Mt. San Antonio College Level 6
ESL Department
Spring 2017
February 27-June 16, 2017
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Course: ESL Level 6
Instructor: Esther S. Lee
Class Days: Monday-Friday
Class Time: 8:00-11:30 AM
Office Hour: 7:30-8:00 AM in 40-140
Location: Building 40 Room 140
E-mail:
Voicemail (Phone): 909-274-7500, extension 3832
Remind: @mtsacs or 81010
Website: mtsacesllevel6.weebly.com
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Course Description: This course is designed to help students improve their English for preparation for vocational or academic advancements. Students will focus on improving their English grammar, speaking, listening, vocabulary, pronunciation, and writing skills in communicative, meaningful, and content-oriented lessons. Students will be encouraged to participate in individual and group projects, presentations, and discussions.
Course Measurable Objectives:
1. Interpret most of the language used in electronic media of general nature.
2. Interpret a variety of unfamiliar topics presented in different media, such as movies, videos,
radio programs, newspapers, lectures and Internet.
3. Distinguish formal from informal register, mode, and tone in lectures and dialogues.
4. Engage in extended conversations on familiar and unfamiliar topics for a variety of purposes.
5. Clarify meaning through strategies such as paraphrasing when misunderstanding occurs.
6. Scan familiar and unfamiliar general and academic texts and identify and recall the main
ideas.
7. Infer meaning from contextual clues of written texts and make predictions about succeeding
passages.
8. Identify the author’s theme, purpose, point of view and tone in readings.
9. Write sentences using simple, complex, compound and compound-complex sentence
patterns.
10. Paraphrase and summarize passages from authentic and academic materials.
11. Utilize a writing process approach to write a composition including introduction, body and
conclusion.
12. Produce vocabulary including appropriate idiomatic terms relevant to academic and social
situations.
13. Use perfect tenses, auxiliary verbs, noun clauses and conditionals in conversation, public
speaking and writing.
14. Use conjunctive adverbs, discourse connectors, transition words and adverbial clauses in
conversation, public speaking and writing.
15. Obtain information about jobs and careers by utilizing Internet search features.
16. Distinguish credibility of texts from a variety of sources.
17. Synthesize and deliver information using presentation software.
Tentative Daily Routines:
8:00-8:45 Grammar Lessons
8:45-9:30 Reading/Vocabulary Comprehension
9:30-9:50 Break
9:50-10:45 Speaking Activities
10:45-11:20 Writing Activities
We will be focusing on the skills above by utilizing FOG 5 and supplemental materials. Additionally, we will be visiting the LLC, ESL Library, and the computer lab to enhance the learning experience.
Textbook and Materials:
1. Required textbook:
Maurer, Jay. (2012). Focus on Grammar 5, 4th Edition. New York: Pearson.
2. Notebook
3. Smart phone or tablet
4. 3-ring binder
5. A pen or pencil
6. A dictionary or translator (optional)
Student Responsibilities:
1. Attend class on a regular basis. Inform the teacher if you are going to be absent, late, or have to leave early. Remember the allowed absences for this class are 33 hours. If you miss more than 33 hours (9.5 days), you will lose priority registration. If you miss more than 50 hours (14.5 days), you may be dropped from this class.
