English 4
October 11 to December 12, 2025
Important information for your registration
- It is mandatory to provide evidence of proficiency at the minimum required level, either through the online diagnostic test or proof of recent completion of English Area courses (courses completed from the 2024-1 period onwards). To register for English 4: The required level is B1.1, which corresponds to obtaining level 4 on the diagnostic test or having passed English 3.
Click here to take your diagnostic test. - Fill out the pre-registration form, and this will be validated by the English Area.
- Read and sign the informed consent. If your application is approved, the sales team will send you the payment link.
Places are limited and will be assigned on a first-come, firts-served basis.
Please note: In accordance with the terms of the institutional language policy, if you wish to validate this course to fulfill the second language requirement at the University, you must take and pass it, meeting the evaluation criteria established at the beginning of the class.
Dates:
October 11 to December 12, 2025
Schedule:
- Every Saturday starting October 11th, from 2:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
- Rosarista Week: Tuesday, October 14th to Friday, October 17th, from 2:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
- December 1st to 12th, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Organize:
Course mode:
Remote Access
Number of hours:
64 hours
Description
English 4 from the General English Program of Rosario English Area is designed for students who already have a pre-intermediate B1.1 level of English and wish to continue developing their skills to reach B1.2, according to the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference). In this course, students will develop a project to strengthen the foundations of communication in English, focusing on achieving skill and fluency in language use. Students who meet the minimum attendance requirement and achieve a score of at least 80 points in the end of the course, will successfully complete the course and, as a result, fulfill the university’s B1 English requirement. Failure to meet either of these criteria will result in not passing the course and, consequently, not fulfilling the university’s English requirement.
Conditions of participation
Enrolment in the course requires:
- Full availability to attend all scheduled classes, as absences result in course failure.
- Access to a desktop or laptop in a quiet, distraction-free environment.
- Camera on at all times during sessions.
- Signed commitment to participation and academic integrity.
- No schedule conflicts with work, internships, or national/international trips that could affect attendance or connection.
Fulfilment of the B1 English requirement (upon successful completion and approval of the course)
Linguistic Competence
- Use an appropriate range of vocabulary on familiar topics (work, studies, travel, health, etc.).
- Apply basic and intermediate grammatical structures with reasonable accuracy.
- Pronounce intelligibly, although with some influence from the mother tongue.
- Paraphrase when lacking a specific word.
- Correct some of their own mistakes when speaking or writing.
Pragmatic Competence
- Understand main ideas in clear conversations and simple texts related to their environment.
- Engage in short conversations on topics of interest by asking questions, responding, and describing experiences.
- Write simple and coherent texts (emails, descriptions, narratives, opinions).
- Express feelings and justify viewpoints clearly and in an organized way.
- Adapt to common communicative situations, both routine and less predictable.
Sociolinguistic Competence
- Recognize formal and informal registers and adapt their language accordingly.
- Use courtesy expressions and basic cultural norms of interaction.
- Understand and respect cultural nuances in English communication.
- Show intercultural sensitivity when expressing themselves in international contexts.
Students at Universidad del Rosario who are interested in strengthening their B1 level of English. Students who had an unsuccessful attempt at Inglés 4 (2025-1) or an unsuccessful attempt at Intensive 3&4 (2025-1).
The General English courses are structured into four modules that help students develop their language skills competently. These modules work as follows:
|
MODULE |
SKILLS STUDIED |
|
Reception |
Reading comprehension and listening |
|
Production |
Writing and speaking |
|
Mechanics |
Grammar and vocabulary |
|
ELA |
Global citizenship and 21st-century skills |
Each class hour covers one module, all of which share a common weekly topic for discussion.
Each student must complete a project that integrates the four areas of study.
Assessment activities:
Performance assessment is strictly qualitative, and the results are reported as "Passed" or "Not Passed." The percentages assigned throughout the course are only for reference purposes, intended to illustrate the student's progress more clearly so they can understand it and act accordingly.
The minimum passing score is 80% out of 100%, determined by the average of the following components:
The evaluation system is developed in only one period:
- Overall course 100%
It includes the following criteria:
- Classwork: 50% – including attendance, participation, interaction, and exercises completed in class.
- Synthesis Project: 35%
- Test: 10%
- Self-assessment: 5%
Communicative prerequisites
The participant must be able to:
- Understand phrases and common expressions related to areas of immediate relevance (personal information, family, shopping, work, environment).
- Interact in simple and routine situations involving a direct and straightforward exchange of information.
- Describe in simple terms aspects of their surroundings, immediate needs, daily activities, and past experiences.
- Read and write short and simple texts such as emails, forms, or descriptions.
