3.3
Didactic or Teaching / Learning Objectives
The didactic objectives are the capabilities that students must achieve by the end of
a didactic unit and therefore, they can be also called didactic unit terminal
objectives. They are found in Decree 67/2008, June 19th, establishing the
curriculum in BACHILLERATO in the AUTONOMOUS REGION OF MADRID.
In the present syllabus, we will establish the specific objectives for the First Year of
BACHILLERATO in the field of English which will enable our students to develop
the following CAPACITIES:
1. Express one self and interact orally - fluently and accurately - in a spontaneous,
comprehensible and respectful manner using the most appropriate strategies
depending on the communicative situations.
2. Understand global and specific information in oral texts and follow the story line
of topics related to current affairs produced in habitual communicative contexts and
by the media.
3. Write different types of texts in a clear and organized manner in an appropriate
style in accordance with the readers addressed and the communicative intentions.
4. Understand different types of written texts related to general and specific topics
and interpret them critically using appropriate comprehension strategies depending
on the required tasks, identifying the essential elements of the text and grasping its
function and discourse arrangement.
5. Read in an autonomous way, diverse types of texts with diverse purposes
appropriate to their interests and needs, appraising reading as a source of
information, enjoyment and pleasure.
6. Use their knowledge of the language and the norms of linguistic use in order to
speak and write in an adequate, coherent and correct manner so as to understand
oral and written texts, and reflect on the functioning of the foreign language in
communicative situations.
7. Acquire and develop varied learning strategies, using all means within reach,
including information and communication technologies, with a view to use the
foreign language in an autonomous way and to continue progressing in its learning.
8. Know the relevant social and cultural features of the foreign language to
understand and interpret better cultures different to ours as well as the language to
study.
9. Value the foreign language as a means to have access to other cultures and
items of information, and recognize its importance as a means of international
communication and understanding in a multicultural world, becoming aware of the
similarities and differences between different cultures.
10. Consolidate self-assessment strategies in the acquisition of communicative
competence in the foreign language showing initiative, confidence and responsibility
in this process.