2. Come to class and leave class on time. Return from breaks on time.
3. Turn your cell phones off or leave them on vibrate.
4. Only use cell phones/tablets for English learning in class.
5. Be kind and respectful to your instructor and classmates.
6. Speak Only English in class.
7. Participate in class and ask many questions.
8. Think critically.
9. Be successful independent learners.
10. Complete assignments on time.
11. Work hard and have fun!
Passing Level 6:
*Have good attendance and participate actively
*Participate in individual and group projects
*Turn in 3 in-class writing samples for the ESL department
*Participate in individual and group presentations
*Pass class quizzes and tests with a score of 70% or higher
*Complete homework and class assignments
*Pass the EL Civics Project
*Pass the ESL department’s midterm and final with scores of 70 or higher
Pass: 70% to 100%
No Pass: 69% or lower
Measurable Assessment
To successfully pass this course, all students must participate in a Career Path Project. Part 1 takes place in week 12 when students must correctly complete an online career chart that compares three jobs, answer questions about the jobs, and receive a grade of 70% or higher. At the end of the semester, students must give an individual PowerPoint presentation and use multiple resources to present research on a specific career path. Students must present content in a clear and creative manner as they use appropriate vocabulary and grammar with proper delivery and pronunciation.
Oral Evaluations/Speaking Assessment
Students’ first oral presentations will be a 10-minute co-presentation with classmates. Students will research collocations, phrases, word forms, proverbs, and idioms. To creatively teach the vocabulary words, students can use conversation role-plays, PowerPoint, pictures, magazine clippings, or other media.
Students’ second oral presentations will be an individual 10-minute PowerPoint presentation about a career path. It must be on a career that is interesting to the student. They must explain the responsibilities, education needed, schools for training, the salary range, employment opportunities, and how people feel about this type of work. They must also interview a person with this job and include their responses in their presentation. Three different sources (interview, websites, books, magazines) must be added to the content of the presentation.
Spring 2017 Basic Skills SLO Project: Study Plan for Academic and Career Advancement
This semester, all students will need to indicate their English language goal from a teacher-generated list. This goal will be recorded in their ESL Study Plan and self-evaluated on their progress throughout the semester. At the end of Spring 2017, students will indicate that they achieved the semester study goal which they set for themselves.
Available Support Services:
● ESL Registration Counter- Building 66
● Computer Lab- Building 66 Room 169
● Career Guidance and Counselors- Building 66
● Dr. John Pellitteri, ESL Counselor
● Michael Ngo, ESL Counselor
● Vanessa Garcia, ESL Counselor
● Cindy Bonilla, ESL Counselor
● Bertha Rodriguez, ESL Student Specialist
● ESL Library- Building 66, Room 130
● Mt. SAC Library Building
● Language Learning Center
● Parking Permits- Building 4, $50 per semester
Accommodation or Other Learning Needs
In addition to our counselors, there are other services available to students on campus to help you succeed in class. These services are coordinated in Disabled Student Programs & Services. If you have questions, please ask me.
Contact information for Disabled Student Programs & Services are Student Services Center, Building 9B (909) 274-4290, Video Phone (909) 895-6634, .
Mission, Vision, and Outcomes:
MT. SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of Mt. San Antonio College is to support all students in achieving their educational goals in an environment of academic excellence. Specifically, the College is committed to providing quality education, services, and workforce training so that students become productive members of a diverse, sustainable, global society. The College pledges to prepare students for lifelong learning through the mastery of basic skills, the achievement of associate degrees and certificates, and the completion of career and transfer pathways. The College will carry out this commitment by providing an engaging and supportive teaching and learning environment for students of diverse origins, experiences, needs, abilities, and goals. The College is dedicated to serving our community through improving economic achievement, advancing civic engagement, enhancing personal well-being, promoting critical thinking, and enriching aesthetic and cultural experiences.
SCHOOL OF CONTINUING EDUCATION VISION AND INSTITUTIONAL LEVEL OUTCOMES (ILOs)
Institutional Level Outcomes are statements about the knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes that students are expected to develop as a result of their overall experiences with any aspect of the college, including courses, programs, departments, and services.
Communication
Students effectively communicate with and respond to varied audiences in written, spoken or signed, and artistic forms.
