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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