Pierce College
ESL 012:
ESL 023:
ESL 034:
ESL 044:
Beginning Literacy Integrated ESL Level 1
Beginning Integrated ESL Level 2
Low Intermediate Integrated ESL Level 3
High Intermediate Integrated ESL Level 4
Fort Lewis-Spring 2011
March 20- May 14
Monday-Thursday 9:00-11:15
Instructor: Christina Cox
Phone #: 253-495-6737
Email: ccox@pierce.ctc.edu
Course Texts:
Provided: New American Streamline Departures, by Bernard Hartley & Peter Viney
Provided: Fundamentals of English Grammar, by Betty Azar
Provided: Oxford Picture Dictionary, by Jayme Adelson-Goldstein, Norma Shapiro, & Renee
West
Teacher Generated Materials
Recommended: A bilingual dictionary of student’s choice
Course Materials
Required: Three-ring binder and paper, pencil, eraser, and pen
Attendance
Students are expected to attend all scheduled class sessions. If you are ill or unable to
attend class, please call or send me an email and the absence will be recorded as excused.
Course Assessment
Daily Assignment Evaluation:
Students are assessed daily. These assessments are based on reading, speaking,
writing, and listening assignments and projects. The instructor may choose one or
more assignments or activities to grade during each class session. The grading
scale is as follows:
Performance Task Assessment:
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4 Washington State and Pierce College Performance Tasks. These are scored on
State rubrics.
CASAS Post Test Scores:
CASAS Post Test scores may be used for completions in Listening and Reading
at the instructor’s discretion.
STUDENT CONDUCT
Students and instructor share the responsibility to maintain a positive, productive
learning environment.
Please remember:
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If you arrive to class late, please enter the classroom silently and go directly to a
seat.
Avoid the use of cell phones in class. If you receive a call that must be answered,
please leave the classroom immediately.
Do not leave your seat to get folders or sharpen pencils while the teacher or
students are speaking. Wait until a work period or break before moving around
the classroom.
Students should support classmates in their learning at all times. Be sure that all
responses to others are positive.
Please do not answer for others. It is important to an individual’s learning that
each student is given a chance to respond to questions asked.
Due to safety issues and to avoid distraction, it is Department policy that students
are not allowed to bring children to class.
Study Hard. Laugh Often. Have Fun!
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Week One
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Week Two
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Day/date/weather
Goal setting: educational, work, family, community, and personal
Alphabet, alphabetical order, and spelling
Ordinal numbers 1 - 100
Introduction to class: syllabi, competencies, tasks, and rubrics
Introduce present simple and past simple verb to be: affirmative,
negative, interrogative, and short answer
Autobiographical sentences
Survival English: Classroom Language
Greetings/daily routine
Day/date/weather
Daily oral review (verb tenses, drilling, phonics, flash cards,
syllables)
Verb to be: affirmative, negative, interrogative, and short answer
Review present simple verb to be & compare with past simple verb
to be + predicate adjectives: affirmative, negative, interrogative,
and short answer
 What are you like as an adult?/What were you like as a
child?/What is life like as an adult? What was life like
when you were a child?
Introduction to paragraph form: topic sentence, supporting
sentences, and concluding sentence (Life When I Was a Child)
Survival English: Making Introductions
CASAS
Week Three
 Greetings/daily routine
 Day/date/weather
 Daily oral review (verb tenses, drilling, phonics, flash cards,
syllables)
 Practice verb to be: affirmative, negative, interrogative, and short
answer
 Review present simple and continuous verb to be + asking for and
giving directions
 Prepositions of place
 Map reading: (Where can I find?/Which are-is?/Could
you?
 Locate and determine distances and routes on maps &
schedules
 Bus schedules and routes
 Computer Project
 Survival English: At the Airport
 Task 1
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Week Four
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Week Five
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Greetings/daily routine
Day/date/weather
Daily oral review (verb tenses, drilling, phonics, flash cards,
syllables)
Would like + food, services, and restaurants
Review and extend personal information/personal details + review
would like, present simple + jobs, nationality, country
Role Play/Script project
Survival English: Making Plans
Task 2
Greetings/daily routine
Day/date/weather
Daily oral review (verb tenses, drilling, phonics, flash cards,
syllables)
Introduction to imperatives + classroom vocabulary
Practice past simple verb to be: affirmative, negative, interrogative,
and short answer + making excuses and calling in sick
Review and extend personal information + job application and
interviews
Role Play/Script project
Survival English: Restaurant
Week Six
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Greetings/daily routine
Day/date/weather
Daily oral review (verb tenses, drilling, phonics, flash cards,
syllables)
Imperatives + schedules
Imperatives + maps and simple directions + prepositions of place
Imperatives + following rules & regulations and following two- to
three-step directions
Computer Project
Survival English: Banking
Task 3
Week Seven
 Greetings/daily routine
 Day/date/weather
 Daily oral review (verb tenses, drilling, phonics, flash cards,
syllables)
 Review imperatives
 Can + abilities: affirmative, interrogative, negative, and short
answer
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How-To Project: First, next, …
Survival English: Doctor
Task 4
Week Eight
 Greetings/daily routine
 Day/date/weather
 Daily oral review (verb tenses, drilling, phonics, flash cards,
syllables)
 Review
 End of quarter one on one Educational Interview
 CASAS
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