Los Angeles Mission College



Level 4 Non-Credit ESL Instructor: Peter SchneiderEmail: schneiph @lamission.edu Place and Time: Campus Center Room 5: MW - 6:00p.m. – 9:10p.m.Semester: Fall 2016 Class Materials and Required Texts: Side By Side Plus Level 4 Activity and Test Prep WorkbookCOURSE OBJECTIVES:This is a Level 4 ESL course with other aspects of American English interwoven, such as vocabulary, listening, reading, writing, culture, and American life. At the end of this course you will be able to produce sentences in past perfect tense, modals, passive voice, gerunds and infinitives, conditionals, reported speech, and adjective and adverb clauses. Upon successful completion of this course, you will introduce and describe yourself orally and in writing using lomplete coherent sentences. You will know more about civics in the United States. You will be able to demonstrate deeper knowledge of the interactive nature of communications in conversation. You will have improved your writing and reading skills. You will have more confidence in your language capabilities. Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)Upon completion of this course, students will analyze and use vocabulary at a intermediate level.Upon successful completion of this course, students will demonstrate reasonable progress in their communication skills in relation to the work completed in the Side By Side interactive program.Upon successful completion of this course, students will construct a short (up to1/2 page) paragraph applying basic writing strategies learned in class.Upon completion of this course, students will show ability to repeat basic personal information in everyday contexts.Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify basic community resources.Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILO)Written and Oral Communication - Students will demonstrate the interactive nature of communication involving speaking, writing, listening and reading. Evidence will be the student’s ability to make a clear, well-organized verbal presentation employing appropriate evidence to support the arguments or conclusions and to write a clear, well-organized paper using documentation and quantitative tools when appropriate. COURSE DESCRIPTION:Weeks 1, 2 & 3: Life Skills: Driving: police problems, giving directions, etc.Language Skills: Perfect modals: should have, could have, might have, must haveWriting Practice: Narrative paragraphsWeeks 4, 5 & 6: Life Skills: Dealing with products, returns, warranties, etc.Language Skills: Embedded questionsWriting Practice: Process paragraphsWeeks 7, 8 & 9: Life Skills: Dealing with banks and moneyLanguage Skills: Present unreal conditionalWriting Practice: Comparison paragraphsWeeks 10, 11 & 12: Life Skills: Job interviewsLanguage Skills: Reported speechWriting Practice: Opinion paragraphsWeeks 13 & 14: Life Skills: Civic rights & responsibilitiesLanguage Skills: ReviewWriting Practice: Review Week 1&2Monday - Getting to know you, syllabus, adds/drops, etcWednesday - Chapter 1 p.2-6Review of Simple Present Tense, Present Continuous, Subject/Object pronouns,Possessive Adjectives, Time ExpressionsWeek 2Monday – Labor DayWednesday Chapter 1 p. 7-10 Week 3Monday - Chapter 1 p. 11 & Chapter quiz p. T1-T4Wednesday Chapter 2 p. 12-16Review Simple Past Tense & Past ContinuousWeek 4Monday - Chapter 2 p. 17-20Wednesday- Chapter 2 p. 21-23 Chapter quiz p. T5-T10 Review of future tenses, possessive pronouns, time expressionsWeek 5Monday - Chapter 3 p. 24 -28Wednesday - Chapter 3 p. 29 -33 Check up Test 34-35Perfect TensesWeek 6Monday - Chapter 4 p. 36-40Wednesday - Chapter 4 p. 41-45Present Perfect vs Present Tense vs Past Tense, since/forWeek 7Monday - Chapter 4 p. 46-51 & Chapter quiz p. T15-T18Wednesday - Chapter 5 p. 52-56Present Perfect ContinuousWeek 8 Monday – Chapter 5 p. 57-61 Wednesday - Chapter 5 Week 9Monday - Chapter 6 p. 62-66 Wednesday - Chapter 6 p. 67-71Gerunds, Infinitive, Present Perfect, Present Perfect ContinuousWeek 10Monday - Chapter 6 p. 72-77Wednesday – Chapter 6 Chapter quiz p. T25-T30Week 11Monday - Chapter 7 p. 78-82Wednesday – Veteran’s DayPast Perfect, Past Perfect Continuous Week 12Monday - Chapter 7 p. 83-87Wednesday Chapter 7 Chapter quiz p. T31-T36Two-Word Verbs: Separable & InseparableWeek 13 Monday - Chapter 8 p. 88-92Wednesday Chapter 8 p. 93-99Week 14Monday - Chapter 8 Chapter quiz p. T37-T42Wednesday - Chapter 9 p. 100-104 ConnectorsWeek 15Monday –Chapter 9 p. 105-108 & Chapter quiz p. T43-T48Wednesday – Chapter 10 p. 109-116Week 16Monday – Chapter 10 p. 117-120 & Chapter quiz p. T49-T54Wednesday - Final Exam TBA ................
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