Course Syllabus for Students Reference

Basic One (B01)

Course name: Basic One

Course code: B01

1. Course description:
Basic One is an introductory course of English. It addresses situations related to introductions,
asking about peoples favorites, asking where people are from, describing cities and hometowns,
and asking about personal items.

The course represents the first 27 hours of in-class instruction and the topics are:

Welcome Unit:
This unit includes classroom expressions. Additionally, you will find sections for the alphabet,
numbers, greetings, and classroom vocabulary.
Unit 1: Introductions
This unit will teach you about introductions to other people.
Unit 2: Countries
This unit will teach you about countries, nationalities, hometowns and descriptions of cities.
Unit 3: Possessions
This unit will teach you about personal items and their descriptions.

2. General Course Goals:

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

1. Engage in conversations related to introductions and personal exchange of information.

2. Describe places and identify peoples nationalities.
3. Identify and describe personal items.

3. Course Content
The content includes:

Communicative Functions New language structures New words and expressions

Verb be in affirmative sentences
Introducing yourself Personal information
and yes/no questions
Asking where someone is from Subject pronouns Things people like

Giving and replying to thanks
Possessive adjectives
Questions with who and where
Adjectives with verb be
Names of countries and cities
Positive/negative qualities for
describing cities
Personal items

Plurals of nouns

Demonstrative adjectives

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 4. Course material and purpose / use:

These are the courses materials and resources available.

Learning Material Purpose / Use

The learning outcomes is a list that presents the referential learning
Learning Outcomes
objectives/outcomes to be covered during the course
Unit openers set the topic through the use of an image and short activities to
Unit Opener
activate background knowledge
The warm-up video introduces the topic of the unit and may present new
Warm-up Video
vocabulary incidentally

The welcome unit helps review the content from the previous unit and provides
Welcome Unit (Units 1-3)
tips/strategies for dealing with the learning experience more effectively.

World Link Basic 1 The student book helps develop all four skills (Listening, Reading, Speaking
Student Book - 3rd edition and Writing) in English promoting communication in the classroom

The workbook offers varied activities that serve as additional practice to what
Workbook
is covered in class

Video Worksheets (Units Video worksheets present activities that connect the units content to the video
1-3) and serve as a way to review and/or consolidate the language learned in class

This spread tries to engage learners in using the language learned in class to
Review Unit
improve fluency and communication
The unit consolidation has a twofold purpose: consolidating the units content
Unit Consolidation (Units
and introducing exam-like exercises as preparation for international exams
1-3)
(MET, in particular)
This spread serves as additional support to promote process writing in the
Process Writing Spread
classroom
This section categorizes the new vocabulary and expressions into units,
Language Summaries
lessons and topics
This section summarizes the grammar points covered in class and offers
Grammar Notes
additional practice
Teachers Resources These worksheets work as support for communicative activities to be done in
Worksheets the classroom
My World Link Online This is an online platform that provides additional practice that adapts based
(MWLO) on the learners ability

5. Evaluation Criteria:
The evaluation system is based on four components as follows:

COMPONENT SCORE PERCENTAGE

A. Learning objectives/ outcomes 12 points 60%
B. Final written exam 3 points 15%
C. Autonomous learning project (ALP) 3 points 15%
D. Effort grade 2 points 10%
TOTAL 20 points 100%

The minimum passing grade for the level is 14 points.

If you are interested in learning more about each component, please refer to your Evaluation
Guide available in Chamilo.

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