The document outlines the curriculum and goals for an English department at a school for the 2008-2009 year. It includes 3 main points: 1) By the end of the year, students will be competent communicators and prepared for Selectividad exams through improving reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar and vocabulary skills. 2) The curriculum is organized into 14 units covering various grammar, vocabulary, writing and literature topics to be completed over 3 terms. 3) Student assessment and grading will include tests, exams, participation, homework and attitude, with the largest portion of the final grade based on Selectividad exams and literature assessments.

1. Departamento de inglés 2008-9 ALTAIR International School

2. At the end of the year you will be able to BE COMPETENT COMMUNICATORS (which is necessary in a globalised world) And Be successful at SELECTIVIDAD

3. Improving your: Reading and writing skills Listening and Speaking skills Deepening your understanding of Grammar and Vocabulary: Manipulating or selecting (new and old) structures according to style Avoiding common errors Reinforcing USE

4. Creating good study habits for exams Doing homework Use what you learn (Gr or Voc) in your writing compositions or when speaking Paying attention in class Taking an active role during lessons: Talk when it is your turn to talk and listen when you have to listen Taking notes Creating a good learning environment ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST and NEVER GIVE UP!

5. Inside Out Level V + Literature + Other selectividad tests Term 1: Units 1-5 Term 2: Units 6-10 Term 3: Units 10-14

6. INTRO Verb tense review. UNIT 1 Grammar: Adverbials : types and position Phrasal verbs with objects. Vocabulary : Personal values Writing: Personal description UNIT 2 Grammar : Describing nouns Order of adjectives Fronting Vocabulary : taste and its collocations Writing: Letter of complaint + EXTRA GRAMMAR : Reported speech UNIT ·3 Grammar : Hedging Negative and limiting adverbials Vocabulary : City collocations Informal vocabulary Writing : Place description UNIT 4 Grammar : Wh- words General & Past tendencies Vocabulary : Conversation Talk and its forms Writing : Letter asking for information UNIT 5 Grammar : All types of conditionals Wishes and regrets Vocabulary : Cultural items Descriptive verbs Wish

7. Literature: Research quiz, Shakespeare, Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) REVIEW UNITS 1,2,3,4,5 Assessment: - 2 Gr and Voc tests: - 16 October (units 1,2) - 14 November (units 3, 4, 5) - 2 Rd & Wr tests: - 17 October - 17 November - Literature exam: 18 November 28 November FINAL EXAM

8. UNIT 6 Grammar Participle clauses Vocabulary: verbs about seeing Mind and its collocations Writing : Informal letter UNIT 8 Grammar : Will for predictions and assumptions Using discourse markers Vocabulary: Prepositional phrases E- mail and Internet UNIT 9 Grammar : Modals Paraphrasing Inversion after neither/nor, so & such Vocabulary : Law Formal vocabulary Writing : For and against UNIT 10 Grammar: Contrast Patterns with get Passives (normal + impersonal) Review of units 6-10 Final exam Literature: Roald Dahl (Tales of the Unexpected), The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), There was once (Margaret Atwood)

9. UNIT 11 Grammar: Telling stories The Future seen from the past Vocabulary: Compound adjectives Things going wrong Writing : Summary/ Narrative Extra grammar : Relatives UNIT 12 Grammar: Whatever,whoever,wherever etc. Patterns with have Vocabulary : New words in English Word and its collocation Vocabulary of letter writing Writing : Letter of application UNIT 13 Grammar: Special uses of the past simple Vocabulary : Rather Charity Global situations Conscience and its collocations Reading and writing Review of units 11,12,13

10. Many things… for example… Something called inversion: On no account will you be able to misbehave in class this year Is this sentence the same as… You won´t be able to misbehave in class this year

11. More complex authentic texts Specific vocabulary Idioms and collocations Phrasal verbs The study of some literary texts (applied to Selectividad): “The Catcher in the Rye”, “Frankenstein”, “The Canterbury Tales”…

12. Up to 60% of your final grade: Gr and Voc tests Selectividad exams Literature test (writing skills will be specifically valued) A: Other tests (listening tests, speaking tests, writing projects), participation, attitude, homework, classwork, interest and involvement… Around 40% of the final grade: - Final (end of term) Gr and Voc exam

13. Refuerzos/apoyos www.englishaltair.blogspot.com

14. María Jose Natera and Verónica de Quevedo