Curso: (P2025 - 1S) INTERNATIONAL EXAM PREPARATION II A

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INTERNATIONAL EXAM PREPARATION II

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- General information
- Rubrics Archivo
- Syllabus Archivo
- Agreements and commitment act Archivo
- Interaction space
- Forum of concerns Foro
- Tools for the virtual classroom
- Zoom manual Archivo
- TOEFL installer for PC and Ebook URL
- Recommendations
  Dear students, it is compulsory to explain that due dates must be respected. Your professor is not going to enable the virtual classroom if you carelessly forget to upload your assignment. Of course, personal calamities are justified with the corresponding consent of MSC. Monica Cadena; please, don't skip this process, remember, "someone who hasn't learned to obey cannot be a good commander" (Aristotle) You must be always revising your virtual classroom just in case. However, if homework is posted in the virtual classroom, this task will be immediately informed to the president. All activities are going to be evaluated over 10 points (10/10); a rule of three, as always, will be employed in order to divide your score according to the 3 parameters of our University.
- Economy of Linguistic Exchanges Tarea
  
  Apertura: sábado, 9 de agosto de 2025, 06:14
  
  Cierre: sábado, 9 de agosto de 2025, 23:13
  
  Paste in here your essay
- Make up essay Tarea
  
  Apertura: jueves, 21 de agosto de 2025, 06:14
  
  Cierre: viernes, 22 de agosto de 2025, 23:13
- Independent Essay Tarea
  
  Apertura: martes, 13 de mayo de 2025, 22:37
  
  Cierre: miércoles, 14 de mayo de 2025, 16:36
- Classroom slides Archivo
writing in an international exam
- Information about the unit
  Students extrapolate their knowledge of academic writing to short essays, using Plain English and a good sense of textual tone of voice, to be a relevant writer on an international exam
- Resources
- Class recordings URL
- Classroom slides URL
- TOEFL INTEGRATED WRITING TEMPLATE Archivo
- Transitional words URL
- TOEFL AUDIOS URL
- Teaching activities
- Week 1
- TOEFL practice writing URL
- Week 2
- Remembering academic writing (Plain English) Archivo
- Week 3
- Strategies 1 Archivo
- Week 4
- Strategies 2 Archivo
- Week 5
- Strategies 3 Archivo
- Week 6
- Strategies 4 Archivo
- Week 7
- Strategies 5 Archivo
- Week 8
- Strategies 6 Archivo
- Evaluation
- CD Archivo
- Practical activities of application and experimentation
- Week 1
- TOEFL practice writing URL
- Week 2
- On remembering academic writing Foro
  
  Vencimiento: miércoles, 16 de abril de 2025, 13:14
  
  I am very sure that you have gained plenty of insight regarding the mandatory rules of academic writing so far. However, sometimes, it is customary that some students disrespect the basic rule thereof in academics; that is Plain English. Guys, please, open the PDF of the teaching section, read it in detail, and respond to the following question:
  What's the fundamental rule of Plain English?
- Week 3
- On strategies 1 Foro
  
  Vencimiento: miércoles, 23 de abril de 2025, 13:14
  
  Guys,
  Sometimes in independent essays, the instruction itself requires the writer to take a stand between agreements or disagreements. My question is, what if you disregard the instruction, and decide not to take the stand?
- Week 4
- On strategies 2 Foro
  
  Vencimiento: miércoles, 30 de abril de 2025, 13:14
  
  Guys,
  Outlining our ideas is the key component to develop appropriate write-ups. However, outlines are not applicable to the whole academic population. In fact, there are people who prefer not to sketch their ideas in the pre-writing stage. My question for you is, how useful is it to plan your ideas before writing? Is it a mandatory condition?
- Week 5
- On strategies 3 Foro
  
  Vencimiento: miércoles, 7 de mayo de 2025, 13:14
  
  On this occasion, I would like you to meditate on the following item:
  How relevant is it to use redundancies in essays? Does it matter? I mean, utilizing the same linking words more than three times.
- Week 6
- On strategies 4 Foro
  
  Vencimiento: miércoles, 14 de mayo de 2025, 13:14
  
  On this occasion, I would like you to depict a comment about emotive statements. What are emotive statements? and Why do we have to avoid emotive statements in the integrated essay?
- Week 7
- On strategies 5 Foro
  
  Vencimiento: miércoles, 21 de mayo de 2025, 13:14
  
  Let's talk about using quotations in the integrated and the independent essay. How useful or detrimental is it?
- Week 8
- On strategies 6 Foro
  
  Vencimiento: miércoles, 28 de mayo de 2025, 13:14
  
  Is it important to revise your essays 5 minutes before the task is closed? Why?
- Evaluation of Activities
- PAE Archivo
- Self-learning activities
- Week 1
- TOEFL practice writing URL
- Week 2
- On remembering academic writing Tarea
  
