A Guide to PCSE English

The main objective of Post-compulsory Secondary Education (Bachillerato) in the subject matter of English is for the students to take advantage of all the grammatical contents that they were assimilating during the previous four-year Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO). Now it is not simply enough, however, to "fill in the gaps," "put the words in order" or "understand" texts  by means of matching sentences or just say "true or false". The students will need to go much deeper in what they have learnt so far, and make good use of their knowledge in order to produce texts, get along in a given conversation and understand texts which have not been seen in class. 

In order for the assimilation of information to turn out effective, the students must:

1) Write down all the vocabulary seen in class, homework or online practice (blog, twitter, etc.).

2) Develop their writing competence through sentences, paragraphs and essays.

3) Read all the texts in every unit and also those texts proposed by your teacher as homework, and practise reading comprehension throughout four different types of questions:

• True or False and sentence justification.
• Complete sentences using given words from a text.
• Identify synonyms or similar expressions in a text.
• Answer questions consulting the text without copying the exact words from the text.

4) Know how to distinguish the important thing from the secondary one in conversation recorded in English.

5) Be able to participate efficiently in class by :

•  Answering questions posed by your teacher.
• Giving brief opinions or joining in a class debate.
• Contributing examples to  grammatical structures or semantic groups seen in class.
• Refuting ideas proposed by other students (expressing disagreement) and argue their own opinions.

For all of the above, a set of guided activities will be ready for the students to willingly develop those aptitudes (reading, writing, listening, speaking) or contents (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, sentence making, question making and so on) needed.