Academic prerequisites
To be eligible for enrolment, students must demonstrate evidence of English proficiency. This may be shown through any of the following:
- An English 4 result on the placement test.
- Successful completion of Inglés 3 or Intensive 3&4 in the 2025-1 term.
General objective:
To develop the ability to communicate effectively in everyday and professional situations, understanding and producing oral and written texts on familiar topics or personal interest, as well as expressing opinions, emotions, and justifications with a level of fluency, coherence, and accuracy appropriate to a low-intermediate level, allowing for greater autonomy in social, academic, or work-related contexts where English is needed.
Specific objectives:
Linguistic
- The student has a sufficient range of language to describe unpredictable situations, explain the main points in an idea or problem with reasonable precision and express thoughts on abstract or cultural topics such as music and films.
- The student has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some circumlocutions on most topics pertinent to his/her everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
- Evaluar y seleccionar los modos de entrada más adecuados para ingresar a nuevos mercados internacionales.
- The student communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Pragmatic
- The student can understand straightforward factual information about common every day or job related topics, identifying both general messages and specific details, provided speech is clearly articulated in a generally familiar accent.
- The student can read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/her field and interests with a satisfactory level of comprehension.
- The student can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfil a specific task.
- The student can identify the main conclusions in clearly signalled argumentative texts
- The student to can clearly express feelings about something experienced and give reasons to explain those feelings.
- The student to can write short, simple essays on topics of interest.
- The student to can write straightforward connected texts on a range of familiar subjects within his/her field of interest, by linking a series of shorter discrete elements into a linear sequence.
- The student to can communicate with some confidence on familiar routine and non-routine matters related to his/her interests and professional field.
- The student to can exchange, check and confirm information, deal with less routine situations and explain why something is a problem. Can express thoughts on more abstract, cultural topics such as films, books, music etc.
Sociolinguistic
- The student can recognise and interpret sociocultural/sociolinguistic cues and consciously modify his/her linguistic forms of expression in order to express him/herself appropriately in the situation.
Thematic content
Communicative context
- General guidelines and Project setup
Objective
- Improve comprehension of the main idea and details in short spoken and written texts.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
11-oct-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Relationships- Personal
Objective
- Develop the ability to organize ideas logically when narrating events.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
14-oct-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Relationships - Social
Objective
- Enhance accuracy in describing past experiences and linking events coherently.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
15-oct-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Relationship - Professional
Objective
- Strengthen skills to express future intentions, plans, and predictions.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
16-oct-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Nature - Descriptive
Objective
- Expand vocabulary range to describe familiar situations with greater precision.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
17-oct-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Nature - Scientific
Objective
- Improve ability to express personal opinions and basic justifications clearly.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
18-oct-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Nature - Experiential
Objective
- Build confidence in participating in short conversations and managing interaction strategies.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
25-oct-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Music - Cultural
Objective
- Practice comparing and contrasting ideas to communicate differences and similarities effectively.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
1-nov-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Music - Personal
Objective
- Develop skills to use time markers and sequencing devices for clearer storytelling.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
8-nov-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Music - Creative
Objective
- Improve expression of preferences, agreement, and disagreement with varied phrases.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
15-nov-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Sports - Recreational
Objective
- Expand strategies to understand less familiar language through context and inference.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
29-nov-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
No. hour
1.5 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Sports - Competitive
Objective
- Enhance ability to explain causes and consequences in spoken and written communication.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
1-dic-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Sports - Health
Objective
- Strengthen use of conditional expressions to discuss possibilities and hypothetical situations.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
2-dic-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Sports - Social
Objective
- Improve skills in summarizing information from oral and written sources.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
3-dic-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Work - Tasks
Objective
- Develop awareness of register and politeness strategies in different social situations.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
4-dic-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Work - Careers
Objective
- Practice expressing and justifying viewpoints with appropriate linking devices.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
5-dic-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Work - Environment
Objective
- Strengthen participation in extended discussions by maintaining coherence and interaction.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
6-dic-2025
Schedule
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- People - Identity
Objective
- Improve ability to produce cohesive short texts with adequate vocabulary and structure.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
9-dic-2025
Schedule
2:00 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3.5 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- People - Community
Objective
- Enhance strategies to infer meaning of unfamiliar words from context.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
10-dic-2025
Schedule
2:00 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3.5 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- People - Notable
Objective
- Develop skills to connect ideas in speech and writing using a wider range of connectors.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
11-dic-2025
Schedule
2:00 pm - 5:45 pm
No. hour
3.5 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Communicative context
- Project presentation and feedback
Objective
- Consolidate ability to sustain longer conversations on familiar and some unfamiliar topics with fluency and confidence.
