Week
1
1/8, 1/10
No
car? No problem! There is a shopping center within walking distance of
NCSU. Check out Cameron Village:
The shops of Cameron
Village
Map: How to get to Cameron Village from NCSU
Wolfprowl
- Express weekend entertainment transit service to Glenwood South with
connections to downtown Raleigh
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Course
Overview
Introductions: Focus
in Names
Most
common American last names
Most popular baby names of 2012
2012
Word of the Year
Conversation Skills: Small
Talk
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Week 2
1/15, 1/17
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Week 3
1/22, 1/24
1/21:
Holiday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
UNIVERSITY CLOSED
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Common
Student Errors in Listening Log 1
Quotations
and Punctuation Marks
all
right or alright?
Eats,
Shoots & Leaves
What
is a comma splice?
Video
Lecture Unit 1, continued
Sign
up for mini-presentations
on idioms
Hundreds
of Idiom Definitions
Illustrated
Idioms at GoEnglish.com
American
Culture Notes: Gestures
North Carolina symbols
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Week 4
1/29, 1/31
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Begin
Mini-Presentations on Idioms
Idiom
Presentation Schedule Round 1
Noting Numbers and Statistics
Number Listening Comprehension:
Practice
Exercise 1
Exercise
2 Exercise
3
Practice
with large numbers
Ten
Rules for Writing Numbers and Numerals
American Culture Notes: Baby Boomers
What
is a baby boomer? Ageism
American Culture Notes: Guess the Category
Listening Log 2 due by end of week
Correct some student errors in Listening Log 2
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Week 5
2/5, 2/7
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Presentation
Skills Unit
Presentation I Format
Presentation
Teams
Presentation
1 Instructor Evaluation
Presentation
1 Self-evaluation
Presentation
Skills Essentials
Nina
Weinstein: Tips on Preparing for an Oral Presentation
Nina Weinstein: A Fast Way to Make Yourself
a Better Understood Speaker? Slow Down
Sample
Presentation
Signs
of the Western Zodiac
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Week 6
2/12, 2/14
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Voice
Board Assignment 1:
France Gives
Birth to a Trend
Pronuciation Skills:
What
Makes Up Our Accents?
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Week 7
2/19, 2/21
Meet this week in Harrelson Hall, Room 238
(Building 56 on Campus
Map)
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Presentation
1
Presentation
Teams
Click
here to watch your presentation video
Presentation self-evaluation form
to submit
Voice Board Assignment 2:
New Greeting
Cards Offer Encouragement, Hope
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Week
8
2/26, 2/28 |
Listening
and Note-taking Skills:
Video Lecture 2. Biology: Genetic Engineering
Vocabulary in Conversation:
common expressions
Dictation
2 Text and Audio File
Listening
Log 3 due 2/28
Correct some student errors in Listening
Log 3
Voice Board
Assignment 3:
Procrastination:
End it now
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Spring
Break March 4- 8 NO CLASSES
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Week 9
3/12, 3/14
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Dictation
2 Text
and Audio File
American Culture Notes: St. Patrick's
Day
MIDTERM
EXAM: Thursday, 3/14
Midterm review sheet
Answers to Midterm Exam Review:
Idioms
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Week
10
3/19, 3/21 |
Sign up for mini-presentations on
idioms
Video Lecture 3: The American Character
American Culture Notes: Easter
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Week 11
3/26
Spring
Holiday 3/28
NO CLASSES
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Begin Mini-Presentations on Idioms
Groups
for idiom skits
Idiom skits in class
Definitions
of idioms used in skits
Vocabulary in Conversation 1
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Week
12
4/2, 4/4 |
Listening
for Critical Analysis and Defending Ideas in a Second Language
Debating
Skills
Format for informal
debates in class
Possible
topic: Guns in
America
Groups & Schedule for Debates
Vocabulary
in Conversation 2
Overview of Presentation 2
Sample
Academic Argument Presentation
Sample
of excellent presentation skills: being at 00:15:45
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Week
13
4/9, 4/11
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Outline
of presentation thesis and argument due 4/11
The
Art of Rhetoric
Some
definitions of rhetoric
Some
rhetorical devices
Some
logical fallacies
Visual
rhetoric
Visual
rhetoric: text elements
Memes
Practice Identifying Effective Argument
Selected topics in grammar/writing:
The
Use and Non-Use of Articles
Selected topics in pronunciation:
Review of Rhythm and Focus in English
Voice Board Assignment 4:
What Does
Your Voice Say About You
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Week 14
4/16, 4/18
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Presentation
2
Presentation
Format
Presentation Evaluation
Rubric
Memes
to Support Student Presentations
Click
here to watch your presentation video
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Week
15
4/23, 4/25 |
Presentation
2, cont.
Presentation
Format
Presentation
Evaluation Rubric
Review for final exam Final
Exam Review Sheet
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Final Exam
Thursday, May 2, 6:00-7:15 p.m. in Withers Hall, Room 130
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