1. Speaking with Improved Grammar and Vocabulary (E4731, Pool 4)

2. Today’s Class BREAK Course requirements and components
Assessment at mid-term and end of course
Types of work assigned for homework
Description of the 1st assignment (due Monday)
BREAK
Diagnostic grammar test
To help you decide if this is the class for you, we will cover the following in today’s class.

3. Samuela Eckstut Samuela Eckstut-Didier

4. Ms. Eckstut OR Sammi (NOT “Teacher”, “Ms.”, etc.)
How to address me. (“Professor” or “Professor Eckstut” would be appropriate except I’m not a professor).

5. Introductions Your name and how you like people in the US to call you
Your academic and/or professional background
Your reasons for signing up for this elective

6. “Grammar is not the most important thing in the world, but if you make a lot of mistakes you may be more difficult to understand, and some kinds of people may look down on you or not take you seriously. Hardly anybody speaks or writes a foreign language perfectly, but you will communicate more successfully if you can make your English reasonably correct.”
How English Works (A Grammar Practice Book), Michael Swan and Catherine Walker, Introduction, p. 2.
This statement sums up the overall goal of this elective and that is to help you communicate more effectively when you speak.”

7. Requirements Active participation in all class activities
One presentation per student
Participation in Q & A period after presentation
Active participation in all class activities
30-minute assignments + vocabulary log
Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus (ECKSTUT, E4731)
Promptness
No phone use

8. The Three Components of This Elective
Speaking Practice
Grammar Analysis
Vocabulary Analysis

9. Student Presentations & Q&A Follow-up Group Discussions
Speaking Practice
Student Presentations & Q&A Follow-up Group Discussions

10. Speaking Practice Assessment
i)language skills
accuracy
vocabulary usage
pronunciation
ii)participation

11. Advanced grammar points
Grammar Analysis
Advanced grammar points
(conditionals, modals, etc.)
Error analysis
(based on student errors)

12. Grammar Analysis Assessment
i)Results of grammar quizzes
(4 in total)
ii)Accuracy in sentence-homework

13. Vocabulary Analysis Grammar of vocabulary Usage
(count/non-count noun, verb complement, etc.)
Usage
(collocation, connotation, etc.)

14. Vocabulary Analysis Assessment
i) Correct usage in sentence homework
ii)Vocabulary reviews
(2 in total)

15. Vocabulary worksheets
Types of Assignments
Sentences with new vocabulary (5 words per assignment, 7 to 8 assignments in total, submitted by )
Vocabulary logs
(5 words per week, non-academic vocabulary)
Vocabulary worksheets
(7 to 8 in total, to go over in class)

16. 1st Assignment
When? By , no later than 9 AM on Monday, February 1st
What?
i) the topic of your presentation
ii) a summary statement (“I am going to talk about…)
iii) a link to the reading you have selected
iv) 3 discussion questions for group discussion after your presentation

17. Which two topics will probably not lead to a lot of group discussion?
Living off-campus
Satellites in space
Sleep problems
The special places to see in my country
Money in sports
Why aren’t people honest?
How to improve one’s memory

18. Which of these would not be acceptable sources for a reading text?
Africa News (Uganda)
Chinadaily.com.cn
The Irish Times
Newsweek

19. Compare your answers. www.about.com NO Africa News (Uganda) YES
YES
Chinadaily.com.cn NO NO
The Irish Times YES
YES
Newsweek YES NO

21. Absences
If you know in advance that you will be absent, please let me know beforehand.
If you are ill the day of class, please me before 1:30.
Whatever the reason for your absence, it is your responsibility to come to the next class fully prepared.