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6.4.3 COMPETENCIAS COMUNICATIVAS INGLÉS

PROGRAMACIÓN INGLÉS AVANZADO 1

CONTENIDOS GRAMATICALES
- Question forms
- Prepositional phrases
- Present tenses
- Quite, a bit, etc.
- Making comparisons
- Reflexives
- Past tenses
- Time linkers
- Obligation and permission
- Would/ used to
- So/ such; too/enough
- Present perfect
- Future forms
- Like vs. As
- Countable and uncountable nouns
- Articles
- Participle clauses
- Expressing purpose
- Adverbs
- Causative have
- Relative clauses
- If structures
- Reported speech
- Reporting verbs
- Possibility and certainty
- -ing forms and infinitives
- Passives
- Ability
- Hypothetical meaning
- Verb/subject agreement

CONTENIDOS LEXICOS
- Going out
- Staying in
- Family and relationships
- Word formation: suffixes
- Describing people
- Lifestyles and homes

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- At home
- Town and country
- Travel and transport
- Synonyms
- Sport and competition
- Success
- Ages and stages
- Dependent preposition
- Science, inventions and dicoveries
- Intensifiers (alternatives to very)
- Food and cooking
- Compound adjectives
- Weather
- Animals
- Pharasal verbs (speaking)
- Ways of speaking
- Money
- Numbers
- Crime and punishment
- Phrasal verbs (crime)
- Prefixes
- Mysteries
- Ways of speculating
- Feelings
- Jobs and work
- Phrasal verbs (work)
- The mind
- Mispronounced words
- Idioms with mind

PROGRAMACIÓN AVANZADO 1
LIBRO DE TEXTO
Durante el presente curso académico 2010-2011 el libro de texto será: NEW ENGLISH
FILE ADVANCED, Clive Oxenden & Christina Latham-Koenig.

LIBROS DE REFERENCIA
- Advanced Grammar in Use (with answers), Cambridge.
- How English works. A grammar practice book. With answers. Oxford University Press.
- Enter the World of Grammar 5, MM Publications.
- Practical English usage. New edition. Oxford University Press.
- Advanced Language Practice with Key, English Grammar and Vocabulary, Macmillan.
- English Vocabulary in Use. Pre-Intermediate & Advanced. Oxford University Press.
- Word Perfect vocabulary for fluency, Nelson.

- Diccionarios:

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- Longman Dictionary of Phrasal verbs, Longman

- Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, Oxford University Press.
- Macmillan English Dictionary, Macmillan.
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- Collins English Dictionary, Collins.
- Dictionary of English Language and Culture, Longman.
- Collins Universal. Español-Inglés, Collins.
- Diccionario Oxford (español-inglés, inglés-español), Oxford.

TEMPORALIZACIÓN

Unidad 1: 15 septiembre- 22 octubre (10 sesiones)

1A: What motivates you?

GRAMMAR: Discourse markers (1): result, reason, purpose, contrast.
READING: I didn’t get where I am today without…
VOCABULARY: Work.
LISTENING: What makes people happy at work?
SPEAKING: Jobs you would love/hate to do.
PRONUNCIATION: Word stress and rhythm.

1B: Who am I?
GRAMMAR: Have: As main and auxiliary verb, have to, have something done, have
got
READING: What’s your personality type?
VOCABULARY: Personality, family
LISTENING: The Family of Carlos IV.
SPEAKING: Talking about character // Describing a picture-photograph.
FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE: Agreeing, half-agreeing, disagreeing.
PRONUNCIATION: Sound-spelling relationships.

FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE: Emphasizing that something is your own opinion (1C)

WRITING: A letter of application + a CV.
COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH: Family secrets.

Unidad 2: 25 octubre – 19 noviembre (10 sesiones)

2A: Once upon a time

GRAMMAR: The past: Narrative tenses, used to and would.
READING: When we were young.
VOCABULARY: Forming abstract nouns: -hood, -ship, -dom, -ness, -tion, word
changes
LISTENING: Earliest memories.
SPEAKING: Childhood // Early memories.

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PRONUNCIATION: Word stress.

2B: Are the really 31 hours in a day?

GRAMMAR: Distancing: Seem/appear, the passive with verbs of reporting and
saying, other distancing expressions (apparently, according to, may/might)
READING: Multitasking
VOCABULARY: Expressions with time.
LISTENING: The Time Bandits.
SPEAKING: Multitasking.
PRONUNCIATION: Linking.

2C: 50 ways to leave your lover

GRAMMAR: Get:
READING: Getting your own back.
VOCABULARY: Phrases with get.
LISTENING: Love by numbers.
SPEAKING: Get questionnaire.
PRONUNCIATION: Words and phrases of French origin.

