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Syllabus-AEF-GS-0819-1 AMERICAN ENGLISH FILE STARTER SYLLABUS (GENERAL AEF-STARTER) MISSION STATEMENT Our mission is to promote excellence in the English language by providing opportunities for students to explore, discover, and learn English at all levels. Our goal is to help students develop the skills needed to communicate and interact effectively in their day-to-day lives. OUR METHODOLOGY Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a modern language teaching approach that puts emphasis on teaching languages holistically, based on meaningful communication and interaction. In CLT, languages are learned not only as skills but also as social behaviors, by using tasks that learners would also do in the real world. New kinds of activities, such as a role play, games, debates, and discussions, are used, along with more interactive social forms, where students are asked to share their opinions in pairs or groups. COURSE DESCRIPTION The basic level is for students who have had little or no prior school experience in English language acquisition. Students will develop a basic level of English vocabulary, pronunciation strategies, and grammatical structure in order to communicate successfully. Students will develop literary and analytical skills which will prepare them to be successful in higher-level courses. STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES Use a limited range of words and phrases like personal ID questions Comprehend basic expressed needs with simple words or phrases Understand simplified spoken English in short dialogues, simple conversations, interviews, and songs Have limited social conversations Demonstrate comprehension in reading tasks well as apply basic reading strategies. Produce simple written sentences Write basic sentences and questions, emails, and short paragraphs

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AMERICAN ENGLISH FILE STARTER SYLLABUS (GENERAL AEF-STARTER)

MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to promote excellence in the English language by providing opportunities for students to explore, discover, and learn English at all levels. Our goal is to help students develop the skills needed to communicate and interact effectively in their day-to-day lives.

OUR METHODOLOGY Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a modern language teaching approach that puts emphasis on teaching languages holistically, based on meaningful communication and interaction. In CLT, languages are learned not only as skills but also as social behaviors, by using tasks that learners would also do in the real world. New kinds of activities, such as a role play, games, debates, and discussions, are used, along with more interactive social forms, where students are asked to share their opinions in pairs or groups.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The basic level is for students who have had little or no prior school experience in English language acquisition. Students will develop a basic level of English vocabulary, pronunciation strategies, and grammatical structure in order to communicate successfully. Students will develop literary and analytical skills which will prepare them to be successful in higher-level courses.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Use a limited range of words and phrases like personal ID questions

• Comprehend basic expressed needs with simple words or phrases

• Understand simplified spoken English in short dialogues, simple conversations, interviews, and songs

• Have limited social conversations

• Demonstrate comprehension in reading tasks well as apply basic reading strategies.

• Produce simple written sentences

• Write basic sentences and questions, emails, and short paragraphs

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• Identify and use correctly a variety of targeted basic grammatical structures.

• Use correct spelling and capitalization and basic vocabulary

COURSE MATERIALS

TEXTBOOKS

American English File – Starter (Student Book)

ISBN: 9780194776141 American English File – Starter (Workbook)

ISBN: 0194776387

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week Unit Topic Exercises

1 1A-1B Hello/Where are you from? Numbers/Days of the week/countries

2 2A We’re Canadian Nationalities

3 2B What’s his number? Personal information

4 3A-3B What’s in your bag/Is that a hat? Small things/Plural endings

5 4A Family & friends People & family

6 4B That’s a cool car Colors/Common adjectives

7 5A-5B A bad hair day/What do you have for breakfast?

Food & drinks/Linking verbs

8 6A He speaks English at work Jobs & work

9 6B Do you like mornings? A typical day

10 7A-7B Life at the end of the world/You can’t park here

Common verbs 2

11 8A What are you doing? Verb phrases

12 8B Today is different The weather

13 9A-9B In the jungle in Guatemala/Before they were stars

Hotels/Places

14 10A-10B It changed my life/What did you do? Common verbs 3/Daily routine verbs

15 11A-11B What do you think of it?/Strangers in a train Opinion words/Irregular verbs

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Week Unit Topic Exercises

16 12a-12B Trip of a lifetime/From start to finish Future time/Verb collocations

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

Midterm Exam: 50% Final Exam: 50%

Midterm Exam Midterm exams are conducted on the 6th week of the course. Written exams are standardized, and all written exams need to be collected by the end of exam day. Students are not allowed to keep their test papers. Final Exam Final exams are conducted on the 12th week of the course. Written exams are standardized, and all written exams need to be collected by the end of exam day. Students are not allowed to keep their test papers.

