English
Conversation (영어회화) DaeJin
University
Professor: Thomas Avery
Office:
Humanity Building Rm. 526
Office
Hours: Wednesday 2:00-3:00 or by appointment
Kakaotalk: tomavery
Kakaotalk: tomavery
Email:
tavery.daejin@gmail.com
Website: basicA15.blogspot.kr/
Website: basicA15.blogspot.kr/
Class
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Time
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Place
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1
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Monday
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09 30 – 11 20
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사108
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2
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Wednesday
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09 30 – 11 20
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사108
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3
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Thursday
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11 30 – 13 20
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인202
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4
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Thursday
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17 30 – 19 20
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인119-3
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5
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Friday
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09 30 – 11 20
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사105
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6
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Friday
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13 30 – 15 20
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사105
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Course Description: Beginning English
Conversation is designed for students to improve basic conversation skills
through various listening, speaking, and reading activities. There will be many fun in-class activities
focused on pair and group interactive exercises so that students can enjoy
practicing conversations as well as gain confidence in speaking English.
Goals and Approach:
You will
- improve your speaking and listening skills
through various classroom activities.
- improve grammar skills
- enhance your vocabulary from listening and
speaking exercises.
- learn idioms and informal conversational phrases.
- learn from others by participating in
collaborative work.
Textbook: Please bring the
textbook to class every day. Failure to
have your book every class will result in your grade being lowered.
- Interchange Fourth Edition Student’s Book
1 ISBN: 978-1-107-64867-8
Grading:
Note: Your final score is based
on relative grading. If you do very well but other students do
better your grade may be lower than you wish.
Attendance 10%
- If you do not bring the required
materials to class, you are absent.
- If you are late 4 times, every time you
are late thereafter you are absent.
- If you are absent 5 times, you automatically
fail the course
Participation 20%
- If you are absent, you do not get
participation points unless you can prove you have studied the unit we studied
in class.
- I will watch every class and note down
students who do not actively participate.
Video files and
chats 15%
- I require that you use Kakaotalk in
class. You must record your screen and send me the video file AND the Kakao
chat file every week.
- You get one point for every week you
send the file - these are easy points!
Midterm 15%
- You will be given a conversation topic
or problem to solve as a group.
- You work as a group, but your grade is
based only on your performance.
- Midterms are filmed for school records.
Final 25%
- Similar to the midterm, but using
everything we learn through the term.
- Learn from the mistakes you make in the
midterm to do better in the final.
Notebook 15%
- You must take notes in class.
- Prove that you use your time in class
and at home learning new vocabulary.
- I will take your notebook at the Final
exam.
A few rules for our class:
- Please make sure that you are on time for class
every day. If you are late more
than two times, each additional time you are late will be counted as an
absence. If you are absent for more
than 1/3 of our classes, you will AUTOMATICALLY FAIL THE CLASS!
- Make sure that you complete all out-of-class
assignments on time and come to class ready
to participate.
- Cheating of any kind will
result in failure of the assignment and potentially the class.
- Respect other students.
- Help each other
- Smile (at least a little)
Weekly
Syllabus for English Conversation
Autumn 2015
Week
(Date beginning) |
In-class activity
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1
(Sep 1)
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Welcome
to English Conversation Class!!
Introduce the class
and the textbook
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2
(Sep 8)
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Unit 1. Please call me Beth. (p. 2-7)
* Topics:
Introductions and greetings; names, countries, and nationalities
* Grammar:
Wh-questions and statements with be; Yes/no question and short answers
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3
(Sep 15)
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Unit 2. What do you do? (p.
8-13)
* Topics: Jobs, workplaces,
and school; daily schedules; clock time
* Grammar: Simple
present Wh- questions and statements; Time expressions: at, in, on, around,
early, late, until, before and after
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4
(Sep 22)
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Unit 3. How much is it?
(p.16-21)
* Topics: Shopping and
prices; clothing and personal items; colors and materials
* Grammar:
Demonstratives: this, that, these, those
Comparisons with
adjectives
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5
(Sep 29)
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Unit 4. I really like hip-hop. (p.22-27)
* Topics: Music,
movies, and TV programs; entertainers; invitations and excuses; dates and
times
* Grammar: Yes/no and
Wh-questions with do; what kind of; object pronouns; modal verb would
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6
(Oct 6)
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Unit 6. How often do you exercise?
(p. 36-41)
* Topics: Sports,
fitness, activities, and exercise; routines
* Grammar: Adverbs of
frequency: always, almost, usually, often, sometimes, hardly ever, almost
ever, and never
Mid term Assigned.
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7
(Oct 13)
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Unit 7. We had a great time! (p. 50-55)
* Topics: Free-time
and weekend activities
* Grammar: Simple past
Yes/no and Wh-questions, statements and short answers with regular and
irregular verbs
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8
(Oct 20)
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MID-TERM
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9
(Oct 27)
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Unit 9. What does she look like?
(p.58-63)
* Topics: Appearance
and dress; clothing and clothing styles; people
* Grammar: Questions
for describing people: what… look like, how old, how tall, and what color;
modifies with participles and prepositions
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10
(Nov 3)
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Unit 10. Have you ever
ridden a camel? (p. 64-69)
* Topics: Past experiences; unusual activities
* Grammar: Present perfect yes/no and wh-questions, statements and short
answers with regular and irregular past participles
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11
(Nov 10)
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Unit 12. It really works! (p.78-83)
* Topics: Health
problems; medication and remedies; products in a pharmacy
* Grammar:
Adjective + infinitive; noun + infinitive; modal verbs could and should for
suggestions; modal verbs can , could and may for requests
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12
(Nov 17)
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Unit 13. May I take your order? (p.86-91)
* Topics: Food and
restaurants
* Grammar: So, too,
neither, and either; medal verbs would and will for requests
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13
(Nov 24)
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Unit 16. A change for the
better! (p.
106-111)
* Topics: Life changes; plans and hopes for the future
* Grammar: Describing changes with the present tense; the past tense, the
present perfect, and the comparative; verb + infinitive
Final Assigned
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14
(Dec 1)
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Make Up Classes:
9.28 (Mon) class à 12.9 (Weds) 10.9 (Fri) class à 12.10 (Thurs) |
15
(Dec 8)
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Final
Exam
Times to be decided in
class
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- Schedule
to change as needed
