Kennesaw State University Intensive English Program
Listening & Speaking Level 6A
Tue/Thu 3:00-4:30 UV 2004
jbeard2@kennesaw.edu
Level 6 Listening & Speaking Syllabus
Course Description and Content:
Using an eclectic selection of sources, we will explore topics such as history, culture, health, and current events. This course will practice the use of oral English and the comprehension of authentic spoken English.
Speaking Skills
- Goal 1: Demonstrate ability to speak basic needs
- Goal 2: Demonstrate correct and spontaneous speaking
- Goal 3: Demonstrate a variety of interactive and informative tasks
- Goal 4: Demonstrate academic speaking skills
Listening Skills
- Goal 1: Demonstrate basic understanding of spoken discourse.
- Goal 2: Demonstrate awareness of spoken discourse features.
- Goal 3: Demonstrate critical understanding of spoken discourse.
- Goal 4: Demonstrate academic listening skills
Attendance Policy:
Students should be in class and on time. Students will be marked tardy (late) if they arrive 5 minutes after the class begins, and will be marked absent if they arrive 15 minutes after the class begins or leaves for more than 15 minutes during class. 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 Guidelines
Professional Conduct: 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
Speaking Assessments: 40%
- Weekly Class Speaking Exercises 10%
- Homework 10%
- Speech Presentation 20%
Listening Assessments: 40%
- Weekly Quizzes 10%
- Midterm & Final 30%
Final Project 10%
Grading Scale
Grades will be assigned according to the following scale:
| A: 90% – 100% | B: 80-89% | C: 79% – 70% |
| D: 69% – 60% | F: 0% – 60% |
Classroom Rules and Expectations
- Students are expected to attend every class session and to arrive on time. Lateness (5+ minutes) and absences (15+ minutes) will lower students’ participation grades.
- Students are expected to be respectful of both the instructor and fellow students. Students who cannot follow this rule will be asked to leave class.
- Use of cell phones, laptops, and other devices is permitted only for academic purposes. Students who use such devices for other purposes will be banned from using technology in the classroom
- It is the student’s responsibility to let the instructor know if they are having trouble with the class material or assignments. There will usually be time to speak with the instructor at the end of class; otherwise, use the contact information provided.
- Late assignments will not be accepted. If you miss a class, it is your responsibility to find out what you missed and turn in any assignments on time. Missed presentations and quizzes cannot be made up without a valid excuse for being absent on an assessment day.
- Plagiarized work and work produced by someone other than the student will not be graded.
- Students are expected to speak only English in the classroom.
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.
Course Policies: ONLY USE YOUR PHONE/COMPUTER/TABLET ETC. FOR CLASS PURPOSES!
Week 1 Introduction & The Role of Media in Our Lives
Step 1 Introduction: Media, Education, Business
How has the media affected your life? Negative? Positive?
Step 2 New Vocab
Mass Media, Worldview, Perceptions, Priming, Agenda Setting, Gatekeeping, Editors, Framing, Cultivation, Objective, Subjective
Step 3 Questions
Where do you get news and information?
Have you seen any information that is false in the media?
Has media made you angry or confused?
Have you seen something in the media that has made you happy or proud?
Step 4 Listening
Conversation: The U.S. Media’s Misleading Portrayal of Russia
Quiz: Conversation The U. S. Media’s Misleading Portrayal of Russia
Step 5 Speaking
In your group, you will have 5 minutes to discuss a way that you have seen a person, country, or idea’s misrepresentation in the media. What was the media source? Had did the misrepresentation shape your worldview or perceptions?
Day 2
Engage
Media that inspires: Opening Doors and Hearts
How does the media affect how we feel about others?
How does the media affect the way we feel about ourselves?
Stereotypes Americans Have About US Regions
New Vocab
Stereotypes, Media Bias, Self-Image
Activity
Discuss media that makes you feel bad about others? Media that makes you feel bad about yourself?
Discuss: Media that makes you feel good about others? Media that makes you feel good about yourself?
