Kennesaw State University Intensive English Program

Jeannie Beard, PhD:   jbeard2@kennesaw.edu

Vocabulary & Idioms Level 3A T/Th 1:20-2:50 UV 2001  & 3B 4:45-6:15 EB 253

Level 3 Vocabulary Syllabus

Course Description and Content: This is an beginning/ intermediate level course in vocabulary and idioms. Students will make flashcards and write sentences commonly used vocabulary words in the specific categories of Food/Drink, Household, School, and Geography as well as words they discover in their own weekly studies. We will also cover vocabulary words from the second half of the text Making Connections 2.

Students will use the website/app Quizlet to study the 20 vocab words of the week and to add their new sets of 10 new vocabulary words each week to the class. If students do not want to use Quizlet, then they must make their own flashcards of the 20 words of the week and 10 flashcards for their own words each week.

Idioms List; The 50 Most Useful Idioms; English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions

ESL Basic Words List

Course Goals:

 Goal 1: Students will demonstrate gathering and learning personal lists of vocabulary

Goal 2: Students will apply knowledge of context clues to determine meanings of new words

Goal 3: Students will be able to use common academic vocabulary

Goal 4: Students will be able to use English resources to clarify meanings of words

Goal 5: Students will be able to use specific rules for spelling American English vocabulary

Goal 6: Students will demonstrate intermediate written and oral competency with gerunds

Attendance Policy:

Students should be in class and on time. Students will be marked tardy (late) if they arrive 10 minutes after the class begins, and will be marked absent if they arrive 30 minutes after the class begins. Three tardies equals one absence. Students on an F-1 or J-1 visa can jeopardize their visa status after accumulating three absences in any one class. There are no excused absences.

Please see the Student Handbook for more information.

Academic Integrity:

What constitutes a violation of academic integrity:

• Receiving unauthorized assistance in the preparation of classwork or on an exam or quiz.
• The unauthorized presence or use of electronic devices, notes, or books during an exam or quiz.
• Giving, requesting or receiving help from another student on an exam or quiz.
• Using another student’s previously graded work.
• Failure to acknowledge ideas borrowed from other sources, failure to use quotation marks when using exact words from another text, and/or cutting and pasting passages from the internet (plagiarism).
• Submitting the same work, or substantially the same work, in more than one class without the permission of the current professor.

 Grading Policy:

You will receive a letter grade for this course. Your grade will be based on the following:

Professional Conduct & Participation: 10%

            Arriving to class on time

Self-control with technology, avoiding distractions

Awake and alert in class

Asking and answering questions

Participating in group work

Coming to class prepared with paper, pen/pencil, assignments complete

Taking notes and giving the teacher/speaker attention

ALWAYS SPEAKING IN ENGLISH

Flashcards of New Words: 10%

Weekly Exercises on Quizlet or Other Sites: 20%

Weekly Quizzes & Tests: 40%

Projects: 20%

At the end of the 8 week session you will receive a grade of A, B, C, D, or F. This will help you understand how you have performed in this class during the session. A grade of A, B, or C indicates that you have completed the work and met the course goals and objectives. A grade of D or F indicates that you have not completed all of the work and therefore you have not met the course goals and objectives.

ONLY USE YOUR PHONE/COMPUTER/TABLET ETC. FOR CLASS PURPOSES!

Daily Course Agenda

Day 1: June 2 Introduction, Quizlet, Week 1 Words Food & Restaurants

Download Quizlet app and sign up for a Quizlet account.

Join Level 3 Vocabulary Kennesaw State IEP

Week 1 Words Food/Restaurant: portion, menu, refill, order, beverage, service, tip, appetizer, delicious, bill, ingredients, dish, condiments, fork, knife, spoon, napkin, entrée, side, allergic

Quizlet Kennesaw IEP Vocab Level 3 Week 1 Set

Teacher Introduction:

Dr. Jeannie Beard – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Introduce Yourself: Where are you from? What is your major? What are your hobbies and interests?