  Apertura: sábado, 12 de abril de 2025, 21:04
  
  Cierre: miércoles, 16 de abril de 2025, 13:14
  
  Guys,
  Now that you have grasped what Plain English is, in addition to the textual tones of voice implied in the use thereof, I want you to redact an easy essay (300-350 words) by clearly stating your point of view about the following statement:
  "Young people enjoy life more than older people do"
  Do you agree or disagree. Provide reason and examples to support your answer.
- Week 3
- On strategies 1 Tarea
  
  Apertura: viernes, 18 de abril de 2025, 23:04
  
  Cierre: miércoles, 23 de abril de 2025, 13:14
  
  Please, solve the excersices from the teaching section and upload them here
- Week 4
- On strategies 2 Tarea
  
  Apertura: sábado, 26 de abril de 2025, 00:04
  
  Cierre: miércoles, 30 de abril de 2025, 13:14
  
  Please, solve the PDF located in the teaching section, and paste it here.
- Week 5
- On strategies 3 Tarea
  
  Apertura: viernes, 2 de mayo de 2025, 23:04
  
  Cierre: miércoles, 7 de mayo de 2025, 13:14
  
  Guys,
  The same drill, solve the exercises from the teaching section and paste the generated document here.
- Week 6
- On strategies 4 Tarea
  
  Apertura: viernes, 9 de mayo de 2025, 23:04
  
  Cierre: miércoles, 14 de mayo de 2025, 13:14
  
  Guys,
  Please, solve the exercises from the teaching section and paste the generated document here.
- Week 7
- On strategies 5 Tarea
  
  Apertura: viernes, 16 de mayo de 2025, 22:03
  
  Cierre: miércoles, 21 de mayo de 2025, 13:14
  
  Same drill,
  solve the problems from the teaching section and paste the generated document here
- Week 8
- On Strategies 6 Tarea
  
  Apertura: viernes, 23 de mayo de 2025, 00:04
  
  Cierre: miércoles, 28 de mayo de 2025, 13:14
  
  Same drill,
  solve the problems from the teaching section and paste the generated document here
- Evaluation of Activities
- AAA Archivo
- Please, upload the essay on the book you read here Tarea
  
  Apertura: viernes, 9 de mayo de 2025, 23:37
  
  Cierre: sábado, 10 de mayo de 2025, 16:36
- Test 1 Tarea
  
  Apertura: domingo, 1 de junio de 2025, 23:25
  
  Cierre: lunes, 2 de junio de 2025, 00:30
- Class essay section
- Independent essay Tarea
  
  Apertura: martes, 13 de mayo de 2025, 23:37
  
  Cierre: miércoles, 14 de mayo de 2025, 16:36
- Writing test URL
- Independent essay on the book URL
unit 2: speaking in an international exam
- Information about the unit
  Students improve their speaking fluency using specific pragmatic strategies to achieve B2 score in an international test
- Resources
- TOEFL AUDIOS URL
- Class recordings URL
- Classroom slides URL
- Teaching activities
- Week 9
- Strategies 1 Archivo
- Week 10
- On stratrategies 2 Archivo
- Week 11
- Strategies 3 Archivo
- Week 12
- Strategies 4 Archivo
- Week 13
- Strategies 5 Archivo
- Week 14
- On strategies 6 Archivo
- Week 15
- Strategies 7 Archivo
- Week 16
- Rubrics for the last strategies Archivo
- Evaluation
- Practical activities of application and experimentation
- Week 9
- On strategies 1 Foro
  
  Vencimiento: miércoles, 4 de junio de 2025, 13:14
  
  There is an invisible enemy in the speaking section of the TOEFL IBT. This enemy is known as Interlanguage. Can the accent of our mother tongue detract from the fluency and accuracy of our speech in the speaking part of the TOEFL?
- Week 10
- On strategies 2 Foro
  
  Vencimiento: miércoles, 11 de junio de 2025, 13:14
  
  In speaking task 3, we are expected to report an individual's opinion regarding a situation occurring on campus. How useful or detrimental is it not to include the information from the announcement in our response?
- Week 11
- On strategies 3 Foro
  
  Vencimiento: miércoles, 18 de junio de 2025, 13:14
  
  I am a bit intrigued by your insights about Speaking 4. What aspects do you consider difficult in this task?
- Week 12
- On strategies 4 Foro
  
  Vencimiento: miércoles, 25 de junio de 2025, 13:14
  
  Guys,
  You are going to consult the strategies to be applied in the speaking task 5. What do you have to do? What patterns can you follow to organize your speech? Do you have to take a stand or just report what you listen to?
- Week 13
- On strategies 5 Foro
  
  Vencimiento: miércoles, 2 de julio de 2025, 13:14
  
  Guys,
  In the ETS TOEFL simulator, we can encounter something really peculiar in speaking tasks 1. We know that in this task, two suggestions must be conducted by a test-taker, however, sometimes one suggestion is done. What would you do in order to tackle coherently this situation?
- Week 14
- On strategies 6 Foro
  
  Vencimiento: martes, 6 de mayo de 2025, 17:00
  
  Forum Question:
  In Speaking Task 3, you are asked to summarize how a reading and a lecture are related—whether they support or contradict each other. Considering this, reflect on the importance of being able to identify the relationship between two sources of information in real-life academic settings.
  
