Academic Assessment Unit
Nazek Abdulwahed Khouni
EliA 102
Spring Term 2009
Course Portfolio
ENglish language institute
COURSE NAME: ELIA
COURSE NUMBER: 102
SEMESTER / YEAR: Spring Term 2009
DATE: February 2009
Academic Assessment Unit
PART II
COURSE SYLLABUS
Academic Assessment Unit
Instructor InformationCourse name: ELIA
Course number: 102
Instructor′s E-mail:
Office hour s: -SMW: from 11 to 1.
-.ST: from 10 to 11.
Course Time: -SMW: from 8 to 11.
-.ST: from 11 to 2.20.
Office Location: villa 2 room 5.
Objectives:
The students will be able to identify high frequency vocabulary and have prior experience in reading and listening.
Text books:
1. Interactions 1: (Middle East Gold Edition) Reading.
2. Interactions 1: (Middle East Gold Edition) Listening/speaking.
3. Interactions 1: (Middle East Edition) Grammar.
Assigned units:
- Reading: 1/2/5/6.
- Listening/Speaking: 1/2/5/6.
- Grammar: 4/7/8/9.
Marks out of 100:
1) Quiz 1 : 25%
2) Quiz 2 : 25%
3) Final Exam : 40%
4) Writing/Speaking Assessment : 10%
Course Information
1) Course number :102
2) Course title: Reading/Listening-Speaking/Grammar.
3) General aim of the course:
The course aims to provide learners with effective and proper use of language skills, to enable them to read for specific information and details, to encourage students to contribute their own opinion relating to the reading.
4) Total course chapters: 4
5) Modes of instruction:
-Teacher presentation.
-Pair work.
-Group work.
II/ Syllabus:
· Interactions 1: (Middle East Gold Edition) Reading.
· Interactions 1: (Middle East Gold Edition) Listening/Speaking.
· Interactions 1: (Middle East Gold Edition) Grammar.
1) Learning outcomes:
a) Reading skills:
Upon completion of the course students are expected to:
1. read for specific information and data.
2. read for gist.
3. identify the topic and main ideas.
4. identify supporting details.
5. grasp the meaning of unfamiliar words from context.
6. preview the topic and vocabulary.
7. predict content of reading.
8. skim for the topic and main idea.
9. scan.
10. summarize.
b) Listening/Speaking skills:
Upon Completion of the course students are expected to:
1. To be able to listen for gist.
2. To listen for specific information.
3. Identify stressed words and contractions.
4. Ask for and give personal information.
5. Confirm information.
6. Give reasons.
7. Start and end conversations, and give advice.
c) Grammar competency:
Upon completion of the course students are expected to use the following grammatical structures with focus on both form and meaning;
1. The future, more about verbs, prepositions, and articles;
2. Kinds of verbs, pronouns, phrases, and clauses;
3. The past, infinitives, modal verbs, and pronouns;
4. The present perfect tense, adverbs of degree.
2) Assessment methodologies and points:
§ Quiz (1): 25%→ April 9th 2009.
§ Quiz (2): 25%→ May 2009.
§ Final Exam: 40 %→ June 2009.
§ Writing/Speaking Assessment: 10%
III/ Learning and information resources:
· Text books
· Educational aids such as: audio tapes and CDs, video tapes, data show and computer connected to the internet in language labs, are used according to the relevant part in each chapter of each skill.
· Supplementary:
o Worksheets.
o Revision exercises.
o Vocabulary Review.
· Educational AIDS:
o Data show.
· Estimated number of students in one section of this course:
o 30.
Course Requirements and Grading
1- Grading:
· First quiz: 25%.
· Second quiz: 25%.
· Final: 40%.
· Writing/Speaking assessment: 10%.
2-General instructions:
· Students are responsible for whatever mentioned in the class.
· They have to attend lectures.
· 6 times absence forbids the student from attending finals (according to university policy) unless an acceptable medical report is presented.
3-Special assignment format:
Home assignments should be submitted in the following way:
-It should be written on an (A4) size paper.
-Homework should be typed.
-The work should be clean and presentable.
-Student’s name, computer No. and section should be written clearly at the top right side of the paper.
meeting two times a week J1
Week # / Date / Topic / Reading assignment / What is Due? /
1 / 1/3/2009
3/3/2009 / Introduction to the course.
Diagnostic assessment / Buy Book
2 / 8/3/2009
10/3/2009 / Listening/Speaking (chap.1/part 1+2
Academic Life Around the World / Chapter 1 / Homework assignment
Gram: inseparable and separable phrasal verbs, / chapter 4
(4.9-4.12) / Activity 2+3+4
3 / 15/3/2009
17/3/2009 / Listening Speaking
Academic Life Around the World / Chapter 1
(part 3+4) / Homework assignment
Gram: Prepositions of place, prepositions of time, definite and indefinite articles. / (chapter 4/part 4.13 – 4.17) / Activity 1+2+3
4 / 22/3/2009 …
24/3/2009 / Listening Speaking
Experiencing Nature / Chapter 2
(part 1+2) / Project work about Nature
Gram: Verb +object + infinitive, modal verbs, reflexive pronouns. / chapter 7
( part 7.1 – 7.3) / Activity 2+3+5
5 / 29/3/2009
31/3/2009 / List/speak :
Experiencing Nature / Chapter 2
(part 3+4) / Role play
Gram: Tag questions, subject pronouns, reduction of relative clauses to relative phrases, object pronouns. / Chapter 7
part 7.4- 7.7 / Activity 3+4
6 / 9/4/2009 / Quiz 1
7 / 12/4/2009
14/4/2009 / Listening/speaking: Chapter 5
Home / Chapter 5
(part 1+2) / PowerPoint presentation about Home.