Homework 1 Due : Create flashcards for 10 of your own words and add them to the Quizlet class. Send me an email at jbeard2@kennesaw.edu with a brief introduction of yourself. Study flashcards in Quizlet, use the learning tools and game tools. Take 1 test for the weekly words in Quizlet.

Large English Vocab Lists

Ordering Food

Day 2: June 4 Week 1 Quiz, Share Words, Idioms

Check Flashcards/Study

Level 3 Week 1 Vocabulary Quiz

Idioms Week 1

Day 3: June 9 Week 2 Words Home; Prefixes

Friday, June 12th our field trip will be to Kennesaw Mountain and a local, family farm . The details of the trip are below and in the video found at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp_CyX82YRY.

What are your favorite new words?

Kennesaw IEP Level 3 Week 2 Set

Week 2 Words Home: kitchen, oven, stove, cabinet, bedroom, dresser, closet, laundry, basement, shelf, garage, ceiling, couch, counter, furniture, window, carpet, floor, mirror, drawer

Most Common Prefixes and Suffixes

Idioms: apple of my eye, don’t cry over spilled milk, not my cup of tea, piece of cake, spill the beans, nuts about something or someone, couch potato, take out, eat and run, eat your words, feast or famine, eyes are bigger than my stomach, food for thought, fruits of your labor, grab a bite, greatest thing since sliced bread, have a lot on my plate

Homework: Study vocab words for week 2 in Quizlet. Add a set of 10 new words to the class. Use the learning tools and take 1 test for week 2 words.

Day 4: June 11 Week 2 Home Quiz; Idioms, Suffixes

Review Flashcards; Study Vocab

Level 3 Vocabulary Week 2 Quiz

Idioms Weeks 1 & 2

apple of my eye: person you love

don’t cry over spilled milk: don’t worry about small stuff

not my cup of tea: I don’t like it

piece of cake: easy

spill the beans: tell a secret

better luck next time: you will have a better chance next time

nuts about something or someone: crazy about it

couch potato: lazy, inactive

take out: to go order of food

eat and run: I don’t have time to stay after eating.

run an errand: to leave the house to do a task

I have to do chores: home responsibilities

make your bed and lie in it: live with the outcome of your mistakes; suffer the consequence

give an allowance: money for chores

woman’s work is never done

eat your words: admit you are wrong

take it back: say you didn’t mean something

diss- disrespect

don’t make waves: don’t cause trouble

 Day 5: June 16 Week 3 Academic Vocab; I before E

Idioms: eyes are bigger than my stomach, food for thought, fruits of your labor, grab a bite, have a lot on my plate, feel at home, home is where the heart is, the home stretch, if you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen, hits close to home, elbow room, elephant in the room, cover a lot of ground, homesick, everything but the kitchen sink, make room, room to breathe, on the fence

Kennesaw IEP Vocab Level 3 Week 3

Week 3 Words School: assignment, due, syllabus, thesis, textbook, table of contents, index, chapter, review, essay, exam, plagiarism, academic, integrity, notes, instruction, homework, rule, progress

Homework: Prepare for your test!  Study Vocab Level 3 Week 3 words in Quizlet. Add 10 words to class. Use learning and game tools. Take 1 Test in Quizlet.

WEEKS 1-3 TEST

You will be tested on the 20 words for each week and the 10 words of your own for each work.

60 = TEACHER’S WORDS

30 = YOUR WORDS

TOTAL = 90 Words

What are your favorite new words?

Kennesaw IEP Vocab Level 3 Week 3

Idiom Skit Practice

Day 6: June 18 Weeks 1-3 Test; Idioms

Weeks 1-3 Test: Test will cover the words from weeks 1-3. The test will be made on Quizlet.