· Comprehend, analyze, and respond appropriately to oral, written, and visual information
· Read and understand the content and purpose of written material
· Speak or sign to increase knowledge, foster understanding, or promote change
· Develop and express ideas in writing with clarity and fluency
Critical Thinking
Students apply creative, computational, and analytical skills to identify and solve problems, analyze information, synthesize and evaluate ideas, and transform existing ideas into new forms
· Analyze content, meaning, and purpose from a variety of texts or materials
· Develop informed conclusions based upon the collection, examination, and synthesis of evidence
· Compute and analyze multiple representations of quantitative information and/or data, including graphical, formulaic, numerical, verbal, and visual
· Design, implement, and evaluate strategies to answer questions or achieve goals
Information and Technology Literacy
Students will use resources and technologies to locate, evaluate, synthesize, and communicate information in various formats.
· Locate, evaluate, and choose credible textual and other sources for information
· Interpret the social, legal, and ethical uses of information
· Research data and draw conclusions based on an analysis of that data
· Use technologies to communicate, solve problems, and complete tasks
Personal, Social, Civic, and Environmental Responsibility
Students demonstrate awareness and respect for personal, social, civic, and environmental responsibilities.
· Set, evaluate, and monitor academic, career, financial, and personal goals
· Interpret and manage physical and mental health needs
· Develop self-awareness in the areas of personal development, learning styles, and decision-making strategies
· Recognize and respect the beliefs, opinions, and values of other individuals and cultures
· Be informed about and participate in local, state, national, and global communities
· Evaluate environmental conservation and sustainability
Spring 2017 Tentative Weekly Schedule
WEEK / UNIT /NOTES
Week 1February 27-March 5 / FOG 16 & 17 Gerunds and Infinitives / Welcome!
Fac Welcome Back Meeting, 3/3 10-11:30
Week 2
March 6-12 / FOG 1-3 Verb tenses / CASAS Test #1 Wednesday 3/8
March 12-Daylight Saving-Spring forward
Week 3
March 13-19 / FOG 4 Auxiliaries, Modals of Necessity
FOG 21 Connectors / Writing Sample #1
Week 4
March 20-26 / FOG 5 Auxiliaries and Modals of Certainty / CASAS make-up
Fac In-service, 3/24 10-11:30
Week 5
March 27-April 2 / FOG 6 Definite and Indefinite Articles / Cesar Chavez Day, 3/31 No class
Week 6
April 3-9 / FOG 18 Parallel Structure: Gerunds and Infinitives / Fac Midterm WS, 4/7 9:30-11:30
Week 7
April 10-16 / FOG 6 Count and Non-count Nouns
FOG 12 & 13 Adjective Clauses / CASAS Test #2 Wednesday, 4/12
Oral Evaluations
AWE Testing, 4/13
Week 8
April 17-23 / FOG 7 Definite and Indefinite Articles / Midterm Wednesday, 4/19
CASAS make up
Prepare Progress Reports
Week 9
April 24-30 / FOG 8 & 9 Quantifiers & Modification of nouns / Progress Reports Due
ETS TOEFL Test, 4/29
Week 10
May 1-7 / FOG 10 and 11 Noun Clauses & Direct and Indirect Speech / Writing Sample #2
Matriculation Presentations
Week 11
May 8-14 / FOG 18 Adverbs
Week 12
May 15-21 / FOG 19 Adverb Clauses / ETS TOEFL Testing, 5/20
Week 13
May 22-28 / FOG 14 & 15 Passive Voice / El Civics: Career Path Presentations
CASAS # 3 Wednesday, 5/24
Week 14May 29-June 4 / FOG 22 & 23 Conditionals and the Subjunctive / El Civics: Career Path Presentations
CASAS make-up
Basic Skills SLO Vocabulary
Memorial Day, 5/29 No class
Week 15
June 5-11 / Begin Final Exam Review / Writing Sample #3
Oral Evaluations
Week 16
June 12-18 / Final Exam
Celebration J
/ Final Exam Wednesday, 6/14Celebration (Friday)
Progress reports (Friday)
Congratulations!!
Summer Session: June 22-August 2, 2017
Fall Session: August 28-December 17, 2017
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