Programa de Inglés - Ingreso 2011
PROGRAMA INGLÉS - NIVEL AVANZADO I y 2
Metas:
Ofrecer un espacio alternativo e innovador a través del aprendizaje de Inglés.
Desarrollar la interacción positiva entre personas de distintos origenes y educar para la paz responsable en el mundo
Con este curso buscamos alcanzar la excelencia académica y promover el desarrollo personal de cada uno de los participantes del mismo.
Observación
El standard internacional que corresponde a este nivel es VANTAGE (PRIMERA PARTE)
OBJETIVOS GENERALES
Al completar este nivel el alumno estará en condiciones de:
-Comprender discursos y conferencias extensas siguiendo líneas argumentales complejas.
-Leer artículos e informes con postura del autor y puntos de vista.
-Participar en conversaciones con fluidez y espontaneidad, así también con nativos de la lengua.
formar parte activa en debates.
-Explicar un punto de vista exponiendo ventajas e inconvenientes.
-Escribir textos claros y detallados, así como, informes completos.
Al trasladarse a un país de habla inglesa ser capaz de desarrollar satisfactoriamente sus actividades en todas las áreas de rutina y aspectos laborales
Contenidos
UNIT 1 IDENTITY
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
Answering a questionnaire
Discussing what gives people their identity
Talking about clothes
VOCABULARY AND TOPICS:
Hobbies and interests
Items of clothing
Character traits
Phrasal verbs with get
GRAMMAR:
Using to - infinitive
Indirect questions
Auxiliary verbs and tenses
UNIT 2 TALL TALES
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
Telling stories
Making a film review
Describing a celebration
Writing a story
VOCABULARY AND TOPICS:
Descriptive adjectives
Film vocabulary and jargon
Relationships.
get+adjectives
GRAMMAR:
States and habits in the past: would / used to
Reporting verbs
Narrative tenses
UNIT 3 GLOBE TROTTING
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
Talking about famous travellers
Describing a perfect holiday
Planning a visit to a tourist destination
Writing a travel brochure
Talking about problems during a trip
Making predictions
Talking about your intentions
VOCABULARY AND TOPICS:
Means of transportation
Leisure activities
Words to describe holidays and places
Expressions with like
GRAMMAR:
Future predictions and intentions
Question Tags
Future forms
UNIT 4 NATURE OR NURTURE?
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
Discussing identity and upbringing
Talking about gender stereotypes
Making predictions about the distant future
Debating
Talking about health and lifestyles
Write about your opinion
VOCABULARY AND TOPICS:
Health problems
Health and lifestyle collocations
Expressions with even
GRAMMAR:
Causative use of have
Future perfect
Future continuous
UNIT 5 IN THE NEWS
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
Discussing headlines
Present a news report
Talking about the media and the role of the press
Using the Internet
Talking about blogging
Writing a news report
VOCABULARY AND TOPICS:
Computer parts
Internet vocabulary
Phrasal verbs with up
GRAMMAR:
Passive constructions
Conjunctions of purpose and reason
Passive tenses
UNIT 6 GET SOME PERSPECTIVE
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
Talking about people
Describing character
Describing optical illusions
Discussing similarities in cultures
Talking about Africa
Guessing a story
Writing an informal e-mail
VOCABULARY AND TOPICS:
Character traits
Shapes and patterns
Adjectives to talk about nature and geography
Language of discussion
GRAMMAR:
(be used to / get used to
Modals of deduction
UNIT 7 ONE WORLD
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
Discussing environmental problems
Describing ecotourism Holiday destinations
Discussing how to deal with waste
Giving opinion on environmental problems
VOCABULARY AND TOPICS:
Environmental problems
Waste
Types of holidays
Rhetorical expressions
GRAMMAR:
Inversion
Reporting questions, intentions, and advice
Reported speech
UNIT 8 THE PERFECT CHOISE
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
Talking about problems and giving advice
Discussing hypothetical situations
Making important decisions in life
Describing one's best friend
Writing a magazine article
VOCABULARY AND TOPICS:
Feelings
Positive qualities
Ways of relating
Expressions with about
Words like if
GRAMMAR:
Hypothetical or imaginary situations
Conditional sentences
Recycling: Past Simple.
UNIT 9 WORK EXPERIENCE
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
Describing one's job
Talking about employers and employees
Preparing for a job interview
Talking about dress code at work
Writing in response to a job advertisement
Complaining and criticizing
VOCABULARY AND TOPICS:
The world of work
Tools
Compound nous
Expression actually
GRAMMAR:
Gerunds and infinitives
Cleft sentences
UNIT 10 NEWSPEAK
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
Talking about body language
Describing an invented product
Making phone call and sending text messages
Reacting to difficult situations
Giving a speech
writing a report
VOCABULARY AND TOPICS:
Body parts
Body language
Phrasal verbs with talk
GRAMMAR:
Alternatives to relative clauses
Future seen from the past
Relative clauses
UNIT 11 THE WIDER WORLD
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
Describing oriental activities and philosophies
Talking about multicultural societies
Planning an imaginary trip to Asia
Describing national cuisine
Expressing contrasting ideas
Writing a recipe
VOCABULARY AND TOPICS:
Oriental activities and philosophies
Oriental food
Cooking verbs
Expression mind you
GRAMMAR:
Quantifiers
Emphasis on comparisons
Conjunctions
UNIT 12 CONSUMER SOCIETY
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
Analysing adverts
Giving opinion about cover versions
Discussing street cultures
Giving a pres