Syllabus system

2005年度上智大学シラバス

◆英語中級Ⅱ（話し言葉のコミュニケーション）/B　－　（通）

R.Pattimore

○講義概要

The objective of the class is for students to use their current 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 discussions by the middle 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%)
10% will be given for group presentations and skits.

○テキスト

Jack C. Richards『New Interchange 2』 Cambridge University Press, 1997

○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 if necessary. 2. Course explanation. Grading rules. Classroom and other basic English.
2	1. Unit 1. Textbook topic: Introductions. Past habitual experiences. Textbook grammar: 'used to'. 2. Textbook continued. Conversation Building Strategies. Model of a Conversation. Confirmation.
3	1. Unit 4. Textbook topic: Food. Textbook grammar: simple past vs. present perfect, sequence adverbs. 2. Textbook continued. Conversation Building Strategies. Extra-information answers to 'Yes/No' questions.
4	1. Unit 5. Textbook topic: Travel. Textbook grammar: future tenses. 2. Textbook continued. Conversation Building Strategies.　　Follow-up questions.
5	1. Unit 6. Listening Test 1 Textbook topic: complaints, household chores. Textbook grammar: two-part verbs, polite modals. 2. Textbook continued. Conversation Building Strategies. Extra information answers to 'WH' questions I.
6	1. Unit 7. Textbook topic: Technology. Textbook grammar: infinitives, gerunds, infinitive complements. 2. Textbook continued. Conversation Building Strategies. Extra information answers to 'WH' questions II.
7	1. Unit 8. Textbook topic: Holidays, festivals. Textbook grammar: Relative clauses of time, adverbial clauses of time. 2. Textbook continued. Conversation Building Strategies. Pausing, 'Buying time' in a conversation.
8	1. Unit 9. Textbook topic: Life in past, present and future. Textbook grammar: time contrasts, conditional sentences with if clauses. 2. Textbook continued. Conversation Building Strategies. Reactions.
9	1. Unit 10. Textbook topic: Jobs, job skills. Textbook grammar: gerunds, short responses, clauses with because. 2. Textbook continued. Conversation Building Strategies. Changing the subject of a conversation.
10	1. Listening Test 2. Unit 11. Textbook topic: Landmarks, countries. Textbook grammar: passives with 'by' (simple past), without 'by'. 2. Textbook continued. Conversation Building Strategies. Ending a conversation.
11	1. Review. Practice for the Writing Conversations Test. 2. Writing Conversations Test. Introduction to 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 topic, 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) Unit 12. Textbook topic: describing past experiences. Textbook grammar: present continuous vs. simple past, present perfect continuous.
16	1. Listening Test 3. Textbook continued. Discussion strategies. What is the difference between a conversation and a discussion? 2. Unit 13. Textbook topic: Movies Textbook grammar: participles as adjectives, relative clauses.
17	1. Textbook continued. Discussion building strategies. Discussion grammar forms. 2. Unit 15. Textbook topic: Speculation. Textbook grammar: unreal conditional sentences with 'if' clauses, past modals.
18	1. Textbook continued. Discussion strategies. 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. Week 21
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. Listening Test 4. Review or catch-up class. Introduction to the Interactive English Discussions Test. 2. Interactive English Discussions Test practice. Writing Discussions Test practice.
25	1. Writing Discussions Test. Interactive English Discussions Test practice. 2. Interactive English Discussions Test (half the class)
26	1. Interactive English Discussions Test (half the class) 2. Final class. Final grade estimate. How to study English after this course. Make-up tests, if any.