Course description C2.1, EOI Carabanchel, course 2020-2021, requirements, assessment, content

1. COURSE DESCRIPTION

2. C2 in English (CEFR)

3. Around 135 hours

4.  From 29th September/1st October 2020 to
early May 2021
 Until the health situation improves:
 Tuesdays or Thursdays (2 hours) in class
Online work on Aula Virtual (3 hours), which
doesn’t necessarily have to be done on
Thursday, but it should be done during the
week).
 When the situation improves:
Group 16:00: Tuesdays and Thursdays
Group 18:30: Only Tuesdays for everyone

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 (theoretically)
Considering the present
circumstances, we will be more
flexible, but it is strongly
recommended that work in Aula
Virtual is done and everyone comes
to class as much as possible.

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 Cursos Profesores 2020-21

16. Type Ramiro Cebreiros in the search tool:

17.  Now you are in, to be able to work, you will
have to register in the course, using the
enrolment code: C21. Try to do an activity,
for example, the first course task, write in
the forum, you will be asked to enrol, do it
with the code. You can start working.
 Meanwhile, you can enter as a guest.

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

19.  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.

20. 1) CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT: through work in
class, written assignments, oral tasks, etc.
2) SHORT TESTS DURING CLASS (December,
February, April)
Exam Convocatoria extraordinaria
(June), (to be announced).

21.  These tests will be on 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. More
info on the number of tests and how they will be averaged
Later.
 In June, only the skills that haven’t been passed must be
retaken.
Comprensión
lectora
Comprensión
oral
Expresión
escrita
Mediación Expresión e
Interacción
oral

22. 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

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

24.  Read the information sheet on the classroom
board

25.  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
2021.
 “Renuncia” can be done two months after
the beginning of classes, without any proof
of anything.
 YOU WILL NEVER GET YOUR MONEY BACK.
 SORRY!!!!

26.  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”.

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