Skills to be developed
- Mechanical, receptive, productive and language arts skills
Date
12-dic-2025
Schedule
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
No. hour
4 hours
Course mode
Remote access
Commitments
Commitment to participate in the Rosario English Area courses validating the English requirement
Important: As this course fulfils the university’s institutional English requirement, its implementation and evaluation are subject to strict conditions regarding identity verification, active participation, and academic compliance.
To confirm your enrolment in the course, you must carefully read each of the points below, complete the required information, and declare your commitment at the end of the form.
I. Identity verification
For the purposes of control and identity validation, you must present and submit digital copies of the following documents:
- A color-scanned copy of your national ID card
- Your Universidad del Rosario student ID card
Prior to the start of classes, you will receive an email from englisharea@urosario.edu.co with instructions for submitting these documents digitally (in PDF or image format, in a legible and high-resolution file). Submission of these documents is a mandatory requirement for course participation. Failure to comply will result in the cancellation of your enrolment.
During the first session and throughout the course, you must have one of these physical documents available at all times, as the instructor may request to see it at any moment.
II. General participation requirements
Before the course begins:
- Verify the proper functioning of your UR virtual passport, especially your institutional email and access to E-Aulas. In case of technical issues, contact Servicios 2030 (servicios2030@urosario.edu.co) to resolve them before classes begin, as all course communication will be conducted exclusively through insctitutional channels.
During the course:
- Communicate any requests, questions, or concerns exclusively through your institutional UR email. For academic matters related to the class, your first point of contact will be the instructor. For any other inquiries regarding English Area courses or services, contact englisharea@urosario.edu.co.
- Actively participate in all course sessions.
- Meet all academic requirements of the program.
- Attend the course consistently and with commitment. Attendance and active classroom participation are essential to achieving academic objectives. In-class work is part of the evaluation process and accounts for 50% of the final grade.
In the event of justified absences, you must follow the procedure established by the university in circular normativa 164 of 2023 (link), and submit the corresponding excuse through the virtual services platform to Casa UR.
Please note:
- The minimum passing score for the course is 80 out of 100. The result will be expressed qualitatively (pass/fail) and will not affect your GPA.
- If you fail the course, you will not fulfil the university’s English requirement. In such case, you must consult your academic unit for available alternatives.
Before the start of remote classes:
Each student is responsible for ensuring that they have the necessary technological and infrastructure conditions to participate in class without issues. If you do not have a computer or a suitable space at home, you may attend the course from any of the university’s campuses using the resources available to students. In any case, the selected location must meet the required conditions stated here.
During remote sessions:
In the exceptional case of a serious internet connection failure that prevents you from quickly reconnecting to class, you must provide documented evidence and immediately email your instructor, attaching the evidence.
IV. Mandatory conditions for assessment activities during the course
1. In-class evaluative activities for remote access courses:
- You must keep your camera on during all evaluative activities, both written and oral, ensuring proper visibility of your face.
- If you are unable to turn on your camera for a justified and properly documented reason, the activity will be rescheduled no later than the following day, in agreement with the instructor and under the same participation conditions described in this commitment.
- Without a valid justification, the activity will not be rescheduled, and the grade will be zero.
2. Final exam
The course’s final exam will be conducted asynchronously and individually through E-Aulas, within the time frame previously defined and communicated by the instructor.
Mandatory conditions:
To take the final exam, the same technological and infrastructure requirements stated in this document apply: being in an individual space, without the presence or intervention of third parties; ensuring proper lighting and clear facial visibility; maintaining a stable internet connection throughout the entire test.
Additional technical requirements:
Before the exam:
- Install the Respondus LockDown Browser software on your computer and verify that it works correctly.
- Test the functionality of a mobile phone with a working camera and identify a suitable location to place it so that the entire environment is visible during the speaking section.
During the exam:
- You must activate the Respondus LockDown Browser software from start to finish for all asynchronous exam sections.
- The speaking section will take place during class hours. You must simultaneously connect your phone (with camera on) to the course’s Zoom room, ensuring a clear view of your environment. The camera must remain on until the end of the evaluation.
Important notes:
- You must have everything in place to fully comply with these requirements before the exam starts. Failure to meet these conditions will result in the exam being annulled and a grade of zero.
- b) The final exam will be recorded in full by Respondus LockDown Browser, with evidence stored in the E-Aulas management panel. This recording will be used as part of the verification and assessment process.
Important: The formative and disciplinary regulations (decreto rectoral 1728 of July 10, 2023) apply to all Universidad del Rosario students enrolled in these English courses. Students who commit any disciplinary infraction as defined in the regulation will be subject to the corresponding disciplinary process. For more information, consult the regulation: decreto rectoral 1782: Reglamento Formativo y Disciplinario para estudiantes de la Universidad del Rosario (July 10, 2023).