WRITING: Letter of complaint (Unit 7)

COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH: Time and technology

REPASO Y EVALUACIÓN: 22– 26 noviembre

Unidad 3: 29 noviembre - 22 diciembre (8 sesiones)

3A: Breaking the silence

GRAMMAR: Speculations and deductions: modal verbs (must / may / might / can’t /
should) and adjectives and adverbs (bound, sure, unlikely, definitely, probably).
READING: Breaking the silence.
VOCABULARY: Sounds (bang, buzz, click, crash…) and the human voice (giggle,
groan, mumble…)
LISTENING: Noise pollution.
SPEAKING: Talking about kinds of sounds or music you should have in different
places (office, language school, supermarket…).
PRONUNCIATION: Consonant clusters.

3B: Lost in translation

READING: First and last lines quiz / Lost in Translation
VOCABULARY: Describing books and films.
LISTENING: Interview with a translator.
SPEAKING: Describing books and films.
PRONUNCIATION: Words with silent syllables.

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WRITING: A book or film review.

COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH: Women and money.

Unidad 4: 10 enero-24 febrero (10 sesiones)

4A: History goes to the movies

GRAMMAR: Discourse markers (2): Adverbs and adverbial expressions.
READING: The scenes you’ll never forget // History Goes to the Movies
LISTENING: History Goes to the Movies: Titanic and Braveheart.
SPEAKING: Memorable scenes of films // Historically inaccurate films.
PRONUNCIATION: Stress in word families.

4B: Help yourself

GRAMMAR: Verb + Object + Infinitive/Gerund + Repaso Reported Speech (se puede
usar contenidos del Straightforward Upper-Intermediate).
READING: Self-help books.
VOCABULARY: Compound adjectives.
LISTENING: Self-help books.
SPEAKING: Buying self-help books.
PRONUNCIATION: Intonation in polite requests

4C: Can’t live without it

GRAMMAR: Conditional sentences: Real and unreal, mixed conditionals, alternatives
to if (as long as, provided/providing, on condition, whether…or not, even if,
supposing, inversion with had).
READING: Are you hooked on addiction?
VOCABULARY: Phone language // Adjectives + preposition.
LISTENING: My life is out of my hands // Obsessions.
SPEAKING: Do you know anyone who is addicted to/obsessed with…?
PRONUNCIATION: sounds and spelling /ʃ/, /tʃ/, /ʒ/, /dʒ/

WRITING: Discursive essay (1): A balanced argument.

COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH: Fact or fiction?

REPASO Y EVALUACIÓN OFICIAL DEPARTAMENTO:

24 enero – 3 febrero

Unidad 5: 21 febrero – 29 marzo (9 sesiones)

5A: Who’s in control?

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GRAMMAR: Permission, obligation and necessity (can, must, should, ought to, had
better, have to, have got to, need, be able to, be allowed to, be permitted to, be
supposed to).
READING: Welcome to Nannyfornia.
VOCABULARY: Word formation: prefixes.
LISTENING: A TV quiz.
SPEAKING: Laws: What’s your opinion about laws on the road, at home… // QI
Quiz.
PRONUNCIATION: Intonation in exclamations.

5B: Just any old bed?

GRAMMAR: Verbs of the senses (hear, see, smell, feel, taste, look, sound, taste,
seem)
READING: In a Season of Calm Weather.
VOCABULARY: Prepositions of place and movement.
LISTENING: Works of art.
SPEAKING: Four works of art.
PRONUNCIATION: Extra stress on important words.

5C: Trick or treatment?

READING: Trick or treatment.
VOCABULARY: Health and medicine:
LISTENING: Medical quiz.
SPEAKING: Medical quiz and commonly-held beliefs related to health and medicine.
// Alternative medicine.
PRONUNCIATION: Words stress.

COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH: Arts and artists.

Unidad 6: 30 marzo – 3 mayo (9 sesiones)

6A: A moving experience

GRAMMAR: Expressing future plans and arrangements (present continuous, be
going to, future continuous, present simple, be due to, be about to, be on the point of,
be to)
READING: My 25,000 Wonders of the World.
VOCABULARY: Travel and tourism.
LISTENING: A journey to remember.
SPEAKING: What kind of traveller are you? // A journey to remember.
FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE: Expressing preferences.
PRONUNCIATION: Homophones.

6C: The promised land?

GRAMMAR: Adding emphasis: Clefts sentences.

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READING: Double Face.

VOCABULARY: Words that are often confused (suit/suite, beside/besides, lay/lie,
actually/currently, announce/advertise…).
LISTENING: Living in another country.
SPEAKING: Pros and cons of living in …?
PRONUNCIATION: Intonation in clefts sentences.