GRADING SCALE:

93 – 100 Excellent 85 - 92 Very Good 77 – 84 Good

70 – 76 Fair 65 – 70 Minimum Passing 64 and below – Failing

IT IS SCHOOL POLICY THAT EVERY STUDENT MUST ATTEND CLASS WITH THE REQUIRED TEXTBOOK BY THE THIRD DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK. STUDENTS WHO REFUSE TO OBTAIN THE COURSE BOOK WILL BE SENT TO THE ACADEMIC COORDINATOR’S OFFICE.

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT HOMEWORK BE ASSIGNED AS AN INSTRUMENT TO ASSIST THE STUDENTS IN THE ACQUISITION OF THE MATERIAL BEING PRESENTED.

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AMERICAN ENGLISH FILE LEVEL 1 SYLLABUS (GENERAL AEF-1)

MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to promote excellence in the English language by providing opportunities for students to explore, discover, and learn English at all levels. Our goal is to help students develop the skills needed to communicate and interact effectively in their day-to-day lives.

OUR METHODOLOGY Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a modern language teaching approach that puts emphasis on teaching languages holistically, based on meaningful communication and interaction. In CLT, languages are learned not only as skills but also as social behaviors, by using tasks that learners would also do in the real world. New kinds of activities, such as a role play, games, debates, and discussions, are used, along with more interactive social forms, where students are asked to share their opinions in pairs or groups.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This level is geared to students who have had basic contact with English and who have some experience in spoken English. Students expand their knowledge of high-frequency words and phrases in order to communicate using routine statements. Students develop new structures in grammar, along with literary and analytical skills. Students continue to develop pronunciation strategies and listening skills to reinforce their ability to communicate successfully.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Listen for main ideas and details

• Identify new vocabulary from context in reading and listening

• Have conversations in formal and informal settings

• Construct meaning from print material like reading

• Apply reading strategies

• Produce simple sentences in paragraph format on familiar topics

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• Identify and use correctly a variety of targeted basic and more complex grammatical structures.

• Correct spelling and capitalization and identify and use correctly vocabulary

COURSE MATERIALS

TEXTBOOKS

American English File – 1 (Student Book)

ISBN: 9780194776158 American English File – 1 (Workbook)

ISBN: 0194776395

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week Unit Topic Exercises

1 1A-1B-1C My name is/All over the world/Open your books

Days of the week/Numbers/Greetings The world/Classroom language

2 2A-2B A writer’s room/Stars & stripes Things/Colors, adjectives, and feelings

3 2C-3A-3B After 300ft, turn right/Things I love about the US/Work & play

Feelings/Verb phrases/Jobs

4 3C-4A-4B Meeting online/Is she his wife or his sister?/What a life?

Question words/Family/Everyday activities

5 4C-5A Short life, long life?/Are you the next American Idol?

Adverbs of frequency/Buying a newspaper

6 5B-5C Love your neighbors/Sun and the city Weather & seasons/Places in New York City

7 6A-6B-6C Reading in English/Times we love/Music is changing their lives

Phone language/Dates & numbers/Music

8 7A-7B At the National Portrait Gallery/Chelsea girls

Word formation/Past time expressions

9 7C-8A A night to remember/A murder story Go, have, get/Irregular verbs

10 8B-8C A house with a history/A night at a haunted hotel

The house/Prepositions of place & movement

11 9A-9B What I ate yesterday/White gold Food/Food containers

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Week Unit Topic Exercises

12 9C-10A Quiz night/The most dangerous road High numbers/Places & buildings

13 10B-10C Couch surf around the world/What’s going to happen?

Vacations/Verb phrases

14 11A-11B-11C First impressions/What do you want to do?/Men, women, and the internet

Common adverbs/Verbs that take the infinitive/The internet

15 12A-12B Books and movies/I’ve never been there!