Gram: Statements, Yes/No questions with the past continuous tense, information questions with the past continuous tense, the simple past versus the past continuous, when and while. / chapter 8
(part 8.1- 8.5) / Activity 2+4
8 / 19/4/2009
21/4/2009 / List/speak
Home / Chapter 5
(part 3+4) / Making conversations
Gram: Infinitives after verbs, infinitives after adjectives, infinitives of purpose, summary of modal verbs, summary of pronouns, indefinite pronouns. / chapter 8
(part 8.6-8.11) / Activity 2+3
9 / Break
10 / 3/5/2009
5/5/2009 / Chapter 6/ part 1+2
Cultures of the world / Chapter 6 / Power Point presentation about the topic
Gram: The present perfect tense, questions with the present perfect tense, time expressions with the present perfect tense, time clauses with since. / chapter 9
(part 9.1-9.4) / Activity 2+3+4
11 / 10/5/2009
12/5/2009 / List/Speak
Cultures of the world / Chapter 6
(part 3+4) / Speaking about cultures
Gram: The present perfect continuous tense, questions with the present perfect continuous tense, the present perfect continuous versus the present perfect tense, so and such, enough and too. / Chapter 9
(part 9.5 – 9.9) / Activity 2+3+4
12 / Quiz 2
13 / Revision/ Writing Assessment
14 / Final Exams
Final Exam all sections
Course Schedule Model
meeting three times a week I2
Week # / Date / Topic / List-speak/Reading Assignment / What is Due? /
1 / 28/2/2009
2/3/2009
4/3/2009 / Introduction to the course / Introduction to the course / Buy Book
2 / 7/3/2009
9/3/2009
11/3/2009 / Academic life Around the World
List-Speak / Chapter 1 (1+2) / Homework assignment
Gram: inseparable and separable phrasal verbs, / chapter 4
(part 4.9- 4.12) / Activity 2+3+4
Reading
Academic life Around the World / Chapter 1 (1+2)
3 / 14/3/2009
16/3/2009
18/3/2009 / Academic Life Around the World
List-speak / Chapter 1 part 3+4 / Writing a summary
Grammar: Prepositions of place, prepositions of time, definite and indefinite articles. / Chapter 4 (4.13 – 4.17) / Activity 2+3
Reading
Academic Life Around the World / Chapter 1 (2+3) / Identify the topic and main idea.
4 / 21/3/2009
23/3/2009
25/3/2009 / Experiencing Nature
List/Speak / Chapter 2 (1-2) / Speaking about nature
Grammar:
Verb +object + infinitive, modal verbs, reflexive pronouns. / chapter 7
(7.1 – 7.3) / Activity 2+3+4
Reading
Experiencing Nature / Chapter 2 (1-2) / Preview the topic and vocabulary/Identifying the topic and the main idea.
5 / 28/3/2009
30/3/2009
1/4/2009 / Experiencing Nature
List/Speak / Chapter 2(3-4) / Talking about Nature
Grammar
Tag questions, subject pronouns, reduction of relative clauses to relative phrases, object pronouns. / Chapter 4 (7.4-7.7) / Activity 2+3+5
Reading
Experiencing Nature / Chapter 2
(part 2+3) / Consolidate the newly acquired lexical items.
Preview the topic and vocabulary.
6 / Quiz 1
7 / 11/4/2009
13/4/2009
15/4/2009 / Home
List/speak :Home / Chapter 5 (1-2) / Group Project Presentations
Grammar: Gram: Statements, Yes/No questions with the past continuous tense, information questions with the past continuous tense, the simple past versus the past continuous, when and while. / Chapter 8
(8.1 – 8.5) / Activity 2+3
Reading:
Home / Chapter 5
(1-2) / Skim for the topic and the main ideas/Identify
supporting details.
Consolidate the newly acquired lexical items.
8 / 18/4/2009
20/4/2009
22/4/2009 / List/Speak:
Home / Chapter 5 (3+4) / Work shop
Grammar: Infinitives after verbs, infinitives after adjectives, infinitives of purpose, summary of modal verbs, summary of pronouns, indefinite pronouns. / Chapter 8 (8.6 – 8.11) / Activity 2+3+4
Reading:
Home / Chapter 5 (part 2+3) / Preview the topic and vocabulary/ Skim for the topic and the main ideas/Identify supporting details.
9 / Break
10 / 2/5/2009
4/5/2009
6/5/2009 / List/Speak
Cultures of the world / Chapter 6( 1-2) / Speaking about cultures
Grammar: The present perfect tense, questions with the present perfect tense, time expressions with the present perfect tense, time clauses with since. / Chapter 9
(9.1 – 9.4) / Activity 1+2+3
Reading:
Cultures of the World / Chapter 6 (1+2) / Preview the topic and vocabulary/ Skim for the topic and the main ideas/Identify supporting details.
11 / 9/5/2009
11/5/2009
13/5/2009 / List/Speak
Cultures of the world / Chapter 6
(3+4) / Providing presentation texts
Grammar:
The present perfect continuous tense, questions with the present perfect continuous tense, the present perfect continuous versus the present perfect tense, so and such, enough and too. / Chapter 9
(9.5 – 9.9) / Activity 2+3+4
Reading
Cultures of the World / Chapter6
(2+3) / Consolidate the newly acquired reading strategies
12 / Quiz 2
13 / Revision/Writing assessment.
14 / Final Exams