Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo
ESCUELA DE LENGUAS
CENTRO DE IDIOMAS
LANGUAGE CENTER
ENGLISH SYLLABUS FOR THE SCHOOL OF BIOCHEMISTRY
English IV
Requirement: English III
Class periods per semester:
Date: April, 2008
Credits: 3
64
Class periods per week: 4
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 the level they are
taking.
Specific Objectives: STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
• Students will be able to 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.
• Students will be able to express lived habits by sharing past
experiences with others.
• Students will be able to talk about future activities by using the simple
present and present progressive.
• Students will be able to talk about present plans to talk about future
activities.
• Students will be able to talk about immediate intentions that they
have to do.
• Students will be able to talk about their and others’ possessions.
• Students will be able to describe people, animals and things by using
nouns as adjectives.
• Students will be able to talk about actions that reflect on themselves
by using verbs commonly used with the reflexive pronouns.
• Students will be able to read a short book and report about it (written
and oral)
• Students will be able to use adjectives clauses in order to give
information about somebody or something.
Competency basis
• Sustain a basic conversation in English, about themselves and others.
• Develop a high ethic and moral commitment towards him/himself, 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 NTIC’s.
- FOUR WEEKS
UNIT ONE: Expressing past habits: USED TO
TIME
- FOUR HOURS A WEEK
CONTENTS
Activities
• Teacher explanations and modelling.
• • Review of all tenses. Simple present, simple
• Pair work for dialogue practice.
past, future, present progressive, past progressive,
future progressive, present perfect, present perfect • Talking and reading about the past activities.
• Reading magazines about the career:
progressive, past perfect, future perfect.
BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY
• • Expressing past habit: Used to.
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES.
• • Review prepositions.
• Interactive speaking/listening exercises –
• • Reading and writing and oral expositions about
every two weeks
some chapters of a book we are reading.
Teléfono: Secretaría 593 (03) 2603-613 EXT 210 Director : 593 (03) 2603-613 EXT 211
Email: idiomas@espoch.edu.ec
Riobamba - Ecuador
Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo
ESCUELA DE LENGUAS
CENTRO DE IDIOMAS
•
Oral presentations (role playing, descriptions
of drawings – every two weeks)
Evaluation
Resources
•
Written material: photocopied exercises from
different known authors.
• Classroom: board, writing utensils.
• Cardboard paper, makers to do charts and
drawings.
• Radio and records.
• Pharmacopea.
• Pictures
UNIT TWO: Expressing future time with other
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Observation
Oral performance: flashcards.
Written tests
Individual work
Pair work.
TIME
expressions
- FOUR WEEKS
- FOUR HOURS A WEEK
Activities
• Teacher explanations and modeling.
• Simple present and present progressive to express
• Pair work for dialogue practice.
future time.
• Talking and reading about the activities they
• INTEND, PLAY and HOPE to talk about future
USED TO do.
plans.
• Translation the compounds and assays that
• BE ABOUT TO to express immediate future.
you can find in the PHARMACOPEA.
• WISHES about the present/past/future.
• Interactive speaking/listening exercises –
• Using IF: in conditional sentences
every two weeks
• Using IF: Contrary-to-fact present/future.
• Oral presentations (role playing, descriptions
• Using IF: Contrary-to-fact present/future vs. true.
of drawings – every two weeks)
• Reading, writing and oral expositions about some
chapters of a book we are reading.
Resources
Evaluation
Contents
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Written material: photocopied exercises from
different known authors.
Classroom: board, writing utensils.
Cardboard paper, makers to do charts and
drawings.
Radio and records.
Pharmacopea.
Pictures
UNIT THREE: Possessions
Contents
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POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES, POSSESSIVE
PRONOUNS, POSSESSIVE NOUNS.
NOUNS as ADJECTIVES.
RELFEXIVE PRONOUNS.
Reading, writing and oral expositions about some
chapters of a book we are reading.
Resources
•
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•
Observation
Oral performance: flashcards.
Written tests
Individual work
Pair work.
- FOUR WEEKS
TIME
- FOUR HOURS A WEEK
Activities
• Teacher explanations and modelling.
• Pair work for dialogue practice.
• Talking and reading about possessives.
• Translation of the compounds, essays and
package that you can find in the
PHARMACOPEA.
• Interactive speaking/listening exercises –
every two weeks
• Oral presentations (role playing, descriptions
of drawings – every two weeks)
Evaluation
Written material: photocopied exercises from •
different known authors.
•
Classroom: board, writing utensils.
•
Cardboard paper, makers to do charts and •
drawings.
Observation
Oral performance: flashcards.
Written tests
Individual work
Teléfono: Secretaría 593 (03) 2603-613 EXT 210 Director : 593 (03) 2603-613 EXT 211
Email: idiomas@espoch.edu.ec
Riobamba - Ecuador
Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo
ESCUELA DE LENGUAS
CENTRO DE IDIOMAS
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Radio and records.
Pharmacopea.
Pictures
UNIT FOUR: Adjective Clauses
Contents
• WHO, WHOM and THAT in adjective clauses
• WHICH and THAT in adjective clauses.
• Singular and plural verbs in adjective clauses.
• WHOSE in adjectives clauses.
• Phrasal Verbs (separable/non-separable)
• Final exposition and written report of the book we
have read.
Resources
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•
Written material: photocopied exercises from
different known authors.
Classroom: board, writing utensils.
Cardboard paper, makers to do charts and
drawings.
Radio and records.
Pharmacopea.
Pictures
•
Pair work.
TIME
- FOUR WEEKS
- FOUR HOURS A WEEK
Activities
• Teacher explanations and modelling.
• Pair work for dialogue practice.
• Making questions.
• Oral and written activities about clauses.
• Translation and exposition about the
compounds, assays and package that you
can find in the PHARMACOPEA.
• Interactive speaking/listening exercises –
every two weeks
• Oral presentations (role playing, descriptions
of drawings – every two weeks)
Evaluation
•
•
•
•
•
Observation
Oral performance: flashcards.
Written tests
Individual work
Pair work.
Teléfono: Secretaría 593 (03) 2603-613 EXT 210 Director : 593 (03) 2603-613 EXT 211
Email: idiomas@espoch.edu.ec
Riobamba - Ecuador