Academic Year:
2025/26
27800 - English Language I
Teaching Plan Information
Academic year:
2025/26
Subject:
27800 - English Language I
Faculty / School:
103 - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Degree:
416 - Degree in English
680 - Degree in English
Ambit:
Philology, classical studies, translation and linguistics
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
1
Semester:
First semester
Subject type:
Basic Education
Module:
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1. General information
The main aim of the course is to develop the student's linguistic competence (grammatical, discourse, sociolinguistic and strategic competences) to the B2.1 reference level. The general objectives are: i) improving the students’ proficiency to use the English language as a tool for written and oral communication ii) improving their proficiency to summarise, convey and interchange information, in correct English and appropriate to level B.2.1; ii) to raise students’ interest in the English language.
This course is designated as a checkpoint for the assessment of the transversal competence UZ4: Innovation and Creativity. Students who are positively evaluated in the acquisition of a transversal competence in a course identified as a "Checkpoint" will receive official certification of that competence.
2. Learning results
CON-1. To have an instrumental knowledge of the English language at a C2 level.
To have an instrumental knowledge of the English language at a B2.1 level.
HAB-1. To demonstrate their ability to communicate, interact, and mediate in English at a C2 level.
To demonstrate their ability to communicate, interact, and mediate in English at a B2.1 level.
HAB-2. To understand and produce oral, written, and multimodal texts of various kinds in English at a C2 level, considering the sociocultural context, the textual genre, and the communicative intention.
To understand and produce oral, written, and multimodal texts of various kinds in English at a B2.1 level, considering the sociocultural context, the textual genre, and the communicative intention.
HAB-4. To convey and explain knowledge in English.
To convey and explain knowledge in English at a B2.1 level.
HAB-8. To use and take advantage of online resources.
To use and take advantage of online resources related to the topics and contents of the course to reach a B2.1 level in English.
CTR-6. Lifelong Autonomous Learning. To use learning on a continuous basis and to develop strategies for autonomous and flexible learning throughout life, in order to be an active, motivated, and integrated citizen, promoting employability or personal development.
Specific learning outcome linked to the transversal competence UZ4
CTR-5. Innovation and Creativity. To design and carry out a new task or project in a different way using creativity and curiosity to add value with an entrepreneurial attitude.
1. To propose new projects developed through creativity and curiosity. 2. To know how to introduce ideas and original approaches into an established task. 3. To show initiative and be able to propose an action plan.
3. Syllabus
Classes will be devoted to the following modules from the textbook Voyage B2 (Caroline Krantz and Rachael Roberts Oxford OUP):
Communication: Conversation in different cultures.
Escape: Travel and adventure. Festivities. Talking about feelings.
Invest: Thinking and knowledge.
Creativity: Inventive ideas and creative environments.
Mind: Childhood memories. Creativity.
Course sessions will develop the syllabus, and be divided in approximately equal parts in activities targeted at practice in the four skills. Optional written work will be proposed by the teacher and deadlines will be given for its submission.
4. Academic activities
In view of the instrumental nature, the methodology is basically active and participative involving both individual work and group tasks.
- GUIDED ACTIVITIES
- Theoretical lectures: presentation, study and practice of the subject.
- Practical activities: consisting of practical activities designed to develop the main language skills (reading, listening, writing and speaking) at B2.1 level.
- SUPERVISED ACTIVITIES: Individual and group tutorials: to provide the student with learning techniques.
- PERSONAL STUDY: independent study in which the student should use personal work strategies to learn English language skills at the B2.1 level.
- EVALUATION: Completion of the global test.
5. Assessment system
FIRST CALL
The final exam (100% of the final mark) consists of 5 parts designed to evaluate the student’s competences at the B2.1 level.
1) Use of English (Grammar and lexis) (20% of the final mark).
2) Listening Comprehension (20% of the final mark).
3) Reading Comprehension (20% of the final mark).
4) Writing (20% of the final mark).
5) Oral exam consisting of interaction and monologue (20% of the final mark)
SECOND CALL
Global assessment (100%) identical to that of the first call.
Assessment criteria (for both calls)
In order to pass the final exam the student will require a minimum mark of 60 out of 100, 60 corresponding to 5 in a scale of 0-10. A mark below 10 out 20 in any of the five parts of the exam will automatically result in the student failing the exam.
Students who re-sit the exam in the second call will be required to do all 5 parts.
For the oral exam the student’s grammatical accuracy, range of lexis, communicative ability and fluency at the B2.1 level will be taken into account and for the writing, grammatical and lexical accuracy and organisation will be evaluated.
6. Sustainable Development Goals
4 - Quality Education
10 - Reduced Inequalities
17 - Partnerships for the Goals