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Waterloo Catholic District School Board – St Benedict’s Catholic Secondary School
STUDENT INFORMATION SHEET ENGLISH, ESL D/E (CONDENSED)
Instructor: Ms. Redfearn
Date: February 2015
Phone: 519-621-4050 (after 12 noon)
E-mail: [email protected]
Course Communication: See CLASSNET / Desire to Learn (access via school website)
Course Description: This course prepares students to use English with increasing fluency and accuracy in classroom
and social situations and to participate in Canadian society as informed citizens. Students will develop their oralpresentation, reading, and writing skills required for success in all school subjects. They will extend listening and
speaking skills through participation in discussions and seminars; study and interpret a variety of grade level texts; write
narratives, articles and summaries in English; and respond critically to a variety of print and media texts.
Course Resources and Materials: Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Adapted version); Crabbe by William Bell; Into the
Wild, directed by Sean Penn; East 43rd Street by Alan Battersby; Don’t Panic: More practice for the OSSLT; Language Power; Side
by Side Grammar textbook and workbook; Don’t Panic: Oxford Dictionary of Idioms; Activities taken from Recipes for Tired
Teachers, Talk-a-tivities, etc.
Evaluation: Knowledge and Understanding: 25%; Thinking/Inquiry: 25%; Communication: 25%; Application: 25%
Unit Description (70%)
Literacy Test Preparation
Drama (Shakespeare) MACBETH
Short Stories / Poems
Novel Study
Grammar practice + Tests
Journal Writing
Vocabulary (Personal Dictionaries)
Final Evaluation (30%)
Assessment & Evaluation Strategies
Movie / Vocabulary/ Newspaper Article / Personal Opinion / Properly
formatted Short Answer / Reading Practice and Multiple Choice
Unit Questions / Vocabulary / Tests /Journal Responses/ Creative Project /
(maybe viewing a play)
Introduction into elements of fiction and literary/poetic devices
Unit Questions / Vocabulary / On-going Quizzes / Movie / Journal
Responses / Essay
On- going (Handouts and Side by Side Chapter tests)
On- going
On- going
Independent Study (Idioms exploration + Journal Response) – (15%)
Exam (15%)
Course Breakdown & Assessment and Evaluation Strategies:
NOTE
Grammar and vocabulary will be taught contextually throughout the course; the chart attached
shows the structures students are expected to learn. Reinforcement and repetition of language
structures will be used as needed for mastery. Units will vary depending on students’ needs and
prior knowledge and may include such genres as Shakespeare, novel study, short stories, poetry,
idioms and media.
Ministry, School, Department and Classroom Policies: The following “Growing Success” policies apply to this
program area:
ASSESSMENT AND LATE ASSIGNMENT POLICY: Students are responsible for providing evidence of their
achievement of the overall expectations within the time frame specified by the teacher and in the form approved by the
teacher. Consequences for not completing assignments, unacceptable absences for tests, submitting work late, cheating
and plagiarism are outlined in Board policy and can be found on the school website. Late and missed assignments may
also be noted on the report card as part of the evaluation of the student's learning skills and work habits.
CREDIT RESCUE: Students with incomplete summative evaluations and/or culminating activities in the course
and/or those not achieving the credit at the end of the semester will be required to attend a 2 hour credit rescue period
during the examination schedule to complete and demonstrate overall or missing expectations for the course
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English as a Second Language
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ESL DO1 Language Reference Chart – ESL Level 4 (D)*
I. Grammatical Structures
Nouns
 abstract nouns (e.g., advice, information, beauty, knowledge, philosophy, democracy) + a, an, the, or no
article (e.g., He had a good knowledge of math. He had knowledge about many things. I gave him the
information about travel times.)
Pronouns
 indefinite: some, any, every + one
 one, ones
 who, which, that, whose in a relative clause (e.g., non-defining relative clause: She gave me this photo,
which she had taken in Mexico. The students, who wanted to play soccer, were disappointed when it
rained.)
Verbs
 present perfect progressive (e.g., What have you been doing?)
 passive: present progressive (e.g., The game is being played today.)
 passive: present perfect (e.g., The pie has been eaten.)
 passive: future (e.g., The project will be finished soon.)
 dual use of some nouns/verbs: produce, report, present
 gerunds/ infinitives (e.g., Bullying is unacceptable. To know him is to love him.)
 modals: need, may, might
 conditional: type 2 / unlikely (e.g., If I had a million dollars, I would buy a large house.)
 consistent use of verb tenses (e.g., maintain the same verb tense in a sentence or paragraph)
Adjectives
 noun + three adjectives (e.g., She wore a large, blue, checked scarf.)
 the + adjective (e.g., The large leather bag is mine. She bought the big red hat.)
 gerund as adjective or as part of a compound noun (e.g., running water, walking stick, diving board)
 both, all, enough + of
 either, neither
Adverbs
 formed by adding -ly to ing/ed participles (e.g., She was staring lovingly at the child. They excitedly
cheered for their team.)
 of possibility (e.g., probably, possibly, definitely)
 of opinion (e.g., obviously, clearly)
Transition words and phrases
 conjunctions: yet, although, since, because of
 not only … but also (e.g., She is taking not only ESLDO but also physics.)
 as … as, as soon as, as well as, nearly as, just as, not quite as, whereas
 moreover, in short, as a result, even though, now that, for instance, because of, by contrast, possibly,
that
is, in addition, for this reason
Question forms
 forms of information questions (e.g., What doesn’t she like?)
 with modals (e.g., Should she take this course?)
Negation
 with conjunction unless (e.g., Don’t call me unless you need help. Unless you have a permit, you can’t
drive.)
Prepositions
 with a variety of phrasal verbs (e.g., be away, be back, be for, be over, be up; ask about, ask for, ask
[someone] in, ask [someone] out)
 despite, throughout, until, according to
Sentences
 complex, with addition of second subordinate clause (e.g., The ball, which he threw wildly, bounced off
the
tree and hit Sunita, who had stepped into the park.)
 complex, with relative clause(s) (e.g., She reads books that explore environmental issues.)
 indirect speech with wh questions and if (e.g., I asked him what he was doing. We asked him if he would
go to the movies.)
 relative clause + that (stated or implied) (e.g., The car that was speeding caused an accident. The sweater
[that] I bought was too small.)
 noun clause + that (stated or implied) (e.g., I know [that] you’re smart.)
 indirect speech + a variety of tenses
 self-correction of common sentence errors (e.g., run-ons, fragments)
II. Conventions of Print
Punctuation
 hyphen
 colon, semi-colon
 apostrophe
 quotation marks
 parentheses
 ellipses