INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE TECNOLOGÍA

SUPERIOR DE ORIENTE
Barcelona - Anzoátegui

Programa I-2
PRESENTACIÓN

Asignatura: Fundamentos del Inglés Escrito

Carrera: Idiomas, mención Inglés
Trimestre: I
Código: FIE 144
Modalidad: Régimen Trimestral (12 semanas clase).
Densidad Horaria: Cuatro (4) horas/semana
N° de Créditos: Cuatro (4)
Prelaciones y/o requisitos: S/P
Aprobado/Revisión: Octubre 2009

FUNDAMENTACIÓN

El idioma inglés en la actualidad es una herramienta fundamental para los profesionales que se
desempeñan en empresas industriales y comerciales, en posiciones de nivel intermedio, de apoyo
y/o asistencia a la alta gerencia que requiere de un profesional medio técnicamente calificado en
el manejo del inglés. Dentro de este contexto el manejo de la habilidad para escribir
correctamente el idioma constituye un elemento relevante a desarrollar.

OBJETIVO TERMINAL

La asignatura Fundamentos del Inglés Escrito está dirigida a:

 Desarrollar en el futuro profesional de inglés, habilidades y destrezas básicas para escribir
correctamente en el idioma inglés mediante la práctica de la expresión de ideas y
pensamientos a través de la construcción de oraciones correctamente estructuradas.

SINOPSIS DE CONTENIDO

Orden de las palabras, sujetos, verbos y frases preposicionales, preposiciones, objeto directo e
indirecto, fragmentos de expresiones, oraciones simples y compuestas, vocabulario y signos de
puntuación, formas verbales afirmativas: presente, pasado y futuro.

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FUNDAMENTALS OF WRITTEN ENGLISH

PURPOSE

The purpose of this class is to develop the necessary skills used in writing proper English.
Along with the affirmative verb forms, many areas in sentence structure will be given emphasis
that will help the students express their ideas and thoughts in a proper written structure.

CONTENT
Word order, subject, verb and prepositional phrases, prepositions, direct and indirect objects,
sentence fragments, compound sentences, punctuation and vocabulary. Affirmative verbs forms:
present, past and future.

ACTIVITIES

Reading and Writing. Being able to understand and give feedback; Papers –Homework -Short
writing, Journals, Letters; Rewriting in different tenses; Proofreading.

MATERIALS

GrassRoots 6th Edition, Fawcett/Sandberg; Focus on Grammar, Longman Grammar Series,

Marjorie Fuchs, Miriam Westheimer with Margaret Bonner.

DESCRIPTION: CONTENT, ACTIVITY, HOURS

Simple Present Introduction. Defining a Dealing with 1st, 2nd, 3rd 4 hours
sentence. Nouns – plurals, person. Reading and
quantifiers. Word order adj + evaluating quality writings.
noun.
Present Sentence fragments Freewriting, outlines, pre- 4 hours
Progressive writing.

Articles – a/an, the, some and Paragraph writing: Topic 4 hours

any, indefinite vs. definite. sentences, body, and final
Prepositions. sentence.
Simple Past Personal and relative pronouns Proofreading 4 hours

Adjectives and adverbs Letters 4 hours

Past Progressive Modals Letters 4 hours

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Questions Opinion writing. Expressing Review- Freewriting practice 4 hours

your ideas

Present and Past of Review Exam 1 4 hours

“going to”

Simple Future Resume Resume 4 hours

Present Perfect Equatives and comparatives Cover letter 4 hours

Past Perfect Superlatives, discourse makers Business writing 4 hours

Present Perfect Decisions, large, larger than Business writing 4 hours

with Simple Past

Present Perfect Passive vs. Active Voice Business writing 4 hours

Progressive

Present Perfect Compositions Essay writing – Answering, 4 hours

and Present Essay questions, expressing
Perfect ideas.
Progressive Compositions Essay writing 4 hours

Review Exam 2 4 hours

Evaluation Plan
Composition (15%). At the beginning of the semester each student will be given a specific topic
which they will have to write on and later read to the class.
Quizzes (15%). The quizzes will cover the specific grammar points.
Test (30%). One test given after the first 8 weeks covering the first half of the class. Another
exam will be given after the second 8 weeks covering the second half of the class.
Written assignments (40%). The written assignments will vary. If I am able to give 1 each
week, they will be worth 0.5 pts a piece. If circumstances don’t allow I may give a writing
assignment the next week worth 1 point.

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