Listening/Speaking E

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[ Course Description ] [ Class Objectives ] [ Grades ]

Fall 2001

Class Information

Class:	2:00 to 3:50 pm Tuesdays and Thursdays
Location:	CIN 92
Instructor:	Gregry M. Davis
Office:	341 East Hall
Office hours:	12-1 pm Tuesdays
Phone:	503 725-9196
E-mail:	davisg@pdx.edu

You can lead a horse to water,
but you can't make him drink!

Materials/General Information

Interactions One: A Listening/Speaking Skills Book, 3rd edition, by Judith Tanka & Paul Most

0-6 blank 90 minute cassettes

	You can listen to the cassettes in the Learning Center (LC), in East Hall 219.
	You can also bring in blank cassettes to the LC, and they will make a copy for you of each cassette. You should tell them which chapters you need, or you can bring in 6 tapes, and they can give you all six at one time.

All phones/pagers/etc. should be turned off or set to vibrate during class time.

Course Description

This course is designed to help you acquire the skills you need to adjust to life in Portland and life at the university. Your attendance and active participation in this class are important to your success. Absences will lower your final grade. Late homework will not be accepted. Active participation means that you are prepared to participate in class activities. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. Shyness is not an excuse for poor participation. Try to speak out. Lastly, many of the assignments in this course will involve using the tapes that go with the book or speaking with native speakers. Be prepared to do your best.

Class Objectives

The main purpose of this class is to improve your speaking and listening skills in English. By the end of this class, you should be able to:

Speaking:

	Introduce yourself and other people using appropriate formality/informality;
	Describe yourself, other people, and your surroundings;
	Carry on a simple yet grammatically correct conversation about the Portland area and academic life (you should both ask and answer questions in past, present, and future);
	Give and ask for directions, numbers, and letters;
	Place a phone call to ask for specific information and get specific information from a phone call;
	Pronounce American English sounds correctly with consistency

Listening:

	Correctly use level-E grammatical cues to comprehend short conversations;
	Identify topics and subtopics of short conversations between two people;
	Understand and follow spoken directions (especially to complete class assignments and test questions).

Grades

Grades will be based on participation/performance in the following areas:

Active Vocabulary Journal

Performance on Presentations/Role-plays

Assignments

	HOMEWORK: You will have various homework assignments which are due at the beginning of the next class.
	LATE OR MISSED ASSIGNMENTS: I do not accept late homework. If you miss a quiz or a test, you cannot make it up. If you miss a discussion, it is your responsibility to ask a classmate about the work you missed; you will still be responsible for the information you missed if it appears on an exam or a later assignment.

Quizzes

Mid-term/Final exams

Attendance

	If you are more than 10 minutes late, you will be marked absent. However, please come to class even if you are late.
	There are no excused absences.
	Missing 2 classes will result in your final grade being lowered 10 percentage points.
	Missing 4 classes may result in your failing the course.
	If you miss class, you are responsible for all the information covered in class. Please get the telephone number or e-mail address of a classmate who is dependable. You will have to rely on him/her to give you information if you are absent.

This class is graded A - F.

Percent	Letter Grade
97-100%	A +	PASSING
93-96%	A
90-92%	A -
87-89%	B +
83-86%	B
80-82%	B -
77-79%	C +
73-76%	C
70-72%	C -
67-69%	D+	NOT PASSING
63-66%	D
60-62%	D -
0-59%	F