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PROFESOR DE INGLÉS UNAM FES ACATLÁN LEI

ON LINE COURSE MOODLE

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ADVANCED ENGLISH

ONLINE RESOURCES EBOOKS

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Welcome I want you to welcome to this amazing course that will help you to understand better Phrasal Verbs.

This course is designed for those who want to precent CAE or PCE, which demands a higher vocabulary and advanced use of English.

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Don’t be afraid we are going to give you all the necessary tools for you to develop new strategies and develop a better communicative competence.

SHARE TECHNIQUES, IDEAS, QUESTIONS, KNOWLEDGE

Our code As this course will be on line it will be more personalized, there fore our main goal is to satisfy your needs.

In this course you will meet new FRIENDS, yes FRIENDS, that will also share your same doubts, so feel free to ask whatever you want and anytime. We are here to help you.

One of the rules of the game is absolute RESPECT between the participants as well as the administrators, will not be any tolerance in this point; respect and you will be respected.

Death lines is a frightening word, isn’t it? Don’t worry most of the activities are timed and the few ones that are to “hand in” you have a week to deliver it, during that week you can send drafts of it and will be answered the same day with the pertinent feedback.

TEAM, that will be our moto. Working in teams doing pair work, error correction, peer teaching and grading will be really important in this course and for you to full fill your goals.

The competences that you are going to develop will be the ones according to your level.

Objective To develop a better communicative competence by using phrasal verbs in a natural way that will allow you to have a better score on your certification.

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This course will be based according to the European Framework.

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In order for you to pass the certificates you should use up to three phrasal verbs on the interview and up to five in the written part.

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Background Before taking this course you need to have a FCE or CAE level.

You have to be on seventh semester of the mayor of LEI or be taking the workshops for CAE at the language center.

You most have fully command on verbs tenses as well as good grammar in use knowledge and a good sentence analysis.

Materials CAE Gold Plus (Longman - Pearson) Objective Proficiency Book (Cambridge) Grammar and Vocabulary for Cambridge Advanced and Proficiency (Longman)

How to work along with the materials and the course?

The course has been designed according with the table of content of each book, so as you advance in your sessions of English with your teacher you can practice the vocabulary given is this i-course to increase your vocabulary and for acquire it and use it naturally in any context.

Why I have to take this?

This course will complement your course of CAE of 6ยบ and 7ยบ semester of LEI or PCE of 8ยบ and 9ยบ semester. In both courses is really important to show an advanced vocabulary and usage of English in the four skills.

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The main aim of this course if help you to develop the communicative competences as the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages have designed for each level of mastery in English, as the table shows:

Table 1 Common European Framework of reference for languages.1

Right know depends on the case you are a Proficient user level C1 or C2, which means that you have a advanced domain of English.

The European Framework of Reference for Languages establish that at certain level some communicative competencies have been developed through the hours of study of English and the exposure to the language. Therefore we have some command in our production, this levels of production have been measure.

According to this measure you have to show have to show advance usage of English which means that you have to use a broader vocabulary and more complex grammar structures.

This means that the complexity of your productions has to increase, is not the same to use the language as an independent user (FCE), this only means that you are only familiar with general topics and you can still hesitate at this stage you can not hesitate.

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Level

Global

Vocabulary Range

Can understand a wide range Has a good command of a of demanding, longer texts, b ro a d l e x i c a l re p e r t o i re and recognize implicit meaning. allowing gaps to be readily Can express him/herself o v e r c o m e

with

fluently and spontaneously circumlocutions; little obvious w i t h o u t m u c h o b v i o u s searching for expressions or searching for expressions. avoidance strategies. Good

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Can use language flexibly and c o m m a n d o f i d i o m a t i c effectively for social, academic expressions and colloquialisms and professional purposes.

Can produce clear, wellstructured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled

use

of

o rg a n i z a t i o n a l p a t t e r n s , connectors and cohesive devices.

Can understand with ease Has a good command of a very virtually everything heard or b ro a d l e x i c a l re p e r t o i re r e a d . C a n s u m m a r i z e including idiomatic information from different spoken and written sources,

C2

reconstructing arguments and a c c o u n t s i n a c o h e re n t presentation. Can express

expressions

and

colloquialisms; shows awareness of connotative levels of meaning.

him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex situations.

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What to see and do !

Course: Speak like me! A course on Phrasal Verbs and Idioms for Advanced English Students.

Level: 7ยบ semester and forward of the mayor of LEI or be on Advanced levels at the language center.

Number of units: Four units Modality: On line Course materials: Objective Proficiency (Cambridge), Grammar and Vocabulary for CEA and Proficiency (Cambridge).

