This course description outlines a C2 level English course consisting of around 100 hours from September 2019 to May 2020. Classes will be held on Tuesdays for all students and Thursdays for those in the regular group. The course aims to develop communication skills through speaking, reading, listening and writing activities covering a variety of topics. Students will review grammar, vocabulary, and read authentic materials. Assessment will be continuous along with a midterm exam in February and final exam in May. Students are expected to study independently each week and attend at least 70% of classes.

1. COURSE DESCRIPTION

2. C2 in English (CEFR)

3. Around 100 hours

4.  From 12th September 2019 to 5th or 7th May
2020
 Tuesdays (everyone)
 Thursdays (for those in the regular group),
for those in “cursos semipresenciales, the
online work doesn’t necessarily have to be
done on Thursday, but it has to be done
during the week).

5.  Develop communication in varied situations
personal, academic, professional..in a
natural way, understanding and producing
texts with rich vocabulary and structures,
dealing with topics that are abstract and
concrete, of a general or specialized
character, in different registers and styles.

6.  Speaking: debating, discussing, negotiating,
presentations (complex topics).
 Reading: authentic books, internet,
newspapers.
 Listening: interviews, YouTube, radio, news,
TV, TED talks.
 Writing: expressing opinions, discursive
essays, articles, formal letters (covering
letters, job applications, asking for funding,
suggesting a course of action), making
proposals, reviews and reports.

7.  Review grammar (inversion and fronting,
ways of expressing emphasis, modal
verbs, tenses and complex phrasal verbs,
complex verb patterns, prepositions and
relative clauses)
 Review and learn vocabulary: specialised
and abstract, colloquial and academic
expressions, idioms, and common sayings.
Topics: work, health, gaming and sports,
current affairs, history, headlines, news
and media, business, trends, law.

8. “Outcomes Advanced, 2nd edition”
National Geographic Learning, with Workbook(optional)

9.  At least, one authentic book from a selection
you can find in our course Moodle to share in
a book club class after Christmas and for a
book review compilation in a padlet.

10. Oral presentation:
5 minutes based on an article from a recent
newspaper or magazine in English) with a short
follow-up in-class discussion.

11. ENGLISH
SPANISH: u jokin´?

12. OBLIGATORY
ATTENDANCE OF 70%: NO NOTES
TAKEN
MISSING MORE THAN 70%:
“PÉRDIDA DE OFICIALIDAD”
POSSIBILITY OF DOING EXAMS

13.  Communicative, but YOU HAVE TO SPEAK,
PARTICIPATE and do the ONLINE WORK (if enrolled
in a “curso semipresencial”.)

14.  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.

15. From the school’s website, go to Acceso a
Aula virtual on the right and in Departamento
de Inglés click on Ramiro Cebreiros class and
enter:

16.  Work and study every week
 Check our Moodle in Educamadrid

17.  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.

18. 1) CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT: through work in
class, written assignments, oral tasks, etc.
2) EXAMS
 Mid-term exam 4th February (to be confirmed)
 Final exam (May) (to be announced).
 Exam Convocatoria extraordinaria
(June), (to be announced).

19.  The exams will test each of the following five parts:
A minimum of 5 (out of 10) must be obtained in each part. If the
total averages 6.5 (out of 10) the course will be passed.
The midterm exam and coursework will help you pass the course.
 In June, only the skills that haven’t been passed must be
retaken.
Comprensión
lectora
Comprensión
oral
Expresión
escrita
Mediación Expresión e
Interacción
oral

20. Tuesdays and Thursdays 15:30
 You can also contact me through Moodle
Educamadrid and my email from Educamadrid:
rcebreirosalvarez@educa.madrid.org

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

22.  Read the information sheet on the classroom
board

23.  If you are disabled, please come and talk to
me for exams and classes to be adapted.
 Deadline for deregister in the course
(Anulación Matrícula oficial) is 30th March
2020.
 “Renuncia” can be done two months after
the beginning of classes, without any proof
of anything.
 YOU WILL NEVER GET YOUR MONEY BACK.
 SORRY!!!!

24.  Please don’t leave us!
 First month: “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 me.
 Later: ask me if it’s possible and then go to
“Secretaría”.

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