ESL204 BB outline Summer 2020 PDF

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ESL 204/1 BB (Summer 2020) Refining Academic English Skills Tue & Thu, 2:45 – 5:30 May 6 – Aug 11, Online Instructor:

Dr. Jesse Hunter (Department of Education, Faculty of Arts & Science)

Email address:

[email protected]

Telephone:

514-848-2424 ext. 2460 [currently unavailable]

Office Location:

FG 5.425 (1610 St. Catherine St.)

Office Hours:

by appointment

Evaluation Writing

Summaries (best two of three)

9%

Essays • 3 group (best two of three) • 3 individual (best two of three) Vocabulary Quizzes (best two of three) Graded Grammar Activities or Quizzes (best two of three) Moodle Grammar (due July 18) Two Midterm Exams (each worth 15%) Preparation/Participation (see below) Final Exam

26% 6% 20% 10% 10% 5% 30% 10% Pass/fail

Class Policies & Evaluation: Attendance: The nature of this course makes attending and participating in class essential. Progress in ESL 204 can only be made through active participation in class. As this course is offered online, all class meetings are monitored and attendance recorded. Preparation/Participation: Good preparation and active participation are essential if you want to do well in ESL 204. Each week, there will be homework assignments on Moodle marked HW. These are to be completed and corrected when taken up in class or when compared to the answer key. This ongoing work will be aggregated at the end of the course and assessed as part of the preparation/participation grade. Moreover, much of our time in class will be devoted to talking about writing, practicing writing, and critiquing others’ writing. Thus, a lot of the required work (reading, grammar and vocabulary, etc.) must be done independently. Your active participation in class will be monitored and also contribute to the preparation/participation grade. Writing Tasks: Detailed instructions for these tasks will be provided in class and are posted on the course Moodle site. For dates, see the course schedule.

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Group writing assignments: Each week students will be placed in groups to do group activities. This should be considered an opportunity to find teammates for group writing activities to come. In the group essay writing, the group will brainstorm, divide up research, collaborate on an outline and produce a group essay, each member writing a body paragraph and collectively writing the introduction and conclusion. As students receive a group mark, you are encouraged to edit and correct each other. Vocabulary and Grammar Tasks: These activities and quizzes assess your knowledge of the vocabulary from units 2, 3, and 4 and selected grammar content of units 1-5 in the textbook. Please refer to the vocabulary list posted on Moodle for all target words. There will be both announced and unannounced in-class graded language tasks. All will be based on previous homework and class material. Error Awareness Task: You will find sample error awareness sheets in the documents section of the Moodle site. These are optional tasks that students do to improve their grammar mark. Each time feedback is given, students record their errors and then correct them. This document is then written up and submitted at the end of the course with the aggregated homework task. Moodle grammar exercises: Students are required to complete the seven online grammar quizzes posted on Moodle (due July 18). These are graded online automatically in Moodle. Late submissions/Make-up work: As all assignment are graded best 2/3, there will be no make-up quizzes or assignments for students who are absent on the day they are originally given.

Class Date Meeting 1 May 05 (Tues) 2 May 07 (Thurs) 3 May 12 (Tues) 4 May 14 (Thurs)

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Course Schedule Topic

Evaluation

Unit 1: Happiness Introductions and course description Grammar: Sentence structure; parallel structure and coordination; adverb clauses; nouns and determiners

May 19 (Tues) May 21 (Thurs) May 26 (Tues) May 28 (Thurs)

Unit 2: Consumer Behavior and Marketing Writing: Paraphrasing, summarizing

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June 02 (Tues) June 04 (Thurs) June 06 (Sat) June 09 (Tues)

Writing: Expository essay, begin work on group essay MIDTERM EXAM 1 (10am-1pm) Unit 3: Our Food and Our Health Grammar: Gerunds and infinitives; adjective clauses; Writing: Expository essay (cont)

Grammar quiz (June 2) Vocab test Unit 3 (June 4) MIDTERM EXAM 1 group essay due

10 11

June 11 (Thurs) June 16 (Tues)

Individual essay (done on Moodle)

Expository essay (June16)

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June 18 —24 study break 2

In-class summary (May 21) Vocab test Unit 2 (May 26) In-class writing 2: Summary (May 28)

12 13

June 30 (Tues) July 02 (Thurs)

Unit 4: Use and Abuse of Natural Resources Grammar: Expressing relationships between ideas (cause and effect, contrast, condition)

14 15 16 17

July 07 (Tues) July 09 (Thurs) July 14 (Tues) July 16 (Thurs)

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SAT July 18 July 21 (Tues)

19 20 21

July 23 (Thurs) July 28(Tues) July 30 (Thurs)

22 23

Aug 04 (Tues) Aug 06 (Thurs)

Writing: persuasive argument

24

Aug 11 (Tues)

Last class

Group essay #2: Cause/Effect essay (June 30) Vocab test Unit 4 (July 09)

Writing: Cause-effect essay In-class writing 5: Cause/Effect essay (July 16) MIDTERM EXAM 2 (10am-1pm) Unit 5: Poverty and Inequality Introduction to persuasive argument writing

Grammar: Reduced adjective and adverb clauses; conditionals

MIDTERM EXAM 2

Group essay #3

Moodle Ind. essay: persuasive arg. wrap up and exam prep

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