1 Students can improve their TOEIC scores through a systematic study of the various types of questions and strategies to answer them.
2 Students will develop their communication skills through a variety of conversation focused activities.
3 Students will alternate between focusing on listening and reading comprehension exercises to ensure a balanced development of the skills required to excel on the TOEIC test.
概要:
Students will learn grammar, vocabulary and tactics to improve their TOEIC scores. Each of the 7 parts of the test will be covered in a systematic but alternating fashion so as to progress in a balanced way in prepartion for the test date.
授業の進め方・方法:
Regular lessons will have the following structure. (1) warm up with a communication activity; (2) Textbook study to develop TOEIC strategies. (3) Practice exercises and mini tests to assess understanding.
注意点:
It is important to attend all lessons (both listening and reading focused classes) in order to develop all the skills and strategies necessary to succeed on the tests. Scores from our mid and final tests which will incorporate TOEIC level questions will be the main criteria used to assess students progress. *This course includes a total of 120 hours of self-study activities at home before or after class. (Because 1 hour means 45 minutes in this context, you actually need a total of 90 hour self-study at home.) Please note that you must complete the take-home assighnments to succefully pass this class.
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授業内容 |
週ごとの到達目標 |
| 前期 |
| 1stQ |
| 1週 |
"Listening Comprehension
[Part 1] Unit 1: Photos with People in Focus. "
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When students see photos with people, they determine how many people and look carefully to find out who they are, where they are and what they are doing.
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| 2週 |
"Reading Comprehension
[Part 5&6] Unit 1: Nouns
[Part 7] Unit 1: Reading for the Main Idea "
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Students learn how nouns describe persons, places, things, states or qualities and are divided into countable and non-countable groups. They can obtain main ideas from emails.
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| 3週 |
"Listening Comprehension
[Part 2] Unit 1: Who / What / Which"
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Students study how to use Wh- questions to ask for specific information and answer providing required information.
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| 4週 |
"Reading Comprehension
[Part 5&6] Unit 2: Pronouns
[Part 7] Unit 2: Reading for details"
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Students learn how a pronoun can replace a repeated noun (personal, demonstrative and indefinite). They will learn how to obtain precise details from a passage of text.
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| 5週 |
"Listening Comprehension
[Part 3&4] Unit 1: Main Question Types"
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Learners study how to ascertain the main ideas in questions related to topic, purpose, speakers or location.
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| 6週 |
"Reading Comprehension
[Part 5&6] Unit 3: Adjectives
[Part 7] Unit 3: Making Inferences"
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Students study how adjectives describe states or traits of things or people, and, how they modify nouns and complement intransitive verbs. Additionally they will learn to draw logical conclusions that are not directly stated within a text.
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| 7週 |
"Listening Comprehension
[Part 2] Unit 2: Where / When"
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Students learn how the response to most where questions relate to locations or directions and correct answers often include prepositions of place. Whereas when questions tend to include prepositions of time.
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| 8週 |
Mid-term test 中間試験 |
総復習
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| 2ndQ |
| 9週 |
答案返却 return the test
"Reading Comprehension
[Part 5&6] Unit 4: Adverbs
[Part 7] Unit 4: Finding Synonyms"
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"Students become aware that adverbs add information about actions, events or situations.
They also learn how to answer Part 7 questions which test undersanding of the meaning of words in context."
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| 10週 |
"Listening Comprehension
[Part 3] Unit 2: Business Related Topics"
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Students study topics which are most common in companies, business meetings, customer interactions, and other business scenarios.
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| 11週 |
"Reading Comprehension
[Part 5&6] Unit 5: Number Agreement
[Part 7] Unit 5: Reading for the Intended Meaning"
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"Students come to understand the importance of matching a subject and a verb in number known as number agreement.
Students practice reading for the implied meaning of a writers words and the writers intention."
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| 12週 |
"Listening Comprehension
[Part 4] Unit 2: Recorded Messages / Announcements / Speeches"
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Learners practice grasping necessary information from common forms of listening input in business situations.
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| 13週 |
"Reading Comprehension
[Part 5&6] Unit 6: Voice
[Part 7] Unit 6: Inserting a Sentence"
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"Students become aware of the difference between the active and passive voices.
Learners practice the tactic of inserting a given sentence into the correct part of a text."
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| 14週 |
"Reading Comprehension
[Part 5&6] Unit 7: Tense
[Part 7] Unit 7: Letters & Emails"
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"Students learn how tenses (simple, perfect and progressive), communicate the time of an occurrence of an action or state.
Learners become accustomed to looking carefully for details contained in forms of written communication."
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| 15週 |
End-term test 定期試験 |
総復習
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| 16週 |
答案返却 return the test
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答え合わせ
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| 後期 |
| 3rdQ |
| 1週 |
"Listening Comprehension
[Part 1] Unit 2: Photos with Objects & Backgrounds in Focus."
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Students become used to looking for details of things other than people in photos.
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| 2週 |
"Reading Comprehension
[Part 5&6] Unit 8: To Infinitives.
[Part 7] Unit 8: Announcements & Notices"
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"Learners will understand that to infinitives can act as a noun, adjective or adverb in a sentence.
Understanding how to interpret announcements and notices and garner detailed information for this type of question."
