Course Syllabus for Students’ Reference

Basic Nine (B09)

Course name: Basic Nine

Course code: B09

1. Course description:
Basic Nine contrasts the use of the simple present and present continuous tenses to talk about
routines and temporary activities, as well as the simple past to talk about past events. The themes
for this course are related to everyday life, food, and mysteries.

The course represents 243 hours of in-class instruction and the topics are:

 Welcome Unit:
This unit includes grammar and vocabulary from the previous course (Basic 8), a Writing task
and a questionnaire on Additional Resources.
 Unit 1: My Life
This unit will help you contrast tenses and introductions.
 Unit 2: Let’s Eat!
This unit will teach you how to make suggestions and compare things.
 Unit 3: Mysteries
This unit will teach you how to talk about possibility.

2. General Course Goals:

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

1. Engage in conversations common to student life.

2. Make and respond to suggestions.
3. Describe and compare foods.
4. Say if something is possible or impossible.

3. Course Content
The content includes:

Communicative Functions New language structures New words and expressions

 Introducing a person to
someone else
 Respond to introductions
 Making and responding to
suggestions
 Talking about possibility
 Simple present vs. Present
 People I know
continuous
 Simple past (review)  School-related expressions
 The comparative form of
 Snack foods
adjectives
 The superlative form of adjectives  Healthy eating habits

 Stative verbs  Luck

 Possibility / Probability-related
 Modals of present possibility
words

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 4. Course material and purpose / use:

These are the course’s 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 9 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 unit’s 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 unit’s 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
Teacher’s 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 learner’s ability

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

COMPONENT SCORE PERCENTAGE

A. Learning objectives/ outcomes 12 points 60%
B. Final written exam 4 points 20%
C. Autonomous learning project (ALP) 4 points 20%
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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