Academic Listing Comprehension and Speaking
TIUA Spring 2002 J. E. Seibert

Final Examination
Listening and written parts: Friday, May 3, 2002
Speaking: Monday, May 6, 2002

The purpose of the final exam is to motivate you to review and remember what you have learned in this class.

The listening/written exam will be at the normal class time and will last about two hours.

The speaking exam will be in my office, 209. There will be three parts. The exam will be done in small groups chosen at random in class on May 1.

• Morning
  • 8:15: Group 1
  • 9:15 Group 2
  • 10:15 Group 3
  • 11:00 Group 4
• Afternoon
  • 12:45 Group 1
  • 1:30 Group 2
  • 2:15 Group 3
  • 3:00 Group 4

• 1. Read from House on Mango Street, 2 pages of your choice between pp. 29 and 110
• 2. Tell me about one geographic area of Japan (your hometown or a place you like); use the article rules in the "articles" handout, section 45-9 (approximately 1 minute)
• 3. Before Monday, agree as a group on one current newspaper article you will all read. You can use News for You or another paper. Each student must write and bring one good discussion question written on a piece of paper with your name on it. You will discuss the article using your questions.

Review these things!

The main ideas from presentations since the last quiz

Dictionary skills

• Finding words in the dictionary
• Finding the meanings of abbreviations
• Finding the meanings of phrasal (two-word) verbs and idioms
• Finding the meaning of words with more than one meaning
• Finding the number of syllables and the main and secondary stress
• Finding parts of speech
• Finding whether or not a word is countable or uncountable
• Finding which preposition is used with a word (for example, "interest in")

Grammar Chart Book

• Pages 7 through 18 (Verbs)
• Pages 26 and 27 (Subject-Verb Agreement)
• Pages 30 - 37 (Nouns and articles)
• Pages 56 - 60 (Passive)
• Pages A1 - A4 (Grammar terminology)
• Page A9 (Tag questions)

Quest

• Getting Started: pp. 2-6, 10-11
• Chapter One: bottom of p. 25, 27-30, 33(/th/), 35, 37, bottom of 38-39,
• Chapter Five: p. 166, 168 [I] and [i], 173, 178, 179

Pronunciation

• Phonetic (pronunciation) symbols: hearing and saying the sounds of English
• The three ways of pronouncing -s, -es, and -'s endings
• Syllable stress: hearing and saying words with the correct syllables stressed
• Sentence stress: the parts of speech that are stressed in English sentences/correctly saying sentences

The "yellow sheet" of phrases

• Section 1 (page 1)
• Section 4
• Section 5
• Section 8, the first 6 sentences
• Section 9