Miami-Dade College
ESL & Foreign Languages dept
EAP 0140
Instructor:
Office/Tel:
E-mail:
Office Hours:
Prof. Mercedes Mont
Room 1415-8, (305) 237-8811
mmont@mdc.edu
to be announced
Course Description
In this course, students develop the ability to write appropriate phrases and short sentences on personal topics.
Required Textbook and Materials
 Fundamentals of Academic Writing Level 1 (Pearson)
 Longman Photo Dictionary
 Longman Basic Dictionary
 loose leaf paper and folder to keep your assignments
 pencils, erasers, pens
Course Objectives/Competencies
 produce basic sentences and phrases on personal topics
 develop writing fluency and vocabulary
 write simple sentences (appropriate to the level)
 attend to grammatical form and word order
 proofread and edit grammar and sentence structure
 use reference tools to edit writing
Course work and Grades
Students read and write in class and at home. At home, you will review the chapters and do the exercises.
You must correct and improve your writing assignments and return the original and the corrected writing to
your instructor.
The final grade in the course will be A (100-90), B (89-80), C (79-70), D (69-60), F (59 or below):
Attendance and class participation
7%
Homework
13%
In-class writing (and tests if any)
60%
Final Examination
20%
Note: Make up quizzes, tests or in-class writing assignments will not be given.
The final examination cannot be taken early.
Punctuality and Absences
Students must arrive to class on time. If you are absent for 3 consecutive classes, you will be dropped from
the class. More than 4 absences in a MWF class and 3 absences in a TR class can result in F or D. There is a
penalty for absences. Two late arrivals will count as one absence. When you are late, you must see me after
that class so that I mark you present. However, you will be marked absent if you arrive 20 minutes late.
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Cell phones
Turn off your cell phones during the lesson. Phones and beepers may not ring nor be answered during the
lesson.
SYLLABUS & PROJECTED SCHEDULE*
Week 1
Course Introduction & Syllabus
Baseline Diagnostic Assessment
Weeks 2
Chapter 1
Weeks 3, 4
Chapter 2
Weeks 5, 6, 7
Chapter 3
Weeks 8, 9, 10
Chapter 4
Weeks 11, 12, 13
Chapter 5
Weeks 14, 15
Chapter 6
Week 16
Chapter 7
Review
Week 17
Examination
Introducing yourself
Simple sentences
Nouns and verbs
Subject Pronouns
Simple Present “to be”
Basic Sentence Patterns
Descriptions
Topic Sentence
Adjectives
Simple present
Basic Sentence Patters (2)
Time order
Simple sentence
Adverbs of frequency
Narrative
Simple Sentence Patterns (3)
Present progressive
Describing a place
Prepositional phrases
Compound Sentences (4)
“but”, like to/want to/ have to,
* If necessary, I will change this syllabus and schedule for the benefit of the class.
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