Kennesaw IEP Vocab Level 3 Week 4

Day 7: June 23 Week 4 Geography; e when adding a suffix; Prepositions

Week 4 Words: mountains, hill, ocean, beach, island, creek, lake, river, valley, horizon, landscape, desert, rural, woods, view, waterfall, continent, capital, urban, region

Idioms Level 3

A blessing in disguise; a house divided cannot stand; a leopard cannot change his spots; a taste of your own medicine; Actions speak louder than words; Beating around the bush; Blood is thicker than water; Best of both worlds; Elvis has left the building; No big deal; What’s the deal?; Hang out; Watch out; Get away from it all; Face to face; The black sheep; Walk a mile in one’s shoes (put yourself in my shoes); To dive in; Far cry from; Kill two birds with one stone; Keep something at bay; In the heat of the moment; Hit the sack; Last straw; On the ball; What’s up; Top dog; When it rains it pours; Chase your tail; Explore all avenues; Tricks of the trade; Works like a charm; Dead wood; Get the axe; don’t give up your day job, a leg up, get down to, off the cuff, see eye to eye, you bet, none of your business, straight from the horse’s mouth, birds of a feather flock together, air your dirty laundry, butterflies in the stomach, left hanging, pick up the tab, under wraps, hidden agenda, pot calling the kettle black, too many cooks in the kitchen, shake it off, make sense, bad blood, cross the line, take off

Day 8: June 25 Week 4 Geography Quiz; Prepositions, Idioms

Quiz on Week 4 Words

Help With Prepositions

Prepositions and their use

Prepositions for Location and Movement

Prepositions of Time

Week 5 Words: forecast, breeze, clear, cloudy, dry, fog, humid, snow, tornado, rainbow, thunderstorm, drizzle, sunny, summer, winter, spring, autumn, hurricane, blizzard, flood

Day 9: June 30 Week 5 Weather Words; Prepositions cont.

Fun With Fiddle Faddle and Other Pairs

Idioms: a mountain out of a molehill, high expectations, climb the ladder, spring fever, no man is an island, up the creek without a paddle, urban legend, keep your eyes on the horizon/bright horizons, out of the woods

Work on Idioms Sketch

Day 10:  July 2 Week 5 Weather Quiz; Spelling & Work on Idiom Skit

Lesson Plans

1. Students should be given a few minutes to review their vocabulary words for the quiz. This can be done in 5 minutes by reviewing the flashcards in Quizlet.

2. Students will take the Vocab Level 3 Week 5 | Quizlet. (Handouts) They should have no more than 20-25 minutes to complete the quiz. Students who finish early may take a short 5-10 minute break.

3. Students should be put into small groups of 3-4. They will then work on the multiple choice Idioms Level 3 Vocab together. They should be given 10 minutes to work on the quiz. (Handout)

4. Review the answers to the Level 3 Idioms Quiz. Answer questions about any of the idioms.

5. Groups should pick 5-10 idioms from the quiz and create a short skit. Each person must use 1-2 idioms in a natural conversation. Students should work on the skits for the remainder of the class and get help from the teacher with using the idioms correctly. They should write down their skits and be prepared to work on them next week in class. They will present their skits next week.

Students should work in groups of 3-4 on the Idioms Test.

Day 11: July 7 Week 6 Personality Words; Work on Idiom Skit

Final IEP Project Guidelines

Video Option

Create a short video: 1-3 minutes on a topic of your choice

• Choose any topic and write a short script for the topic using at least 20 vocab words
• For the best grade, add music, text and pictures to your video! Look at my examples of student work to create a great video that you can be proud of and share with others!

Topic Ideas:

• Food
• Home & Buildings, Interior Design & Architecture
• Education
• Geography
• Weather
• Personality Traits

Vocabulary Class Requirements

• You must use at least 20 words from our list of vocabulary words
• You may use the words to write a script and then read the script, or you can use the words as text for the video.
• Watch student examples for ideas
  

 IEP Student Videos YouTube Playlist

Day 12: July 9 Weeks 3-6 Test; Work on Final Project

Day 13: July 14 What Words Do you Need to Know?; Work on Project

Watch Student Video Examples

Work on Video Project

Day 14:  Work on Video

Day 15: July 21 Final Videos Due

Video Projects Due

Day 16: Last Day of Class & Testing

Essay Sample