course description Avanzado 2 B2+ at EOI Carabanchel

1. COURSE DESCRIPTION

2. B2+ in English (CEFR)

3.  Around 120 hours
 105 minutes + 30 minutes
every two weeks

4.  From 3rd October 2017 to 8th or 10th May
2018
 Tuesdays and Thursdays and approx. one
Friday a month.
 Class on Fridays:
17th November
15th December
26th January
2nd March
13th April
4th May

5.  Develop communication in many situations and
functions (expressing opinions, agreeing and
disagreeing, emphasizing, giving advice, solving
problems, suggesting, persuading, narrating and
describing, complaining, presenting a topic,
reviewing).
 Speak and improve fluency and accuracy
 Read texts (authentic books, internet, newspapers)
 Listen (interviews, YouTube, radio, news, TV,
documentary extracts)
 Write ( a "for and against" composition, expressing an
opinion, articles, narrating stories, summarizing,
informal and formal letters (complaint letters, job
applications), book and film reviews and reports, use
of discourse markers to link ideas)

6.  Review grammar (tenses, modals,
pronouns, prepositions, articles, types of
sentences (conditional, relative, contrast,
result, reason, purpose, etc.),
complementation patterns in sentences,
gerunds and infinitives, passive voice.
 New grammar: inversion, cleft sentences,
distancing strategies.
 Review and learn vocabulary (new idioms
and phrasal verbs, metaphors, synonyms
and collocations).

7. “English File Advanced, Third Edition”
Oxford University Press, with Workbook

8.  At least, one authentic book from a selection
of a list you can find on the wiki:
http://coolenglish.wikispaces.com
 One book review will be done about it:
to be handed in by 15th
February 2018.

9. 1) Oral presentation (5 minutes related to any
topic from a list you can find on the wiki)
It will be done in the small oral groups at the
end of the class.
2) Article, entry, review, etc. for school
magazine (voluntary)

10. ENGLISH
SPANISH: TOTALLY FORBIDDEN

11.  OBLIGATORY
 ATTENDANCE OF 70%: NO NOTES
TAKEN
 MISSING MORE THAN 70%:
“PÉRDIDA DE OFICIALIDAD”
POSSIBILITY OF DOING EXAMS

12.  Communicative, but YOU HAVE TO SPEAK

13.  Work and study every week
 Check the class wiki:
http://coolenglish.wikispaces.com

14.  Listen to the radio in English, watch films in
English, talk to native English Speakers, go to
the school’s library.
 Come to class.

15. 1) CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT: through work in
class, written assignments, oral tasks, etc.
2) EXAMS
 Mock exam in February: first week.
 Prueba de Certificación (May) (to be announced).
 Prueba de Certificación extraordinaria
(June), (to be announced).

16.  The exams will test each of the following four skills
Each skill must be passed (60%) to pass the course
BUT, if you get a minimum of 13 in a maximum of two skills
and the total averages 60% or more, the course will also be
passed.
 In June, only the skills that haven’t been passed must be
retaken.
Comprensión
lectora
Comprensión
oral
Expresión
escrita
Expresión e
Interacción
oral
15/25 15/25 15/25 15/25

17.  Tuesday 15:30
 Thursday 20:30
 You can also contact me through the wiki:
 http:// coolenglish.wikispaces.com

18.  Library with 4 computers, WIFI, where you
can also check out books.

19.  Read the information sheet on the classroom
board

20.  If you are disabled, please come and talk to
me for Prueba de Certificación and classes to
be adapted.
 Deadline for deregister in the course
(Anulación Matrícula oficial) is 30th April
2018.
 “Renuncia” can be done in October and
November, without any proof of anything.
 YOU WILL NEVER GET YOUR MONEY BACK.
 SORRY!!!!

21.  Please don’t leave us!
 In October: “permuta”, look for another student
who wants to change with you (there is a list on
a notice board, steps to 1st floor) then go to
Secretaría and talk to the teachers
 Later: talk to the teacher of the class you want
to change to and go to Secretaría.

22.  I HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD TIME
AND REALLY ENJOY THE CLASS