Blockbook engl 102 (fall 2014)

ENGL 102 (Language Structures and Drills I) 4 credits

Course Description This course is the first half of the Intermediate Language Structures and Drills sequence. It provides students with an overview of the English tense system in the active voice, and introduces them to basic patterns of sentence structure. It begins with a review of the simple and progressive tenses (present and past) and future forms with will and be going to, and then introduces the present perfect, present perfect progressive and past perfect forms. It also provides a review of direct question formation and simple noun phrase construction. Students are given practice in recognizing the basic clausal patterns of English, and expanding sentence skeletons with modifying adjectives and adverbials. Throughout the course, grammatical structures are presented through an active oral approach and reinforced through extensive drill practice, guided conversation exercises and daily written homework assignments. Prerequisites: None Goals and Performance Objectives Goal 1.0 To provide students with a systematic review of grammatical structures essential

for oral and written communication tasks at an intermediate level

1.1 Students should be able to demonstrate mastery of the English tense system (i.e. be able to comprehend and use actively in speech and writing all of the verb tenses outlined in the first four chapters of Azar’s Fundamentals of English Grammar, 3rd Edition). The following four tenses are not included at the intermediate level, but may be gradually introduced in the sequel course (ENGL 112), or postponed until the third semester (ENGL 211): future progressive, past perfect progressive, future perfect and future perfect progressive.

1.2 Students should be able to demonstrate fluency in the use of question words and

forms that occur in conversational English, and be able to apply these structures in their writing.

1.3 Students should be able to recognize the basic clausal patterns of English

sentences and be able to expand a basic sentence skeleton by adding optional modifying adjectives and adverbial phrases.

1.4 Students should be able to comprehend and construct complex sentences containing the following adverbial clauses:

1.4.1 present and past time clauses 1.4.2 future time clauses 1.4.3 future if-clauses

1.5 Students should be familiar with the following basic grammatical terminology:

1.5.1 the parts of speech (i.e. noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, article, pronoun, conjunction, demonstrative and interjection)

1.5.2 important syntactic terms (i.e. phrase, clause, main clause, dependent clause, time clause, simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence)

1.5.3 elements of clause structure (i.e. subject, verb, object, object of a preposition, complement and adverbial)

1.6 Students should be able to spell and pronounce correctly words with regular -s, -ing

and -ed endings. 1.7 Students should be able to apply basic rules of sentence structure, grammar and

mechanics to academic writing tasks at an elementary and intermediate level. These writing tasks will be presented in both the core grammar textbook, Fundamentals of English Grammar, and the core composition textbook, Introduction to Academic Writing: Level 3 (see ENGL 101 Writing I component).

Course Content Core Textbook: Betty Schrampfer Azar, Fundamentals of English Grammar, Third Edition (Chapters 1-5)

The English Tense System (Active Voice) Chapter 1 (Present Time) Chapter 2 (Past Time) Midterm Exam #1 (Chapters 1 & 2) Chapter 3 (Future Time) Chapter 4 (The Present Perfect and the Past Perfect) Midterm Exam #2 (Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 4)

Formation of Direct Questions (Yes/No, WH- and Tag Questions) Chapter 5 (Asking Questions) Final Exam (Comprehensive)

Additional Grammatical Topics (optional) Supplementary Notes: Parts of Speech, Simple Sentence Structure Supplementary Textbook: Azar/Hagan, Fundamentals of English Grammar (Workbook), Third Edition (Chapters 1-5)

Course Assessment

Continuous Assessment (60%) Midterm Exam #1 (Wednesday, October 22) 20% Midterm Exam #2 (Wednesday, December 3) 25% (HQAP) 4 – 6 Quizzes/Homework Assignments [10%] 15% Attendance and Participation [5%] ___________________________________________________________ 60% Final Assessment (40%) Final Exam (Comprehensive) 40% ___________________________________________________________ 40% TOTAL 100%

Assessment Tools In addition to homework and quizzes, which are an integral part of the continuous assessment of ENGL 102, written examinations will be used throughout the semester to assess student progress in the core textbook, Fundamentals of English Grammar, Third Edition (by Betty Schrampfer Azar).

Grammatical structures – Discrete grammatical points and overall competency in the principles of English sentence structure will be tested using the following diagnostic tools:

Fill in the blank questions (simple completion questions consisting of sentences from which grammatical items are removed) Cloze exercises (short texts or dialogues from which grammatical items or content information has been removed)

Sentence construction tasks (scrambled words or phrases are to be rearranged into grammatically correct sentences, sentences are to be reduced to their basic skeletons, sentences are to be expanded with modifying adjectives and adverbials, statements are to be converted into yes/no, WH- and tag questions)

Multiple-choice questions (simple completion questions consisting of sentences from which grammatical items are removed)

Editing Skills – The students’ ability to correct errors in grammar, usage and punctuation likely to occur in their own writing will be assessed using the following tools:

Error analysis questions (identifying and correcting errors in isolated sentences; these errors may focus on the target structures covered in the textbook as well as on miscellaneous errors common in student writing at this level)

Paragraph editing (identifying and correcting errors in a short, paragraph-length text; these errors may focus on grammatical structures, word usage or punctuation)

ENGL 102 Syllabus (Language Structures and Drills I)

WEEK 1

Aug 31 – Sept 4, 2014

Core Textbook: Fundamentals of English Grammar, 3rd Ed. (Betty Azar)

Introduction: Goals and Objectives, Course Outline

Chapter 1 (Present Time)

Sections 1-1, 1-2 (pp 1-8)

WEEK 2

Sept 7 – 11


Sections 1-3 to1-5 (pp 9-16)

WEEK 3

Sept 14 – 18


Sections 1-6 ,1-7 (pp 17-23)

WEEK 4

Sept 21 – 25*

Chapter 2 (Past Time)

Sections 2-1 to 2-6 (pp 24-32)

*Saudi National Day Holiday (Tues, Sept 23)

Sept 28 – Oct 9

EID AL-ADHA BREAK

(Sept 28 – Oct 9, 2014)

WEEK 5

Oct 12 – 16



Verb Tense Review (pp 42-47)

WEEK 6

Oct 19 – 23


Sections 2-10 , 2-11 (pp 48-54)

Midterm Exam #1 (Chapters 1 & 2)

(Wednesday, October 22)

WEEK 7

Oct 26 – 30

Chapter 3 (Future Time)


WEEK 8

Nov 2 – 6



WEEK 9

Nov 9 – 13


Section 3-10 (pp 76-82)

Chapter 4 (The Present Perfect and the Past Perfect)

Sections 4-1, 4-2 (pp 83-85) Introduction to Present Perfect

WEEK 10

Nov 16 – 20



WEEK 11

Nov 23 – 27


Sections 4-6 to 4-8 (pp 98-104)

WEEK 12

Nov 30 – Dec 4


Section 4-8 Review Exercises (pp 105-111)

Section 4-9 (pp 112-119)

Midterm Exam #2 (Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 4)

(Wednesday, December 3)

WEEK 13

Dec 7 – 11

Chapter 5 (Asking Questions)

Sections 5-1 to 5-7 (pp 120-133)

WEEK 14

Dec 14 – 18


Sections 5-8 to 5-14 (pp 133-148)

WEEK 15

Dec 21 – 25


Sections 5-15, 5-16 (pp 149-155)

WEEK 16

Dec 28 – Jan 1, 2015

Review Week

WEEKS 17, 18

Jan 4 – 15, 2015

FINAL EXAM PERIOD

Documents

Blockbook engl 102 (fall 2014)