Irregular verbs 2/past participles

16 12C The American English File questionnaire

Word groups/Sounds

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

Midterm Exam: 50% Final Exam: 50%

Midterm Exam Midterm exams are conducted on the 6th week of the course. Written exams are standardized, and all written exams need to be collected by the end of exam day. Students are not allowed to keep their test papers. Final Exam Final exams are conducted on the 12th week of the course. Written exams are standardized, and all written exams need to be collected by the end of exam day. Students are not allowed to keep their test papers.

GRADING SCALE:

93 – 100 Excellent 85 - 92 Very Good 77 – 84 Good

70 – 76 Fair 65 – 70 Minimum Passing 64 and below – Failing

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IT IS SCHOOL POLICY THAT EVERY STUDENT MUST ATTEND CLASS WITH THE REQUIRED TEXTBOOK BY THE THIRD DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK. STUDENTS WHO REFUSE TO OBTAIN THE COURSE BOOK WILL BE SENT TO THE ACADEMIC COORDINATOR’S OFFICE.

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT HOMEWORK BE ASSIGNED AS AN INSTRUMENT TO ASSIST THE STUDENTS IN THE ACQUISITION OF THE MATERIAL BEING PRESENTED.

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AMERICAN ENGLISH FILE LEVEL 2 SYLLABUS (GENERAL AEF-2)

MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to promote excellence in the English language by providing opportunities for students to explore, discover, and learn English at all levels. Our goal is to help students develop the skills needed to communicate and interact effectively in their day-to-day lives.

OUR METHODOLOGY Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a modern language teaching approach that puts emphasis on teaching languages holistically, based on meaningful communication and interaction. In CLT, languages are learned not only as skills but also as social behaviors, by using tasks that learners would also do in the real world. New kinds of activities, such as a role play, games, debates, and discussions, are used, along with more interactive social forms, where students are asked to share their opinions in pairs or groups.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

At this level student’s fluency is emergent and the focus is on preparing students to communicate using formal and informal language in a variety of situations. Students begin strengthening their strategic approach to learning and expand their knowledge and use of vocabulary, pronunciation strategies, and grammatical structures to strengthen their ability to communicate successfully.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Students can comprehend simplified informal and formal spoken and apply basic listening strategies.

• Students can describe basic needs in simple statements and questions in present, past, or future tenses, and use limited vocabulary.

• Students can participate in real life situations like at a restaurant, at a hotel, at a pharmacy, and asking for directions.

• Students can construct meaning from print materials and apply basic reading strategies.

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• Students can produce simple, well-organized paragraphs with sentences and some supporting detail forming the basic essay structure.

• Students will be able to identify and use correctly a variety of increasingly complex grammatical structures.

• Students can use correct spelling, vocabulary, and capitalization.

COURSE MATERIALS

TEXTBOOKS

American English File – 2 (Student Book)

ISBN: 9780194776165 American English File – 2 (Workbook)

ISBN: 9780194776400

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week Unit Topic Exercises

1 1A-1B-1C Where are you from?/Choices/Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy

Vowel sounds/The alphabet/-es, -s/Prepositions of place

2 2A-2B Right place, wrong person/The story behind the photo

Vacations/Prepositions of time & place

3 2C-3A One dark October evening/Plans & dreams

Verb phrases/Airports

4 3B-3C-4A Let’s meet again/What’s the word?/Parents & teenagers

Arrive in/Paraphrasing/Housework

5 4B-4C Fashion & shopping/Lost weekend Shopping/Adjectives -ed, -ing

6 5A-5B-5C No time for anything/Superlative cities/How much is too much?

Time expressions/Describing a town or city/Health & body

7 6A-6B-6C Are you a pessimist?/I’ll never forget you/The meaning of dreaming

Opposite verbs/Verb+back/Letters OW

8 7A-7B How to:/Being happy Verbs+infinitive/Verbs+gerund

9 7C-8A Learn language in a month!/I don’t know what to do!

Modifiers/Get

10 8B-8C If something can go wrong…/You must be mine

Confusing verbs/Adverbs of manner

11 9A-9B What would you do?/I’ve been afraid of it for years

Animals/Phobias & fears

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12 9C-10A Born to sing/The mothers of invention Biographies/Invent, discover

13 10B-10C Could do better/Mr. Indecisive School subjects/Noun formation

14 11A-11B-11C Bad losers/Are you a morning person?/What a coincidence!

