Listening:  Letters to your future self;  Life's milestones;  How to live to 101.
• Speaking:  Different ages and generations;  Your future ; The right age for different things;  Holding a debate
• Writing:  An informal email;  A forum comment.

Unit 2. Media

• Grammar / Function: Quantifiers; Reported Speech; Linkers of Contrast; Adding Emphasis; Making Guesses.
• Vocabulary: Television; Multi-words verbs with more than one meaning; Reporting verbs; The press; When things go wrong: phrases for retelling a news story.
• Pronunciation:  Final consonants and initial vowels in connected speech; Stress to add emphasis.
• Reading:  Five 'must to see' TV programmes; Truth; Topics that keep the tabloids in business; A man who traded a paper clip for a house.
• Listening:  Hoax photographs; Recent news stories; The funny side of the news.
• Speaking: TV watching habits; Celebrities and the media; The press; retelling a recent news story.
• Writing:  A discursive essay; a newspaper article.

Unit 3. Behaviour    

• Grammar / Function: Conditionals; Infinitive and -ing form; Informal style in an article; Handling an awkward situation; Softening a message.
• Vocabulary: Collocations connected to decision making; Feelings phrases; Idioms connected to time; adjectives of manner; Phrases to talk about a family or cultural ritual.
• Pronunciation:  Weak form in conditionals; Sentence stress and weak forms in verb phrases; Sentence stress and intonation when handling a difficult situation.
• Reading:  Behaviour in tough situations; Are you a morning or an evening person?; A Family Ritual.
• Listening:  Attitudes to time; People's daily rhythms; Talking through an awkward situation; The human animal: body language.
• Speaking:  Difficult decisions; Attitude to time; Handling awkward situations; Describing a family or cultural ritual.
• Writing:  An informal article; A family ritual.

Unit 4. Trouble 

• Grammar / Function: Infinitive and -ing form with different meanings; Past modals of deduction; Avoiding repetition; Reporting an incident; Rephrasing.
• Vocabulary: Crime; Synonyms for verbs connected to scams; Verbs + dependent prepositions; Verb phrases for incidents; Survival items; Phrases to negotiate agreement.
• Pronunciation:  Silent letters in connected speech; Connected speech in past modals of deduction; Sentence stress.
• Reading:  Memory; Crime; How to avoid trouble in a holiday; Strange reasons people call emergency services; A lucky scape.
• Listening:  Getting tricked; Reporting an incident; 999: a sea rescue.
• Speaking:  Being a good witness; Acting in difficult situations; Speculating about how scams work; Reporting an incident; Items to take on a life raft.
• Writing:  An advice leaflet to help visitors to your city; A story about a lucky scape.

Unit 5. Culture

• Grammar / Function: Relative Clauses; Writing descriptively; Particle Clauses; Giving a tour; Expressing estimates.
• Vocabulary: Adjectives to describe films; The Arts; Two-part phrases:   dos and   dont's, pros and cons; Dimensions; Phrases to describe art; Phrases to discuss options.
• Pronunciation:  Intonation in non-defining relative clauses; Connected Speech in two-part phrases; Intonation in phrases adding interest.
• Reading:  A film review; An insider's answers to popular culture questions; Forum entries about the arts.
• Listening:  A film review on a radio programme; Tours of two different places; The one show: a famous graffiti artist.
• Speaking:  Films; Popular culture and arts experiences; Showing a visitor around part of your town; A new artistic project for your town.
• Writing:  A film review; A description of a favourite work of art or building

NOTE: The five topics correspond to units  6 -10     of the course book: Eales, F. & S Oakes.     2011.     Speakout Upper Intermediate. Students' Book with Active Book   . Harlow: Pearson Education.

This is a course with a clearly practical orientation. There is one weekly whole-group session, when theoretical aspects will be studied and discussed, and three small-group practical sessions.

English will be the communication tool in class. Students are encouraged to be active participants in all the sessions. Oral and written skills will be practiced throughout the course.

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 examination (60% of the final mark) consists of two parts, a written examination and a listening comprehension test. As to oral expression, its assessment is entirely based on the oral presentations done throughout the course, which are compulsory.

Continuous assessment includes attendance and participation (15%) and the submission of written assignments and/or students' oral presentations (25%).

