This document is a course syllabus for an Intermediate B English language course. It is a 90-hour course divided into 14 chapters focusing on developing speaking, writing, listening, and reading skills from a Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate level. Students will learn grammar, vocabulary, and complete exams, homework, quizzes and an oral exam to pass the course. Evaluation will include exams, tests, homework, projects, and class participation.

1. ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITÉCNICA DEL LITORAL
Centro de Lenguas Extranjeras
COURSE SYLLABUS
INTERMEDIATE B
1. CODE AND NUMBER OF CREDITS
CODE CELEX 00091
NUMBER OF CREDITS 6 Theoretical: X Practical:

2. 2. COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course starts at the Pre-Intermediate level and finishes at an Intermediate level English. Intermediate
B English is made up of 90 hours of face to face class time. During this course, students will work on and
develop the 4 skills of the English language: speaking, writing, listening and reading starting at a Pre-
Intermediate level and culminating at an Intermediate level. Students will also learn grammar structures and
vocabulary suitable for this level. In order to pass the course, students must get a minimum mark of 60
points over 100. These points come from a midterm and a final exam. Some of the points also come from
homework, quizzes and an oral exam.

3. 3. PRE-REQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES
PRE-REQUISITES English Intermediate A CELEX 00083
CO-REQUISITES None
4. CORE TEXT AND OTHER REQUIRED REFERENCES FOR THE TEACHING OF THE COURSE
CORE TEXT 1. English Unlimited B1, Students book, Units 7 – 14
English Unlimited B1 , Workbook, Units 7-14

4. English Unlimited B1+ , Students book, Units 1-2
English Unlimited B1+, Workbook, Units 1-2
REFERENCES None
5. COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
1. LISTENING: Understand the main points in conversations on topics of personal or professional

5. interest when people speak relatively slowly and clearly
2. READING: Understand the main points of and extract specific information from texts that use
everyday language and can understand descriptions of feelings.
3. SPEAKING (INTERACTION): Communicate in tasks requiring the direct exchange of information
(e.g. getting information at a tourist office, booking a room at a hotel or asking about and buying
things). Students can participate in discussions with some prior preparation.
4. SPEAKING (PRODUCTION): Use a series of phrases and sentences to describe objects and
possessions, homes, places, achievements, electronic gadgets, the media, books, TV shows and the
Internet. Students can give their opinion.
5. WRITING: Write book reviews; descriptions of places; and emails and letters to complain or
apologize.

6. 6. LANGUAGE: Use the Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple, Present Perfect, some
future forms, some passive forms, modal verbs and the first and second conditional to talk about
predictions, imaginary situations, objects and possessions, homes, places, achievements, electronic
gadgets, the media, books, TV shows and the Internet.
6. COURSE PROGRAM
Chapter 7 City Life Number of hours is 8 hours.
7.1 Urbanisation

7. · Vocabulary: the environment
· Grammar: making predictions with will, might, may.
7.2 If you´re interested in art
· Vocabulary: Giving directions
· Grammar: Real conditionals
· Productive skills : Speaking and giving directions
7.3 Getting information as a tourist
· Vocabulary: asking questions as a tourist to get information
· Grammar: Predictions using will.
7.4 Welcome to my Hometown!

8. · Vocabulary: Revision of giving directions
· Grammar: Revision of real conditionals
· Productive skills: Write a paragraph describing your hometown.
Chapter 8 Things Number of hours per Chapter is 8 hours.
8.1 Portobello Market
· Vocabulary: Buying things
· Grammar: some and any
8.2 Mystery objects
· Vocabulary: Describing objects

9. · Grammar: Passive
· Productive skills: Talk and describe an object
8.3 Talk about your favorite possession
· Vocabulary: Talk about your favorite possession
8.4 Explain words that you don´t know in English
· Vocabulary: Describing things you don´t know the word for in English
· Productive skills: Speak and describe an object that you don´t know the word for in English
Chapter 9 Feelings Number of hours per Chapter is 8 hours
9.1 Why do we do it?

