English VI / Pronunciation I** Summer 2003 ** J. E. Seibert
Final Procedure

Purposes of the final:

• To motivate you to review and remember what you learned
• To help me evaluate you and give you a grade
• To give you a chance to raise your grade!

Come to room 118 at your assigned time on Tuesday, July 1. Otherwise you are free. The final will last about 25 minutes.

• 12:30 Makoto, Hideaki, Takashi
• 1:00 Shunske, Remi, Mika
• 1:30 Asuka, Yukie
• 2:00 Yoshinobu, Mayuko, Hiroyuki
• 2:30 Tatsuya, Miki, Shinta

There will be three parts

• Listening:
  • I'll ask you some questions using sentences and words we've learned in this course. You'll answer the questions.
• Speaking:
  • You will tell me about your summer plans for about 1 minute. Include some interesting detail. Practice and prepare. Use everything we have learned. Review! Check all pronunciation with a dictionary and a native speaker! (I may ask you some questions about your plans, too.)
  • Your group will discuss one of these topics. Prepare together!
    • What are the most important differences you have experienced between Japanese society and American society?
    • What have been the two best experiences you have had so far in the United States? Why? What were some bad experiences? Why?
    • A topic of your choice. This means that your group can decide its own topic.
  • I'll give you some phrases and have you make a skit using the phrases.

Bring

• Your Longman dictionary and a bilingual dictionary
• A pencil and scratch paper
• A few brief notes, if you wish

How to study

• Review your notes from class.
• Review the "warm-ups" and other phrases we learned and practiced in class
• Review the travel phrases I gave you
• Review the IPA symbols
• Review the text: the Introduction (pages vii-ix) and Lessons 1, 2, 3, 5 and 14 (only the parts we did in class or as homework)