Week 2 Talking About Media & Listening Test
Tue Aug 18: For homework, you were asked to find something in the media that gave you a strong positive or negative reaction. Today, you will talk to the class about what you chose and why.
You will have 10 minutes to prepare what you will say. Answer the following questions:
- What media clip will you talk about?
- How did you find this media clip?
- What is your reaction to this media, positive or negative? Why does it make you feel this way?
- Summarize what the media is about? What is the main idea?
- What is the purpose of the media clip? To inform, entertain, persuade?
- Who is the target audience for this media?
- What is the message of this media?
Present the media to the class. You will have 5 minutes to answer the above questions.
Advanced Listening English Lessons
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
Thu Aug 20
Today you will have your first listening test. The test will have 3 parts. In Part 1, you will listen to a conversation and then answer questions about the dialogue. In Part 2, you will listen to a news report from a news site like NPR or Voice of America and then answer questions about the report. In Part 3 of the test, you will watch a short video and answer fill-in-the-blank questions.
You can practice for the test by listening to clips from the websites provided above.
Week 3: Education
Tue Aug 25
Looking At Things in a Different Way: Dead Poet’s Society
30 Second Conversations: Learning Life Lessons
Students will take turns talking to their partner and answering questions given by the teacher. Each person will have 30 seconds to talk about the topic given. After one round, the students will switch partners. Each person in the class will then discuss a “life lesson” learned about their conversation partners.
Thu Aug 27
Speech Due September 1
Requirements
- 8-10 Minutes: you must speak for over 7 minutes and 3-4 minutes of your presentation can be a video or audience participation. You may plan a short activity for the students.
- Visual Presentation (PowerPoint, Haiku Deck, Prezi, Video, other)
- Inform the class about something
- How to do something: tips, information about a subject and why it is important
- Choose a topic that you are interested in teaching about. YOU ARE THE TEACHER FOR THE DAY!
- Practice!
Professional Tips for Visual Presentation Design
- 4 Scientific Reasons Why Your PowerPoints Suck
- Top Ten Slide Tips
- Anything but PowerPoint: Five fresh presentation alternatives
- 24 Powerpoint Alternatives & Presentation Programs For 2014
TED Talk: Julian Treasure How to Speak so that People Want to Listen
Quiz on TED Talk: Julian Treasure How to Speak so that People Want to Listen
Day 7: Sept 1 Speeches
Speeches Due
Day 8: Speeches Cont./Listening Conversation Practice
Speeches Cont.
Day 9: Sept 8 Steve Jobs One Last Thing Documentary and Quiz
Steve Jobs One Last Thing Quiz
Day 10: Sept 10 Listening Practice; Business Person Presentation Prep
Successful Business Person Presentation Due Tue Sept 14
- 5-7 Minutes (no more than 10)
- Choose any successful business person (living or dead)
- You may choose someone from your own country but you don’t have to
- Who, What, Where, When, Why, How, To What Extent
Day 11: Sept 15 Successful Business Person Presentation
Day 12: September 12 L&S Test
Day 13: Work on StoryCorp Interview
Great questions for anyone
- What was the happiest moment of your life? The saddest?
- Who was the most important person in your life? Can you tell me about him or her?
- Who has been the biggest influence on your life? What lessons did that person teach you?
- Who has been the kindest to you in your life?
- What are the most important lessons you’ve learned in life?
- What is your earliest memory?
- Are there any words of wisdom you’d like to pass along to me?
- What are you proudest of in your life?
- When in life have you felt most alone?
- How has your life been different than what you’d imagined?
- How would you like to be remembered?
- Do you have any regrets?
- What does your future hold?
- Is there any message that you’d like to leave for your children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, or for future generations yet to come?
- Is there anything that you’ve never told me but want to tell me now?
- Is there something about me that you’ve always wanted to know but have never asked?
Day 14: Work on StoryCorp Recording
Day 15: Making StoryCorp Recording Into Video
Day 16: Finish & Show StoryCorp Video