Universidad de Jaén

1. Grammatical contents
2. Lexical contents
3. Functions
4. The four skills: writing, reading, speaking and listening.

CONTENT:

Unit 1.A. Questions and answers. Grammar (question formation), Vocabulary (working out meaning from context) Pronunciation (intonation: showing interest)

Unit 1.B. It is a mystery. Grammar (auxiliary verbs; the...., the....+ comparatives), Vocabulary (compound adjectives) Pronunciation (intonation: showing interest)

Unit 2.A. Doctor, doctor! Grammar (present perfect simple and continuous), Vocabulary (illnesses and injuries) Pronunciation (see page 26)

Unit 2.B. Act your age.  Grammar (using adjectives as nouns, adjective order), Vocabulary (clothes and fashion) Pronunciation (vowel sounds)

Unit 3.A. Fasten your seat belts. Grammar (narrative tenses, past perfect continuous, so/such...that), Vocabulary (air travel) Pronunciation (irregular past forms, sentence rhythm)

Unit 3.B. A really good ending? Grammar (the position of adverbs and adverbials phrases), Vocabulary (adverbs and adverbial phrases) Pronunciation (word stress and intonation)

Unit 4.A. Stormy weather. Grammar (future perfect and future continuous), Vocabulary (the environment, weather) Pronunciation (vowel sounds)

Unit 4.B. A risky business. Grammar (zero and first conditionals, future time clauses), Vocabulary (expressions with take) Pronunciation (linked phrases)

Unit 5.A. I am a survivor. Grammar (unreal conditionals), Vocabulary (feelings) Pronunciation (word stress in three- or four-syllable adjectives)

Unit 5.B. A risky business. Grammar (wish for present/future, wish for past regrets), Vocabulary (expressing feelings with verbs or -ed/-ing adjectives) Pronunciation (sentence rhythm and intonation)

Unit 6.A. Night night. Grammar (used to; be used to; get used to), Vocabulary ( sleep ) Pronunciation (/s/ and /z/)

Unit 6.B- Music to my ears. Grammar (gerunds and infinitives), Vocabulary (music ) Pronunciation (words from other languages)

Unit 7.A -Let us not argue. Grammar (past modals), Vocabulary (verbs often confused) Pronunciation (weak form of have)

Unit 7.B- It is all an act. Grammar (verbs of the senses), Vocabulary (the body) Pronunciation (silent consontants)

Unit 8.A- Cutting crime. Grammar (the passive voice; have something done; it is said that...; he is thought to... etc.), Vocabulary (crime and punishment) Pronunciation (the letter u)

Unit 8.B- Fake news. Grammar (reporting verbs), Vocabulary (the media) Pronunciation (word stress)

Unit 9.A- Good business? Grammar (clauses of contrast and purpose), Vocabulary (advertising; business) Pronunciation (changing stress on nouns and verbs)

Unit 9.B- Super cities. Grammar (uncountable and plural nouns), Vocabulary (word building: prefixes and suffixes) Pronunciation (word stress with prefixes and suffixes)

Unit 10.A- Science fact, science-fiction. Grammar (quantifiers: all, every, both, etc.), Vocabulary (science) Pronunciation (stress in word families)

Unit 10.B- Free Speech. Grammar (articles), Vocabulary (collocation: word pairs) Pronunciation (pausing and sentence stress)

Group classes: theory and practise.

Oral presentations.

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• Lecture (theory): 1 hour per week
• Lecture (practice): 3 hours per week
• Homework: 6 hours per week

N.B.: As the subject will be entirely taught in English, no distinction will be made between regular students and PATIE students as regards methodology.

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

• Theoretical contents (final exam): 50%
• Attendance and active participation: 20%
• Assignments (portfolio) and oral presentation (speaking): 30%

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

• S1: CB4; G06, G09, T06, T13; R31.
• S2: CB1, CB5; G02, H12, H20, H23, T01, T03, T08, T14; R29, R30, R32
• S3: CB2, CB3; E16, H21, T04, T05, T11; R33.

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N.B. (1): In order to pass the subject it will be necessary to get at least 5/10 considering all the assessment criteria above.

N.B. (2): as for the dates for the final exam, international students should note that, unless there are exceptional reasons, no alternative dates to the official ones will be offered to them, as they will be considered in exactly the same terms as the rest of the students. All official exams will take place in May-June (regular exams or "convocatoria ordinaria") and -if the student does not pass the subject- in June-July (extraordinary exams or "convocatoria extraordinaria").

1. TEACHING METHODOLOGY AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES*

*The information in the following tables will depend on the sanitary conditions and facilities available.

**It is taken for granted that if the number of students is below the limit allowed in the classroom allocated, all physical presence teaching will be 100%.

 2. EVALUATION

2.1 1st sitting.

*Contingency plan: if at any moment during the teaching period of the semester it were necessary to change from a multimodal or mixed scenario to a remote/distance teaching one, the evaluation applied will be the one specified for the remote/distance teaching scenario.

2.2. 2nd Sitting/resit*

The exam will be physical and will include both theoretical and practical contents of the subject up to 100% of the final mark. It will be 100% physical providing that both the sanitary conditions and facilities allow it to be.

*Contingency plan: if at any moment during the teaching period of the semester it were necessary to change from a multimodal or mixed scenario to a remote/distance teaching one, the evaluation applied will be the one specified for the remote/distance teaching scenario.

1. 1TEACHING METHODOLOGY AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES

1. 2EVALUATION
   • 2.1. Ist Sitting

• 2.2. 2nd sitting/ Resit

This will be a synchronous and / or asynchronous test in which both the theoretical and practical contents of the subject will be assessed. This exam will constitute 100% of the final mark.

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