HCW 323


HCW 323 Inglés Avanzado I (Paralelo 5) | Advanced English I
1st Semester 2012  |  Mondays and Fridays, 9:45-11:15 a.m., Room B 103
Instructor: Sarah Purdy  |  email: sarahjpurdy@gmail.com

Requirements:          
• Homework, Quizzes, Attendance/Participation, Language Lab, Progress Tests: 20% 
• Final Written Exam: 20%  
• Final Oral Exam: 60%

Book: English Unlimited A2 Elementary Coursebook (available in the library)
Language Lab: DCSC, subterráneo, building P, rooms 6 and 7, Monday-Friday, 3:40-8:30 p.m.

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LANGUAGE LAB – TED TALKS: http://www.ted.com/talks
  • Watch and respond to 8  TED Talks of at least 3 minutes each.
  • Submit your completed worksheets electronically as an attachment to sarahjpurdy@gmail.com.
  • Four responses are due by June 29 and four responses are due by July 25.
  • Please combine all your worksheets into a single document to send by email. 

- Ver y responder a 8 TED Talks de duración de al menos 3 minutos cada uno
- Entregar las respuestas electrónicamente por email en un archivo Word  
  (con 4 respuestas a 4 TED Talks en 1 Word Document)
- Redactar 4 respuestas para el 29 de Junio y 4 respuestas para el 25 de Julio
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HOMEWORK 4 is due in class at the beginning of class on Friday, July 6, 2012.

Unit 7 Video for Homework 3: Working from Home


 Unit 8 Video for Homework 4: Families


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HOMEWORK 3 is due in class at the beginning of class on Friday, June 15, 2012.

Unit 6 Video for Homework 3: Food Around the World


Unit 7 Video for Homework 3: Working from Home

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HOMEWORK 2 is due in class at the beginning of class on Monday, May 28, 2012.

Unit 5 Video for Homework 2: Living Space

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HOMEWORK 1 is due at the beginning of class on Friday, May 4, 2012.

Unit 4 Video for Homework 1: Technology Firsts

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PRELIMINARY CLASS SCHEDULE (subject to change)

9 April                     Introductions, speaking practice
13 April                   English Unlimited (EU) 4.1

16 April                  EU 4.1-4.2
20 April                  EU 4.2-4.3                               

23 April                  EU 4.3-4.4                                Quiz
27 April                  EU 4.4, 4.1-4.4 review      

30 April                   NO CLASS
4 May                       EU 5.1-5.2                                Homework due

7 May                       EU 5.2-5.3                                Progress Test
11 May                    EU 5.3   

14 May                    EU 5.3-5.4 
18 May                    EU 5.4, 5.1-5.4 review, 6.1    Quiz

21 May                    NO CLASS
25 May                    EU 6.1-6.2

28 May                    EU 6.2-6.3                               Homework due                             
1 June                      EU 6.3-6.4                               

4 June                      EU 6.1-6.4 review, 7.1       Progress Test
8 June                      EU 7.1                               

11 June                   EU 7.1-7.2
15 June                   EU 7.2-7.3                                Homework Due

18 June                   EU 7.3-7.4                                        Quiz
22 June                  EU 7.4, 7.1-7.4 review

25 June                    NO CLASS
29 June                    NO CLASS                     

2 July                        NO CLASS
5 July                       MAKE-UP SESSIONS: 9-10 and 11-12, SALA C-235
6 July                        EU 8.1-8.2                                 Homework due

9 July                        EU 8.2-8.3
13 July                     EU 8.4-8.4, Final Exam Review

16 July                    NO CLASS
20 July                    FINAL WRITTEN EXAM

23 July                    FINAL ORAL EXAM
27 July                    Final class session/review
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COURSE GOALS AND CONTENT

Cambridge English Unlimited A2 Elementary Units 4-8
Unit 4: Changes
§  Goals: Talk about past events, first times, trips, important life events
§  Target activity: Talk about an important life event
§  Grammar: Singular, plural, past simple
§  Vocabulary: Past time, trips, experiences
§  Keyword: Have
§  Pronunciation and spelling: Sentence stress, th
§  Explore Writing: Personal letter

Unit 5: Your Space
§  Goals: Talk about cities, neighborhoods, and homes; find information in advertisements for rooms
§  Target Activity: Rent a room
§  Grammar: There is, there are
§  Vocabulary: Identifying and describing places, prepositions of place, items in the home, advertisements for rooms
§  Keyword: On
§  Pronunciation and spelling: Sentence stress, final e
§  Explore Speaking: Show interest in a conversation

Unit 6: What would you like?
§  Goals: Buy things in shops, order a meal, talk about shopping, food, preferences, and reasons for preferences
§  Target Activity: Order a meal
§  Grammar: Countable and uncountable nouns
§  Vocabulary: Shops, shopping, buying things, food, ordering food, preferences and reasons for them
§  Keywords: This, that, these, those
§  Pronunciation and spelling: Sentence stress, ou
§  Explore Writing: Write short, practical requests and reminders; and, but

Unit 7: Work-Life Balance
§  Goals: Talk about work and studies, describe present activities, say why you can’t do things
§  Target Activity: Explain what you do
§  Grammar: Present progressive
§  Vocabulary: Work and study, spend, saying you’re busy
§  Keyword: Of
§  Pronunciation and spelling: schwa sound, c
§  Explore Speaking: Say you’re not sure about facts and numbers

Unit 8: What’s she like?  
§  Goals: Talk about your family; describe relationships and people’s personality and appearance
§  Target Activity: Describe someone you admire
§  Grammar: Have got
§  Vocabulary: family, personality, appearance, relationships
§  Keyword: Like
§  Pronunciation and spelling: schwa sound, ee, ea, ie
§  Explore Writing: Write a web posting giving an opinion; so

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