10. · Vocabulary: Laugh, yawn, extreme adjectives
· Productive skills: Talk about a time you felt sad, amazed, cold etc.
9.2 Just good friends
· Vocabulary: Reacting to news. Give thanks and apologize
· Grammar: Present Perfect for giving news
· Productive skills: Talk about a picture and describe how the person in the picture feels
9.3 Catch up with friends
· Vocabulary: Asking for news
· Grammar: Keyword: just
9.4 I´m sorry but..

11. · Vocabulary: Reasons for saying you´re sorry
· Grammar: Revision: Present Perfect
· Productive skills: Write an email apologizing for going to a party
Chapter 10 Organized Number of hours per chapter is 8 hours
10.1 A Place to stay
· Vocabulary: Hotel facilities and staying at a hotel
· Productive skills: Call a hotel and book a room, tell them what type of room you want, for how long you
will be staying
10.2 Do you remember me?
· Grammar: Future plans and arrangements

12. · Productive skills: Talk about your future plans
10.3 Making arrangements
· Vocabulary: Arrange to meet up
· Grammar: Make
10.4 Invitations and requests
· Vocabulary: Questions for invitations and requests
· Grammar: Revision: future plans
· Productive skills: Talk and invite a person
Chapter 11 Spaces Number of hour per chapter is 8 hours
11.1 Moving

13. · Vocabulary: Describing your house or flat
· Grammar: Would
· Productive skills: Talk and describe your house or flat
11.2 Le Corbusier
· Vocabulary: Positive and negative things
· Productive Skills: Talk about the positive and negative aspects of where you live
11.3 Problems!
· Vocabulary: Solving problems
· Grammar: There
11.4 Renting a flat

14. · Vocabulary: Complaining
· Grammar: Revision: would
· Productive skills: Write a letter of complaint
Chapter 12 People and places Number of hours per chapter is 8 hours
12.1 Where is it?
· Vocabulary: Location and Describing your country
· Productive skills: Talk in groups about different countries
12.2 Big in Japan
· Vocabulary: Life and success
· Grammar: Infinitives and gerunds

15. · Productive skills: Talk about life and things that you have achieved
12.3 People and places in your country
· Vocabulary: Expression with know
· Grammar: Keyword: to
12.4 Vague
· Vocabulary: Vague expressions
· Grammar: Revision: infinitives and gerunds
· Productive skills: Talk about different topics in a vague or general manner
Chapter 13 Now and then Number of hours per chapter is8 hours
13.1 I couldn´t live without it!

16. · Vocabulary: Expressing how you feel about electronic gadgets Expressions used when talking on the
phone
· Productive skills: Talk on the phone using expressions for when: you call a person´s job, the signal is
bad
13.2 When I was a child
· Grammar: Used to
· Productive skills: Talk about things that you used to do when you were a child
13.3 Technology and changes
· Vocabulary: Comparing the past and the present
· Grammar: Keyword: time

17. 13.4 The first time
· Productive skills: Write a blog about the first time that you bought an electronic device
Chapter 14 It´s a matter of opinion Number of hours per chapter is 8 hours
14.1 Boxing
· Vocabulary: Express your opinion and react to different opinions
· Productive skills: Listen and give your opinion to about these sentences
14.2 Carbon footprint
· Grammar: Real and imaginary conditionals
· Productive skills: Talk about the environment using real and imaginary conditionals
14.3 A debate

18. · Grammar: Keyword: would
14.4 What´s your opinion?
· Vocabulary: : Expressions used to soften opinions
· Grammar: Revision: Imaginary conditionals
· Productive skills: Give your opinion using expressions to soften them
Chapter 1 Media around the world Number of hours per chapter is 8 hours
1.1 Entertainment and you
· Vocabulary: Customs and preferences
· Grammar: Present simple, perfect, continuous
· Productive skills: Talk, ask and respond to questions about things in the news