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| 3週 |
"Listening Comprehension
[Part 2] Unit 3: How / Why
Unit 4: Yes/No Questions."
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"Students will learn that how questions discuss method, means, states and opinions.
Students will focus on listening to the end of questions to correctly answers yes/no questions."
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| 4週 |
"Reading Comprehension
[Part 5&6] Unit 9: Gerunds
[Part 7] Unit 9: News Articles"
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"Learners will grasp how gerands play the role of a noun and can take an object or be modified by an adverb.
Learning how to gather key points from a business news article."
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| 5週 |
"Listening Comprehension
[Part 3] Unit 3: Purchase-related Topics.
[Part 4] Unit 3: Broadcasting Talks"
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Students hone their listening skills to short conversation for topics such as purchasing products and services and business news.
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| 6週 |
"Reading Comprehension
[Part 5&6] Unit 10: Participles
[Part 7] Unit 10: Advertisements"
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"Learners will develop an understanding of present and past participles.
Additionally the will develop skills of comprehending job adverts and advertisements for products, services and events."
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| 7週 |
"Listening Comprehension
[Part 2] Unit 5: Alternative/Tag/Embedded
Unit 6: Statement/Requests/Suggestions/Offers"
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"Students learn how to choose between questions which offer alternatives.
They will also train themselves to choose answers which sound most natural given the type of conversation in the question."
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| 8週 |
Mid-term test 中間試験
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総復習
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| 4thQ |
| 9週 |
答案返却 return the test "Reading Comprehension
[Part 5&6] Unit 11: Prepositions
[Part 7] Unit 11: Non-prose readings"
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答え合わせ
"Learners will become aware that prepositions are followed by a noun and other types of prepositional phrases.
They will also learn to get specific information quickly from a variety of different formats."
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| 10週 |
"Listening Comprehension
[Part 3] Unit 4: Topics related to Daily Life"
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Students will hear and attempt to understand a variety of topics of every day life and casual converstations.
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| 11週 |
"Reading Comprehension
[Part 5&6] Unit 12: Conjugations
[Part 7] Unit 12: Double / Triple passages"
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Students will gain an understanding of conjugations: coordinating, correlative and subordinating. They will become used to reading sets of two or three texts and finding the key clues which connect them.
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| 12週 |
"Listening Comprehension
[Part 4] Unit 4: Advertisements / Tour Guidance"
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Students will practice listening to advertisements and tour information and answering frequently asked questions.
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| 13週 |
"Reading Comprehension
[Part 5&6] Unit 13: Relative Pronouns & Relative Adverbs
[Part 5&6] Unit 14: Complete Sentences"
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Learners will develop an understanding of how relative pronouns play the role of both conjuctions and pronouns. Additionally they will learn how to understand the overall structure and logical flow of a passage to select the best sentence to answer filling questions.
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| 14週 |
Preparation for the test |
Students will prepare the test
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| 15週 |
End-term test
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総復習
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| 16週 |
答案返却 return the test Review of the TOEIC test and study strategies for future study.
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答え合わせ Learners will reflect on their study and consider how to approach future strategies to continue to improve their TOEIC scores.
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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 | |
| 平易な英語で書かれた文章を読み、その概要を把握し必要な情報を読み取ることができる。 | 3 | |
| 日常生活や身近な話題に関して、自分の意見や感想を整理し、100語程度のまとまりのある文章を英語で書くことができる。 | 3 | |
| 母国以外の言語や文化を理解しようとする姿勢をもち、実際の場面で積極的にコミュニケーションを図ることができる。 | 3 | |
| 実際の場面や目的に応じて、基本的なコミュニケーション方略(ジェスチャー、アイコンタクト)を適切に用いることができる。 | 3 | |
| 英語運用能力向上のための学習 | 自分の専門分野などの予備知識のある内容や関心のある事柄に関する報告や対話などを毎分120語程度の速度で聞いて、概要を把握し、情報を聞き取ることができる。 | 3 | |
| 英語でのディスカッション(必要に応じてディベート)を想定して、教室内でのやり取りや教室外での日常的な質問や応答などができる。 | 3 | |
| 英語でディスカッション(必要に応じてディベート)を行うため、学生自ら準備活動や情報収集を行い、主体的な態度で行動できる。 | 3 | |
| 母国以外の言語や文化を理解しようとする姿勢をもち、教室内外で英語で円滑なコミュニケーションをとることができる。 | 3 | |
| 関心のあるトピックについて、200語程度の文章をパラグラフライティングなど論理的文章の構成に留意して書くことができる。 | 3 | |
| 関心のあるトピックや自分の専門分野のプレゼン等にもつながる平易な英語での口頭発表や、内容に関する簡単な質問や応答などのやりとりができる。 | 3 | |
| 関心のあるトピックや自分の専門分野に関する論文やマニュアルなどの概要を把握し、必要な情報を読み取ることができる。 | 3 | |
| 英文資料を、自分の専門分野に関する論文の英文アブストラクトや口頭発表用の資料等の作成にもつながるよう、英文テクニカルライティングにおける基礎的な語彙や表現を使って書くことができる。 | 3 | |
| 実際の場面や目的に応じて、効果的なコミュニケーション方略(ジェスチャー、アイコンタクト、代用表現、聞き返しなど)を適切に用いることができる。 | 3 | |