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Teaching a Young Professional to develop and advance his career by improving his English Communication abilities
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STUDENT PROFILEStudent’s Name Alberto
Gender and age Male, 31 years old
Nationality Spanish
Education High School- Industrial Engineer
Language Level Intermediate
Motivation Intrinsic- Wants to improve English for him to have better
conversations with his English speaking friends and for him to
understand people when he travels. Improving his English will
enable him to have better opportunities as far as him applying for
work and increasing his chances of being promoted.
Perceived Strengths Understands English literature (Reading)
Perceived Maintaining a conversation in English
Weaknesses Struggles to listen when speaking English
Has trouble in pronouncing words
Learning Would like engaging and fun activities
Preferences Topics of interest that could be incorporated into the lesson
would be Science, Technology and Current Affairs’
Prefers authentic material
To include technical vocabulary
Teacher’s Role To have a structured lesson that would be engaging as well as
fun that maintains his interest by incorporating his areas of
interest.
Topics of Interest Environment/ Science/ Technology/ Current Affairs/ Film/ Music/
Football
THE COURSE PLAN
Name of the Teacher Name of the Student Level of the
student
Brandon Alberto Mozo Minguez Intermediate
Syllabus Type: Multi-syllabus
, Course Aims:
By the end of the course, the student will be better able to communicate fluently in English,
have confidence when having a conversation with someone by improving his pronunciation
will improve confidence in his ability in maintaining a conversation. This will help him in
social situations with his friends as well as when he finds himself in a working environment.
Course Rationale: (700 – 1000 words)
Here you need to include:
why you have chosen this syllabus type
why you have chosen the topic(s) covered
why you have chosen this target language/skill
the rationale behind the structure of the course, e.g. why is it in this order?
how the course will meet the learner’s needs
By choosing a multi-syllabus to base the course on for Alberto enables the learning to be
structured in a way that is not confined to set and rigid outlines for the lesson to happen
in. The multi-syllabus enables Alberto’s learning to be tailor made for him as he outlined in
the needs analysis. By structuring learning around what Alberto highlighted in the
questionnaire as well as the interview, this would encourage Alberto to be more involved
with the lessons as he had a say in the way the syllabus has been developed. Some of
Alberto’s interests has been incorporated into the lesson to ensure buy in from him. His
interests that he indicated that he is interested in are; Environment, Science, Technology
and Current Affairs. He prefers authentic material to keep him interested so by
incorporating topics that he has an interest in enables to make the lesson unique to him
and what he sets out to wanting to achieve.
I tried to pay attention to working on pronunciation as this stood out for me that could
deter him from having conversations as he may be aware of the way he pronounces words.
That for me will go a long way in helping him to have better conversations, together with
improving his listening and speaking.
The multi syllabus approach opens up the avenues of learning to choose from and therefore
not limited to a textbook. I was able to use resources from TED Talks, YouTube and articles
to use within the lessons. As much as I tried to include aspects Alberto mentioned in the
interview and needs analysis, what I focused on throughout the lesson was getting him
ready to be employed in a possibly English dominant environment. Therefore apart from
getting to know him finding out what he enjoys, I thought that having a lesson where travel
is used would be good way to ease into to what I consider main purpose of Alberto
improving his English.
The reasons I chose to structure the syllabus are as follows:
Hour 1: This lesson I will use to get acquainted with Alberto, getting to know his strengths
and weaknesses and finding out more about him wanting to learn English and other
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