Level 4 Non-Credit ESL
Instructor: Peter Schneider
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Place and Time: Campus Center Room 5: MW - 6:00p.m. –9:10p.m.
Semester:Fall 2016
Class Materials and Required Texts:
Side By Side Plus Level 4 Activity and Test Prep Workbook
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
This is a Level 4 ESL course with other aspects of American English interwoven, such as vocabulary, listening, reading, writing, culture, and American life. At the end of this course you will be able to produce sentences in past perfect tense, modals, passive voice, gerunds and infinitives,conditionals, reported speech, and adjective and adverb clauses. Upon successful completion of this course, you will introduce and describe yourself orally and in writing using lomplete coherent sentences. You will know more about civics in the United States. You will be able to demonstrate deeper knowledge of the interactive nature of communications in conversation. You will have improved your writing and reading skills. You will have more confidence in your language capabilities.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
•Upon completion of this course, students will analyze and use vocabulary at aintermediate level.
•Upon successful completion of this course, students will demonstrate reasonable progress in their communication skills in relation to the work completed in the Side By Side interactive program.
•Upon successful completion of this course, students will construct a short (up to1/2 page) paragraph applying basic writing strategies learned in class.
•Upon completion of this course, students will show ability to repeat basic personal information in everyday contexts.
•Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify basic community resources.
Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILO)
Written and Oral Communication - Students will demonstrate the interactive nature of communication involving speaking, writing, listening and reading. Evidence will be the student’s ability to make a clear, well-organized verbal presentation employing appropriate evidence to support the arguments or conclusions and to write a clear, well-organized paper using documentation and quantitative tools when appropriate.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Weeks 1, 2 & 3: Life Skills: Driving: police problems, giving directions, etc.
Language Skills: Perfect modals: should have, could have, might have, must have
Writing Practice: Narrative paragraphs
Weeks 4, 5 & 6: Life Skills: Dealing with products, returns, warranties, etc.
Language Skills: Embedded questions
Writing Practice: Process paragraphs
Weeks 7, 8 & 9: Life Skills: Dealing with banks and money
Language Skills: Present unreal conditional
Writing Practice: Comparison paragraphs
Weeks 10, 11 & 12: Life Skills: Job interviews
Language Skills: Reported speech
Writing Practice: Opinion paragraphs
Weeks 13 & 14: Life Skills: Civic rights & responsibilities
Language Skills: Review
Writing Practice: Review
Week 1&2
Monday - Getting to know you, syllabus, adds/drops, etc
Wednesday - Chapter 1 p.2-6
Review of Simple Present Tense, Present Continuous, Subject/Object pronouns,
Possessive Adjectives, Time Expressions
Week 2
Monday –Labor Day
Wednesday Chapter 1 p. 7-10
Week 3
Monday - Chapter 1 p. 11 & Chapter quiz p. T1-T4
Wednesday Chapter 2 p. 12-16
Review Simple Past Tense & Past Continuous
Week 4
Monday - Chapter 2 p. 17-20
Wednesday- Chapter 2 p. 21-23 Chapter quiz p. T5-T10
Review of future tenses, possessive pronouns, time expressions
Week 5
Monday - Chapter 3 p. 24 -28
Wednesday - Chapter 3 p. 29 -33 Check up Test 34-35
Perfect Tenses
Week 6
Monday - Chapter 4 p. 36-40
Wednesday - Chapter 4 p. 41-45
Present Perfect vs Present Tense vs Past Tense, since/for
Week 7
Monday - Chapter 4 p. 46-51 & Chapter quiz p. T15-T18
Wednesday - Chapter 5 p. 52-56
Present Perfect Continuous
Week 8
Monday –Chapter 5 p. 57-61
Wednesday - Chapter 5
Week 9
Monday - Chapter 6 p. 62-66
Wednesday - Chapter 6 p. 67-71
Gerunds, Infinitive, Present Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous
Week 10
Monday - Chapter 6 p. 72-77
Wednesday –Chapter 6 Chapter quiz p. T25-T30
Week 11
Monday - Chapter 7 p. 78-82
Wednesday –Veteran’s Day
Past Perfect, Past Perfect Continuous
Week 12
Monday - Chapter 7 p. 83-87
Wednesday Chapter 7 Chapter quiz p. T31-T36
Two-Word Verbs: Separable & Inseparable
Week 13
Monday -Chapter 8 p. 88-92
Wednesday Chapter 8 p. 93-99
Week 14
Monday - Chapter 8 Chapter quiz p. T37-T42
Wednesday - Chapter 9 p. 100-104
Connectors
Week 15
Monday–Chapter 9 p. 105-108 & Chapter quiz p. T43-T48
Wednesday–Chapter 10 p. 109-116
Week 16
Monday–Chapter 10 p. 117-120 & Chapter quiz p. T49-T54
Wednesday - Final Exam TBA