WRITING: Discursive essay (2): Taking sides.

COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH: Encounters with animals.

Unidad 7: 4 mayo – 19 mayo (5 sesiones)

7A: A recipe for disaster

READING: My last supper
VOCABULARY: Preparing food.
LISTENING: Cooking disasters.
SPEAKING: Cooking.
PRONUNCIATION: -ed adjective endings and linking.

COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH: Cooking round the world.

REPASO Y EVALUACIÓN: 23 mayo - 3 junio

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PROGRAMACIÓN DE AVANZADO 2

LIBRO DE TEXTO
Durante el presente curso académico 2010-2011 el libro de texto será: Straightforward
Advanced, Richard Acklam & Araminta Crace, Macmillan

LIBROS DE REFERENCIA
- Advanced Grammar in Use (with answers), Cambridge.
- How English works. A grammar practice book. With answers. Oxford University Press.
- Enter the World of Grammar 5, MM Publications.
- Practical English usage. New edition. Oxford University Press.
- Advanced Language Practice with Key, English Grammar and Vocabulary, Macmillan.
- English Vocabulary in Use. Upper-Intermediate & Advanced. Oxford University Press.
- Word Perfect vocabulary for fluency, Nelson.

- Diccionarios:
- Longman Dictionary of Phrasal verbs, Longman
- Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, Oxford University Press.
- Macmillan English Dictionary, Macmillan.
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- Collins English Dictionary, Collins.
- Dictionary of English Language and Culture, Longman.
- Collins Universal. Español-Inglés, Collins.
- Diccionario Oxford (español-inglés, inglés-español), Oxford.

CONTENIDOS GRAMATICALES
- Simple and continuous verb forms
- Reference and substitution
- Gerunds & Infinitives
- Comparisons
- Adding emphasis with auxiliary verbs
- Cleft sentences
- Reported speech
- Modals: must, might , may, could
- Relative clauses
- Intensifying adverbs
- Hypothetical past situations
- Passives
- Ellipsis
- Participle clauses
- Noun phrases
- Attitude adverbials
- Discourse markers
- Modals: will, would, shall
- Inversion

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- Futures
- Modals: must, need, should
- Determiners, pronouns & quantifiers
- Hypothetical present & future situations
- Plurals & number

CONTENIDOS LÉXICOS
Change
- Age
- Noun suffixes
- Memory & memories
- Playing cards
- Colocations and expressions with way
- Money
- Rubbish
- Excess
- Adjective affixes
- Ways of speaking
- Voice
- Emotional reactions
- Setting up in business
- Gender
- Nouns from phrasal verbs
- Body collocations
- Collocations and expressions with care
- Babies and babysitting
- Good and bad behaviour
- Legal matters
- Character traits
- Relationships
- Adverbs with two forms
- Describing homes
- Adjectives formed with particles
- Success
- Three-part phrasal verbs
- Televisión
- Not turning out well
- Descriptive verbs
- Prepositional phrases
- Sounds
- Compound adjectives (technology)
- Verb affixes

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PRONUNCIACIÓN
- Approximation
- Chunking
- Fronting
- Voiced & unvoiced sounds
- Question tags
- Intrusive sounds
- Ellipsis in conversation
- Changing Word stress
- Vague language
- Contrastive stress
- Stress patterns and rhyming schemes
- Dislocation
- Intonation (feelings)

TEMPORALIZACIÓN

Unidad 1 20 septiembre –12 octubre (8 sesiones)- SE OMITE LA 1A

GRAMMAR: Simple & continuous verb forms// Reference & substitution & Ellipsis
(7A)
VOCABULARY: Change// Age// Noun suffixes
READING: Growing up on television
LISTENING: Radio programme about starting at a new school// The quarterlife crisis
SPEAKING: Devising a quiz about South Africa//Discussing the first day at school//
Talking about different ages// Roleplay: Life changes
WRITING. An article: writing definitions, making a deduction, describing cause &
effect
Unidad 2 13 octubre – 5 noviembre (8 sesiones)- SE OMITE LA 2C

GRAMMAR: Gerunds & infinitivos (Se complementa con las secciones 2A y 5C del
NEF-Advanced) // Comparison
VOCABULARY: Memory & Memories// Playing cards// collocations and expressions
with way
READING: Three articles on improving memory
LISTENING: Interview with Dominic O’Brien// Conversation about museums
SPEAKING: Discussing ways to improve memory// Performing and discussing a
memory technique// Roleplay: presenting and discussing proposals for a new
national museum
WRITING. A narrative: narrative tenses, linking events, describing emotion (lesson 7)

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Unidad 3 8 -26 noviembre (7-8 sesiones)

