Intermediate
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June 2000 Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday May 28 No class - Memorial Day May 29 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up Finish Lesson One Homework: Review and practice saying all of Lesson One May 31 Pop quiz Begin Lesson 2: /I/ Homework: Review and practice saying pages viii through 10 June 1 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up Lesson 2 Using dictionaries Homework: Review and practice saying pages viii through 15 Do page 13: "Spelling" 4 Lessons 2 and 3 Homework: Review and practice saying pages viii through the top of 17: quiz 5 Quiz, listening and speaking: pp. viii - top 17 Lesson 3: Two-syllable patterns Homework: Practice Lesson Three 7 Useful phrases: your requests Lesson 3: Two-syllable patterns Homework: Practice Lesson Three 8 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up Lesson 3: Two-syllable patterns   Homework: Practice Lesson Three 11 Warm-up: wh questions (lip rounding and stress) Syllable division Numbers: saying and understanding /f/ and /v/ Homework: Using the handout from class today with International Phonetic Alphabet symbols, look up the example words and record in column two the sound symbol YOUR dictionary uses Review Lesson 3 12 /b/ and /v/, p. 142 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up Finish Lesson 3: Two-syllable patterns Homework: Practice with a partner pages 142, 22 and 23 Review pages viii - 23 14   Listening practice/dictation and warm-up (greetings; course names) Lesson 5: Sentence stress, unstress and rhythm Homework: Practice and learn pages 35 - 39 15 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up Lesson 5: Sentence stress, unstress and rhythm Homework: Choose something to read (about a paragraph or about 1-minutes worth of something: fiction, poem, etc.) and prepare and practice using a dictionary and everything you've learned in pronunciation class Study Lesson 5 and do pages 39 and 40 18   Reading English aloud Lesson 5: Sentence stress, unstress and rhythm Homework: Study Lesson 5: quiz on Lesson 5 through the top of page 41 19 Quiz on Lesson 5 through the top of page 41 Lesson 5: Sentence stress, unstress and rhythm Homework: Write five things you can do and five things you can't do. Write one question to ask me: "Can you . . . ?" Practice saying the sentences. 21 "can" and "can't" Lesson 6: Sentence stress, rhythm groups, and linking 22 Practice for the final Lesson 6: Sentence stress, rhythm groups, and linking Homework: Review pages viii - 57 Practice page 57 25 English loan words in Japanese Lesson 6: Sentence stress, rhythm groups, and linking Homework: Practice the dialog with English loan words Do page 58, 3. (underline linking) Practice Lesson 6 26 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up Review and Practice for the final Song Homework: Prepare for the final 28 Final exam - oral (listening and discussion) Evaluation form Groups at: 8:30 8:55 9:20 9:45 29 Tongue twisters Evaluations   You're done!

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May 2001 Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday 21 Pages vii - ix, "Guide to Symbols and Figures" Homework: Study and practice (say) the pages above and learn the symbol equivalents of the sounds we practiced in class 22 Quiz Go over the syllabus Sound symbols on the bottom of page ix Lesson 1, page 1 Homework: Study and practice (say) pages vii - ix and 1 and 2 in Chapter 1 Learn the symbol equivalents of the sounds we practiced in class 23 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up International Phonetic Alphabet Lesson One: pages 1 and 2 Homework: Study and practice (say) pages vii - ix and pages 1 and 2 in Chapter 1 Learn the symbol equivalents of the sounds we practiced in class Oral quiz on what we've covered so far: on Friday 24 Oral quiz Lesson One continued Links to pronunciation websites Homework: Read, study and DO page 5 Study and practice (say) pages vii - ix and pages 1 through 6

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