Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo
ACREDITADA
Resolución No. 06-CONEA-2009-103-DC
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LANGUAGE CENTER
ENGLISH SYLLABUS
ENGLISH IV
Requirement: English III
Date: September, 2010
Class periods per semester: 64
Class periods per week: 4
Credits: 3
General Objective:
• Students will be able to communicate in English by
practicing the form, meaning and usage of basic
structures of the target language according to their
level.
Specific Objectives:
Students will be able:
• Review all tenses: Simple present, simple past,
future, present progressive, past progressive, future
progressive,
present perfect, present perfect
progressive, past perfect, future perfect, and
prepositions.
• Talk about future activities by using the simple
present and present progressive.
• Talk about present plans to talk about future
activities.
• Talk about immediate intentions that they have to do.
• Talk about their own and others’ possessions.
• Describe people, animals, and things by using nouns
as adjectives.
• Talk about actions that reflect on themselves by
using verbs commonly used with the reflexive
pronouns.
• Read a short book or short stories and report about it
(written and oral)
• Use adjective clauses in order to add information
about somebody or something.
Basic Competencies:
• Students are able to understand, talk, read, and write short and simple passages about their career using the
tenses studied.
• Develop a high ethic and moral commitment towards him/herself, his/her profession and towards the society.
• Organize, plan and administer time.
• Study independently.
• Develop the capacity to work in groups.
• Apply acquired knowledge with high quality level.
• Manage ICT (Information and Communication Technology)
FOUR WEEKS
FOUR HOURS A WEEK
UNIT ONE: INTEGRATING TENSES
TIME
Contents
• Review of all tenses. Simple present, simple past,
future, present progressive, past progressive,
present perfect, present perfect, past perfect.
• Using
SIMPLE
PRESENT
and
PRESENT
PROGRESSIVE to express future time.
Activities
• Activating activities
• Research guidance
• Project presentation
• Teacher explanations and modeling
• Pair work for dialogue practice.
Teléfono: Secretaría 593 (03) 2603-613 EXT 210 Dirección : 593 (03) 2603-613 EXT 211
Email: idiomas@espoch.edu.ec
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Using INTEND, PLAN, and HOPE to talk about
future plans.
Using BE ABOUT TO to express immediate future.
Review prepositions.
Reading, writing and oral presentations about some
chapters of a book we are reading.
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Talking, reading and writing sentences in all tenses.
Talking, reading, and writing about any topic related
to their career.
Asking and answering yes/no and information
questions in all tenses.
Talking and writing about past events that do not
happen anymore.
Laboratory
activities,
independent
learning(Interactive speaking/listening exercises)
Laboratory activities, B- learning
Oral presentations (descriptions of drawings,
pictures, scenes, events and others; interviews, role
playing – every two weeks)
Resources:
• Written material: photocopied exercises from
different known authors
• Classroom: board, writing utensils
• Cardboard, paper, markers to do charts and
drawings, flashcards.
• Authentic materials: brochures magazines, leaflets.
• Technological equipment, ICTS: English audio and
multimedia computer lab, Image projector. TV, CD
and DVD players,
• ESPOCH e-virtual
Assessment and Evaluation:
Diagnosis, formative and final evaluation:
• Observation
• Oral performance evaluated through the use of
standardized rubrics.
• Written, tests
• Group work
• Pair work
• Individual work
UNIT TWO: EXPRESSING WISHES AND CONDITIONS
TIME
Contents:
• Expressing WISHES about the present/past/future.
• Using IF: in conditional sentences
• Using IF: Contrary-to-fact present/future.
• Using IF: Contrary-to-fact present/future vs. true
statements.
Activities:
• Activating activities
• Research guidance
• Project presentation
• Teacher explanations and modeling
• Pair work for dialogue practice
• Talking and writing about predictions.
• Asking and answering yes/no and information
questions about ART.
• Warnings using conditionals.
• Talking reading and writing using conditionals about
topics related to their careers
• Reading, writing and oral presentations about some
chapters of a book we are reading.
