Lecture and Homework Schedules: Fall Semester, 2004

(1) English Conversation Two

(2) English Composition Two

(1) Conversation Two Lecture and Homework Schedule

Grades will be determined as follows:

25%  two formal oral examinations; 30% three listening tests; 20% two grammar, idioms and proverbs tests; 10%  presentation; 15%  attendance and participation.

SCHEDULE

Week One - Introduction

Week Two - Class:  Unit 1

Home:  Self Study 1; http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs1.htm; http://www.idiomconnection.com/proverbs.html

Week Three - Class:  Unit 2

Home:  SS2,3; http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs7.htm

Week Four - Class:  Brief listening test taken from all audio materials used so far (10%)

Unit Four

Home:  S4; http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs9.htm; http://www.idiomconnection.com/body.html

Week Five - Class:  Unit 5

Home:  SS5; http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs3.htm; http://www.englishpage.com/modals/interactivemodal8.htm

Week Six - Class:  Unit 6

Home:  SS6,7; http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs5.htm;

http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasalverbs5.htm

Week Seven - Class:  Unit 8

Home: SS8; http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs12.htm

Week Eight - Class: Mid-term Test: grammar, idioms and proverbs (10%); listening (10%); brief interview (10%)

Week Nine - Class:  Unit 9

Home: SS9; http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs13.htm; http://www.idiomconnection.com/color.html

http://abcasiapacific.com/englishbites/stories/s1053973.htm

Week Ten - Class:  Presentations (10%); Unit 10

Home: SS10,15; http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs14.htm; http://www.idiomconnection.com/relationship.html

Week Eleven - Class:  Presentations (cont.); Unit 12

Home: SS11,12; http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs18.htm; http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs21.htm

Week Twelve - Class:  Unit 13

Home: SS13,16;  http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs24.htm;

http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditional12.htm

Week Thirteen - Class:  Unit 14

Home: SS14; http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs28.htm

Week Fourteen - Final Tests: grammar, idioms and proverbs (10%); listening (10%)

Week Fifteen - Interviews (15%)

Attendance and participation (15%)

(2) Composition Two Lecture and Homework Schedule

Grades will be determined as follows:

Marks from four essays (60% total) and two tests (30% total) will determine 90% of the final grade. Ten percent of the grade will be for attendance and participation.

SCHEDULE

 Check the following:

http://www.oocities.org/voxxi/clausesasnounsadjectivesadverbs.htm

http://www.oocities.org/voxxi/sentencepunctuation.htm

Week One

Introduction

Week Two

Class:

Sentences, simple, compound, complex and compound-complex; clauses 

Composition topic: About Yourself

Home:

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/combining_skills.htm <- including quizzes: this also applies to other online sites 

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm

Week Three

Class:

Sentences, simple, compound, complex and compound-complex; clauses 

Composition topic: About Yourself

Home:

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/combining_skills.htm

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm

Week Four

Class:

Sentences, simple, compound, complex and compound-complex; clauses 

Composition topic: About Yourself [10%]

Home:

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/combining_skills.htm

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm

Week Five

Class:

Present and past verb tenses  

Composition topic: Resumes and Letters

Home:

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs1.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs4.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs7.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs10.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs15.htm

Week Six

Class:

Present and future verb tenses

Composition topic: Resumes and Letters

Home:

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs20.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs23.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs24.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs27.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs30finaltest.htm

Week Seven

Class:

Composition topic: Resumes and Letters [15%]

Subject-verb agreement; verb tense consistency

Home:

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/sv_agr.htm

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/consistency.htm

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslsubverb.html

http://eslbee.com/cgi-bin/quiztest.cgi?sv_agreement

Week Eight

Class:

Mid-term test on grammar and sentence construction [15%]

Subject-verb agreement; verb tense consistency

Week Nine

Class:

Determiners, adjectives and adverbs

Composition topic: Descriptive and Narrative Writing

Home:

http://webster.commnet.edu/writing/magnetX.htm

http://webster.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/adjectives_quiz.htm

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/cross/quantifiers2.htm

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/cross/quant_gap2.htm

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/cross/articles_quiz.htm

http://webster.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/adverbs_quiz.htm

Week Ten

Class:

Composition topic: Descriptive and Narrative Writing 

Conditionals; modals

Home:

http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditional2.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditional8.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditional12.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/modals/interactivemodal8.htm

Week Eleven

Class:

Composition topic: Descriptive and Narrative Writing [15%]

Special topic

Home:

http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/run_frag.html

http://mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11332/splice_fused_frag_21a.htm

Week Twelve

Class:

Composition topic: Movie Reviews

Paragraph construction

Home:

View movie and make notes

Week Thirteen

Class:

Composition topic: Movie Reviews

Editing

Home:

Prepare for tests.

Week Fourteen

Composition topic: Movie Review [20%]

Review course.

Home:

Prepare for tests.

Week Fifteen

Class: sentence construction and grammar test [15%]

Attendance and participation [10%]