Day 25

Class Today:

• Warm-up: What have you improved from this class? What would you like to still improve? 
• Ways to Continue studying English
• Compensation Strategies
• ICES

Day 23

Class Today:

• Warm-up: Which is more important, time or money?
• Discuss Assignment 4
• Office Hours
• Review Linking 
• Linking warm-up activity.
• Lets review the handout I gave you last class.
• Linking Ranking Activity
• Let's do this ranking activity. Be sure to focus on appropriate linking.
• Hot Seat (if time) 

Next Class: Review Intonation & Linking, trimming

Homework: Prepare dialogue and bring to next class.

Day 22

Class Today

Warm-up- Are you a type A or type B personality? 

Intonation

• Review
• Intonation Practice Activity

Linking

• Linking Handout
• Linking practice activity

Next Class: Review Intonation, Continue Linking

Homework: Explain a word from ML3. 

Day 20:

Class Today:

• Warm-up: Which season do you like best? Why?

• ML 3 Prep continued
• Share with a partner your potential ML3. Get feedback from them. 

• Continue Intonation
• Well Said

• EPI Practice (if time)

Homework: Prepare for Mini Lecture 3. Be sure to look at the assignment and rubric.

Next Class: Mini Lecture 3

Day 19

Class Today:

• Warm-up Discussion
• Are you an early bird or a night owl? Which one do you think is better? Why?

• Prepare for ML3 
• ML 3 Intonation/Focus Stress Handout
• Discuss ML3

• Start Intonation
• Well Said p. 123-

Next Class: Continue Intonation, Prep more for ML 3

Homework: Undergraduate Interview Assignment is due on Wednesday. Finish Handout as homework and bring to class.

Day 18

Class Today

• Continue Focus stress with this activity

Next Class: Review Focus stress,

Day 18: Review stress, focus words

Class Today:

• Review stress in longer words
• Pronunciation Pairs Activity
• -ate Prefix activity
• Start Focus words
• Well Said p. 109
• Introduce ML 3
• Youtube video.

Next Class: Continue focus, prep for ML3. 

Day 17

Class Today:

• Warm-up- Who is the happiest person you know? Describe him or her. 
• Review First 3 rules of word stress
• Next 3 rules
• Communicative Activity

Homework:

Next Class: Review stress in longer words,

Day 16

Class Today:

• Discussion: What would you LIKE to do over spring break?
• Review stress rules for shorter words
• Stress Review Handout
• Where is stress?
• unstressed vs stressed vowels
• What is stress?
• longer vowel
• pitch jump
• purer vowel
• Warm-up
• Listen to me read Well Said p. 69-70
• p. 72-74, Well Said
• Hot seat (if time)

Next Class: Continue stress in longer words

Homework:

• Reflection Assignment found on Moodle. 

Day 15

Class Today:

• If you could meet anyone dead or alive, who would it be and why?
• Review -d and -s endings
• Review short word stress
• Prep for ML2
• ML 2 Handout from previous class.
• Hot Seat  (if time)

Next Class: Mini-Lecture 2, EPI Practice (if time)

Homework:

• Sign up for ML2 Conference, here.
• Bring self-evaluation sheet to conference. Please watch presentation before the conference.

Day 14:

Class Today:

• Review compound nouns with activity
• Two syllable verbs with a prefix, nouns vs. verbs, two word verbs
• Well Said p. 62-64
• Acronym Activity

Next Class: Review ML 2, Prep for Mini lecture

Day 13

Class Today:

• SMART Goals
• Review Compound Nouns
• Stress in Numbers
• Well Said p. 61-62
• Graph Activity
• Stress in 2 syllable verbs with a prefix
• Well Said p. 62
• Stress in nouns,  nouns used as verbs, two-word verbs
• Well Said p. 63-65

Next Class: Review word level stress, Abbreviation/Symbol Stress, Practice describing a visual

Homework:
1. For practice, record yourself describing your chosen visual aid.
2. Prepare for ML 2 next Wednesday.

Day 12: Rhythm, Graphs

Class Today:

• Address mid-term feedback
• Speaking too fast
• Feel free to ask me to repeat something. 
• Textbook
• Repetition in class
• Necessary to start with
• Compound Noun Stress

Next Class:   Compound Adverb, Phrase, Number, Prefix, Verb/Noun Stress

Homework:

• Academic Journal 5 is due next Wednesday

Day 11

Class Today:

• Lightning Talk: Who has inspired you? 
• Review s and d endings to describe graphs and other visual aids.
• Begin focus words from Well Said p. 108-118
• Evaluate me! 

