Info on the speaking paper. Getting to know your fellow students.

21 Setembro 2016, 10:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Info on the speaking paper. Introduction to Unit 1: Who do you think you are? Getting to know your fellow students: a) talking about your family, job/studies, home, likes and dislikes; b) introducing a fellow student to the class (to be continued next lesson).

Introduction

20 Setembro 2016, 12:00 • Cláudia Rute Canelas Pereira Duarte

introduction
Rules
Methodolgy
Programme

Syllabus

20 Setembro 2016, 08:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Receive and review the syllabus, including course objectives and assessment criteria.

Homework: prepare presentation #1: My window, my world /

Introduction to B1.1

19 Setembro 2016, 16:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

TP5 were introduced to this semester's B1.1 course with Hilda Alexandra Eusébio.

In B1.1, students will be given ample opportunity to practice their listening, reading, speaking and writing skills.  The topics of the homework and in-class exercises/assignments will ensure that students are able to apply these skills to the familiar or everyday situations that one may experience in an English-speaking country or whilst traveling.

By the end of the semester, students should upon completion of the unit be able to:

• listen: and understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure etc., including short narratives;

• speak: and a) exploit a wide range of simple language to deal with most situations likely to arise whilst traveling; b) enter unprepared into conversation on familiar topics, express personal opinions and exchange information on topics that are familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life;

• read: a) straightforward factual texts and short pieces of fiction with a satisfactory level of comprehension and b) understand the description of events, feelings and wishes in personal letters well enough to reply to correspondence;

• write: straightforward connected texts on a range of familiar subjects within his/her field of interest, by linking a series of shorter discrete elements into a linear sequence.

Grammar:

• The present:

  • the present simple; the present continuous; the present perfect; the present perfect continuous.

• The past:

  • the past simple; the past continuous; the past perfect; the past perfect continuous.

• The future:

  • the future simple.

• Prepositions: location, time, directional.

• Adverbs.

• Comparatives and superlatives.

• Connecting words expressing cause and effect, contrast etc.

• Modals.

• Anything that comes up in students’ work.
  
  

  Comprehension:

• reading and learning vocabulary from short texts;

• listening to and learning vocabulary from audio and film clips;

• Writing:

• in-class grammar exercises;

• three homework assignments (two minor, one major).

• Speaking:

• in-class reading;

• Q&A;

• individual presentations;

• two group work presentations;

• end of semester oral presentation;

• etc.

In addition to grammar lessons and other in-class activities, students will have 3 individual homework assignments and 2 group work assignments to be done in the classroom. Group work will be presented to the entire class.  Presentations will be recorded.  All written work will be marked by the teacher with a colour key (yellow = incorrect conjugation; blue = incorrect spelling, etc.) and students will have the opportunity to correct their own mistakes in class under supervision.  Finally, 2-3 lessons will be structured around mistakes made by students in their homework assignments and oral presentations.  Written mistakes will be projected onto the screen, oral mistakes will be played on speakers – students will be given the first go at correcting mistakes and explaining these corrections to their peers.

• Attendance – 5%

• Completed Homework – 10%

• Mid-term Test – (Listening – 5%; Written - 15%) – 20%

• Writing Project – 20%

• Oral Test – 20%

• Final Test – 25% (Listening – 5%; Written – 20%)

ALL HOMEWORK MUST BE EMAILED TO ME

All homework must be emailed to me at the address above no later than midnight on the day that the assignment is due.  Work will lose one mark for each day that an assignment is late.  Homework will not be accepted in hard copy.

•  B1.1 Coursebook

• The coursebook (livro de curso/antologia) will be available in the Green Photocopy Room (Fotocópias Verde) and will contain all of the texts and in-class exercises that are to be given or carried out during lessons.
•  File 12 (Pasta 12):
• File 12 (Pasta 12) can be found in the Green Photocopy Room. There you can find all of the extra grammar exercises (and respective answer sheets) that you will need to do for homework in order to improve your grammar.

• Websites:

  www.englishpage.com

• This is an excellent site to learn about and practice your grammar.

These dates indicate classes that no one can miss – not even worker students may miss these classes.  Please would all worker students let their employers know well in advance about these dates so that they may carry out their assessments.  Please note that worker students need only appear on one of the oral presentation days in order to carry out their own presentation.

• 07/11/16 – Mid-term test.

• 09/11/16 – Listening test.

• 30/11/16 – Oral Presentations.

• 05/12/16 – Oral Presentations

• 07/12/16 – Listening test.

• 14/12/16 – Final Exam. 

Programme and assessment rules.

19 Setembro 2016, 14:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Programme and assessment rules.

The course will follow the objectives for the Threshold Level (B1.1) outlined in the Council of Europe document Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEF). At the end of the semester, the student: (a) will have developed his/her ability to understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.; (b) will be able to deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where English is spoken; (c) will be able to produce simple connected texts on topics which are familiar or of personal interest; (d) will be able to write, read, listen to (with understanding) and react (showing comprehension) to narrative texts regarding similar situations with others.

 Students will engage in reading and producing texts on familiar matters or of personal interest, in describing experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly giving reasons and explanations for opinions and plans. Students will also engage in listening comprehension exercises and comprehension exercises from short stories, poems and films on themes tackled in class. Special emphasis will be given to B1.1 lexicogrammatical structures.

ASSESSMENT AND GRADING SYSTEM

In accordance with Regulamento Geral de Avaliação da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, students will be assessed on oral and written work throughout the semester. Weighting will be as follows:

• first test 15%
• second test 35%
• oral and written task-based assignments 50% consisting of

o   a speaking paper 20%

o   homework/class work and active participation in class 25%

o   attendance 5%

Since assessment will be conducted on a regular basis, any task that is not submitted when due and/or any form of plagiarism will be given a zero. Any student who fails to do one of the above-mentioned tests/tasks will be given a zero. Worker students may, if they so wish, opt for continuous assessment (in which case they will have to comply with all the assessment criteria set for regular students) OR sit an examination to be held in January 2017. The examination will focus on the contents of the syllabus adopted for the B1.1 level.

Tests will take place on the following dates:

First test: 9 November 2016                        

Second Test: 30 November 2016

Any student who fails to sit one of the above-mentioned tests will be given a zero (out of twenty) for the test he/she has missed.

ATTENDANCE

Attendance is compulsory. For exceptions, please check the Regulamento geral de avaliação da faculdade de letras da universidade de Lisboa at http://www.letras.ulisboa.pt/pt/sobre-a-flul/legislacao/normas-e-regulamentos/faculdade-de-letras-da-universidade-de-lisboa/181--133/file. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

B1.1 Course Book First Semester 2016-2017 (compulsory – please bring your course book to every class) – available from Reprografia Vermelha.

Extra materials may be sent by email.