ESL-101-M01 Advanced-Intermediate Listening, Grammar and Reading
Semester: Spring 2005
Classes: M W F 09:00 – 09:50
Office hours: M W 11.30 – 12:30
Professor: Hamish Binns
Email: binnsh@madrid.slu.edu
COURSE TEXT:
Complete Guide to the TOEFL Test by Bruce Rogers (Heinle &Heinle, 2001)
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
The objective of this course is to focus on the necessary grammar, listening and reading skills in order to pass the 3 sections of the TOEFL exam. Basic exam technique will also form an important part of the class.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course looks at the techniques needed to pass the TOEFL. All the exercises and classwork will be based around real exams that will be gone through in class. Attending all the classes and taking the work seriously will guarantee a much-improved score, but in some cases, that alone may not be sufficient to attain the 530 points necessary to enter Eng. 150. It will be necessary for all students to do the homework and work through the course book at home. Teaching is the teacher’s responsibility; learning is the student’s.
GRADING POLICY:
Attendance, class participation, completion of homework, in-class assignments and exams are required of all students without exception. Those students who demonstrate unsatisfactory performance will be notified by the professor and reminded that continued problems and/or excessive absences will jeopardize their opportunity to continue their academic studies at Saint Louis University. More than eight unexcused absences may result in an automatic “no pass.”
Please remember that the purpose of the ESL courses is to aid students in improving their level of English in order to be able to handle academic study at the college level in English. Students will need to achieve the required level of proficiency in English by the end of their third semester, or they will not be allowed to take other academic courses at the university.
Mobile telephones can cause serious damage to the health although the huge economic and political interest in their sales has stopped many of these medical studies from being published. If this is not a good enough reason for not bringing them to class then remember that they can cause annoying distractions – TURN THEM OFF!! The professor reserves the right to use any telephone that goes off in class to make a personal phone call to anywhere he likes (remember that his parents live in Great Britain).
SYLLABUS: ESL E-101: Advanced listening, grammar and reading.
Week 1
Syllabi, introductions X
Summary of exam
Section 1: exam
Practise section 1 (go over)
Week 2
See photocopy of part 1 dialogues Homework: Mini-lessons 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
Dialogues: types of questions (p. 24)
Strategies and common tricks (p. 27 – 43)
Agreement / disagreement (p. 54 – 58)
Week 3
Part 2 exam: go through (make / do, Not only...) Homework: Mini-lessons 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Subject verb – structures (p. 148 – 154)
Clauses (p. 155 – 173)
Week 4
Part 3: exam Homework: Mini-lessons 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Go through exam + basic techniques
Stated information (p. 359 – 371)
Week 5
Part 1: Suggestions (p. 59 – 67) Homework: Mini-lessons 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8
Plans (p. 359 – 371)
Part 1 and 2: exam
Word forms / word choice (p. 184 – 204)
Week 6
Vocabulary (p. 383 – 398)
Midterm Exam
Finish off a story...
Week 7
Part 3: exam Homework: Mini-lessons 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8
Go through exam + inferences (p. 372 – 382)
Reference (p. 399 – 408)
Week 8
Inference (p.44 – 53) Homework: Mini-lessons 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12
Contradictions (p. 68 – 74)
Part 1: exam (go through answers)
Week 9
Part 2: exam (go through answers) Homework: Mini-lessons 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8
Verbs (p. 205 – 228)
Singular, plurals and articles (p. 242 – 262)
Week 10
Part 3: exam Homework: Mini-lessons 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12
Go through answers + Main topics (p.343 – 358)
Mega vocab test
Week 11
Part 2: exam (go through answers) Homework: Mini-lessons 3.13, 3.14, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17
Word order and conjunctions (p. 264 – 282)
Structure (p. 174 – 178)
Week 12
Part 1 and 2: exam Revision
Part 3: exam
Go through answers + revision
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