CUFBA (Curso de Formación Básico)

¿A quién está dirigido el CUFBA?

El CUFBA está dirigido a los siguientes alumnos:

• aspirantes que habiendo rendido el examen de Inglés no logren ingresar a 1° AÑO
• aspirantes que deseen fortalecer sus conocimientos de la lengua inglesa antes de ingresar a 1° AÑO
• aspirantes que deseen inscribirse al próximo ciclo lectivo (2017)

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Antes de comenzar el ciclo lectivo, los aspirantes a ingresar a la carrera rinden un examen de nivel de inglés.

 

El resultado del examen de nivel nos permitirá ubicar a los estudiantes en 1° AÑO o en el CUFBA (Curso de Formación Básico).

 

 

 

El CUFBA le permite al estudiante fortalecer su conocimiento de la lengua inglesa en tres áreas: Compresión de textos, Redacción de Textos y Expresión Oral.

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Exam content and procedure

 

The students will be assessed in terms of their language ability in the following skills:

• Reading Comprehension
• Writing
• English in Use
• Oral interaction

Each candidate’s ability will be assessed globally.

 

Candidates will be assessed in the following areas:

 

READING COMPREHENSION           

Candidates will be asked to work on some reading comprehension activities.

 

WRITING             

Candidates will be asked to produce some written text/s.

 

SPEAKING             

Candidates will be asked to produce some samples of oral language. Their oral interaction skills will be assessed.

Candidates will also be required to discuss the contents of 1 (ONE) short story from the booklet compiled both for the CUFBA (Curso de Formación Básico) and for the purposes of the present exam session and to interact with another candidate.

 

ENGLISH IN USE  

Candidates are expected to be able to use the following forms both in writing and orally. These contents will appear in all the papers for assessment. 

 

TENSES

Present:

• Present Continuous
• Present Simple
• Present Continuous vs. Present Simple

 

Past:

• Past Simple
• Past Continuous
• Present Perfect Simple
• Gone and been
• Present Perfect with just, yet and already
• Present Perfect Continuous
• Present Perfect Continuous vs. Present Perfect Simple
• Present Perfect with  for and since
• Present Perfect vs. Past Simple
• Present Perfect vs. Present Tense
• Past Perfect Simple
• Past Perfect Continuous

 

 

Future:

• Future:  will
• Future:  going to
• Future:  will  and  going to
• Present Continuous for the Future
• Future:  Present Continuous and going to
• Present Simple for the Future
• Present Simple for the Future after when if, etc.
• Future Continuous:  will be + -ing form
• Future Perfect:  will have  +  Past Participle
• Future in the past: was/were going to

 

Notes:

• Continuous forms with always
• Verbs not normally used in the Continuous
• Imperative and let’s
• Be
• There is, there are
• Have and have got
• Have for actions
• Past Perfect Continuous

 

 

 

Modal verbs and related structures

Modal verbs: general

Ability: can, could, may, might, be allowed to

Obligation and necessity (1): must, have to, have got to

Obligation and necessity (2): mustn’t, don’t have to, don’t need to, haven’t got to, needn’t

Needn’t have and didn’t need to

Obligation and advice: should, ought to, had better, be supposed to, shall

Possibility: may, might, could

Possibility: can

Probability: should, ought to

Deduction: must, can’t

Requests: can, could, may, will, would

Offers: will, shall, can, could, would

Suggestions: shall, let’s, why don’t we, how/what about, can, could

Habits: used to, will, would

Refusals: won’t, wouldn’t

Promises and threats: will

May/might, as well

Other uses of should

Wish and if only

Would rather

It’s time

 

 

Pronouns

• Personal pronouns
• Possessive adjectives and pronouns
• Reflexive pronouns
• One (s)
• Something, anything, somebody, anybody, etc.

 

 

The Passive and  have something done

The Passive: general

The Passive: infinitive and -ing forms

Using get instead of be in the Passive

Verbs with two objects in the Passive

The Passive with by and with

It is said that he… / He is said to… etc.

Have something done

 

Conditional Sentences

• When and if
• Conditionals: introduction
• Open Present or Future Conditionals
• Unreal Present or Future Conditionals
• Open and unreal Present or Future Conditionals
• Unreal Past Conditionals
• General Conditionals
• Conditionals without if

 

Reported Speech

• Direct and Reported Speech: introduction
• Say and tell
• Reported statements
• Reported questions
• Using the to infinitive in Reported Speech

 

 

-ing form and infinitive

• -ing form: participle or gerund
• Verb + -ing form or infinitive: introduction
• Verb + -ing form
• Verb + to infinitive
• Verb + question word + to infinitive
• Verb + object + to infinitive
• Verb + -ing form or to infinitive
• Be used to + -ing form and used to + infinitive
• Need + -ing form or to infinitive
• Infinitive without to
• Preposition + –ing form
• Person + -ing form
• -ing form and to infinitive as subject
• To infinitive of purpose
• Noun / Pronoun / Adjective + to infinitive
• See someone doing and see someone do
• -ing and -ed adjectives
• -ing clauses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nouns, articles and quantity

• Singular and plural nouns (1)
• Singular and plural nouns (2)
• Compound nouns
• Possessive’s (genitive)
• Possessive’s or … of .. ?
• Double possessive
• Countable vs. uncountable nouns
• Articles: a / an and the
• Talking in general: no article and a / an
• Taking in general: the
• Common expressions without articles
• Place names with and without articles
• Place names with and without the
• Quantity: general
• Some and any
• Much, many, a lot of, (a) little, (a) few
• No and more
• All, every, everybody, everything, whole
• Both, either, neither

 

 

 

Negatives, questions and answers

• Negative statements
• Yes / No questions
• Wh- questions
• Subject and object questions
• Question words
• Negative questions
• Question tags
• Reply questions
• Indirect questions
• Short answers
• So / neither am I, so / neither do I, so/ neither can I, etc.
• I think so, I hope so, I expect so, etc.

 

 

 

Relative clauses

• Defining relative clauses with who, that and which
• Leaving out who, that and which in defining relative clauses
• Defining relative clauses with whose, where, when and why / that
• Defining vs. non-defining relative clause
• Non-defining relative clauses with whose, whom, where and when
• Relative clauses with prepositions + which and whom
• Which referring to a whole clause

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Linking words

• Time: when, as, while, as soon as, before, after, until
• Contrast: although, even though, though, in spite of, despite, while, whereas, however
• Reason and result: because (of), as, since, so as a result, therefore, so / such …  (that)
• Purpose: to, in order to, so as to, for, so that
• Purpose: in case

 

 

 

Prepositions

• Place: at, in, on
• Place and movement: in, into, out of, on, onto, off, inside, outside
• Place and movement: above, below, over, under, underneath, on top of
• Other prepositions of places and movement
• Time: at, in, on
• On time vs.  in time
• At the end vs. in the end
• Time: in, during, for, while
• Time: by, until, from, to, before, after
• Time: for, since, before, ago
• Means of transport: by, on, in
• Like, as and as if
• With (= having) and in (= wearing)
• Adjective + preposition
• Noun + preposition
• Preposition + noun
• Verb + preposition
• Verb + object + preposition
• Indirect objects with or without to and for

 

The exam is divided into 3 parts:

 

READING COMPREHENSION and WRITING	USE OF ENGLISH
	ORAL

 

For your oral exam (2015-2016), you are expected to prepare any two short stories from:

 

 Into the Wind, Contemporary Stories in English

Selected and introduced by Barrie Wade

Nelson, UK, 1990.