19. 1.2 Fact or Fiction?
· Vocabulary: Talk about facts and information Evaluate and recommend
· Productive skills: Talk and make recommendations
1.3 Books and television
· Vocabulary: Describing books and television programs
· Productive skills: Talk about the different aspects of culture
1.4 How do you make decisions
· Vocabulary: Adjectives and adverbs
· Grammar: Revision of present forms
· Productive skills: Write a review of a book

20. Chapter 2 Good communication Number of hours per chapter is 8 hours
2.1 Keeping in Touch
· Vocabulary: Giving opinions It´s + adjectives
· Productive skills: Talk about things that you think are a waste of time
2.2 On-line friends
· Vocabulary: Using the internet. Expressing possibility
· Grammar: Will, could, may , might
· Productive skills: Talk about how you think the future might be
2.3 Talking about an issue
· Vocabulary: Speculating about consequences

21. · Grammar: Keyword: so, such
· Productive skills: Talk about event that changed your life using so and such
2.4 How?
· Vocabulary: Asking for clarification
· Grammar: Revision: will, could, may, might
· Productive skills: Ask for clarification
7. WORKLOAD: THEORY/PRACTICE

22. The number of class sessions is 3 per week and each class session is 2 hours long.
8. CONTRIBUTION OF THE COURSE TO THE EDUCATION OF THE STUDENT
The English Intermediate B course contributes to the development of professionals by expanding the student´s
knowledge of the English language so that he or she can continue on to the next English course. In this course
the four skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing continue to be developed. This course contributes with
intermediate level vocabulary, language and expressions. It also develops the student’s abilities to work in pairs

23. and in groups. The student will feel motivated and will lose his/her fear of expressing him/herself in public
because he/she would have already practiced English during the course.
BASIC TRAINING PROFESSIONAL
TRAINING
SOCIAL SKILLS
DEVELOPMENT
X
9. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE AND THE
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE DEGREE PROGRAM

24. LEARNING OUTCOMES OF
THE DEGREE PROGRAM*
CONTRIBUTIO
N (High,
Medium, Low)
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
OF THE
COURSE**
THE STUDENT MUST:
a) Apply knowledge in
maths ,science and
engineering
- -
b) Design and conduct
experiments as well as
analyze and interpret data
- -

25. c) Design systems,
components or processes
under real restrictions
- -
d) Identify , formulate and
solve engineering problems
- -
e) Understand ethical and
professional responsibility
MEDIUM Be honest and responsible with their
classwork and at home
f) Communicate effectively HIGH Practice communicating in English with
their classmate and the outside world.
This communication can be oral or

26. written.
g) Understand the social,
environmental, economic
and global impact of
engineering
-
h) To be committed on-going
learning
MEDIUM To be responsible for their own learning
process. To use tools that will help them
discover and build their knowledge.
i) Know about contemporary
topics
MEDIUM Read and write about topics related to
culture, the environment and current

27. affairs
j) Use techniques, skills and
tools to practice engineering
-
k) Ability to lead and
undertake (MISSION
ESPOL)
MEDIUM To be a leader and undertake projects
or activities done in class or outside of
class which contribute to their personal
and professional growth.
(* This column must also include the common curricular outcomes (cross-curricular outcomes) that the institution
approved on 16th February 2012 via resolution CP 12-02-078 of 23rd February 2012 (CAc-2012-034))

28. (** Only the NUMBER corresponding to section 5 of this document must be written.)
10. EVALUATION IN THE COURSE
Evaluation activities
Exams X
Tests X
Homework/tasks X
Projects X
Laboratory/Experiments

29. Class participation X
Visits
Other X
11. PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION OF THE SYLLABUS AND THE DATE OF ITS
CREATION
Created by
Date

30. 12. APPROVAL
ACADEMIC SECRETARY OF THE
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
DIRECTOR OF TECHNICAL
ACADEMIC
SECRETARY
NAME: NAME:
SIGNATURE: SIGNATURE:

31. Date of approval by the Directive
Council:
13. VALIDITY OF THE SYLLABUS
RESOLUTION OF THE
POLYTECHNIC BOARD:
DATE: