Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Galego e Portugués: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
Lingua Inglesa 4 |
Assessment |
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Identifying Data | 2017/18 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Lingua Inglesa 4 | Code | 613G02019 | |||||||||||
Study programme |
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Second | Obligatoria | 6 | ||||||||||
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Methodologies | Competencies / Results | Description | Qualification |
Supervised projects | B6 B9 C2 C3 C6 | You will have to two written projects: (1) a motivation letter (10%) (2) a professional CV (10%) The necessary guidelines to do these projects will be provided in class, on Moodle and during office hours. |
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Workshop | B5 B8 C4 | MEDIUM AND SMALL GROUPS with language assistant): In some of the medium groups and all the small ones, you will practice your skills at speaking, listening and (to an extent) grammar. Focus will be placed on how to write a CV and how to behave/speak in job interviews. Sometimes you will have to do tasks based on Moodle materials. The students who show a really extraordinary participation in the classroom will be exempt from taking the audio-oral test. |
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Guest lecture / keynote speech | A4 A5 A6 A10 A11 A15 A21 A22 A23 B1 C7 C8 | (LARGE GROUPS with coordinator): Classes consist of both theoretical and practical lessons on oral and writing skills. Before coming to class, the students will have to read PIECES OF NEWS or watch VIDEOS that will be uploaded on Moodle. Once there, the students will DEBATE about these pieces of news / videos; then you will be organized into groups and write an ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY derived from the previous debate. Your ESSAYS will be corrected by the teacher and returned to their authors throughout the course. Occasionally, we will complete the practice of grammar, vocabulary and academic writing with a GAME. The students who do a voluntary individual presentation will access the possibility to have EXTRA points added to the final mark (see comments). |
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Oral presentation | B10 C1 | The presentation consists in doing a video project, between 5 and 10 people, whose content is an ADVERTISEMENT or PROGRAM to SELL a PRODUCT or METHOD. While talking, the students will be forbidden to read from any kind of notes. You will have to prepare the SCRIPT, RECORD the video and UPLOAD it; the rest of the guidelines will be explained by the coordinator. Certainly, the students are encouraged to use the tutorials throughout the semester to ask questions about their projects. |
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Mixed objective/subjective test | A1 A2 A9 A14 B3 C5 | The exam parts will be organized as follows: -READING EXAM with a coordinator (15%): This part consists of a reading-comprehension test of the required LONG READINGS, which will be on Moodle, and which are different from the short texts discussed at the seminars. These LONG READINGS will be explained in the large-group session the penultimate day of class. -WRITING EXAM with coordinator (20%): You will have to write an argumentative essay on a relevant topic set by the teacher, which was not debated in class; I will test your skills at grammar, vocabulary and MLA style. The essay must have: title, introduction, thesis statement, body and conclusion. -AUDIO-ORAL EXAM with language assistant (15%): Job interview, using a formal register and following the guidelines explained and practiced in class—as well as samples and tips posted on Moodle. |
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Seminar | A8 A12 B4 B7 | (MEDIUM GROUPS with coordinator): We will devote part of these groups to READING COMPREHENSION exercises of brief TEXTS that will be on MOODLE. The students must read these texts in advance, and also prepare the Moodle exercises, which will be corrected in class and checked by the teacher throughout the course. The students who write a voluntary individual essay will be able to have EXTRA points added to the final grade (see comments). |
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Short answer questions | A9 A10 C2 | Towards the end of the term, you will do an in-class exercise with the coordinator. The exercise will assess the continuity with which you have acquired the theory and if you are able to put it into practice. | 20 |
Assessment comments | |||
__If the coordinator considers it appropriate, there may be __Since, the oral presentation / video-project is optional, to __ Assignments must be delivered in a timely manner. We will only __The assignments showing signs of plagiarism will be qualified __Students’ voluntary work will be qualified by adding an EXTRA __In case of workers' strike, if it were necessary, the teachers __Either in the first or the second opportunity, the students who __For the JULY opportunity, there will be supervised written ___If you opt for the July opportunity and decide to do the ___Students who have been granted exemption, as specified in ___Students sitting the December exam (final exam |
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