August-December 2011

Welcome!

Communicative course

The Interactive Reader Plus 9

7 frequencies per week

Prior

knowledge

Critical

thinking

&

Reflexive

skills

Develop

your

academic

language

skills in an

effective and

fluent way

You will write academic

essays taking into

account the information

taught for each type,

increasing your stock of

vocabulary.

Expos itory

Comparison and contrast

Persuas ive

Descr ipti ve

You will practice

grammar you already

know in order to

improve your

knowledge of the

target language and

be prepared for the

EXCI exam.

Communicative class

• Short Story The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

• Speech I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Speech Glory and Hope by Nelson Mandela

Writing class• Parts of an

essay

• Expository essay

Grammar class• Singular and plural forms of

nouns

• Countable and uncountable

nouns with some and any

Eva luat ion: Port fo l io 1 / F i rst G loba l exam

Communicative class• Poems

• Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman

• The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

• O What Is That Sound by W. H. Auden

Writing class• Patterns of a comparison and contrast essay

• Comparison and contrast essay

Grammar class• How much

and how many in

questions

Eva luat ion: Port fo l io 2 / F i rst ind icat ive exam

Communicative class• Short Story

• Marigolds by Eugenia Collier

• A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

• Memoir• From Angela’s Ashes

by Frank McCourt

Writing class• Elements of a

persuasive essay

• Persuasive essay

Grammar class• Phrasal verbs:

come, get, give, go, and

keep

• Reflexive pronouns

Eva luat ion: Port fo l io 3 / Second Globa l exam

Communicative class• Short Story

• The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe Writing class

• Elements of a descriptive

essay

• Descriptive essay

Grammar class• Phrasal verbs:

pick, put, take, and throw

• Passive voice in present and

past

Eva luat ion: Port fo l io 4 / Second ind icat ive exam

Exams 40 points

• First Global Exam• First Indicative Exam• Second Global Exam 10 points each

one• Second Indicative Exam (TOEFL)

Portfolios 40 points

• Portfolio 1• Portfolio 2 10 points each one• Portfolio 3• Portfolio 4 (includes a quiz to evaluate the content of Unit 4 and the corresponding essay)

Participation 10 points

• It includes homework assignments, participation in class, and the story presentation

• The presentation will be evaluated with the corresponding rubric. The presentation will be worth 5 points.

Final project/EXCI Practice Test 10 points

• The final project will be a speech about a topic selected by the student. It will be evaluated with the corresponding rubric. It will be worth 5 points.

• The EXCI practice test will be worth 5 points.