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Course: 2023/2024

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: 4º

Semester: 2º

Branch of knowledge: Arts and Humanities

Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)

None

Skills and learning outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

Specific content adapted to the Common European Framework of Reference level. o Grammar. - Comparisons - Future time clauses. - Zero and first conditionals - Second conditionals - Passives - Third conditionals. Should have - Infinitive and -ing forms - Adverbs. - Reported speech - Reporting verbs. - Defining relative clauses - Modal verbs of obligation o Vocabulary - -ed -ing adjectives - Idioms - Extreme adjectives - Technology o 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

Learning Activities 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

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%) and
- 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.

% end-of-term-examination 60
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

Calendar of Continuous assessment

Basic Bibliography

. Campaign English for Law Enforcement . Mac Millan . 2005
. Carolyn Graham Jazz Chants. Oxford University Press.
. Carolyn Graham Small Talk. Oxford University Press.
. Destinations B1 Grammar and Vocabulary. Mac Millan . 2008
. Destinations B2 Grammar and Vocabulary. Mac Millan . 2008
. Null English Pronunciation in Use intermediate, . Cambridge University Press.
. Null Speak Out Intermediate Student Book 2nd ed., . Pearson.
. Null Survival Lessons. Nelson . 1990
. Raymond Murphy English Grammar in Use. 4th ed. Cambridge . 2014

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