NAZEK ABDULWAHED KHOUNI
ELIA 102
SPRING TERM 2009
COURSE PORTFOLIO
ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE
COURSE NAME: ELIA
COURSE NUMBER: 102
SEMESTER / YEAR: Spring Term 2009
DATE: February 2009
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COURSE SYLLABUS
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Instructor Information
Course name: ELIA
Course number: 102
Instructor′s E-mail: dhouhanazek@yahoo.com
Office hour s: -SMW: from 11 to 1.
-.ST:
from 10 to 11.
Course Time: -SMW: from 8 to 11.
-.ST:
from 11 to 2.20.
Office Location: villa 2 room 5.
Objectives:
The students will be able to identify high frequency
vocabulary and have prior experience in reading and listening.
Text books:
1. Interactions 1: (Middle East Gold Edition) Reading.
2. Interactions 1: (Middle East Gold Edition)
Listening/speaking.
3. Interactions 1: (Middle East Edition) Grammar.
Assigned units:
- Reading: 1/2/5/6.
- Listening/Speaking: 1/2/5/6.
- Grammar: 4/7/8/9.
Marks out of 100:
1)
2)
3)
4)
Quiz 1 : 25%
Quiz 2 : 25%
Final Exam : 40%
Writing/Speaking Assessment : 10%
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Course Information
I/ Summary Description:
1) Course number :102
2) Course title: Reading/Listening-Speaking/Grammar.
3) General aim of the course:
The course aims to provide learners with effective and proper use of
language skills, to enable them to read for specific information and
details, to encourage students to contribute their own opinion relating
to the reading.
4) Total course chapters:
4
5) Modes of instruction:
-Teacher presentation.
-Pair work.
-Group work.
II/ Syllabus:
 Interactions 1: (Middle East Gold Edition) Reading.
 Interactions 1: (Middle East Gold Edition) Listening/Speaking.
 Interactions 1: (Middle East Gold Edition) Grammar.
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1) Learning outcomes:
a) Reading skills:
Upon completion of the course students are expected to:
1. read for specific information and data.
2. read for gist.
3. identify the topic and main ideas.
4. identify supporting details.
5. grasp the meaning of unfamiliar words from context.
6. preview the topic and vocabulary.
7. predict content of reading.
8. skim for the topic and main idea.
9. scan.
10. summarize.
b) Listening/Speaking skills:
Upon Completion of the course students are expected to:
1. To be able to listen for gist.
2. To listen for specific information.
3. Identify stressed words and contractions.
4. Ask for and give personal information.
5. Confirm information.
6. Give reasons.
7. Start and end conversations, and give advice.
c) Grammar competency:
Upon completion of the course students are expected to use the following
grammatical structures with focus on both form and meaning;
1.
2.
3.
4.
The future, more about verbs, prepositions, and articles;
Kinds of verbs, pronouns, phrases, and clauses;
The past, infinitives, modal verbs, and pronouns;
The present perfect tense, adverbs of degree.
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2) Assessment methodologies and points:
 Quiz (1): 25%→ April 9th 2009.
 Quiz (2): 25%→ May 2009.
 Final Exam: 40 %→ June 2009.
 Writing/Speaking Assessment: 10%
III/ Learning and information resources:
 Text books
 Educational aids such as: audio tapes and CDs, video tapes, data
show and computer connected to the internet in language labs, are
used according to the relevant part in each chapter of each skill.
 Supplementary:
o Worksheets.
o Revision exercises.
o Vocabulary Review.
 Educational AIDS:
o Data show.
 Estimated number of students in one section of this course:
o 30.
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Course Requirements and Grading
1-
Grading:
 First quiz: 25%.
 Second quiz: 25%.
 Final: 40%.
 Writing/Speaking assessment: 10%.
2-General instructions:
 Students are responsible for whatever mentioned in the class.
 They have to attend lectures.
 6 times absence forbids the student from attending finals
(according to university policy) unless an acceptable medical report
is presented.
3-Special assignment format:
Home assignments should be submitted in the following way:
-It should be written on an (A4) size paper.
-Homework should be typed.
-The work should be clean and presentable.
-Student’s name, computer No. and section should be written clearly at
the top right side of the paper.
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Course Schedule Model
meeting two times a week
J1
Week
#
Date
Topic
1
1/3/2009
3/3/2009
Introduction to the course.
Diagnostic assessment
2
8/3/2009
10/3/2009
Listening/Speaking (chap.1/part
1+2
Academic Life Around the
World
Gram: inseparable and separable
phrasal verbs,
Listening Speaking
Academic Life Around the
World
3
What is
Due?
Buy Book
Chapter 1
Homework
assignment
chapter 4
(4.9-4.12)
Activity
2+3+4
Chapter 1
(part 3+4)
Homework
assignment
15/3/2009
17/3/2009
Gram: Prepositions of place,
prepositions of time, definite
and indefinite articles.
4
Reading
assignment
22/3/2009
…
24/3/2009
Listening Speaking
Experiencing Nature
(chapter 4/part
4.13 – 4.17)
Chapter 2
(part 1+2)
Activity
1+2+3
Project work
about Nature
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Week
#
5
6
Date
29/3/2009
31/3/2009
9/4/2009
Topic
Reading
assignment
What is
Due?
Gram: Verb +object + infinitive,
modal verbs, reflexive pronouns.
chapter 7
( part 7.1 – 7.3)
Activity
2+3+5
List/speak :
Experiencing Nature
Chapter 2
(part 3+4)
Role play
Gram: Tag questions, subject
pronouns, reduction of relative
clauses to relative phrases,
object pronouns.
