English B2: Be Smart In-Person/Virtual

English B2: Be Smart In-Person/Virtual

Goals

The English B2: Be Smart course aims primarily to improve your English communication skills to an intermediate-high level. The specific objectives of the course are:
• Express your opinion and hold discussions with native speakers on a wide variety of topics with a level of fluency and spontaneity that makes communication effortless.
• Understand people speaking English on radio and television, and understand the main points of complex texts.
• Understand and write clear and detailed texts on a wide range of topics, both concrete and abstract, including technical discussions in your field of specialization, and express the advantages and disadvantages of different points of view.
• Describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions, and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
Interaction and Oral Production Skills
You will be able to:
• Understand spoken language, live or broadcast, on both familiar and unfamiliar topics.
• Follow extended speeches and complex lines of argument.
• Use the language fluently, accurately and effectively on a wide range of general, academic, vocational or leisure topics, clearly marking the relationships between ideas.
• Give your opinion and explain the advantages and disadvantages.
Listening Comprehension Skills
You will be able to:
• Understand extended speeches and lectures and follow even complex lines of argument provided the topic is reasonably familiar.
• Understand most news and current affairs programmes on television.
• Understand most movies in standard dialect.


Reading Skills
You will be able to:
• Identify the content and relevance of news, articles and reports on a wide range of topics.
• Quickly scan long and complex texts, locating relevant details.

Writing Skills
You will be able to:
• Write clear and well-structured texts on complex topics, highlighting relevant issues, expanding and supporting points of view at some length.
• Write clear and detailed descriptions of real or imagined events and experiences, marking the relationship between ideas in a clearly connected text.
• Write letters conveying degrees of emotion and highlighting the personal importance of events and experiences.
This course will provide you with the skills necessary to communicate effectively in English at an upper-intermediate level.

English B2: Be Smart In-Person/Virtual

What it prepares you for

The English B2: Be Smart course, when focused on teachers and education professionals, can open up various job opportunities:
• English teacher in schools: This course can allow you to teach English in your school, or even in other schools that require English teachers with a B2 level.
• Bilingual Program Coordinator: Many schools are implementing bilingual programs and need coordinators who are proficient in English.
• Educational Advisor: As an educational advisor, you could use your English skills to develop study programs and learning materials in English.
• International school exchanges: You could coordinate school exchange programs with schools in English-speaking countries.
• Teacher training: You could offer English language training to other members of the school staff.
• Teaching subjects in English: Some schools offer subjects taught in English. With a B2 level, you may be qualified to teach subjects such as science or maths in English.

Remember that this course provides you with a solid foundation, but for some of these career paths you will need to continue your training and reach a more advanced level of English.

English B2: Be Smart In-Person/Virtual

Who is it addressed to?

The English B2: Be Smart course is specially designed for:
• Teachers: Teachers at all educational levels who wish to improve their English skills in order to teach in this language or work in an international environment.
• Education professionals: Educational support staff, such as counselors or coordinators, who need English to communicate with English-speaking colleagues, students, or parents.
• Education professionals interested in international mobility: Those who are considering work or study opportunities abroad and need to improve their level of English.
This course is suitable for those who already have a basic knowledge of English and want to take their skills to the next level.

English B2: Be Smart In-Person/Virtual

Methodology

The course methodology is based on 100% online learning, through the Aula_SMART virtual campus, an innovative and easy-to-use platform that will allow you to access all the course content and resources from any location and device. The course has a highly specialized teaching team, made up of education professionals with extensive experience and training in the analysis of teaching skills. They will accompany and guide you throughout the learning process, through personalized tutoring by phone, chat, email and even videoconference. The teaching method is completely multidisciplinary, as it combines different pedagogical approaches and strategies, such as:

- Theoretical content, where the fundamental concepts and principles of the analysis of teaching competencies will be presented, as well as the normative and reference frameworks that regulate them.
- Practical content, where theoretical knowledge will be applied to real or simulated cases of educational practice, using tools and methodologies to evaluate and develop teaching skills.
- Self-assessment activities, where teachers will reflect on their own teaching performance and on areas of strength and improvement, as well as on strategies to enhance them.
- Collaborative learning activities, where the exchange of experiences, opinions and proposals will be encouraged through forums.

In this way, the course methodology offers you dynamic, participatory training adapted to your needs and interests, which prepares you to be a competent and effective teacher, capable of adapting to the demands and challenges of today's education.