GOAL LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
INDICATORS
The course has as the goal the
formation of students capable
of transmit a message with
fluency in their work area
(without hesitation or pauses).
The students will be able to
adapt to the situation in which
the speech, instruction, and in
any act of communication is
UNIT
performed. The student will
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also develop some sub-skills of
the speaking competence
(tone, register, theme, how to
clarify, expand, summarize,
etc.), as well as listening
strategies.
PERFORMANCE
●Practice of real
conversations of the daily
life and situations of their
work area.
●Learning of technical
vocabulary
●Introduction of the
vocabulary related to
technological devices
●Usage of the language
within their career using a
more technical language
COMPETENCES CONTENT
KNOWING: As the expected level of the students at Lexical:​ Introduction
the beginning of the course is B1, the of vocabulary related
●High degree of objective of the unit consists on forming to the career.
grammatical control. the basement of the development of the
Does not make errors chosen skills. Grammar:
which cause Formulation of
misunderstandings and The objective of the unit are associated to questions, use of
correct most of his/her the final objective of the whole course: conditional, use of
mistakes. connectors in texts.
●The student is able to Listening:​ The student is able to
recognize the language understand extended speech and lectures Discourse: ​Practice
immediately when and follow even complex lines of of real conversations
argument provided. The student can within the students’
interacting with it.
understand most TV news and current work area
DOING: affairs programmes. The student can
understand the majority of films in
●Has sufficient range of standard dialect.
language to be able to
give clear descriptions, Speaking:​ The student can interact with a
express viewpoints on degree of fluency and spontaneity that
most general topics. makes regular interaction with native
●Can use a limited speakers quite possible. The student is
number of cohesive able to take an active part in discussion in
devices to link his/her familiar contexts, accounting for and
sentences into clear, sustaining his/her views. The student is
coherent discourse. able to present clear, detailed
descriptions on a wide range of subjects
related to his/her field of interest. The
student can express his/her viewpoint on
topical issue giving advantages and
disadvantages of various options