ENGLISH B2: BE SMART

ENGLISH B2: BE SMART

Goals

The English B2 course: Be Smart aims to improve your communication skills in English at an intermediate-high level. The specific objectives of the course are:
• Express your opinion and maintain discussions with native speakers about a fairly wide variety of issues with a level of fluidity and spontaneity that makes communication possible effortlessly.
• Understand people who speak English on radio and television, and understand the main points of complex texts.
• Understand and write clear and detailed texts about a wide range of topics, both concrete and abstract, including technical discussions in your specialization field, 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.
Oral interaction and production skills
You will be able to:
• Understand spoken language, live or transmitted, on both family and unknown issues.
• Follow extended speeches and complex argument lines.
• Use the language fluently, precision and efficacy in a wide range of general, academic, vocational or leisure issues, clearly marking the relationships between ideas.
• Give your opinion and explain the advantages and disadvantages.
Auditory comprehension skills
You will be able to:
• Understand extended speeches and conferences and even follow complex argument lines provided that the issue is reasonably familiar.
• Understand most news and news programs on television.
• Understand most standard dialect movies.


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, underlining relevant problems, expanding and supporting views with some extension.
• Write clear and detailed descriptions of real or imaginary events and experiences by marking the relationship between ideas in a clearly connected text.
• Write letters transmitting degrees of emotion and highlighting the personal importance of events and experiences.
This course will provide you with the necessary skills to communicate effectively in English to an intermediate level.

ENGLISH B2: BE SMART

What prepares you

The English B2 course: Be Smart, when focusing on teachers and education professionals, can open various job opportunities:
• English professor at schools: This course can allow you to teach English at your school, or even in other schools that require English teachers with a B2 level.
• Bilingual programs coordinator: Many schools are implementing bilingual programs and need coordinators that are competent in English.
• Pedagogical Advisor: As a pedagogical 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 from English -speaking countries.
• Teacher training: You could offer English training to other school staff members.
• Teaching subjects in English: Some schools offer subjects given in English. With a B2 level, you could be trained to teach subjects such as science or mathematics in English.

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

ENGLISH B2: BE SMART

Who is it addressed

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

ENGLISH B2: BE SMART

Methodology

The course methodology is based on 100%online learning, through the Aula_Smart virtual campus, an innovative and easy -to -use platform, which will allow you to access all the contents and resources of the course from anywhere and device. The course has a highly specialized teaching team, formed by education professionals with extensive experience and training in the analysis of teaching skills. They will accompany you and guide you throughout the learning process, through personalized tutorials, chat, email and even videoconference. The teaching method is totally multidisciplinary, since it combines different pedagogical approaches and strategies, such as:

- Theoretical contents, where the fundamental concepts and principles of the analysis of the teaching skills will be presented, as well as the normative and reference frameworks that regulate them.
- Practical contents, 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 you will reflect on the teaching performance itself and on the areas of strength and improvement, as well as on the strategies to enhance them.
- Collaborative learning activities, where the exchange of experiences, opinions and proposals through forums will be promoted.

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