Sports & movement/Phrasal verbs/Similarities

15 12A-12B Strange but true!/Gossip is good for you

Contractions/Double consonants

16 12C The American English File quiz Review

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

Midterm Exam: 50% Final Exam: 50%

Midterm Exam Midterm exams are conducted on the 6th week of the course. Written exams are standardized, and all written exams need to be collected by the end of exam day. Students are not allowed to keep their test papers. Final Exam Final exams are conducted on the 12th week of the course. Written exams are standardized, and all written exams need to be collected by the end of exam day. Students are not allowed to keep their test papers.

GRADING SCALE:

93 – 100 Excellent 85 - 92 Very Good 77 – 84 Good

70 – 76 Fair 65 – 70 Minimum Passing 64 and below – Failing

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IT IS SCHOOL POLICY THAT EVERY STUDENT MUST ATTEND CLASS WITH THE REQUIRED TEXTBOOK BY THE THIRD DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK. STUDENTS WHO REFUSE TO OBTAIN THE COURSE BOOK WILL BE SENT TO THE ACADEMIC COORDINATOR’S OFFICE.

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT HOMEWORK BE ASSIGNED AS AN INSTRUMENT TO ASSIST THE STUDENTS IN THE ACQUISITION OF THE MATERIAL BEING PRESENTED.

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AMERICAN ENGLISH FILE LEVEL 3 SYLLABUS (GENERAL AEF-3)

MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to promote excellence in the English language by providing opportunities for students to explore, discover, and learn English at all levels. Our goal is to help students develop the skills needed to communicate and interact effectively in their day-to-day lives.

OUR METHODOLOGY Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a modern language teaching approach that puts emphasis on teaching languages holistically, based on meaningful communication and interaction. In CLT, languages are learned not only as skills but also as social behaviors, by using tasks that learners would also do in the real world. New kinds of activities, such as a role play, games, debates, and discussions, are used, along with more interactive social forms, where students are asked to share their opinions in pairs or groups.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Students acquire the skills to be able to sustain conversations and instructions and communicate in a variety of typical situations. Students continue their progressive study of grammatical structures and begin using higher level approaches to read and listen. Students begin fine-tuning their writing skills, and develop further skills in vocabulary expansion, in addition to furthering their speaking and pronunciation abilities and broaden their grammatical structures.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Interpret conversations and listen to formal and informal texts.

• Apply listening strategies.

• Students can engage in conversations beyond survival needs.

• Able to ask and answer questions give their opinion on a topic.

• Can give two-minute talks.

• Able to construct meaning from print materials.

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• Make predictions about texts.

• Ability to summarize texts.

• Can identify main ideas and details.

• Can produce write essays, blog posts, articles, and biographies on personal topics.

• Use with correct spelling, punctuation, and structured grammar in their writing.

• Students will be able to identify and use correctly a variety of targeted complex grammatical structures.

• Can use vocabulary, phrasal verbs, and phrases and can collocate verbs

COURSE MATERIALS

TEXTBOOKS

American English File – 3 (Student Book)

ISBN: 9780194776172 American English File – 3 (Workbook)

ISBN: 0194776417

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week Unit Topic Exercises

1 1A-1B Mood food/ Family Life Family & adjectives of personality

2 2A-2B Spend or save/Changing lives Money, letter O /Strong adjectives

3 3A-3B Spend or save?/Changing lives Transportation/Collocations

4 4A-4B Race across Miami/Stereotypes -ed, -ing adjectives/Phone language

5 5A-5B Failure & Success/Modern manners Sports/Relationships

6 PE #3 Old friends

7 6A Shot on location Movies

8 6B Judging by appearances The body

9 7A Extraordinary school for boys Education

10 7B Ideal home Houses

11 8A Sell & tell Shopping/making nouns

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Week Unit Topic Exercises

12 8B What’s the right job for you Work

13 9A Lucky encounters Making adjectives & adverbs

14 9B-10A Too much information/Modern icons Electronic devices/Compound nouns

15 10B Two crime stories Intonations

16 Review & Check

Final exam

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

Midterm Exam: 50% Final Exam: 50%

Midterm Exam Midterm exams are conducted on the 6th week of the course. Written exams are standardized, and all written exams need to be collected by the end of exam day. Students are not allowed to keep their test papers. Final Exam Final exams are conducted on the 12th week of the course. Written exams are standardized, and all written exams need to be collected by the end of exam day. Students are not allowed to keep their test papers.

