ACCI

Description & Analysis 1

Intensive English Study (IES) materials

UPF- IES Passport

Are you ready to start D&A1?Have you got...?

• The two course Booklets

• Access to Moodle

• A Group for the World Englishes Project (different from last year's)

• Large amounts of motivation!

Calendar: Important dates

• Reading & Listening practices submission

• World Englishes Project

• Mid-term

• Final Exam

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Welcome to the eis club!

The English Intensive Club is a group that will work in parallel with the regular sessions of our subject and that will 1) Allow you to work automously and 2) Access peer-to-peer mentoring. The main tool that you will use is our digital passport.What is the EIS club digital passport?A toolkit which will lead you through the different working spaces in our Club: The mentoring corner, The materials corner, and The Self-reflection corner.The aim of this passport is to help you to improve your English Language skills in order to obtain better results in our subject (Description & Analaysis I) and in future subjects related to the English Language. This digital passport has been created thanks to a PlaClik grant, whose main objective is to improve teaching-learning processes and incorporate educational transformations into learning plans. Go to the ______. in order to find out the different sections of this passport and the order you should follow..

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3. initial Questionnaire

4. materials

2. update with teachers

6. final reflection

1. welcome!

5. Mentoring

Follow the provided order to complete the passport:

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You will be having weekly meetings with your teacher to check on your progress. Select one month to see how these meetings will be organized.

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IMPORTANT: 1) Click on the corresponding day and you will access a drive folder called "submissions".2)Then, create a private subfolder with your name and share it with your teacher. You will use this folder for all of your submissions.3) Finally, create a word document called "meetings" and write down the main points discussed with your teacher

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IMPORTANT: 1) Click on the corresponding day and you will access a drive folder called "submissions".2)Then, create a private subfolder with your name and share it with your teacher. You will use this folder for all of your submissions.3) Finally, create a word document called "meetings" and write down the main points discussed with your teacher

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IMPORTANT: 1) Click on the corresponding day and you will access a drive folder called "submissions".2)Then, create a private subfolder with your name and share it with your teacher. You will use this folder for all of your submissions.3) Finally, create a word document called "meetings" and write down the main points discussed with your teacher

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lINGUISTIC BACKGROUD QUESTIONNAIRE

With this questionnaire, we will learn a little bit more about your linguistic background to see what your strenghts and weaknesses are.

Answer parts 1+2

Upload parts 1+2 (inside your private drive folder)

Record part 3

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The following set of multi-modal materials will help you improve all of your English language skills (Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking).You will have to submit all of the completed tasks in your private drive folder.Access to materials:Timeline you should follow for completing them:

Materials

Materials

Listening practice:Based on Movies

3 movie scenes

Reading practice :Based on Books

3 options to choose from

Listening practice: Based on TED

2 Ted Talks to choose from

Grammar practice

Murphy: Grammar in Use

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Extra resource:

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A day in the life of a translator

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TIMELINE

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Scene + task 1

Scene + task 2

Scene + task 3

1 Book of your choice

Murphy: English Grammar in Use

Reflective Diary

Initial Questionnaire

10-WEEK COURSE

1 TED Talk of your choice

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the nightime

Interpreter of Maladies

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The importance of being earnest

MATERIALS

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“You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.” Julie Delpy, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays

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BEFORE SUNSET

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SCENE 1

MATERIALS

SCENE 2

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SCENE 1before sunrise (1995)

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The conversation at the bar

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MATERIALS

SCENE 2before sunset (2004)

The press conference

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SCENE 3before sunset (2004)

Car Ride

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MATERIALS

the curious incident of the dog in the nighttimeby Mark Haddon

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The importance of being earnestby Oscar Wilde

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Interpreter of Maladiesby Jhumpa Lahiri

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English Mania

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The linguistic genius of babies

By Jay Walker

Ted Talks

By Patricia Khul

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JAY WALKER

Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English -- "the world's second language" -- by the thousands.

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PATRICIA KHUL

Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world.

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English Grammar in Use

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This assignment will help you:1) Identify those linguistic areas that you need to improve .2) Practice those areas with the help of self-correcting activities.

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Reflective diary (Audio version)

-Reflect on how this passport has helped you improve in different areas of this subject.