  Prompt:
  Why is it important for university students to understand the connection between written and spoken information in academic environments? Provide one example from your own experience (real or hypothetical) where this skill would be useful. Then, respond constructively to at least one peer by comparing your example to theirs or by expanding on their ideas.
- Week 15
- Strategies 7 Foro
  
  Vencimiento: jueves, 15 de mayo de 2025, 19:00
  
  How do you prepare for Speaking Task 4? Share your strategy for understanding the academic passage and the lecture, and explain how you connect both when speaking. Include any useful phrases (e.g., “The passage explains that...”, “The professor adds that...”).
  Respond to one peer by adding a phrase, tip, or improvement suggestion to their strategy.
- Week 16
- On rubrics and last strategies Foro
  
  Vencimiento: lunes, 14 de julio de 2025, 15:11
  
  On this occasion, I want you to use your knowledge of language assessment to appraise the rubrics of the teaching section. Do you think it is missing some important information in the ETS rubrics?
- Evaluation of Activities
- PAE Archivo
- Self-learning activities
- Week 9
- On strategies 1 URL
  
  Guys,
  You are to select one of the speaking tasks you worked with Rachel, record with your cellphone a 45-second response (no more and no less), and upload it here as follows (HEREDIA ARBOLEDA EDGAR EDUARDO). If your audio does not display what is solicited, it will not be graded. Make sure you use the rubric for the Independent Speaking Task which is in the digital ETS book. Tasks uploaded out of today will be dismissed.
- Week 10
- Speaking 1 Tarea
  
  Apertura: domingo, 23 de marzo de 2025, 23:44
  
  Cierre: lunes, 24 de marzo de 2025, 16:43
- On strategies 2 URL
  
  Guys,
  You are going to upload the audio you worked in the classroom with the same label as the previous task, that is (HEREDIA ARBOLEDA EDGAR EDUARDO).
- Week 11
- On strategies 3 URL
  
  Guys,
  You are going to upload the audio you worked in the classroom with the same label as the previous task, that is (HEREDIA ARBOLEDA EDGAR EDUARDO).
- Week 12
- On strategies 4 URL
  
  Guys,
  You are going to upload the audio of Paul Bunyan with the same label as the previous task, that is (HEREDIA ARBOLEDA EDGAR EDUARDO).
- Singing a song URL
  
  Guys,
  Use the same label to upload your song (HEREDIA ARBOLEDA EDGAR EDUARDO)
- Week 13
- On strategies 5 URL
  
  Guys,
  You are going to upload the audio of Task 5 with the same label as the previous task, that is (HEREDIA ARBOLEDA EDGAR EDUARDO).
- Week 14
- On strategies 6 URL
  
  Guys,
  You are going to upload the audio of Microscopes with the same label as the previous task, that is (HEREDIA ARBOLEDA EDGAR EDUARDO).
- Week 15
- Singing a song URL
  
  Guys,
  You are to upload your audio with the same label as the previous tasks (HEREDIA ARBOLEDA EDGAR EDUARDO).
- Week 16
- Speaking test URL
  
  Speaking test
- On rubrics and last strategies Tarea
  
  Apertura: miércoles, 9 de julio de 2025, 00:04
  
  Cierre: lunes, 14 de julio de 2025, 15:11
  
  Once you have comprehended the nature of the ETS rubrics, I want you to summarize them in a clear graphic organizer, I mean, the parameter for high responses and the ones for low responses.
- Evaluation of Activities
- AAA Archivo
- Makeup test Tarea
  
  Apertura: domingo, 13 de julio de 2025, 23:12
  
  Cierre: lunes, 14 de julio de 2025, 04:07
- Task 5 Tarea
  
  Apertura: martes, 24 de junio de 2025, 22:15
  
  Cierre: miércoles, 25 de junio de 2025, 00:25
- Makeup test URL
FINAL BLOCK
- Tutorials Foro
- Course satisfaction evaluation URL
- Survey check (copia) Tarea
  
  Apertura: martes, 22 de julio de 2025, 23:04
  
  Cierre: jueves, 24 de julio de 2025, 16:43
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