The correspondence between assessment procedures, competences and learning outcomes is the following:

S1: E.01, G.03, G.06, G.08 - R.21, R.35, R.37

S2: E.01, E.16, E.26, G.08 - R.41, R.37

S3: E.01, E.16, E.26, G.03, G.06, G.08, G.09, G.11 - R.41, R.21, R.35, R.37, R.38, R.39

1. TEACHING METHODOLOGY AND ACTIVITIES

OPTION A: blended or mixed teaching scenario (group with a number of students above the limited capacity of the classroom)

OPTION B: blended or mixed teaching scenario (group with a number of students below the limited capacity of the classroom)

2. ASSESMENT METHODOLOGY

In both option a (blended or mixed teaching scenario with a number of students above the limited capacity of the classroom) and option b (blended or mixed teaching scenario with a number of students below the limited capacity of the classroom) the assessment methodology will be as follows:

REGULAR EXAM

RESIT EXAM

CONTINGENCY PLAN: in the event of transitioning from a blended or mixed teaching scenario to an online one, at any moment along the teaching period of the semester, the assessment methodology to follow will be the one specified in the online scenario.

3. RESOURCES

• Face-to-face teaching.
• Facilities to broadcast/record face-to-face teaching (GSuite Meet)
• ILIAS Virtual Platform.
• E-mail.

1. TEACHING METHODOLOGY AND ACTIVITIES

ONLINE SCENARIO

2. ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY

As described in the contigency plan within the blended or mixed teaching scenario, the transition to an online teaching scenario at any moment along the teaching period of the semester would entail the application of the following assessment methodology:

REGULAR EXAM

RESIT EXAM

3. RESOURCES

• Classess through videoconference (GSuite Meet)
• ILIAS virtual platform
• Google forms (for the online test)
• E-mail

Institution in charge of data processing: Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, s/n, 23071 Jaén

Data Protection Delegate: dpo@ujaen.es

Purpose: In accordance with the Universities Law and other national and regional regulations in force, carrying out exams and assessment tests corresponding to the courses students are registered in. In order to avoid frauds while sitting the exam, the exam will be answered using a videoconference system, being able the academic staff of the University of Jaén to compare and contrast the image of the person who is answering the exam with the student's photographic files. Likewise, in order to provide the exam with evidential content for revisions or claims, in accordance with current regulation frameworks, the exam will be recorded and stored.

Legitimacy: compliance with legal obligations (Universities Law) and other national and regional regulations currently in force.

Addressees: service providers who are the owners of the platforms where the exams are carried out and with whom the University of Jaén has signed the corresponding data access contracts.

Storage periods: those established in current in force regulations. In the specific case of exam videoconference recordings, not before the examination records and transcripts are closed or the exam can still be reviewed or challenged.

Rights: you can exercise your right of access, amendment, cancellation, opposition, suppression, limitation and portability by sending a letter to the postal or electronic address indicated above. In the event that you consider that your rights have been violated, you may submit a complaint to the Andalusian Council for Transparency and Data Protection www.ctpdandalucia.es

Person in charge: Universidad de Jaén, Paraje Las Lagunillas, s/n; Tel.953 212121; www.ujaen.es

Data protection delegate (DPO): TELEFÓNICA, S.A.U. ; Email: dpo@ujaen.es

Procedure aim: To manage proper recordings of teaching sessions with the aim of facilitating learning process under a multimodal and/or online teaching

Period for record storage: Images will be kept during legal term according to regulations in force

Legitimacy: Data will be managed according to legal regulations (Organic Law 6/2001, December 21, on Universities) and given consent provided by selecting corresponding box in legal admission documents

Data recipients (transfers or assignments): Any person allowed to get access to every teaching modality

Rights: You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation, portability, limitation of processing, deletion or, where appropriate, opposition. To exercise these rights, you must submit a written request to the Information, Registration and Electronic Administration Service of the University of Jaen at the address above, or by e-mail to the address above. You must specify which of these rights you are requesting to be satisfied and, at the same time, you must attach a photocopy of your ID card or equivalent identification document. In case you act through a representative, legal or voluntary, you must also provide a document that proves this representation and identification. Likewise, if you consider that your right to personal data protection has been violated, you may file a complaint with the Andalusian Data Protection and Transparency Council www.ctpdandalucia.es