TÉCNICO EN ASISTENTE DE LABORATORIO CLÍNICO SANITARIO 19513LA

Course Description:
English 448A: Effective Communication is an introductory English language course designed for learners seeking to develop basic communicative proficiency. The course employs a thematic approach, with each unit focusing on practical, everyday topics and communication goals. Through engaging activities and a focus on real-world scenarios, students will develop their ability to understand and produce simple spoken and written English. The course emphasizes the acquisition of essential vocabulary and fundamental grammatical structures, enabling students to participate in basic conversations, ask and answer simple questions, and express themselves on familiar topics. Each unit integrates explicit grammar instruction with ample opportunities for communicative practice, ensuring a balanced development of accuracy and fluency. Cultural awareness is also incorporated to enhance understanding and facilitate effective intercultural communication. By the end of this course, students will have gained the confidence and foundational skills to communicate in a range of basic personal and social contexts.
Unit 1: Getting to Know You (page 1)
• Communication Goals: Introduce and greet people, get acquainted with someone, discuss the importance of English in your life, discuss some difficulties of learning a language.
• Vocabulary: Occupations, personal information, fields of study for a career or occupation.
• Grammar: Information questions with be (Review), contractions, Yes/no questions and short answers with be (Review).
• Grammar Expander: Information questions with be: usage and form (review), possessive nouns and adjectives (review), verb be usage and form, short answers with be: common errors, modification with adjectives.
Unit 2: Events and Places (page 13)
• Communication Goals: Invite someone to an event, give directions to a place, talk about musical preferences, make plans to see an event.
• Vocabulary: Entertainment events, directions and locations, musical genres.
• Grammar: Prepositions of time and place (Review).
• Grammar Expander: Prepositions of time and place: usage rules.
Unit 3: How We Feel (page 25)
• Communication Goals: Identify people’s abilities, give advice to someone who doesn’t feel well, describe feelings, discuss how we develop abilities.
• Vocabulary: Abilities, ailments, adjectives for feelings.
• Grammar: Can and can’t for ability and possibility, Can and can’t: Information questions, should and shouldn’t for advice.
• Grammar Expander: Can + base form for permission, can and should: common errors.
Unit 4: Talking about People (page 37)
• Communication Goals: Respond to good or bad news, describe and compare people, describe similarities and differences, discuss trends in family households.
• Vocabulary: More family relationships, marital status and relationships, adjectives to describe people, similarities.
• Grammar: The simple present tense (Review), comparative adjectives.
• Grammar Expander: The simple present tense: usage and form, spelling rules with he, she, and it (review), comparative adjectives: spelling rules, modifying comparative adjectives with much, a lot, a little (OR a little bit).