GRADING SCALE:

93 – 100 Excellent 85 - 92 Very Good 77 – 84 Good

70 – 76 Fair 65 – 70 Minimum Passing 64 and below – Failing

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IT IS SCHOOL POLICY THAT EVERY STUDENT MUST ATTEND CLASS WITH THE REQUIRED TEXTBOOK BY THE THIRD DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK. STUDENTS WHO REFUSE TO OBTAIN THE COURSE BOOK WILL BE SENT TO THE ACADEMIC COORDINATOR’S OFFICE.

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT HOMEWORK BE ASSIGNED AS AN INSTRUMENT TO ASSIST THE STUDENTS IN THE ACQUISITION OF THE MATERIAL BEING PRESENTED.

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AMERICAN ENGLISH FILE LEVEL 4 SYLLABUS (GENERAL AEF-4)

MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to promote excellence in the English language by providing opportunities for students to explore, discover, and learn English at all levels. Our goal is to help students develop the skills needed to communicate and interact effectively in their day-to-day lives.

OUR METHODOLOGY Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a modern language teaching approach that puts emphasis on teaching languages holistically, based on meaningful communication and interaction. In CLT, languages are learned not only as skills but also as social behaviors, by using tasks that learners would also do in the real world. New kinds of activities, such as a role play, games, debates, and discussions, are used, along with more interactive social forms, where students are asked to share their opinions in pairs or groups.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Students practice using different tenses together. New words are added to vocabulary by adding prefixes and suffixes. New vocabulary is put into practice with emphasis on pronouncing new words and sounds clearly.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Able to construct sentences together using different combined tenses.

• Apply listening strategies.

• Students can engage in conversations beyond survival needs.

• Able to ask and answer questions give their opinion on a topic.

• Can give two-minute talks.

• New vocabulary is put into practice with emphasis on pronouncing new words and sounds clearly.

• Can produce write essays, blog posts, articles, and biographies on personal topics.

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• Use with correct spelling, punctuation, and structured grammar in writing.

• Students will be able to identify and use correctly a variety of targeted complex grammatical structures.

COURSE MATERIALS

TEXTBOOKS

American English File – 4 (Student Book)

ISBN: 0194776182 American English File – 4 (Workbook)

ISBN: 0194776425

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week Unit Topic Exercises

1 1A-1B Questions & answers/ Do you believe in it?

Friendly intonation/ Compound adjectives

2 2A Call the doctor Illnesses & injuries

3 2B-3A Older & wiser?/Truth about air travel Clothes & fashion/Air travel

4 3B Incredibly short stories Adverbial phrases

5 4A-4B Eco-guilt/Are you a risk taker? The environment, the weather/Vowel sounds

6 5A The survivors’ club Feelings

7 5B It drives me crazy! Expressing feelings with verbs

8 6A-6B Music & emotion/Sleeping beauty Music/Sleeping

9 MIDTERM MIDTERM MIDTERM

10 7A-7B Don’t argue/Actors acting Weak form of have/Silent letters

11 8A Beat the robbers, and the burglars The letter U

12 8B Breaking news The media

13 9A Truth & lies Advertising & business

14 9B Megacities Prefixes & suffixes

15 10A-10B The dark side of the moon/The power of words

Science/Word pairs

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Week Unit Topic Exercises

16 FINAL EXAM REVIEW

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

Midterm Exam: 50% Final Exam: 50%

Midterm Exam Midterm exams are conducted on the 6th week of the course. Written exams are standardized, and all written exams need to be collected by the end of exam day. Students are not allowed to keep their test papers. Final Exam Final exams are conducted on the 12th week of the course. Written exams are standardized, and all written exams need to be collected by the end of exam day. Students are not allowed to keep their test papers.

