Syllabus

What`s a syllabus? 
Basically a syllabus is a summary of topics to be covered in an educational course.

Types of syllabus

1. Grammatical                                             
2. Lexical                                                      
3. Grammatical lexical                                   
4. Situational                                                 

5. Topic - based                                          

6. Notional

7. Functional - notional
8. Mixed
9. Procedural
10. Process


Description 

Course title: grammar in use 7
Term: seventh grade.
Instructor: Pamela Alvarado Castillo. Email: pame.alvarado.castillo@gmail.com
Office hours: 21 hours in class.
Location in the curriculum: subsector English.
Course description: this course involves grammatical structures in detail so the students could write and speak propertly  and share personal information knowing exactly how to ask for something and how to answer.
Course objectives: by the end of this course students will be able to:
    - Write dialogues including personal information and formulate "W" questions.
    - To have at their disposal a usefull vocabulary with more than 250 new words.
    - Apply the new information to use it to write, speak, read or listen.
    - Also they will improve their reading comprehension for all the written exercises that needs an elementary reading as well for the new words and expressions they will learn.
Course format: presencial course.
Course requirements: class participation and 100% attendance.
Required text: textbook and workbook corresponding to seventh grade.
Suplemental readings: canterburry tales, the little prince and one at choise.


  Syllabus

Date – session number	Objectives	Activities
Wednesday  2 – session  1. General objective: Meeting and greetings.	Create dialogues with a formal beginning using personal pronouns.	Imagine differente places to meet and practice oral communication asking and answering with different modals.
Friday  4 – session  2. General objective: Communicative skills exchange personal information.	Formulate “w” questions with their answers.	Write twenty “w” questions about personal information and create an interview as a hollywood star.
Monday 7 – session 3. General objective: Positive and negative questions.	Domain of the verb “To be” in it positive and negative form	Make a description of their families and their own dreams, hopes, likes and dislikes.
Wednesday 9 – session 4. General objective: Spell words and numbers.	Keep a dialogue with at least 10 directions in detail.	Act like a foreign person in our country and help him or her to find places o people.
Friday  11 – session 5. General objective: Learn expressions for conversation strategy.	Learn 25 expressions to keep a conversation with an unknown person.	Summary of the last class. Relate a story written by their own with at least 200 words.
Monday 14 – session 6.	Evaluation of the contents.	Summary of unit 1 and the evaluation.
Wednesday 16 – session 7. General objective: Yes / no questions with short and complete answers.	Formulate the right answer in short and complete form.	Answer Yes / No questions about different pictures, playing with the truth.
Friday 18 – session 8. General objective: Articles a –an and the.	Differentiate between “a”, “an” and their uses. The use oh “the”.	Description of pictures about things that students take to classes.
Monday 21 – session 9. General objective : possessives “s`” and “`s”	Learn how and when to use the possessives.	Interchange information with the classmates using questions with “where” and the possessives.
Wednesday 23 – session 10. General objective: Ask for help.	Learn how to ask and how to answer for help.	Create cards with questions asking for help in different situations to do mimic.
Friday 25 – session 11.	Evaluation of the contents.	Summary of the unit and evaluation of the contents.
Monday 28 – session 12. General objective: Possesive adjectives.	Use in the correct way the possessive adjectives in a fun way.	Choose 3 favourite actors or singers and write the most they know about them to make a speech trying to look like the chosen famous.
Wednesday 30 – session 13. General objective: Acquiring vocabulary.	Acquisition of vocabulary	Listening activity. Associate pictures with the description of the tape.
Friday 1 – session 14. General objective: Description of places and people.	Complete description of people and places.	Create a genealogic tree and describe each member of the tree.
Monday 4 – session 15. General objective: Remembering information.	Ability to apply knowledge.	Analyze the structure of a conversation underlying present simple. Listening activity to complete a chart.
Wednesday 6 – session 16.	Evaluation of the contents.	Summary of the unit. Evaluation.
Friday 8 – session 17.  General objective: Past simple tenses.	Domain of verbs in past.	Make a list with the verbs in past and create sentences with a partner about music and debate them.
Monday 11 – session 18. General objective: Writing and speaking.	Create sentences with likes and dislikes using present simple.	Make a schedule with things and hobbies they´d like to do. Pair work.
Wednesday 13 – session 19. General objective: Time expressions. Friday 15 – session 20.	Correct use of time expressions. Evaluation of the contents.	Reading comprehension. Underline every time expression and create a sentence for each. Summary of the unit. Evaluation.

Effective presentation

Effective presentation includes three main characteristics: attention of the students, perception and connection with other things and can be described as the class that teachers offer, it has to be clear, objective and transform INPUT into COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT. Learnes should be able to apply the knowledge and connect what they already know with the new information.

Methodology

Methodology is related to:
- Skills --> Listening and reading (Reception).
               --> Writing and speaking (Production).
- Objectives --> it includes what learner should learn and what teachers should teach.
- Activities --> it defines how and what student will learn.
- Strategies --> help teachers to find different abilities to teach the contents.
- Timing --> in some cases it is very usefull to take advantage of the time in classes.
- Grouping --> the most important in this topic is that teachers should not obligate students to work with people they don´t want but also it´s important that they share with their classmates when they are little kids.
- Textbook --> if a teacher is working in a public school the textbook is really important because it should be a guide to them to work the topics deeply and on time.
- Discipline and values with bullying and parent´s meeting --> maybe it is one of the most difficult topics to develop. Teachers have to consider the different realities of our children and their environment, the details in their personalities and the changes they show.
- Teaching training --> it should be the most important topic when we are talking about education, teachers have to be always learning more and be confident with what they are teaching.
- Culture and literature --> are connected because it depends on our culture the topics related with literature that we as teachers are going to teach to our students.