Course Syllabus for Students’ Reference

Basic Eleven (B11)

Course name: Basic Eleven

Course code: B11

1. Course description:
Basic Eleven is a course that introduces new language forms such as expressions for agreement,
time clauses, adverbs of manner, the past continuous, the present perfect, and the structure verb
+ infinitive. All this within the frame of new themes related to celebrations, storytelling, and work.

The course represents 297 hours of in-class instruction and the topics are:

 Welcome Unit:
This unit includes grammar and vocabulary from the previous course (Basic 10), a Writing task
and a Learning with Others section.
 Unit 7: Celebrations
This unit will teach you how to describe celebrations (festivals and holidays) and to make
invitations.
 Unit 8: Storytelling
This unit will teach you how to tell a story.
 Unit 9: Work
This unit will teach you how to talk about jobs and their requirements.

2. General Course Goals:

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

1. Describe different parties, festivals, and holidays. 4. Describe a job and practice a job interview.
2. Make an invitation and accept or refuse it. 5. Talk about how long something has happened.
3. Describe a story and use transitions to keep it going.

3. Course Content
The content includes:

Communicative Functions New language structures New words and expressions

 Inviting someone to do
something
 Accepting or refusing an
invitation
 Keeping a story going
 Agreeing with other people’s
statements: so, too, neither and either
 Time clauses with before, after, when
 The past continuous tense
 Words related to parties
 Festivals
 Story-related expressions

 Interviewing for a job  Adverbs of manner  Modern fairy-tales

 The present perfect tense  Characteristics for jobs

 Verb + infinitive  Comparing jobs

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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 7-9)
tips/strategies for dealing with the learning experience more effectively.

World Link Basic 11 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
7-9) 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
7-9)
(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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