KHAZAR UNIVERSITY
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
DEPARTMENT
COURSE SYLLABUS
English Foundations 1
Instructor:
2014, Spring Semester
Course Information
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Title:English Foundations 1
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Number (code): ENGL-101
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Credit hours: 6
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Semester/term :
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Meeting time : Monday-Friday 9:00-11.20 AM
Instructor Information
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Full name:
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Title:
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Office location(optional): English Language and Literature Department
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Office phone number(optional)
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Email address:
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Office hours: Monday-Friday 9:00-18:00
99 440 417-91-32
Number of credit points: 6
Number of hours per week: 16
Course Description:
I.
Grading Scale:
Midterm Exam
Final Exam
Speaking Exam
2 Tests
Active Reading Strategies
Activity(workbook) & Participation
Total
30%
30%
10%( 5% midterm+5 %final)
10% (5% each)
10%
10% ( 5% each)
100%
Textbooks used will be:
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6.
Interchange-1 ( Jack C. Richards
Tactics for Listening ( basic) ( Jack C. Richards)
Facts and figures.
Reading and Vocabulary development ( Patricia Ackert, Linda Lee)
Thoughts and Notions. Reading and Vocabulary Development 2. (Patricia Ackert, Linda Lee)
Reader at Work I
7. Reading Topics and Discussions ( Eldar Shahgaldiyev )
8. More to Read I
9. Basics of English Grammar
10. English Grammar in Use
(Azar)
(Raymond Murphy)
Weekly Schedule
Weeks
1
Topics
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Resource materials
Introduction to the course. Ice breaking
activities.
Unit 1.
o Introductions and greetings
o Names, countries, nationalities
o Checking information
Interchange 1
o Exchanging personal information
o Wh-questions and statements with
“be”
o Questions: “what, where, who” and
“how”
o Yes/no questions and short answers
with “be”
o Subject pronouns
o Possessive adjectives
 Listening session
2
 Reading home assignment
Tactics for Listening
Unit 2 . How do you spend your day?
Interchange 1
Jobs, workplaces, and school
o Daily schedules
Tactics for Listening
o Clock time
o Giving opinions
o Simple present Wh-questions and
statements
o Time expressions
 Listening session
 Reading home assignment
3
Unit 3 . How much is it?
Interchange 1
o Shopping and Prices
o Clothing and personal items
o Colors and materials
o Demonstratives: “this, that, these,
those”
Tactics for Listening
o “One/ones”
o Questions: “how much” and “which”
o Comparisons with adjectives
 Listening session
 Reading home assignment
 Teachers’ Meeting
4
Unit 4. Do you like rap?
Interchange 1
o Music. movies and TV programs
o Entertainers
Tactics for Listening
o Invitations and excuses
o Dates and times
o Yes/no and Wh-questions with “do”
o Question: “what kind?”
o Object pronouns
o Modal verb “would”
o Verb + “to” + verb
o Sentence stress
o Intonation in questions
 Listening session
 Reading home assignment
 TEST -1
5
Unit 5. Tell me about your family
Interchange 1
o Families
o Typical families
Tactics for Listening
o Present continuous yes/no and Whquestions, statements and short
answers
o Quantifiers: “all, nearly all, most,
many, a lot of, some not many, a few,
few”
o Pronoun: “no one”
 Listening session
 Reading home assignment
6
Unit 6. How often do you exercise?
Interchange 1
o Sports, fitness activities, and exercise
o Routines
o Adverbs of frequency: “always,
almost always, usually, often,
Tactics for Listening
sometimes, hardly ever, almost never,
never”
o Questions: “how often, how long, how
well, how good”
o Short answers
o Intonation in statements
o Intonation with direct address
 Listening session
 Reading home assignment
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7
Unit 7. We had a great time.
Interchange 1
o Free-time and weekend activities
o Chores
Tactics for Listening
o Vacation
o Simple past yes/no and Wh-questions,
statements and short answers with
regular and irregular verbs
o Past of “be”
 Reduction of “did you”
 Listening session
 Reading home assignment
 Teachers’ Meeting
8
Unit 8. What’s your neighborhood like?
Interchange 1
o Stores and places in a city
o Neighborhoods
o Houses and apartments
o “There is/there are”
o “One, any, some”
o Prepositions of place
o Quantifiers
o Questions: “how many, how much”
o Count and noncount nouns
o Reduction of “there is/there are”
 Listening session
 Reading home assignment
MIDTERM EXAM
Tactics for Listening
9
 Unit 9. Appearance and clothing, parts of body.
Interchange 1
Different people of the world
 The Ainu of Japan: The Hopi of Arizona
Tactics for Listening
 Present Simple. Past Simple
 Introduction: Process Writing
 Objectives Assessment ( Monday)
 Listening session
 Reading home assignment
10
 Unit 10. Past Experiences. Unusual Activities
Interchange 1
 The First Woman on Mount Everest; Sailing
Alone
Tactics for Listening
 Present Perfect Tense.
 Beginning to Work. Common Paragraph
Features
 Listening session
Reading home assignment
11
 Unit 11. Countries and Cities
Interchange 1
Cities, hometowns, countries.
Asking about and describing cities: asking
Tactics for Listening
for and giving suggestions.
Adverbs before adjectives:
Conjunctions; modal verbs can and should
 Listening session
 Reading home assignment
12
 Unit 12. Health problems.
Interchange 1
 Medication and remedies
 Talking about health problems
Tactics for Listening
 Infinitive complements.
 Modal verbs can, could, may, would and will for
requests; suggestions.
 Listening session
 Reading home assignment
 Teachers’ Meeting
13
 Unit 13. Food
Interchange 1
 Food and restaurants
 Expressing likes and dislikes
 So, too, neither, either.
Tactics for Listening
 Modal verbs: would and will for requests
 Listening session
 Reading home assignment
 TEST -2
14
 Unit 14. World Geography and facts
Interchange 1
 Great Places to Visit
 Mystery of the Monarchs
Tactics for Listening
 Adjectives and Adverbs. Comparisons.
 Questions with “ how”
 Listening session
 Reading home assignment
15
 Unit 15. Invitations and Excuses
Interchange 1
 Talking about plans: making invitations
 Future with present continuous and be going to
Tactics for Listening
 Messages with tell and ask. Verb + infinitive
 Listening session
 Reading home assignment
16
 Unit 16. Life Changes
 Plans and hopes for the future
Interchange 1
 Talking about plans for the future
 Listening session
Tactics for Listening
 Reading home assignment
Revision
Final Speaking Exam
FINAL Exam