Please receive a cordial greeting. I am pleased to welcome you to the course English B1.
My name is Angela Patricia Arias Tibaquirá, I have a Bachelor’s
Degree in Modern Languages and a Bachelor’s Degree in
Administrator of Computer Systems, a Master’s Degree in
Administration and a Master’s Degree in Education. I belong to the
CCAV Eje Cafetero and I am the Director of this academic course
of English B1.
First of all, I want to inform you that the
platform for the English courses has
changed and from this semester on the
virtual campus has only 3 environments, I
invite you to review and familiarize
yourselves with them and to explore the
different buttons it has.
Next you should turn to the General
Course Forum. Once there, you should
write a short presentation in English about yourself, your interests and expectations in this
course.
You find the English contents in the E
Book/Online content English B1
in the learning environment.
There you can study the English
topics and perform the practice
exercises. You can see this video
to know how to work in the e-
book.
Keep in mind these recommendations:
1. This course lasts 16 weeks. It contains
6 activities corresponding to 75% and
the final exam being 25% of the grade.
There are 3 production activities:
Writing, Speaking and Technological
Development Production Task, 3
automatic activities and the final exam.
2. Read the Course agreements link and
click on accept to start the course.
3. Check the course agenda regularly for dates of activities. Try to keep to the schedule as
in this course you cannot take an exam to pass it.
4. Organize your time and use it for your own learning process!
5. Always read the messages from your tutor in the email, in the course general forum
and Course news forum and the activities forums. It is quite important that you follow
the guidelines in order to succeed in developing this course.
6. Spend time studying and learning English on your own.
7. Don’t forget to update your profile including a picture of you. This is extremely
important to us.
8. Speaking activities must be timed by the tutor. It is entirely your responsibility to do so.
9. Remember to attend the course webconferences. You can find the dates in Initial
Information Environment and through Course news forum.
If you have any questions, please first write to your tutor and if you don’t get answer from
him/her you can write to the Director via the classroom’s internal mail or my Skype
account: tutoravirtual18@[Link] or whatsapp 3234692680.
Do not hesitate to contact us immediately. Do not wait until the last minute to report your
difficulties.
Add our Skype group account English B1: 3234692680. Use this link to join
us: here
I invite you to add your tutor and me to Skype so that we can have faster
communication as a team.
After you have accepted the Course Agreements, you
can start with the first activity, Task 1. Pre-
knowledge task which is an online exam and you
can find it in Evaluation environment.