Our Aims

This course seeks to reach Colombian teenagers in their 12's to 15's who are in the A2 Level of proficiency according to the Colombian Standards for English as a Foreign Language, and whose desire is to continue improving their communicative competence and learning strategies in an extra-curricular environment.   

Throughout the course students will work on: 

• Enhance the development of the communicative competence within the use of the four skills. 
• Discover and boost the learners’ styles and the way they can learn better. 
• Use learning strategies within the learning process. 
• Take part in short dialogues or conversations with understandable pronunciation. 
• Understand simple dialogues, songs, rhymes, interviews and short texts according to topics of their interest. 
• Produce simple oral descriptive and narrative texts. 
• Produce simple written descriptive and narrative texts. 
• Understand and follow instructions. 
• Take part in cooperative activities. 
• Identify some representative elements of the own culture and the target’s language. 

Thus, students will be able to deal with simple and straightforward information, to express in familiar contexts.

Objectives: Our objectives will be the ones outlined by the National Ministry of Education (MEN). Please click here to read the objectives (pages 22 and 23). 

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Contents

1. Getting Acquainted!

• Personal information: name, age, place of birth, parents’ names, family members, likes and dislikes. 
• Jobs and occupations 
• Greetings

2. Numbers and Daily Routines

• Age 
• Time 
•  Phone number 
• Address 
• Prizes 
• How many and How much 
• Days of the week 
• Months of the year 
• Numbers: 1 to 1’ 000 000 
• Planning schedules 

3. Health and Body

• People’s description 
• Healthy routines 
• Going to the doctor 
• Diseases 
• Parts of the body 
• Environment and habitats 
• The animal kingdom 
• Useful plants and trees for human beings 
• Learning about other cultures

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Methodology and Assessment

This course follows a communicative-oriented approach. It develops strengthening three axes: Tasks; Cross-cultural Learning and; Learning Strategies.

Assessment will be carried out having in mind the affective, social, cognitive and academic dimensions of the students. We will keep track of the students' progress through everyday tasks' performance, homeworks, and workshops.

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