• Laboratory activities, B- learning
• Oral presentations (descriptions of drawings,
• pictures, scenes, and others, interviews, role
• playing)
Resources:
• Written material: photocopied exercises from different
known authors
Assessment and Evaluation
Diagnosis, formative and final evaluation:
• Observation
FOUR WEEKS
FOUR HOURS A WEEK
Teléfono: Secretaría 593 (03) 2603-613 EXT 210 Dirección : 593 (03) 2603-613 EXT 211
Email: idiomas@espoch.edu.ec
Riobamba - Ecuador
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Classroom: board, writing utensils
Cardboard, paper, markers to do charts and
drawings, flashcards.
Authentic materials: brochures magazines, leaflets.
Technological equipment, ICTS: English audio and
multimedia computer lab, Image projector. TV, CD
and DVD players,
ESPOCH e-virtual
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Oral performance evaluated through the use of
standardized rubrics.
Written, tests
Group work
Pair work
Individual work
FOUR WEEKS
FOUR HOURS A WEEK
UNIT THREE: NOUNS AND PRONOUNS
TIME
Contents:
• Using POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES, POSSESSIVE
PRONOUNS, POSSESSIVE NOUNS.
• Using NOUNS as ADJECTIVES.
• Using REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS.
• Using OTHER(S), ANOTHER, THE OTHER(S)
Activities:
• Activating activities
• Research guidance
• Project presentation
• Teacher explanations and modeling.
• Describing current activities.
• Talking, reading and writing about
• Topics related to their major. Use possessive
adjectives, pronouns and nouns in context.
• Talking, reading and writing about reflexive
pronouns.
• Reading, writing and oral presentations about some
chapters of a book we are reading
• Laboratory activities, B-learning
• Oral presentations (descriptions of drawings,
pictures, scenes, and others, interviews, role playing)
Resources:
• Written material: photocopied exercises from different
known authors
• Classroom: board, writing utensils
• Cardboard, paper, markers to do charts and
drawings, flashcards.
• Authentic materials: brochures magazines, leaflets.
• Technological equipment, ICTS: English audio and
multimedia computer lab, Image projector. TV, CD
and DVD players,
• ESPOCH e-virtual
Assessment and Evaluation:
Diagnosis, formative and final evaluation:
• Observation
• Oral performance evaluated through the use of
standardized rubrics.
• Written, tests
• Group work
• Pair work
• Individual work
UNIT FOUR: ADJECTIVE CLAUSES
TIME
Contents:
• WHO, WHOM and THAT in adjective clauses
• Using WHICH and THAT in adjective clauses
• Singular and plural verbs in adjective clauses
• Using WHOSE in adjectives clauses.
• Phrasal Verbs (separable/non-separable)
• Final presentation and written report of the book we
have read.
Activities :
• Activating activities
• Research guidance
• Project presentation
• Teacher explanations and modeling
• Talking, writing and reading about any topic related
to their career.
• Phrasal verbs with GET, GO, TAKE, LOOK,
FOUR WEEKS
FOUR HOURS A WEEK
Teléfono: Secretaría 593 (03) 2603-613 EXT 210 Dirección : 593 (03) 2603-613 EXT 211
Email: idiomas@espoch.edu.ec
Riobamba - Ecuador
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Resources:
• Written material: photocopied exercises from different
known authors
• Classroom: board, writing utensils
• Cardboard, paper, markers to do charts and
drawings, flashcards.
• Authentic materials: brochures magazines, leaflets.
• Technological equipment, ICTS: English audio and
multimedia computer lab, Image projector. TV, CD
and DVD players,
• ESPOCH e-virtual
DO, MAKE.
Joining sentences using relative pronouns.
Talking, writing and reading about what was and has
been done in technology advances and development.
Laboratory activities, independent learning Interactive
speaking/listening exercises)
Laboratory activities, B- learning
Oral presentations (descriptions of drawings,
pictures, scenes, and others, interviews, role
playing).
Assessment and Evaluation
Diagnosis, formative and final evaluation:
• Observation
• Oral performance evaluated through the use of
standardized rubrics.
• Written, tests
• Group work
• Pair work
• Individual work
Teléfono: Secretaría 593 (03) 2603-613 EXT 210 Dirección : 593 (03) 2603-613 EXT 211
Email: idiomas@espoch.edu.ec
Riobamba - Ecuador
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