GRADING SCALE:

93 – 100 Excellent 85 - 92 Very Good 77 – 84 Good

70 – 76 Fair 65 – 70 Minimum Passing 64 and below – Failing

IT IS SCHOOL POLICY THAT EVERY STUDENT MUST ATTEND CLASS WITH THE REQUIRED TEXTBOOK BY THE THIRD DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK. STUDENTS WHO REFUSE TO OBTAIN THE COURSE BOOK WILL BE SENT TO THE ACADEMIC COORDINATOR’S OFFICE.

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT HOMEWORK BE ASSIGNED AS AN INSTRUMENT TO ASSIST THE STUDENTS IN THE ACQUISITION OF THE MATERIAL BEING PRESENTED.

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AMERICAN ENGLISH FILE LEVEL 5 SYLLABUS (GENERAL AEF-5)

MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to promote excellence in the English language by providing opportunities for students to explore, discover, and learn English at all levels. Our goal is to help students develop the skills needed to communicate and interact effectively in their day-to-day lives.

OUR METHODOLOGY Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a modern language teaching approach that puts emphasis on teaching languages holistically, based on meaningful communication and interaction. In CLT, languages are learned not only as skills but also as social behaviors, by using tasks that learners would also do in the real world. New kinds of activities, such as a role play, games, debates, and discussions, are used, along with more interactive social forms, where students are asked to share their opinions in pairs or groups.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Using natural conversation skills, students use a wide range of structures to express different concepts. Vocabulary is enriched by focusing on idioms and synonyms. Student are taught to use the appropriate word depending on the situation. Pronunciation of difficult sounds and natural rhythm and intonation in conversation are emphasized.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Able to construct sentences together using different combined tenses.

• Students can engage in conversations beyond survival needs.

• Able to ask and answer questions give their opinion on a topic.

• Vocabulary is enriched by focusing on idioms and synonyms.

• New vocabulary is put into practice with emphasis on pronouncing new words and sounds clearly.

• Vocabulary is enriched by focusing on idioms and synonyms.

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• Students will be able to identify and use correctly a variety of targeted complex grammatical structures.

COURSE MATERIALS

TEXTBOOKS

American English File – 5 (Student Book)

ISBN: 9780194776196 American English File – 5 (Workbook)

ISBN: 9780194776431

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week Unit Topic Exercises

1 1A-1B What motivates you?/ Who am I? Work/Personality & family

2 2A-2B Whose language is it?/Once upon a time

Language terminology/Abstract nouns

3 3A Don’t get mad, get even! Phrases with get

4 3B History goes to the movies Stress in word families

5 4A-4B Breaking the silence/Lost in translation Deduction/Describing books

6 5A Are there 31 hours in a day? Time

7 5B Do you have affluenza? Money

8 6A-6B Help yourself/Can't live without it Compound adjectives/Phone language

9 MIDTERM MIDTERM

10 7A-7B Who’s in control?/Just any old bed? Prefixes/Place & movement

11 8A Trick or treatment? Health & medicine

12 8B A moving experience Homophones

13 9A Pets & pests The natural world

14 9B Recipe for disaster Preparing food

15 10A-10B The promised land?/Sports on trial Cleft sentences/Homographs

16 FINAL EXAM FINAL EXAM

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EVALUATION CRITERIA:

Midterm Exam: 50% Final Exam: 50%

Midterm Exam Midterm exams are conducted on the 6th week of the course. Written exams are standardized, and all written exams need to be collected by the end of exam day. Students are not allowed to keep their test papers. Final Exam Final exams are conducted on the 12th week of the course. Written exams are standardized, and all written exams need to be collected by the end of exam day. Students are not allowed to keep their test papers.

GRADING SCALE:

93 – 100 Excellent 85 - 92 Very Good 77 – 84 Good

70 – 76 Fair 70 Minimum Passing 69 and below – Failing

*IT IS SCHOOL POLICY THAT EVERY STUDENT MUST ATTEND CLASS WITH THE REQUIRED TEXTBOOK BY THE THIRD DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK. STUDENTS WHO REFUSE TO OBTAIN THE COURSE BOOK WILL BE SENT TO THE ACADEMIC COORDINATOR’S OFFICE.

*IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT HOMEWORK BE ASSIGNED AS AN INSTRUMENT TO ASSIST THE STUDENTS IN THE ACQUISITION OF THE MATERIAL BEING PRESENTED.