סילבוס קורס בסיסי

שם ומספר הקורס: בסיסי 41-004

סוג הקורס: הרצאה (חובה) סמסטר: א/ב/קיץ  היקף שעות:  6 ש"ס

 א. מטרות הקורס ותוצרי למידה (מטרות על / מטרות ספציפיות):

מטרת הקורס

Course purpose and overview:

The Bsisi course develops students’ English proficiency at the intermediate level through an integrated approach that aligns with the CEFR’s four communicative activities – reception, production, interaction, and mediation.

Students work with pre-academic texts of increasing length and complexity (up to 1700 words), developing essential receptive skills, such as identification of key information and text interpretation and analysis, while expanding their academic vocabulary and strengthening overall language proficiency. Through structured class discussions and short writing tasks, students develop productive skills by learning to convey ideas clearly and coherently in both spoken and written English. Course tasks incorporate elements of interaction and mediation, helping students navigate meaning across a variety of contexts and fostering their confidence and autonomy as language users.

By the end of the course, students will be able to understand academic-style content and communicate more effectively in familiar social and academic situations, with growing independence.

תוצרי למידה

Learning outcomes (CEFR-aligned):

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to do the following:

Reception

Listening

• Can understand enough to be able to meet the needs of a concrete type provided speech is clearly and slowly articulated.
• Can follow a simple, well-structured presentation or demonstration.
• Can understand and extract the essential information from short, recorded passages that are delivered slowly and clearly.

Reading

• Can understand short, simple texts containing the high frequency vocabulary.
• Can understand the main points of short texts dealing with basic topics.
• Can identify specific information in simpler written material.  
• Can use an idea of the overall meaning of short texts and utterances on everyday topics of a concrete type to derive the probable meaning of unknown words from the context.
• Can exploit his/her recognition of known words to deduce the meaning of unfamiliar words in short expressions used in routine everyday contexts.
• Can read edited academic English texts at an intermediate level of approximately 1700 words.
• Can use reading strategies at word, sentence, and paragraph level (e.g., main ideas, transitions, sentence structure, context clues, affixes, and references) to facilitate comprehension.

Production

Spoken

• Can give a simple description or presentation as a short series of simple sentences.
• Can give short, basic descriptions of events and activities.
• Can present his/her opinion in simple terms.
• Can give a short, rehearsed, basic presentation on a familiar subject.

Written

• Can write a series of simple sentences linked with simple connectors.
• Can write short, basic descriptions of events, past activities and personal experiences.
• Can write simple texts on familiar subjects of interest, linking sentences with connectors.
• Can give his/her impressions and opinions in writing about topics of personal interest, using basic vocabulary and expressions.
• Can write short answers ranging from a few words to a complete sentence in English.

Interaction

Spoken

• Can interact with reasonable ease in structured situations and short conversations.
• Can understand enough to manage simple, routine exchanges.
• Can generally understand clear, standard speech on familiar matters.
• Can exchange relevant information and give his/her opinion on simple issues.

Written

• Can exchange information by text message or in short letters, responding to questions the other person had.

Mediation

• Can convey relevant information contained in clearly structured, short, simple, informational texts.
• Can convey the main point(s) involved in short, simple conversations or texts on everyday subjects of immediate interest.

• Can pick out and reproduce key words and phrases or short sentences from a short text.

   

Linguistic, vocabulary, grammar and orthographic control

• Has a repertoire of basic language, which enables him/her to deal with everyday situations with predictable content, though he/she will generally have to compromise the message and search for words.
• Can use basic sentence patterns and communicate with memorized phrases, groups of a few words and formulae.
• Has sufficient vocabulary to conduct routine, everyday transactions involving familiar situations and topics.
• Can perform and respond to basic language functions, such as information exchange and requests and express opinions and attitudes in a simple way.
• Can socialize simply but effectively using the simplest common expressions and following basic routines.
• Can use the most frequently occurring connectors to link simple sentences in order to tell a story or describe something as a simple list of points.
• Can communicate what he/she wants to say in a simple and direct exchange of limited information on familiar and routine matters.

ב. תוכן הקורס:

Teaching techniques and the use of digital technologies:

• Frontal instruction

• Pair/group work

• Class discussions

• Lamda assignments (e.g., forum discussions, recordings, online quizzes, videos)

• Interactive class activities involving digital technologies

ג. חובות / דרישות / מטלות:

Course requirements:

• Attendance and active participation in class sessions

• Successful completion of class assignments, quizzes, and homework

• Final exam

   

ד. מרכיבי הציון הסופי:

Components of the course grade:

The course grade is composed of a class grade (60%) and a final exam grade (40%).

The class grade includes:

The final exam consists of a text of 1500-1700 words accompanied by reading comprehension questions of various types (including open-ended, completion, and multiple-choice questions).

Students are allowed to use a dictionary during the exam.

Exam duration: 2 hours

ביבליוגרפיה:

Materials:

• Course Booklet – includes exercises and activities based on the articles and skills taught, developed by a committee of EFL Unit teachers.

• Articles posted on the Lamda platform.

• Supplementary material provided by the course instructor.