Intermediate/Advanced Pronunciation
of American English


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Tentative Schedule and Homework
Fall 2000

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November 2000

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

Oct. 30

  • Listening practice
  • Review Lessons 8
  • Begin Lesson 9: Rising Intonation

Homework

  • Review Lessons 7 and 8
  • Preview Lesson 9
  • Prepare for your conversation partner meeting
  • Work on your article; re-submit Wednesday if I asked you to 

1

Homework

3

  • Your articles
  • Listening practice
  • Lesson 9: Rising Intonation in Y/N questions

Homework

  • Prepare for Conversation Partner Assignment 3
  • Quiz Monday on Lesson 9
  • Complete the dialogs on page 81
  • Preview Lesson 10
  • Study for a test next Friday on Lessons 7 through 10

6

Lesson 10: Combination Intonation Patterns

Homework:

8

Debrief conversation partner meetings

Lesson 10: Combination Intonation Patterns

Homework:

  • Study for the test!

10

Test on Lessons 7, 8, 9 and 10

13

Listening/Useful phrases

Lesson 11

Homework:

  • Practice saying the words on the top of 93 (part 1)
  • Have a conversation with the four phrases we practiced at the beginning of class

15

 Lesson 11

17

 Lesson 11

Give out conversation partner assignment 4

Homework:

  • Practice Lesson 11!

20

Lesson 11

Ordinal Numbers

Homework:

  • Quiz Wednesday on Lesson 11: TIU, t, s and assigned words on the board
  • Look up and practice saying and understanding the "Thanksgiving" words I put on the board
  • Practice saying the ordinal numbers

 

22

Quiz

Lesson 11

Homework:

  • Conversation partner assignment
  • Review Lesson 11
  • Make a list of ten Japanese words of English origin, for example, rippu kurimu.

24 No class/Thanksgiving Friday

27

Lesson 12

Homework:

  • Last conversation partner assignment due Wednesday
  • Read, study, practice Lessons 12 and 13

29

Lessons 12 and 13

Practice for final

Homework:

  • Prepare for the final
  • Practice Lessons 12 and 13
  • BY WED., send or give me three suggestions for conversation topics for small groups for the final: not too general; related to your experience in the U. S.

 Dec. 1

Japanese words of English origin: dialog

Final Exam information

Course evaluations

Homework:

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December 2000

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

4

9:00 and 9:30 Final exam in small groups

6

9:00 and 9:30 Final exam in small groups

8

Breakfast and music!

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September 2000

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

August 28

 

August 30

  • Most commonly-used words and phrases
  • Course introduction
  • Terms
  • /f/
  • Conversation partner information

For Friday

  • Practice TIU exercises for /f/
  • Learn the terms we covered

1

Quiz on terms

Word of the day: almost

Review and practice /f/

Review Chapter 2: Word stress

Syllabus

For Wednesday

  • Practice for quiz on /f/
  • Review chapter 2
  • Review or learn the IPA symbols
  • Preview Chapter 6

4 No class/Labor Day

6

  • Warm-up: "Today I'll ... (first, ..., finally)
  • Daily word: Harvest Festival
  • Quiz on /f/
  • Return quiz
  • Chapter 6: sentence stress

For Friday

  • Do and practice all exercises on pages 45 and 46

8

11

  • Daily word: excellent
  • Chapter 6: sentence stress
  • Reminder: Tapes

For Wednesday

  • Study, learn and practice everything on pages 45 - 48
  • Complete your three sentences and practice them. Be prepared to say them in class.

13

  • How to ask for help with pronunciation: "How do you pronounce this word?" etc.
  • "Three sentences"
  • Chapter 6: sentence stress

For Friday

  • Review and practice Chapter 6

15

 

  • Phrase of the day
  • International Phonetic Alphabet
  • Finish Chapter 6: Sentence Stress

For Monday

  • Phonetic words and phrases exercise

18

  • Phrase of the day
  • Chapter 7: Sentence stress, linking, and blending
  • Conversation partners: first assignment due 9/27

20

  • Test One: on everything we've covered so far

22

For Monday

  • Practice pp. 55, 56 and 57
  • Conversation partner assignment

25

 

  • Chapter 7: Sentence stress, linking, and blending

For Wednesday

27

  • Chapter 7: Sentence stress, linking, and blending
  • IPA and dictionary use
  • Conversation partner assignment

 For Friday

Top of page 58 (4. Speaking)
  • Match the parts of the proverbs
  • Think about the meaning
  • Practice saying them
  • Is there a Japanese equivalent?

29

Proverbs (Chapter 7: Sentence stress, linking, and blending)

For Monday

  • Memorize and be able to correctly say the proverbs on page 58

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October 2000

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

2

  • "Can" and "can't"
  • Quiz on proverbs
  • Chapter 7: Sentence stress, linking, and blending

For Wednesday

  • Practice Chapter 7

4

  • Chapter 7: Sentence stress, linking, and blending
  • Phrasal verbs

 

For Friday

  • Memorize the two-word verbs taught in class

6

  • Quiz on the two-word verbs taught Wednesday
  • Chapter 7: Two-word verbs, sentence stress, linking, and blending

For Monday OR Wednesday

  • Prepare a 5-minute "story" of an experience in the U. S. (graded presentation)
  • Prepare/practice page 1. on page 60

9

11

For Friday

  • Pages 55 - 62, Lesson 7: Read the explanations carefully and practice saying all the exercises! Spend at least 1 1/2 hours. I will ask you to say some of the phrases and sentences aloud.

13

 

  • Lesson 7: Two-word verbs, sentence stress, linking, and blending

For Monday

16

  • Review Lesson 7
  • Lesson 8: Rising/Falling Intonation

 

For Wednesday

  • Second conversation partner assignment due Wednesday
  • Photocopy a paragraph from a newspaper, text, story, novel, CD cover, or such AND mark ALL the pronunciation we have learned. Practice reading. Bring the marked-up copy to class with your name on the top.  

18

  • Conversation partner de-brief
  • Review of "can"
  • Lesson 8: Rising/Falling Intonation

For Monday

  • Study for a quiz on all of Lesson 7 and on "can" and "can't" (review your notes from a few weeks ago)
  • Begin to study Lesson 8

20 No class/Mid-semester Day

 

23

Lesson 8: Rising/Falling Intonation

25

Lesson 8: Rising/Falling Intonation

For Friday

  • Study and practice all of Lesson 8: Rising/Falling Intonation

27

Lesson 8: Rising/Falling Intonation

Class instructions for today

For Monday

  • Study and practice all of Lesson 8: Rising/Falling Intonation. Review Lesson 7

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