Syllabus system

2005年度上智大学シラバス

◆英語中級Ⅰ（話し言葉のコミュニケーション）/F　－　（通）

R.Pattimore

○科目サブタイトル

Beyond Entrance Exam English

○講義概要

The objective of the class is for students to use their grammatical knowledge of English to learn how to speak with a focus on conversation and discussion strategies. Students will move from basic conversations in the first term to simple discussions by the end of the second term. The textbook will be a guide to vocabulary, grammar and conversation and discussion topics.

○評価方法

出席状況(20%)、授業参画(20%)、前期学期末試験(授業期間中)(20%)、後期学期末試験(授業期間中)(20%)、小テスト等(10%)
Presentations and skits will also be included. They will be 10% of the grade.

○テキスト

Donald Freeman, Kathleen Graves, Linda Lee.『Icon: International Communication Through English.』 McGraw-Hill

○必要な外国語

English

○他学部・他学科生の受講

否

○ホームページURL

www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Field/2266/

○授業計画

1	1. Introduction to the course. Selection of students. 2. Course outline, grade explanation, textbook and necessary materials for the class announcement. Classroom and other basic English.
2	1. Textbook: Studying English/Study habits. Frequency adverbs. 2. Textbook, continued. Model of a Conversation. Conversation Building Strategies. Confirmation.
3	1. Textbook: Television. WH Questions. 2. Conversation Building Strategies - Pausing.
4	1. Textbook: Travel plans. Future tenses. 2. Textbook, continued. Conversation Building Strategies - Keep the conversation going.
5	1. Listening Test 1 practice. Textbook: Cell phones. Can for possibility and permission. 2. Listening Test 1. Textbook, continued. Conversation Building Strategies - Asking for recommendations.
6	1. Textbook: Work. Comparatives. 2. Textbook, continued. Conversation Building Strategies - Expanding your answers. Extra-information answers to Yes/No questions.
7	1. Textbook: Personalities. Comparatives and Superlatives. 2. Textbook, continued. Conversation Building Strategies - Showing interest/Reactions.
8	1. Textbook: Education. 'Should' and 'have to' 2. Textbook, continued. Conversation Building Strategies - Extra-information answers to WH questions.
9	1. Textbook: Money. It's + adjective phrases. 2. Textbook, continued. Conversation Building Strategies - Asking follow-up questions.
10	1. Listening Test 2. Textbook: Romance. 'So' and 'neither'. 2. Textbook, continued. Conversation Building Strategy - Starting and Ending a conversation.
11	1. Review. Practice for Writing Conversations Test 2. Writing Conversations Test. Introduction to the Interactive English Test.
12	1. Practice for the Interactive English Test 2. Interactive English Test (half the class)
13	1. Interactive English Test (half the class) 2. Mid-term grade explanation. Some things to do during the summer. Make-up tests, if any.
14	1. Review of first term topics, grammar, conversation building strategies. 2. Interview about first term unofficial grade. (half the class.)
15	1. Interview about first term unofficial grade. (half the class.) 2. Textbook: Travel. Present perfect and past tenses.
16	1. Textbook, continued. Conversation Building Strategies - Review of asking follow-up questions. 2. Textbook: Stress. Clauses with 'when'
17	1. Textbook, continued. Conversation Building Strategies - Making a polite request. 2. Textbook, Fame. Review of past, present and future.
18	1. Textbook, continued. Conversation Building Strategies - Saying you don't know. 2. Outcomes of class discussions. Presentation Skills 1.
19	1. Presentation skills 2. 2. Presentation skills 3.
20	1. Discussion. Elements - Research/reading, Useful Grammar. Topic 1 Listening/Reading. 2. Topic 1. Group discussions. Presentation of results.
21	1. Discussion. Outcomes of class discussions. Skits. Topic 2 Listening/Reading. Group discussion and skit preparation. 2. Topic 2 Round 1 of skits. Audience Q & A.
22	1. Topic 2 Round 2 of skits. Audience Q & A. 2. Discussion. Topic 3 Listening/Reading/Thinking. Useful Grammar.
23	1. Outcomes of class discussions. Pair discussion. Pair joins another pair discussion. 2. Discussion. Topic 4. Group discussion. Writing the results.
24	1. Review or catch up class. Interactive English Discussions Test. 2. Practice for the Writing Discussions Test. Practice for Interactive English Discussions Test.
25	1. Writing Discussions Test. Practice for Interactive English Discussions Test. 2. Interactive Discussion Tests (half the class)
26	1. Interactive Discussion Tests (half the class) 2. Final grade explanation. How to study after the class. Make-up tests, if any.