Download ESL 110/111 Intermediate 2

Bishop’s University
ESL 110-111
ELSS: May 22—June 23, 2006
Intermediate 2
Instructor: Thomas Kerr
Evaluation:
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5.
Monitor evaluation for workshop:
Written assignments (2):
Oral presentations (2):
Weekly Tests (Weeks 2, 3, 4, and 5):
Attendance, punctuality, preparedness, initiative, cooperation,
concentration, and maturity in classroom interaction:
10%
15%
15%
40%
20%
Objectives and Content:
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Oral presentations:
1.
the mystery biography (individual presentations)
2.
the invention (individual presentations)
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Weekly Tests (weeks 2, 3, 4, and 5):
1.
cumulative—all material presented
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Pronunciation, phonetics, and spelling:
1.
The “ed” ending (voiced and voiceless consonants)
2.
Consonant doubling (vowel length and syllable stress)
3.
The final “s” (regular plural form for nouns + verb inflection)
4.
The aspirated initial “h” sound
5.
The ”th” sound
6.
Correct syllable stress for English-French cognates
Your objective is to produce speech—in oral presentations and conversation
activities—that
demonstrates:
(a)
that you can correctly pronounce the “ed” ending of regular preterite
(auxiliaty and lexical verbs
in the simple past) and past participle verb
forms.
(b)
that you have mastered the basic spelling rules—and the basic
exceptions—which will allow you
to know when a consonant should be
doubled.
(c)
that you can clearly enunciate the “s, h, and th” sounds when speaking.
(d)
that you can put stress on the correct syllable in English-French
cognates.
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Writing and speaking:
1.
Grammar
Your objective is to complete tests and produce texts and oral presentations
that demonstrate:
(a)
that you know how to distinguish between the simple and progressive
aspects of the present tense
and non-progressive verbs and their progressive
idiomatic meanings (this includes primary
auxiliary verb usage for
negation and interrogation).
(b)
that you know how to distinguish between the simple and progress
aspects of the past tense: verb
agreement for clauses that express interrupted
action and simultaneous action in the past (this
includes primary auxiliary verb
usage for negation and interrogation).
(c)
that you know how to distinguish between the simple aspect of the past
tense and the
perfect/simple aspect of the present tense (this includes
primary auxiliary verb usage for negation
and interrogation).
(d)
tense and the perfect
that you know how to distinguish the perfect/simple aspect of the present
progressive aspect of the present tense.
(e)
that you know how to distinguish between prediction, spontaneous
decision, and prior plan for
the modal forms used for future time.
(f)
that you can use the contextually correct modal auxiliary verb for polite
requests. necessity/lack
of necessity and prohibition, suggestions, degrees of
certainty, habitual past actions and repeated
past actions, and present ability
and past ability.
(g)
that you know how to use the “zero article, “the definite article, the
indefinite article, and
pronoun determiners and that you can
distinguish between singular, plural, and noncount nouns.
2.
Vocabulary
Your objective is to complete tests and produce texts and oral presentations
that demonstrate:
(a)
non-phrasal verb
that you have mastered the selected phrasal verbs and that you can find
synonyms for them.
(b)
readings and lexical
that you remember specific vocabulary and expressions from your
databases.
(c)
(d)
idiomatic meanings.
that you remember count and noncount nouns.
that you remember non-progressive (stative) verbs and their progressive
(e)
that you remember the selected prepositions for time, place, and idiom.