STUDENT PROFILE
Student’s Name Alberto Molo Minguel
Gender and age Male, 31 Years Old
Nationality Spanish
Education High School – Industrial engineer
Language Level B1 - Intermediate
Motivation Extrinsic – wants to improve his English skills to enhance job
prospects in England or for promotion in the current job in his
native country Spain. He also needs to enhance this ability for
effective communication during travel, socialising and listening to
English films.
Perceived Strengths • Feels confident in writing English
Perceived
Weaknesses • Feels listening and speaking are his weakest skills.
• Difficulty in speaking correctly and fluently.
• Experience difficulties with pronunciation.
Learning
Preferences • Prefer Funny activities and games during course
• Likes authentic material for learning purposes
• Topics to include the environment, technology, science, and
current affairs.
• Interests in football, movies, and rock music.
• Vocabulary with technical terms
• Preliminary focus must be on listening, speaking and
pronunciation.
• Want to improve job interview skills.
Teacher’s Role He would like the teacher to:
• be funny with a good pronunciation.
Topics of Interest
Student interests are the environment, technology, science, current
affairs, technical material, current affairs, football, watching
movies and listening to rock music.
THE COURSE PLAN
, Name of the Teacher Name of the Student Level of the
student
Maria Magrietha de Beer Alberto Molo Minguel B1 -
Intermediate
Syllabus Type:
Combination of Skills and Topic based Syllabus
Course Aims:
By the end of the course, the student will have improved and be better in his listening
(including the understanding thereof) skills and be able to listen for gist as well as specific
information from an audio piece. He will also have improved his speaking skills by means of
correct pronunciation of English words and have learnt new vocabulary that he will utilize
in the work environment especially applying for a job and social platforms.
Course Rationale: (700 – 1000 words)
Here you need to include:
• why you have chosen this syllabus type
I have decided to choose a combination of skills-based syllabus and topic-based syllabus as
the Skills based syllabus will help the student to enhance his strengths and import skills to
achieve his aims like building an effective communication skill. His primarily focus will be on
activities that will improve his listening, speaking and writing skills that will elevate his
abilities as in correct pronunciation of English words in order to cater for his needs such as
applying for a job or to get a promotion in his native country and socialising. The Topic
based syllabus is content based and will spark the student’s interest enabling him to enjoy
the learning process all the while improving his English level and skills. Vocabulary forms
parts of this syllabus identity and for the student to maintain conversation in an appropriate
form, he must obey conversation rules. It will teach him good strategies and micro-skills as
well.
• why you have chosen the topic(s) covered
The topics are directly derived from the student’s interest and hobbies as per the
questionnaire and interview. I then linked it to his preference to integrate comical authentic
material that will enable him to not only enjoy the course but consigning the new knowledge
to his long-term memory. Topics include travel, work, socializing and technology.
All the activities are derived from these interests.
• why you have chosen this target language/skill
Based on the student’s needs as per the questionnaire he filled out and the interview he
wants to improve his English for progress / promotion reasons in his native Country’s
Student’s Name Alberto Molo Minguel
Gender and age Male, 31 Years Old
Nationality Spanish
Education High School – Industrial engineer
Language Level B1 - Intermediate
Motivation Extrinsic – wants to improve his English skills to enhance job
prospects in England or for promotion in the current job in his
native country Spain. He also needs to enhance this ability for
effective communication during travel, socialising and listening to
English films.
Perceived Strengths • Feels confident in writing English
Perceived
Weaknesses • Feels listening and speaking are his weakest skills.
• Difficulty in speaking correctly and fluently.
• Experience difficulties with pronunciation.
Learning
Preferences • Prefer Funny activities and games during course
• Likes authentic material for learning purposes
• Topics to include the environment, technology, science, and
current affairs.
• Interests in football, movies, and rock music.
• Vocabulary with technical terms
• Preliminary focus must be on listening, speaking and
pronunciation.
• Want to improve job interview skills.
Teacher’s Role He would like the teacher to:
• be funny with a good pronunciation.
Topics of Interest
Student interests are the environment, technology, science, current
affairs, technical material, current affairs, football, watching
movies and listening to rock music.
THE COURSE PLAN
, Name of the Teacher Name of the Student Level of the
student
Maria Magrietha de Beer Alberto Molo Minguel B1 -
Intermediate
Syllabus Type:
Combination of Skills and Topic based Syllabus
Course Aims:
By the end of the course, the student will have improved and be better in his listening
(including the understanding thereof) skills and be able to listen for gist as well as specific
information from an audio piece. He will also have improved his speaking skills by means of
correct pronunciation of English words and have learnt new vocabulary that he will utilize
in the work environment especially applying for a job and social platforms.
Course Rationale: (700 – 1000 words)
Here you need to include:
• why you have chosen this syllabus type
I have decided to choose a combination of skills-based syllabus and topic-based syllabus as
the Skills based syllabus will help the student to enhance his strengths and import skills to
achieve his aims like building an effective communication skill. His primarily focus will be on
activities that will improve his listening, speaking and writing skills that will elevate his
abilities as in correct pronunciation of English words in order to cater for his needs such as
applying for a job or to get a promotion in his native country and socialising. The Topic
based syllabus is content based and will spark the student’s interest enabling him to enjoy
the learning process all the while improving his English level and skills. Vocabulary forms
parts of this syllabus identity and for the student to maintain conversation in an appropriate
form, he must obey conversation rules. It will teach him good strategies and micro-skills as
well.
• why you have chosen the topic(s) covered
The topics are directly derived from the student’s interest and hobbies as per the
questionnaire and interview. I then linked it to his preference to integrate comical authentic
material that will enable him to not only enjoy the course but consigning the new knowledge
to his long-term memory. Topics include travel, work, socializing and technology.
All the activities are derived from these interests.
• why you have chosen this target language/skill
Based on the student’s needs as per the questionnaire he filled out and the interview he
wants to improve his English for progress / promotion reasons in his native Country’s
