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Course: 2025/2026

English III

(17434)

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: 3º

Semester: 2º

Branch of knowledge: Arts and Humanities

Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)

None

Objectives

- Understand the main information in clear, standard language texts concerning familiar and routine matters related to work and their professional (police) environment. - Manage in most situations that may arise in both personal and close professional contexts. - Produce simple and coherent texts on familiar topics of personal and professional interest. - Describe experiences, events, and provide brief reasons and opinions on specific topics.

Learning Outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

Grammar: - Narrative and past tenses - Question forms - Auxiliary verbs - Present simple and present continuous - Linking words and verbs - Future forms (plans and predictions) - Present perfect simple and present perfect continuous - Adverbs of frequency - First and second conditionals Vocabulary: - -ed /-ing adjectives - Talking about yourself - Talking about people - Talking about languages - Places of interest, travel, holidays - Feelings - Weather - Prepositions and opposites Vocabulary of police environment: - Describing your job - Crimes against property - Border crossing - Answering a call Practical aspects of the use of English in a professional (police work) environment. Practice of communicative skills corresponding to B1 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

The final exam will be face-to-face, and paper based. Students will do a test that will consist of these parts:

- Task 1: Listening comprehension.
- Task 2: Reading comprehension.
- Task 3: Grammar and vocabulary.
- Task 4: Written expression and interaction.
- Task 5: Oral expression, interaction, and comprehension (will be held on a different day than the written test)

Global assessment for the course will be determined based on the weight of:
  - the grades obtained in the continuous assessment activities (40%)  
  - the final exam grade (60%)

Activities and assignments not completed will be receive a grade of (0).  

Students who do not take the final exam during the regular scheduled time or in the extra session, will be graded as no-show.

In this subject, the use of artificial intelligence to complete all or part of any exercise or assignment is prohibited.
In the event that a student through the use of AI gives rise to academic fraud by falsifying the results of an examination or assignment required for the accreditation of academic performance, action will be taken in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations of the Carlos III University of Madrid for the partial development of Law 3/2022, of 24 February, on University Coexistence 3/2022, of 24 February, on University Coexistence.

Extraordinary call: regulations

Basic Bibliography

Boyle, C. and Chersan, I. . Campaign English for Law Enforcement. MacMillan. 2005
Clare, A. and Wilson, J. . Speak Out Intermediate Student Book 2nd ed.. Pearson. 2015
Dellar, H. and Walkley, A. . Outcomes: Intermediate 2nd edition. National Geographic and Cengage Learning. 2016
Graham, C.. Small Talk. Oxford University Press.
Graham, C.. Jazz Chants. Oxford University Press.
Hall, D. and Foley, M. . Survival Lessons. Nelson ELT. 1990
Hancock, M. English Pronunciation in Use: Intermediate. Cambridge University Press. 2017
Latham-Koening, C., Oxenden, C. and Chomacki, K. . English File Intermediate. Oxford. 2020
Mann, M. and Taylore-Knowles, S. . Destinations B1 Grammar and Vocabulary. MacMillan . 2008
Marks, J.. English Pronunciation in Use: Elementary. Cambridge University Press. 2018
Raymond Murphy. Essential Grammar and use. Cambridge. 2014

Electronic Resources *

British Council · Grammar : https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/

(*) Access to some electronic resources may be restricted to members of the university community and require validation through Campus Global. If you try to connect from outside of the University you will need to set up a VPN

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.