概要:
This course focuses on English conversation strategies and confidence building. Students will make the English they have learned from previous classes come alive in its spoken form.
授業の進め方・方法:
Each lesson will involve plenty of conversation practice with a different conversation strategy each week. Students will study, do homework, and be tested on correcting common errors that Japanese students of English make. Written tests will be given as mid-term and final exams and speaking tasks will be assessed weekly.
注意点:
Active participation in English is essential for completing this course successfully. Students who do not stay focused and those who are more than 10 minutes late for class may be counted absent.
合格の対象としない欠席条件(割合) 1/4以上の欠課
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週 |
授業内容 |
週ごとの到達目標 |
前期 |
1stQ |
1週 |
Unit 1: Using Rejoinders (Short, natural, responses in English conversation) Conversation practice. Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. Homework: Common error and lesson review activities online. |
Develop the natural use of English rejoinders to keep a conversation going. Reduce the occurrences of common English errors made by Japanese students.
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2週 |
Unit 2: Making Follow-up Questions Conversation practice. Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. Homework: Common error and lesson review activities online. |
Practice creating good follow up questions to keep a conversation going. Reduce the occurrences of common English errors made by Japanese students.
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3週 |
Unit 3: Confirmation Questions Conversation practice. Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. Homework: Common error and lesson review activities online.
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Practice asking for confirmation to avoid misunderstanding. Reduce the occurrences of common English errors made by Japanese students.
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4週 |
Unit 4: Clarifications with Question Words Last Conversation practice. Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. Homework: Common error and lesson review activities online.
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Practice asking for clarification of specific information. Reduce the occurrences of common English errors made by Japanese students.
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5週 |
Unit 5: Keeping or Killing the Conversation Conversation practice. Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. Homework: Common error and lesson review activities online.
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Practice using expressions to continue a conversation when desired and expressions to end a conversation when continuing is not desired. Reduce the occurrences of common English errors made by Japanese students.
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6週 |
Unit 6: Expressing Probability Conversation practice. Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. Homework: Common error and lesson review activities online.
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Learn to express how the certainty of an answer. Reduce the occurrences of common English errors made by Japanese students.
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7週 |
Review of Units 1-6 Conversation practice. Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. Homework: Common error and lesson review activities online. |
Put all of the conversation strategies from units 1-6 together in practice conversations. Prepare for the exam on common errors.
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8週 |
Mid-term Exam (first written test) on common errors that Japanese students of English make. |
Master the recognition and correction of common English errors.
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2ndQ |
9週 |
Unit 7: Interrupting Someone Conversation practice. |
Practice joining conversations by interrupting someone politely.
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10週 |
Unit 8: Echoing Instructions Conversation practice. |
Practice confirming understanding by repeating back what was said.
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11週 |
Unit 9: Polite Requests, Responses, and Excuses Conversation practice. |
Practice making casual and polite requests and responding both positively and negatively to requests.
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12週 |
Unit 10: Getting a Response Conversation practice. |
Practice encouraging others to join the conversation.
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13週 |
Unit 11: Soliciting Details Conversation practice. |
Practice getting more detailed information from a conversation partner.
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14週 |
Unit 12: Responding with Details Conversation practice. |
Practice giving more detailed information to a conversation partner.
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15週 |
Review of Units 1-12 Conversation practice. |
Put all of the conversation strategies from units 1-12 together in practice conversations. Prepare for the exam on conversation strategies.
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16週 |
End-term Exam (second written test) on the first 12 units of conversation strategies taught in the textbook. |
Master the conversation strategies taught in the book.
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後期 |
3rdQ |
1週 |
Unit 13: Making Comparisons Conversation practice. Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. Homework: Common error and lesson review activities online. |
Practice comparing things and ideas in English.
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2週 |
Unit 14: Finding the Right Word Conversation practice. Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. Homework: Common error and lesson review activities online. |
Practice strategies to help you find the right word to say.
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3週 |
Unit 15: Exploring a Word Conversation practice. Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. Homework: Common error and lesson review activities online. |
Practice strategies to help you understand and use vocabulary in a wider range of situations.
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4週 |
Unit 16: Correcting Someone Conversation practice. Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. Homework: Common error and lesson review activities online. |
Practice correcting someone politely when they give false information.
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5週 |
Unit 17: Eliciting Confirmation Conversation practice. Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. Homework: Common error and lesson review activities online. |
Practice making sure that you are understood.
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6週 |
Unit 18: Starting and Stopping a Conversation Conversation practice. Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. Homework: Common error and lesson review activities online. |
Practice starting and finishing an English conversation smoothly.
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7週 |
Review of Units 1-18 Conversation practice. Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. Homework: Common error and lesson review activities online. |
Put all of the conversation strategies from units 1-18 together in practice conversations. Prepare for the next exam on common errors.
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8週 |
Mid-term Exam (third written test) on common errors that Japanese students of English make. |
Master the recognition and correction of common English errors.
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4thQ |
9週 |
Unit 19: Beginning and Ending a Phone Call Conversation practice. |
Practice starting and finishing a telephone call smoothly in English.
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10週 |
Unit 20: Expressing Opinions Conversation practice. |
Practice expressing opinions politely and with confidence.
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11週 |
Unit 21: Making a Group Decision Conversation practice. |
Practice techniques for participating in group discussions and coming to a consensus as a group.
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12週 |
Units 22: Discussion Connectors Conversation practice. |
Practice including everyone in a group discussion and smoothly connecting everyone's contribution to the discussion.
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13週 |
Units 23 and 24: Summarizing and Conducting a Formal Meeting Conversation practice. |
Practice summarizing what has been said and following the rules of participating in formal meetings.
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14週 |
Units 25 and 26: Word Games and Volunteering an Answer Conversation practice. |
Build vocabulary with word games and practice volunteering an answer without being asked directly.
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15週 |
Review of All Units Conversation practice. |
Put all of the conversation strategies together in practice conversations. Prepare for the exam on conversation strategies.
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16週 |
End-term Exam (fourth written test) on ALL of the conversation strategies taught in the textbook. |
Master the conversation strategies taught in the book.
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分類 | 分野 | 学習内容 | 学習内容の到達目標 | 到達レベル | 授業週 |
基礎的能力 | 人文・社会科学 | 英語 | 英語運用の基礎となる知識 | 聞き手に伝わるよう、句・文における基本的なリズムやイントネーション、音のつながりに配慮して、音読あるいは発話できる。 | 3 | |
明瞭で聞き手に伝わるような発話ができるよう、英語の発音・アクセントの規則を習得して適切に運用できる。 | 3 | |
中学で既習の語彙の定着を図り、高等学校学習指導要領に準じた新出語彙、及び専門教育に必要となる英語専門用語を習得して適切な運用ができる。 | 3 | |
中学で既習の文法や文構造に加え、高等学校学習指導要領に準じた文法や文構造を習得して適切に運用できる。 | 3 | |
英語運用能力の基礎固め | 日常生活や身近な話題に関して、毎分100語程度の速度ではっきりとした発音で話された内容から必要な情報を聞きとることができる。 | 3 | |
日常生活や身近な話題に関して、自分の意見や感想を基本的な表現を用いて英語で話すことができる。 | 3 | |
説明や物語などの文章を毎分100語程度の速度で聞き手に伝わるように音読ができる。 | 3 | |