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Primer semestre 2017
Abr 24, 2024
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1. IDENTIFICACION DEL CURSO

Código y Nombre de la Asignatura: IGL 5000 - ENGLISH V
División Académica: Instituto de Idiomas
Departamento Académico: Dpto. Lenguas Extranjeras
IGL 4998 Calificación mínima de 3.0 o Homo. Inglés Pregrado CR 005 o Certificado Inglés Pregrado CR 005 o Examen Clasif.InglésPregradoCR 005
Número de créditos:
Intensidad horaria (semanal para nivel pregrado y total para nivel postgrado):
4.000 Horas de Teoría
0.000 Horas de Laboratorio
0.000 Otras Horas
Niveles: Educación Superior Pregrado
Tipos de Horario: Teoría

This is the fifth level of the eight levels of the Undergraduate Program. It provides an intermediate level language class that allows students to develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Speaking activities aim to motivate students to interact in social situations. Students will also have the opportunity to develop vocabulary and grammar through specific strategies within a social, as well as academic context.


3. RATIONALE

With the globalization of relationships, there is a need to adopt a language as an international means of communication. Universidad Del Norte has developed a program of English that will help students in their future professional life to become leaders in their area of expertise, as well as future candidates for postgraduate and specialized courses, including PHD, in foreign universities. Level 5 is an intermediate level in the English language program where students continue to develop their communicative skills to contribute to an intellectual, professional and intercultural environment.


4. OBJECTIVES

4.1. GENERAL OBJECTIVES
To confidently understand the main point of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. To confidently deal with most situations likely to arise while in an area where the language is spoken. To confidently produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. To confidently describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

4.2. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES.
Reading:
Comprehend main ideas and details.
Connect texts to personal experiences and form opinions.
Identify themes shared in multiple texts.
Make Inferences to understand ideas not stated directly.

Writing:
Write paragraphs with sentence variety (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences).
Produce defining and non-defining adjective clauses.
Write short essays with introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs.
Write personal responses to a text.

Listening:
Identify main ideas and specific details.
Make inferences to understand ideas not stated directly.
Recognize common themes in multiple listenings.
Relate knowledge, experience, and views to listenings.

Speaking:
Express ideas through brief video responses.
Pose effective questions and ask for clarification or examples.
Participate in a meeting.

In addition, the following grammatical structures will be covered in the course: passive and active voice; past unreal conditionals; contrasting simple past, present perfect, and present perfect progressive; gerunds and infinitives; present unreal conditionals; reported speech.


5. CONTENT

Topic 1: Untruth and Consequences
Topic 2: Dying for Their Beliefs
Topic 3: Longevity: Too Much of a Good Thing
Topic 4: The Achilles Heel
Topic 5: Early to Bed, Early to Rise
Topic 6: Animal Intelligence


6. BIBLIOGRAPHY

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