Checking date: 30/04/2025 14:43:45


Course: 2025/2026

English IV
(17446)
Bachelor in Management of Public Security (Plan: 377 - Estudio: 341)


Coordinating teacher: DE ASIS ROIG, CONCEPCION

Department assigned to the subject: Transversal matters

Type: Basic Core
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course:
Semester:

Branch of knowledge: Arts and Humanities



Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
None
Objectives
- Understand the main ideas of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions within their field of specialisation. - Engage in conversations with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that enables regular interaction with native speakers without strain for either participant. - Produce clear and detailed texts on a wide range of subjects, and explain a point of view on topics related to their professional field, outlining the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
Learning Outcomes
Description of contents: programme
Grammar: - Comparisons - Future time clauses - Second and third conditionals - Passive structures - Gerunds and infinitives - Adverbs - Reported speech and reporting verbs - Defining relative clauses - Modal verbs of obligation: past and present - Conjunctions and prepositions Vocabulary: - -ed/-ing adjectives - Idioms - Extreme adjectives - Technology Vocabulary of police environment: - Crime - The police station - Identity, surveillance Practical aspects of the use of English in a professional (police work) environment. Practice of communicative skills corresponding to B2 levels. Teaching and learning format for the second semester will be 100% face-to-face sessions. Tools used: BigBlueButton and Aula Virtual. The programme of the course, especially the weekly planning, may be subject to variations due to duly justified reasons of force majeure, as well as due to academic events communicated sufficiently in advance.
Learning activities and methodology
Theoretical-practical classes in which the knowledge to be acquired will be presented to the students, who will work in pairs, groups, and individually, guided by teachers. Student participation in the class session will be essential for the final grade. Homework assignments, whose objective is to further practice and expand on material presented in class, are compulsory. Instruction and class activities will be carried out exclusively in English.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • Boyle, C. and Chersan, I. . Campaign English for Law Enforcement . MacMillan . 2005
  • Clare, A. and Wilson, J. . Speakout Intermediate Student Book 2nd ed., . Pearson. 2015
  • Graham, C.. Jazz Chants. Oxford University Press.
  • Graham, C.. Small Talk. Oxford University Press.
  • Hall, D. and Foley, M.. Survival Lessons. Nelson ELT. 1990
  • Hancock, M.. English Pronunciation in Use: Intermediate, . Cambridge University Press. 2017
  • Mann, M. and Taylore-Knowles, S. Destinations B1 Grammar and Vocabulary. MacMillan . 2008
  • Mann, M. and Taylore-Knowles, S.. Destinations B2 Grammar and Vocabulary. MacMillan . 2008
  • Murphy, R.. English Grammar in Use. 4th ed. Cambridge . 2014
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The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.