GRAMMAR: Adding emphasis with auxiliary verbs// Cleft sentences + Inversion (Unit
9C)
VOCABULARY: Money// rubbish// excess// adjective affixes
READING: I didn’t just say: give me the dough// Me and my big mouth
LISTENING: Radio programme about a recycling initiative// Radio programme about
the island of Nauru
SPEAKING: Talking about attitudes to spending money// Comparing and contrasting
photos showing rubbish// Discussing island life
WRITING: A letter of apology/giving thanks

Half-term exams 30 noviembre-10 diciembre

Unidad 4 13 diciembre – 20 enero (8 sesiones)

GRAMMAR: Reported speech// Modals 1: must, might, may, could + Modals 2: will,
would, shall (Unit 9A) + Modals 3: must, need, should (Unit 10D)
VOCABULARY: Ways of speaking// Voice// Emotional reactions
READING: Three blogs// And the winner is…
LISTENING: Interview about problems with the voice// How to write speeches
SPEAKING: Describing and discussing complaint situations// talking about how to
protect your voice// Ranking performance activities// Making a speech
WRITING. An autobiography

EXÁMENES: 24 enero- 3 febrero

Unidad 5 7 febrero – 3 marzo (8 sesiones)

GRAMMAR: Relative clauses// Intensifying adverbs// Hypothetical past situations

VOCABULARY: Setting up in business// Gender
READING: Ingvar Kamprad: Leader of the flatpack// (A woman’s work is never done)
LISTENING: Interview with Paddy Radcliffe// Five people talk about the Sex
Discrimination Act
SPEAKING: Talking about internationally known entrepreneurs// Making a product
pitch to investors// Roleplay: deciding on a housework rota
WRITING. A report (Unit 5- Libro Avanzado 1- NEF Advanced)

Unidad 6 14 marzo – 7 abril (8 sesiones) (NO SE DA LA 6C)

GRAMMAR: Passives

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VOCABULARY: Nouns from phrasal verbs// Collocations and expressions with care//
Babies & babysitting
READING: There’s more than one way to stay in shape
LISTENING: The history of healthcare products// Interview about a babysitting
agency
SPEAKING: Ranking leisure activities// Discussing health problems// Talking about
international adoptions// Choosing the best alternatives in babysitting situations
WRITING: A work email: formal and informal style, making arrangements, making
requests

Unidad 7 11 abril – 11 mayo (8 sesiones) (NO SE DA LA 7A Y 7B)

GRAMMAR: Participle clauses

VOCABULARY: Good and bad behaviour// legal matters
READING: A new broom// A missing person
LISTENING: Conversation about rudeness// Radio news reports
SPEAKING: Talking about misbehavior at school// Discussing good and bad
behaviour// Selecting posters for a national campaign// Ranking and comparing
books// Discussing law breaking
WRITING:

EXÁMENES: 23 mayo-3 junio

Unidad 9 No se da

GRAMMAR: Modals 2: will, would, shall// Inversion

VOCABULARY: Describing homes// Adjectives formed with particles
READING: The city of tomorrow// a happy marriage
LISTENING: Radio programme about squatting// Conversation about experimental
travel
SPEAKING: Submitting and presenting a plan for a new town// Roleplay: viewing a
property// Selecting holiday activities// Ranking travel options
WRITING:

Unidad 10 No se da

GRAMMAR: Futures// Modals 3: must, need, should

VOCABULARY: Success// Three-part phrasal verbs// Television// Not turning out well
READING: Made it!// The wrong guy
LISTENING: Six people talk about success// A stabbing incident
SPEAKING: Discussing endurance races// Discussing views about success// talking
about problematic situations// Ordering and describing a picture story

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WRITING: A letter of thanks: expressions of thanks, explaining why you are grateful,
writing a letter of thanks

Unidad 11 No se da

GRAMMAR: Determiners, pronouns & quantifiers// Hypothetical present & future

situation
VOCABULARY: Descriptive verbs// Prepositional phrases// Sounds
READING: I wandered lonely as a cloud// the quietest place on earth
LISTENING: Interview with Will Ramsay// Five people talk about the New Music
Award
SPEAKING: Romanticism// Selecting artworks for buildings// Describing the thoughts
of people in photos// Presenting a music device
WRITING: An essay: expressing a viewpoint, arguing against a viewpoint

Unidad 12 No se da

GRAMMAR: Plurals and number

VOCABULARY: Compound adjectives (technology)// Verb affixes
READING: Wearable electronics
LISTENING: Twelve scientific explanations// Radio discussion about technology in
sport
SPEAKING: Discussing science questions// Submitting and presenting a project for
a competition// Debating technology in the home// Ranking and selecting photos
WRITING: An essay: result clauses

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