Instructor: Alejandra Eunice Romero Cervantes Contact: euniceromcerv@hotmail.com

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Unit 1: Introduction

Objective

Description The phrasal verbs can be decided in

The students will be able to identify t w o g ro u p s : a d ve r b ia l a n d types of phrasal verbs and their prepositional. structures

Verbs dictated if a Phrasal Verb can be separable or inseparable.

Phrasal Verbs can have three structures and these three are considered phrasal verbs.

1.1 Types of Phrasal Verbs

Students will recognize the different Some prepositions not work as structures of Phrasal Verbs.

prepositions some of them work as adverbs. Some of this adverbs can have this two characteristics some of them not.

1.2 Separable and Inseparable Phrasal Verbs

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The students will identify which So m e phrasa l verbs ca n be Phrasal Verbs can be separated separated and they can use objects according to the type of verbs they between them. But this is thanks of have,

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Objective

Description Transitive and Intransitive verbs

1.3 Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

The students will apply transitive dictate if a phrasal verb can be and intransitive to classify separable separated or not. and inseparable phrasal verbs

The difference between a transitive or intransitive is the object.

Unit 2: Work out 2.1 Together or not

Students will select what kind of phrasal verbs are suitable for each situation given.

Students will select what kind of phrasal verbs are suitable for each situation given.

2.2 Guess who

2.4 Articles

competence in the usage of phrasal verbs.

By playing games such as memory games, matching games, etc.

suitable phrasal verb that can correct phrasal verbs that will

The students will recall previous vocabulary.

Students will compose an article by using some of the phrasal verbs of previous exercises.

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will test your knowledge and

Students will infer what’s the most By filling gaps you will chose the satisfy the given statements.

2.3 Find me

You will realize some exercise that

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satisfy the statement given.

By matching phrasal verbs with the meaning students will practice phrasal verbs.

You will create an article about your country, your school or you will have to develop a task according to some points.

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Objective

Description You are going to evaluate your classmates according to the writing file of articles. Plus you are going to

2.5 Teamwork

Evaluate your partners articles according to the formats given

grade also the accuracy, quality, u s a g e of E n g l is h , esth et ic , performance, number of mistakes, usage of vocabulary.

The writing has to show advance grammar and vocabulary, As you may know exist some phrases in Mexico that contain a knowledge in themselves.

This phrases were created by the

Unit 3: Catch up with

rea lity that su rrounded the ir Compare some idioms with the Mexican ones

idioms

communities.

This phrases are internationals, they w e r e ta ke n f ro m d iffe r e n t philosophers, thinkers, revolutionary people, idealists, etc that by metaphoric phrases tough us lessons of life or ways or living that have help us along the history, Some well known Mexican phrases

3.1 Equivalents

Analyze some Mexican phrases and have an equivalent in English maybe give the equivalent in English.

they don’t use the same words but the meaning is the same.

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Objective

Description You are going to create a column to give suggestion of any topic you

3.2 Be a reporter

To create a colu mn to g ive want for doing this you need to use suggestions or pieces of advice of some idioms that will fit to give the correct message.

any topic you want.

The final product will be graded by your own peers.

You are going to develop a game

Unit 4:

Develop a game that will give a

Mash up

strategy to increase vocabulary.

that will have to increase the vocabulary about phrasal verbs and idioms in order to have a better mastery for presenting the exam.

Evaluation The minimum for approval is the 80% of the course. Each module represents the 25% of you total score.

Units Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4

25% 25% 25% 25%

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What about the teacher?

Hi! every one my name is Alejandra Eunice Romero but you can call me Alexa, I’m 28 years old, old but I’m not old; young but I’m not that bold.

As everybody that has made the mayor our night mare and the monster under our beds are the phrasal verbs, I mean the usage of English can be mastered by any one who is a book warm and can learn all the possible rules and Hocus Pocus behind grammar structures and the speech. But Phrasal Verbs and Idioms they have been told us to learn it be heart, but nobody has told you the secrets and give you and all access pass to the world of Phrasal Verbs or Idioms.

I will no give you a recipe or a magic formula but I will teach you to speak their language and to understand them and maybe just maybe you will not have to learn them by heart but to take out of them some logic.

You will notice that I love music and most of the practice will include music. I just hope that you are into the same track with me and enjoy it as much as I do.

And I like and love STAR WARS, me and my brother have a huge collection of them. Most of them as peace offerings after screwing up which happens very often.

And the last thing about me is that I love dogs, specially Alaskans, I dream about to have one some day and call him Kato. Well it is one of my dreams.

Well let’s stop the chitchat and put your hamster to roll.

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The best luck to all of you.

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