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Bishop’s University ESL 110-111 ELSS: May 22—June 23, 2006 Intermediate 2 Instructor: Thomas Kerr Evaluation: 1. 2. 3. 4. 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: • Oral presentations: 1. the mystery biography (individual presentations) 2. the invention (individual presentations) • Weekly Tests (weeks 2, 3, 4, and 5): 1. cumulative—all material presented • 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. • 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.