ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITECNICA DEL LITORAL Centro de Lenguas Extranjeras CELEX – ESPOL
Information for Intermediate A Students (Semester course) Welcome to your new CELEX class! We hope you enjoy the course. Please read the following information about your course. Course books
First (Mid Term) Assessment Student’s Book units 7 to 11B Workbook units 7 to 11B Second (Final) Assessment Face2Face PreStudent’s Book units 11C to 12 Intermediate: Workbook units 11C to 12 Face2Face Intermediate: Student’s Book units 1 to 3 Workbook units 1 to 3 Face2Face PreIntermediate:
In Class • If you arrive more than 10 minutes late, you will be marked “absent” for that hour and the teacher will not let you into the class. Please come back for the next hour of class. • Please switch off your mobile phone before the class begins. • Please do not eat or drink anything (except water) in class. • You must bring all your books to every class. If you do not have the right book, the teacher can ask you to leave the class. • You must attend at least 60% of class hours to pass the course. There are no justified absences. Assessment • Please check the dates and rooms for your first (mid term), second (final) and third (mejoramiento) assessments on the sistema académico. • If you do not take the exam or class test on the established date, you will receive a grade of ZERO for that exam or test. The teacher will not give you surprise tests – you will always know in advance when there is an exam or test. • The first and second assessments are worth 65 points. The other 35 points come from the oral exam, class tests, homework, projects etc. The third assessment is worth 100 points. • Each exam lasts 2 hours. In the listening section you will hear the CD two times only. Computer Laboratory • You should do Units 7 to 12 on the Face2Face Pre-Intermediate software and Units 1 to 3 on the Face2Face Intermediate software. • You must complete SIX units in total (you decide which units you would like to study). If you do not complete six units, your teacher will deduct points from your second (final) assessment. If you complete more than six units, your teacher will add points to your second (final) assessment. • To complete a unit, you must do ALL the activities AND have an average score of 80% or more. • You have until Friday 27th November 2009 to complete Units 7 to 10. After this date, those units will no longer be taken into account. • You have until Saturday 23rd January 2010 to complete Units 11 to 12 (Pre-intermediate) and Units 1 to 3 (Intermediate). After this date, you will no longer be able to use the CELEX computer laboratories. Total number of units completed 9 8 7
Points in the second (final) assessment +4 +3 +2
6 5 4 3 0-2
0 -2 -4 -6 -8