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 pronunciation practice, short reading drills, and some brief English writing assignments. 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 tests will be held during class time one week before each written test.
Notice:
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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| 1st Semester |
| 1st Quarter |
| 1st |
Course Orientation and Introduction to Online Self-Study and Smartphone App
Unit 1: That's My Kind of Friend! (A)
Discussing personalities and qualities of people. |
Learn how to master this course through online self-study and how to particpate interactively through pair, group, and whole-class activities in MS Teams.
Use relative pronouns as the subjects and objects of clauses to describe personalities and qualities of people.
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| 2nd |
Unit 1: That's My Kind of Friend! (B)
Discussing likes and dislikes.
Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. |
Using “it” clauses plus adverbial clauses with ”when” to describe likes and dislikes.
Practicing the pronunciation of linked sounds.
Reduce the occurrences of common English errors made by Japanese students.
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| 3rd |
Unit 1: That's My Kind of Friend! (C)
Writing and reading about personalities and likes and dislikes.
Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. |
Describe a good friend in writing.
Master reading comprehension through purpose-driven rereading activities.
Reduce the occurrences of common English errors made by Japanese students.
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| 4th |
Unit 2: Working 9 to 5 (A)
Discussing opinions, advantages, and disadvantages of jobs.
Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters.
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Use gerund phrases as subjects and objects do you share opinions about jobs.
Reduce the occurrences of common English errors made by Japanese students.
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| 5th |
Unit 2: Working 9 to 5 (B)
Comparing various jobs.
Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. |
Make comparisons with adjectives, verbs, nouns, and past participles.
Practice applying stress to compound nouns.
Reduce the occurrences of common English errors made by Japanese students.
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| 6th |
Unit 2: Working 9 to 5 (C)
Describing and reading about a satisfying place to work.
Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters.
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Describe in writing which job would be most satisfying.
Master reading comprehension through purpose-driven rereading activities.
Reduce the occurrences of common English errors made by Japanese students.
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| 7th |
Speaking Tests (Part One) |
Make fluent English conversations with the vocabulary and grammar covered in Units 1 and 2.
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| 8th |
Speaking Tests (Part Two) |
Make fluent English conversations with the vocabulary and grammar covered in Units 1 and 2.
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| 2nd Quarter |
| 9th |
Unit 3: Lend a Hand (A)
Discussing favors, borrowing, and lending. |
Make requests with modals, “if” clauses, and gerunds.
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| 10th |
Unit 3: Lend a Hand (B)
Leaving messages with requests. |
Make indirect requests.
Practice pronouncing words with unreleased consonant sounds.
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| 11th |
Unit 3: Lend a Hand (C)
Writing messages with requests.
Reading about talking to friends about difficult topics. |
Write a message with a request.
Master reading comprehension through purpose-driven rereading activities.
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| 12th |
Unit 4: What Happened? (A)
Describing past events. |
Use the past continuous for an ongoing action in the past.
Use the simple past for an event that interrupts that action.
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| 13th |
Unit 4: What Happened? (B)
Telling stories. |
Practice intonation in complex sentences.
Use the past perfect for an event that occurred before another event in the past.
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| 14th |
Unit 4: What Happened? (C)
Writing and reading about personal accounts of stories. |
Write a personal account of something that happened.
Master reading comprehension through purpose-driven rereading activities.
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| 15th |
Speaking Tests |
Make fluent English conversations with the vocabulary and grammar covered in Units 1 to 4.
Prepare for the written exam.
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| 16th |
End-term Exam (first written test) on the grammar and vocabulary covered in Units 1 to 4 and common errors that Japanese students of English make. |
Understand how to use the grammar and vocabulary covered in Units 1 to 4 in written conversations.
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| 2nd Semester |
| 3rd Quarter |
| 1st |
Unit 5: Expanding Your Horizons (A)
Discussing life away from home.
Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. |
Use noun phrases containing relative clauses to describe life away from home.
Practice word stress in sentences.
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| 2nd |
Unit 5: Expanding Your Horizons (B)
Describing cultural expectations and differences.
Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. |
Explain cultural expectations with phrases like, “supposed to,” “expected to,” “acceptable to,” and so on.
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| 3rd |
Unit 5: Expanding Your Horizons (C)
Creating a tourist pamphlet and reading about culture shock.
Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. |
Create a tourist pamphlet that introduces the customs of the place you are advertising.
Master reading comprehension through purpose-driven rereading activities.
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| 4th |
Unit 6: That Needs Fixing. (A)
Describing problems and making complaints.
Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. |
Describe problems with nouns and with past participles as adjectives.
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| 5th |
Unit 6: That Needs Fixing. (B)
Discussing what needs to be fixed.
Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters. |
Describe problems with gerunds and infinitives.
Practice using contrastive stress to change the meaning of a question.
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| 6th |
Unit 6: That Needs Fixing. (C)
Writing and reading about problems and solutions.
Finding and correcting common errors in casual English letters.
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Write a critical online review about a fictitious product.
Master reading comprehension through purpose-driven rereading activities.
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| 7th |
Speaking Tests (Part One) |
Make fluent English conversations with the vocabulary and grammar covered in Units 1 to 6.
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| 8th |
Speaking Tests (Part Two) |
Make fluent English conversations with the vocabulary and grammar covered in Units 1 to 6.
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| 4th Quarter |
| 9th |
Unit 7: What Can We Do? (A)
Discussing environmental problems. |
Use present continuous passive and present perfect passive sentences with prepositions to describe environmental problems.
Practice the reduction of auxiliary verbs.
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| 10th |
Unit 7: What Can We Do? (B)
Comparing solutions to social problems. |
Use infinitive clauses and phrases to make comparisons of solutions for social problems.
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| 11th |
Unit 7: What Can We Do? (C)
Writing and reading about environmental problems and solutions. |
Write and respond to messages about environmental problems.
Master reading comprehension through purpose-driven rereading activities.
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| 12th |
Unit 8: Never Stop Learning. (A)
Discussing personal preferences. |
Use “would rather” and “would preferred” to discuss personal preferences.
Practice using the proper intonation for questions of choice.
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| 13th |
Unit 8: Never Stop Learning. (B)
Discussing ways of learning and life skills. |
Use “by” plus gerunds to describe how to do things.
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| 14th |
Unit 8: Never Stop Learning. (C)
Writing about something you have learned and reading about ways to study. |
Explain in writing about something you have learned and how you learned it.
Master reading comprehension through purpose-driven rereading activities.
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| 15th |
Speaking Tests |
Make fluent English conversations with the vocabulary and grammar covered in Units 1 to 8.
Prepare for the written exam.
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| 16th |
End-term Exam on the grammar and vocabulary covered in Units 1 to 8. |
Understand how to use the grammar and vocabulary covered in Units 1 to 8 in written conversations.
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