Chapter 7
part 7.4- 7.7
Activity 3+4
Quiz 1
Listening/speaking: Chapter 5
Home
7
Chapter 5
(part 1+2)
PowerPoint
presentation
about Home.
chapter 8
(part 8.1- 8.5)
Activity 2+4
12/4/2009
14/4/2009
Gram: Statements, Yes/No
questions with the past
continuous tense, information
questions with the past
continuous tense, the simple past
versus the past continuous, when
and while.
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Week
#
8
Date
Topic
Reading
assignment
What is
Due?
List/speak
Home
Chapter 5
(part 3+4)
Making
conversations
Gram: Infinitives after verbs,
infinitives after adjectives,
infinitives of purpose, summary
of modal verbs, summary of
pronouns, indefinite pronouns.
chapter 8
(part 8.6-8.11)
Activity 2+3
Chapter 6
Power Point
presentation
about the
topic
chapter 9
(part 9.1-9.4)
Activity
2+3+4
19/4/2009
21/4/2009
Break
9
Chapter 6/ part 1+2
Cultures of the world
10
3/5/2009
5/5/2009
Gram: The present perfect
tense, questions with the
present perfect tense, time
expressions with the present
perfect tense, time clauses with
since.
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Week
#
11
12
Date
10/5/2009
12/5/2009
Topic
Reading
assignment
What is
Due?
List/Speak
Cultures of the world
Chapter 6
(part 3+4)
Speaking
about
cultures
Gram: The present perfect
continuous tense, questions with
the present perfect continuous
tense, the present perfect
continuous versus the present
perfect tense, so and such,
enough and too.
Chapter 9
(part 9.5 – 9.9)
Activity
2+3+4
Quiz 2
13
Revision/ Writing Assessment
14
Final Exams
Final Exam all sections
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Course Schedule Model
meeting three times a week I2
Week
#
1
Date
Topic
List-speak/Reading
Assignment
What is Due?
28/2/2009
2/3/2009
4/3/2009
Introduction to the
course
Introduction to the
course
Buy Book
Chapter 1 (1+2)
Homework
assignment
chapter 4
(part 4.9- 4.12)
Activity 2+3+4
Academic life Around
the World
List-Speak
2
7/3/2009
9/3/2009
11/3/2009
Gram: inseparable and
separable phrasal verbs,
Reading
Academic life Around
the World
3
14/3/2009
16/3/2009
18/3/2009
Chapter 1 (1+2)
Academic Life Around
the World
List-speak
Chapter 1 part 3+4
Writing a summary
Grammar: Prepositions
of place, prepositions of
time, definite and
indefinite articles.
Chapter 4 (4.13 –
4.17)
Activity 2+3
Reading
Academic Life Around
the World
Chapter 1 (2+3)
Identify the topic
and main idea.
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Experiencing Nature
List/Speak
4
21/3/2009
23/3/2009
25/3/2009
Chapter 2 (1-2)
Speaking about
nature
chapter 7
(7.1 – 7.3)
Activity 2+3+4
Chapter 2 (1-2)
Preview the topic
and
vocabulary/Identif
ying the topic and
the main idea.
Experiencing Nature
List/Speak
Chapter 2(3-4)
Talking about
Nature
Grammar
Tag questions, subject
pronouns, reduction of
relative clauses to
relative phrases, object
pronouns.
Chapter 4 (7.4-7.7)
Activity 2+3+5
Reading
Experiencing Nature
Chapter 2
(part 2+3)
Consolidate the
newly acquired
lexical items.
Grammar:
Verb +object +
infinitive, modal verbs,
reflexive pronouns.
Reading
Experiencing Nature
5
28/3/2009
30/3/2009
1/4/2009
Preview the topic
and vocabulary.
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Quiz 1
6
Home
List/speak :Home
7
11/4/2009
13/4/2009
15/4/2009
Grammar: Gram:
Statements, Yes/No
questions with the past
continuous tense,
information questions
with the past continuous
tense, the simple past
versus the past
continuous, when and
while.
Reading:
Home
Chapter 5 (1-2)
Group Project
Presentations
Chapter 8
(8.1 – 8.5)
Activity 2+3
Chapter 5
(1-2)
Skim for the topic and
the main
ideas/Identify
supporting details.
Consolidate the newly
acquired lexical items.
8
18/4/2009
20/4/2009
22/4/2009
List/Speak:
Home
Chapter 5 (3+4)
Work shop
Grammar: Infinitives
after verbs, infinitives
after adjectives,
infinitives of purpose,
summary of modal verbs,
summary of pronouns,
indefinite pronouns.
Chapter 8 (8.6 –
8.11)
Activity 2+3+4
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Reading:
Home
Chapter 5 (part
2+3)
the topic and the main
ideas/Identify
supporting details.
Break
9
List/Speak
Cultures of the world
10
Preview the topic and
vocabulary/ Skim for
2/5/2009
4/5/2009
6/5/2009
Grammar: The present
perfect tense, questions with
the present perfect tense,
time expressions with the
present perfect tense, time
clauses with since.
Chapter 6( 1-2)
Speaking about
cultures
Chapter 9
(9.1 – 9.4)
Activity 1+2+3
Preview the topic
Reading:
Cultures of the World
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9/5/2009
11/5/2009
13/5/2009
List/Speak
Cultures of the world
and vocabulary/
Chapter 6 (1+2)
Chapter 6
(3+4)
Skim for the topic
and the main
ideas/Identify
supporting details.
Providing
presentation texts
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Grammar:
The present perfect
continuous tense, questions
with the present perfect
continuous tense, the present
perfect continuous versus the
present perfect tense, so and
such, enough and too.
Reading
Cultures of the World
Chapter 9
(9.5 – 9.9)
Chapter6
(2+3)
12
Quiz 2
13
Revision/Writing assessment.
14
Final Exams
Activity 2+3+4
Consolidate the
newly acquired
reading strategies