Summary of organisation, requirements, assessment and work to do for our B2.2 course in EOI Carabanchel

1. COURSE DESCRIPTION

2. B2 in English (CEFR)

3. Around 135 hours
2 ½ hours a day

4.  From 15th September 2022 to second wek
May 2022
 Tuesdays in class
 Thursdays: on line (work in Aula Virtual that
you can do whenever you want but BEFORE
the following class on Tuesday)
Videoconferences:
Interactions and presentations (two people)
one Thursday (there will be a sign up list)

5.  Develop communication in many situations and
functions (expressing opinions, agreeing and
disagreeing, emphasizing, speculating, showing
wishes and regrets, making hypothesis, guessing,
suggesting, persuading, narrating and describing,
complaining, presenting a topic, reviewing).
 Speak and improve fluency and accuracy
 Read texts (authentic books, internet, newspapers)
 Listen (interviews, YouTube, radio, news, TV,
documentary extracts)
 Write (essays, persuasive essays, expressing an
opinion, articles, narrating stories, summarizing,
proposals, informal and formal letters (complaint
letters),book and film reviews and reports, use of
discourse markers to link ideas)

6.  Review grammar (tenses, modals,
pronouns, prepositions, adjectives,
articles, determiners and quantifiers,
types of sentences (conditional, relative,
contrast, result, reason, purpose, etc.),
complementation patterns in sentences,
gerunds and infinitives, reporting verbs
and reported speech.
 Review and learn vocabulary (new idioms
and phrasal verbs, compound words,
dependent prepositions, collocations).

7. “Macmillan English Hub B2 EOI Edition”
Macmillan Education, with Workbook

8.  At least, one book adapted book or an
original book
 One book review will be done about it:
to be submitted on Aula Virtual by 15th
February 2023.

9. 1) 1 oral presentation (5 minutes related to
any topic from a list you can find on Aula
Virtual)/1 oral interaction (given by me)
They will be done by videoconference on
Thursdays. There will be a list to sign up for
that, one pair each Thursday.
2) Article, entry, review, etc. for school
magazine (voluntary)

10. ENGLISH
SPANISH: u jokin´?

11. OBLIGATORY
ATTENDANCE OF 70%: NO NOTES
TAKEN
MISSING MORE THAN 70%: no
“evaluación de progreso”, can only
do exam in “convocatoria
extraordinaria”

12.  Communicative, but YOU HAVE TO SPEAK,
PARTICIPATE and do the ONLINE WORK

13.  From textbook activities (grammar and
vocabulary).
 Watch videos (answer questions, prepare
discussions)
 Read articles (answer questions, prepare
discussions).
 Write shorter or longer pieces.
 Prepare and record oral presentations.

14. From the school’s website, go to Acceso a
Aula virtual on the right and in Departamento
de Inglés click on Cursos Profesores 2022-23

15. Go to Ramiro B2.2

16.  Now you are in, to be able to work, you will
have to register in the course, using the
enrolment code: B22022. You have to enter
the code on the top right or whenever you
try to do an activity, for example, when you
try to participate in the “forum”
 Meanwhile, you can enter as a guest.

17.  Work and study every week
 Check our Aula Virtual

18.  Listen to the radio in English, watch series
and films in English, talk to native English
Speakers, read newspapers, magazines,
books in English, go to the school’s library.
 Come to class.

19. Continuous assessment: through work in class,
written assignments, oral tasks, etc.
 1st term: personal progress report by email
(from 12th to 15th December)
 2nd term: exam (40% final mark): 28th
February and 2nd March
 3rd term: exam (60% final mark): 9th and 11th
May
 AVERAGE: will be mark for “evaluación
ordinaria”

20.  Two many classes have been missed.
 One or more parts have been failed in
“convocatoria ordinaria”
 Only failed parts will be retaken

21.  The exams will consist of five parts:
A minimum of 5 (out of 10) must be obtained in each part. If the
total averages 5, the course will be passed (promocionado)
 In Convocatoria Extraordinaria in May, only the skills that
haven’t been passed must be retaken.
The exams will include these five parts but will be shorter than
“Prueba de Certificación”
Comprensión
textos
escritos
Comprensión
Textos orales
Expresión e
interacción
escrita
Mediación Expresión e
Interacción
oral

22. To be announced (end of May, any time in June)
 The exam will consist of five parts:
 A minimum of 6.5 (out of 10) must be obtained in
each part. It’s possible to get 5 in some parts, but the
FINAL AVERAGE must be 6.5 in order to pass “Prueba de
Certificación” and obtain the official certificate
 If in one or more parts less that 5 is obtained, it’s a fail
and no average can be made.
Comprensión
textos
escritos
Comprensión
Textos orales
Expresión e
interacción
escrita
Mediación Expresión e
Interacción
oral

23. Tuesdays and Thursdays 15:30
 You can also contact me through Aula Virtual
Educamadrid using the message system
and my email from Educamadrid:
rcebreirosalvarez@educa.madrid.org

24.  Library with computers and WIFI, where you
can also check out books and DVDs.
 Computer room

25.  Read the information sheet on the classroom
board

26.  If you are disabled, please come and talk to
me for Prueba de Certificación and classes to
be adapted.
 Deadline for deregister in the course
(Anulación Matrícula oficial) is one month
before the end of the course. You can also
“renunciar a promoción” by this date.
 “Renuncia” can be done in the next couple
of months, without any proof of anything.
 YOU WILL NEVER GET YOUR MONEY BACK.
 SORRY!!!!

27.  Please don’t leave us!
 In October: “permuta”, look for another student
who wants to change with you (there is a list on
a notice board, steps to 1st floor) then go to
Secretaría and talk to the teachers
 Later: talk to the teacher of the class you want
to change to and go to Secretaría.

28. I HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD TIME
AND REALLY ENJOY THE CLASS