1) Can read aloud or speak considering the basic rhythms, intonations, and sound connections in phrases and sentences in order to convey one's meaning to a listener.
2) Learn the rules of English pronunciation and accents and can use them properly in order to speak clearly and convey one's meaning to a listener.
3) Memorize the vocabulary learned in junior high school. Learn new vocabulary in accordance with the curriculum guidelines for high school and technical English terms required for professional education, and can use them properly.
4) Learn grammar and sentence structure in accordance with the curriculum guidelines for high school in addition to the grammar and structure learned in junior high school, and can use them properly.
5) Can listen to and catch the necessary information from the content spoken in a clear pronunciation at a speed of about 100 words a minute, regarding everyday life and familiar topics.
6) Can speak one's opinions and impressions in English using basic terms, regarding everyday life and familiar topics.
7) Can read aloud sentences including descriptions and stories at a speed of about 100 words a minute in order to convey one's meaning to a listener.
Outline:
This course focuses on English conversation practice and confidence building. Students will make the English they have learned from previous classes come alive in its spoken form.
Style:
Each lesson will involve plenty of conversation practice with a different theme and grammar point each week. This course also includes listening and pronunciation practice in English. Written tests will be given as mid-term and final exams and speaking tests will be held during class time on a regular basis.
Notice:
Active participation in English is essential for completing this course successfully. During this class, being more than 15 minutes late, doing coursework for other professors, sleeping, talking out-of-turn at length, playing smart phone games, and any similar actions that distract one's focus away from class may result in a recorded absence or a required make-up class.
Students who miss 4 or more classes will not be eligible for a passing grade.
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| 2nd Semester |
| 3rd Quarter |
| 1st |
Unit 9: Getting Things Done (A)
Practice listening and speaking activities using "get (something) done" and "have (something) done."
Record Speaking Test 1: "Getting Things Done"
Homework: Section 9 Grammar Focus on pages 61 and 140-Part 2. |
Hold a fluent conversation in English about things you need or want to have done.
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| 2nd |
Unit 9: Getting Things Done (B)
Practice listening and speaking activities for making suggestions with modals + verbs, gerunds, negative questions, and infinitives.
Record Speaking Test 2: "Making Suggestions"
Homework: Section 3 Grammar Focus on pages 65 and 141-Part 1. |
Hold a fluent conversation in English in which you ask for and give advice or suggestions.
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| 3rd |
Unit 10: A Matter of Time (A)
Practice listening and speaking activities that refer to times in the past with adverbs and prepositions, "during," "in," "ago," "from . . . to," "for," and "since."
Record Speaking Test 3: "Historic Events"
Homework: Section 10 Grammar Focus on pages 67 and 141-Part 2. |
Hold a fluent conversation in English about historic events.
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| 4th |
Unit 10: A Matter of Time (B)
Practice listening and speaking activities while predicting the future with "will," the future continuous tense, and the future perfect tense.
Record Speaking Test 4: "Predicting the Future"
Homework: Section 3 Grammar Focus on pages 73 and 142-Part 1. |
Hold a fluent conversation in English about the future.
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| 5th |
Unit 11: Rites of Passage (A)
Practice listening and speaking activities about life’s milestones, which use the time clauses, “before,” “after,” “once,” “the moment,” “as soon as,” “until,” and “by the time.”
Record Speaking Test 5: "Life Events and Milestones"
Homework: Section 8 Grammar Focus on pages 75 and 142-Part 2. |
Hold a fluent conversation in English about life’s milestones.
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| 6th |
Unit 11: Rites of Passage (B)
Practice listening and speaking activities for describing hypothetical situations and expressing regret with “should (not) have” + past participle, “if” clauses + past perfect and “would/could have” + past participles.
Record Speaking Test 6: "Regrets and Hypothetical Situations"
Homework: Sections 4 and 8 Grammar Focus on pages 79, 81 and 143-Part 1 and 2. |
Hold a fluent conversation in English about regrets and hypothetical situations.
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| 7th |
Unit 12: Keys to Success
Practice listening and speaking activities to describe purpose through infinitive clauses with “for” and reasons with “because,” “since,” “because of,” “for,” and “due to.”
Homework (this week): Study for the mid-term test.
Record Speaking Test 7: "Keys to Success"
Homework (due by week 9): Section 4 Grammar Focus on pages 87 and 144-Part 1. |
Hold a fluent conversation in English about the qualities necessary for success and good advertising.
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| 8th |
Mid-Term Written Test |
Show mastery of the grammar and vocabulary covered in Units 9 to 12.
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| 4th Quarter |
| 9th |
Unit 13: What Might Have Been (A)
Practice listening and speaking activities for speculating what has happened by using past modals for degrees of certainty: “must (not) have,” “may (not) have,” “might (not) have,” and “could (not) have.”
Record Speaking Test 8: "Unexplained Events"
Homework: Section 9 Grammar Focus on pages 89 and 144-Part 2. |
Hold a fluent conversation in English to speculate why things happened as they did.
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| 10th |
Unit 13: What Might Have Been (B)
Practice listening and speaking activities for giving advice with, “should (not) have,” “could (not) have,” and “would (not) have.”
Record Speaking Test 9: "Complicated Situations and Advice"
Homework: Section 3 Grammar Focus on pages 93 and 145-Part 1. |
Hold a fluent conversation in English about complicated situations and advice.
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| 11th |
Unit 14: Creative Careers (A)
Practice listening and speaking activities for describing processes with “is/are” + past participles and modals + be + past participles.
Record Speaking Test 10: "How Things are Done/Made"
Homework: Section 10 Grammar Focus on pages 96 and 145-Part 2. |
Hold a fluent conversation in English about how things are done or made.
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| 12th |
Unit 14: Creative Careers (B)
Practice listening and speaking activities to talk about careers in entertainment by using defining and non-defining relative clauses.
Record Speaking Test 11: "Media and Entertainment"
Homework: Section 3 Grammar Focus on pages 101 and 146-Part 1. |
Hold a fluent conversation in English about media and entertainment.
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| 13th |
Unit 15: A Law Must Be Passed! (A)
Practice listening and speaking activities for giving recommendations and opinions about controversial topics with passive modals, like “should be,” “ought to be,” “must be,” “has to be,” and “has got to be.”
Record Speaking Test 12: "Recommendations"
Homework: Section 9 Grammar Focus on pages 103 and 146-Part 2. |
Hold a fluent conversation in English regarding recommendations and opinions about controversial topics.
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| 14th |
Unit 15: A Law Must Be Passed! (B)
Practice listening and speaking activities to show agreement and disagreement with tag questions.
Record Speaking Test 13: "Controversial Opinions"
Homework: Section 3 and 9 Grammar Focus on pages 107, 109, and 147-Part 1 and 2. |
Hold a fluent conversation in English with tag questions.
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| 15th |
Unit 16: Reaching Our Goals
Practice listening and speaking activities regarding accomplishments with the simple past and present perfect, and regarding goals with the future perfect and “would like to have” + past participles.
Record Speaking Test 14: "Inspiration"
Homework: Study for the final exam.
Recommendation: Complete Online Self-Study Units 9-16 grammar and vocabulary sections. |
Hold a fluent conversation in English about reaching one’s goals.
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| 16th |
Final Exam |
Show mastery of the grammar and vocabulary covered in Units 9 to 16.
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