INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY, BANGLADESH

COURSE OUTLINE

ENGLISH 101: LISTENING & SPEAKING SKILLS

SUMMER 2013INSTRUCTOR: ___________________________________________ Office Hours: ___________________________________________Description of the course: English 101 is a foundation-level 3 credit course at IUB. The basic purpose of the course is to teach and refine freshmen students ability to communicate effectively in English. The course provides a student-centered learning environment to meet the basic language needs of the IUB student community. It is an integrated course like the other foundation English courses of IUB. This means that although the course focuses on the listening and speaking skills of students, they are exposed to a holistic communicative environment in the classes where all the four skills of language teaching/learning listening, speaking, reading and writing are simultaneously taught to promote inductive listening and speaking. Therefore, this course will enable students feel comfortable in taking all other courses at IUB as the medium of instruction in IUB is English.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon the successful completion of the course, students should be able to:

Understand and use a variety of English expressions

Infer word meanings from context Interpret speakers tone and attitude

Relate listening to personal experience

Report personal experience Ask and answer conversational questions

Participate in routine conversation

Fulfill a variety of speaking functions

Apply good pronunciation skills in speaking

Course topics:

The following topics will be covered during Summer 2013.

Introduction/greetings

Appointments

Direction/more information

Questions

Description

Phone calls

Modals

Descriptionpeople/place/process

Narration: story telling

Conversation techniques : polite refusal

Idiomatic expressions/phrases

Comparison/contrast

Argument/ debate

Presentation

Topics for speaking:

Health & Medicine

Holidays & Special Occasions

Vacation

Education

Fears

Music

Movies

Families

Traditions

Sports

Everyday Problems

Dreams and goals

Text & Hand outs: Students are required to buy a text. This semester, there are two versions of the book. Both versions are same in terms of topics and aims but one version contains some extra activities. If a student purchases the older version, her/his teacher will ensure that the extra activities are also covered from the other book. These extra activities will be available to all teachers of the course through the Course Coordinator. Teachers may decide to either do the activities on the whiteboard or request their students to buy a copy as a handout.

Additional hand outs will be given by the instructor.

Audio-Visual Resources: Various audio cassettes and DVDs are used in the class room as listening resources.

Other Requirements: Students are required to watch English movies (list given) and T.V. programs regularly. Class participation is often based on movie reviews. Speaking in English in class is mandatory. Students should are also encouraged to maintain a diary and keep a record of daily affairs of their university life. This diary will be often discussed as a reference in the classroom.

Methods of Instruction:

Overall, inductive teaching methods are used in this course. These may include, but are not limited to:

1. Whole class discussions to determine students comprehension of class material, develop speaking strategies, and promote listening.

2. Pair/small group activities to understand class content, synthesize ideas, apply class content to student knowledge and promote analysis of studied material.

3. Cooperative problem solving to promote understanding of point of view, brainstorm ideas related to class content, express cross-cultural comparisons, and find examples related to key course contents.

4. Individual listening practice to develop listening skills.

5. Videos related to course content and current events to develop listening skills and promote awareness of culture as it relates to effective communication.

6. Newspapers/magazines to model summaries of information.

Course Work / Evaluation Your final grade will be based on the following.

Class Participation & Attendance

= 10%[4 absences = F]

1) Regular Class Attendance A student who is absent for 4 classes is subject to failure.2) Coming to Class on TimeIf you come late, arrival time is recorded & counted in the grade.3) Voluntary Participation in Class DiscussionThis is a class for improving speaking ability. A student who does not participate in class discussion, and/or does not answer questions from the teacher will fail the course. As much as 2 points per class will be deducted if student does not participate voluntarily in class discussion.4) Improvement in Pronunciation5) Speaking & Listening Assignments

Home Assignments

= 10 %Submit written homework at the beginning of class.No credit for work handed in late.If you are absent, you are still responsible for the work you missed. Bring the homework the next class and put it into the envelope.

Tests/Exams

= 80 %1) Course Tests & Pop Quizzes 10Class tests and pop quizzes may be taken randomly and will not be made up if you miss them. You will be tested on one or more of the skills. At least 4 tests will take place preferably 2 before the midterm exam and 2 after.2) Mid Taken randomly and will not be made up if you miss themlop listening skills and promote awareness of culture as it relates term Exam 30 = Reading/Writing 20 + Listening/Speaking 103) Final Exam 40= Reading/Writing 20 + Listening/Speaking 20

There will be a centralized, uniform final speaking test at the end of the semester. Two teachers will interview you your own course teacher and an external.

No make-up exam if you are absent on the major exams.

Cheating = 0 on test[answer sheets, dictionary, notes, books, writing on desk, copying, speaking to a classmate, etc.]

Grading Scale

90-100 A; 87-89 A-; 85-86 B+; 80-84 B; 77-79 B-; 75-76 C+; 70-74 C; 67-69 C-; 65-66 D+; 50-64 D; Below 50 F

Course Plan Activities change depending on the requirements of the class.

ClassName of UnitTestsThere areno make-up tests.

(1)Introductions

(2-3)Habits/activities

(4)Appointments, etc.Test #1

(5-6)Questions

(7)Music & Lyrics

(8-9)Possibilities

(10)Events & FestivalsTest #2

(11-12)Neighborhood

(13)Revision for Midterm exam

MID TERM EXAM

(14-15)Modals

(16)Holidays

(16)Story tellingTest #3

(17)Movie review

(18-19)DescriptionsTest #4

(20-21)Similarities/Differences

(22-23)Revision for Final exam

24 FINAL SPEAKING TEST

FINAL EXAM

Attendance: As class participation is very important in this course, students need to attend all the classes for their own benefit. Class participation and group works are often marked. Students missing out more than four classes in a semester should take a W and leave the course.

Make up classes and tests: If a regular class is not held for some unavoidable reasons like hartal, ijtema, undeclared holiday etc, the university announces a make up day for the same. Students, therefore, need to be in touch with the notice board and IUB website regularly. But if the instructor is unable to teach a class for some personal reason, s/he will let the students know through the Office Manager of the Department of English who will post a notice on the classroom door with make up schedule. Teachers may also arrange one or two advance make up classes during the semester if s/he forecasts a class being missed in the future.Movie List : Summer 2013Every student must watch at least 15 of these movies during the semester. Class participation is often based on movie reviews. Students are requested to form groups so that they can arrange weekly movie watching sessions and discussions.

1. Mr. Beans Holiday 25. Megamind

2. Gladiator 26. Music & Lyrics

3. Anger Management 27. Toy Story

4. A Beautiful Mind 28. Shall we Dance?

5. Bruce Almighty 29. The Tourist

6. Mr. & Mrs. Smith 30. The Princess Diaries (1) (2)

7. Erin Brockovich 31. Roman Holiday

8. The Oceans Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen 32. In Pursuit of Happyness

9. The Holiday 33. Babel

10. Narnia

34. Slumdog Millionaire

11. Just My Luck 35. The Expendables

12. Braveheart

13. Alice in Wonderland

14. Robinhood: Prince of Thieves

15. Troy

16. Titanic

17. My Best Friends Wedding

18. Four Weddings and A Funeral

19. Forrest Gump

20. Cast Away

21. Salt

22. Kung Fu Panda

23. Pretty Woman

24. First Daughter

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