Next Class:  Review graphs, Continue focus words

Homework:
1. EPI Reflection & Academic Journal 3
2. Reflect on your visual aid. Is it appropriate for ML2?

Day 10

Class Today:

• /s/ endings communicative activity Well Said p. 44
• /d/ endings  Well Said p. 45-47
• Introduce ML 2

Next Class: Review /s/ and /d/ endings,

Homework:

• Bring a graph/figure you would like to explain for Mini-lecture 2
• Academic Word Journal
• EPI Reflection

Day 9

Class Today:

• Finish EPI
• Review voiceless and voiced
• Continue /s/ endings

Next Class: Review /s/ and /d/ endings

Homework: 
1. EPI reflection is due next Wednesday.

Day 8:

Class Today:

• Introduction to EPI
• Listen to this EPI Interview
• Introduction to EPI Handout
• Consonant Supplements 1 & 2
• /s/ ending
• Well Said p. 39-44
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Next Class:  Continue EPI, Consonants, /ed/ ending, Focus words

Homework: Bring phone to record your voice.

Day 6

Class Today:
Lighting Round: Why did you choose your field of study?
Vowel Review: Review vowels with fill in the empty boxes game.

• Key

Message Units: Review message units, start focus words. We will use this handout.

Next Class: Mini Lectures!!

Homework:
1. Choose a conference time. Remember conferences are part of your grade.
2. Finish homework assignment on Moodle.

Day 5

Class Today:
Warm-Up: What topic did you pick and why? Explain it to the rest of your group.
Vowels

• Continue vowels in Well Said 
• Review vowels with Pronunciation Journey game

Message Units

• Review Activity
• Finding focus words, Well Said p. 113-121

Lightning Round: Why did you choose to study in your field? (if time)

Next Class: Review vowels, message units, and prepare for ML1

Homework:

• Sign up for presentation day
• Sign up for conference day
• Submit Journal 1 on Moodle 

Day 4: Message Units, Vowels

Class Objectives:

• Further practice challenging English vowels
• Integrate Message Units into your spoken English.

Class Today:

• Lightning Activity- 
• Introduce ML1
• IPA Website
• Vowels: /I/,/iy/,/ɛ/, /ey/,/ɑ//ʌ//æ/ɛ/
• Well Said p. 192-198
• Message Units (called Thought Groups) p. 103-113

Homework:

• Choose a topic for ML1
• Choose a day to present ML1, here
• Choose a day and time to meet with me for the conference.

Next Class: Review vowels, practice message units, prepare for ML1

Day 3: Language Learner

Class Objectives:

• Discuss what makes a good language learner.
• Continue American English vowels.
• Develop awareness of difficult vowels
• Recognize how message units make you more understandable.

Class Today:

• Good Language Learner Activity
• Continue vowels in Well Said 189-193
• Pronunciation Journey Vowels 
• Describe Homework Assignment

Homework:

• If you haven't already, purchase Well Said: Pronunciation for Clear Communication
• I will not copy pages from the book after the third week of class unless the bookstore is sold out.
• Please put a photo on your Moodle profile. This helps me learn your name.
• Your perception assignment is due Monday by midnight through Moodle. Please remember late homework assignments are not accepted. 

Day 2: Introduction to Each Other, Technology, Vowels

Class Objectives:

• Introduce ourselves.
• Understand all the cool technology we use in this course. 
• Get familiar with challenging American English vowels

Class Today

• Introduction to Each Other
• Every class we do some sort of warm-up talk activity. This is our first one!
• Quick Review of Course Policies 
• Since there are new students, let's review course policies quickly. 
• Technology
• Moodle
• Blogspot
• Google docs
• Audacity and VLC 
• Introduction to English Vowels
• Well Said 185-205
• Bring this to our next class. 
• Diagnostic Meeting and Perception Assignment
• Please pick a time to meet with me do the oral part of the diagnostic.
• Perception Homework

Homework

• If you haven't already, purchase Well Said: Pronunciation for Clear Communication
• I will not copy pages from the book after the third week of class unless the bookstore is sold out.
• Please put a photo on your Moodle profile. This helps me learn your name.
• Pick a time to meet with me to do the oral part of the diagnostic assignment. 
• Do Diagnostic perception assignment. This is due February 1st. 

Next Class: Review American English vowels, Message Units

Day 1: Introduction to the Class and Diagnostic

Class Today:

• Introduction to the Class
• Course Policies Handout
• Please refer to this handout throughout the semester if you have any questions. 

• Introduction Form
• Please fill out as many details as possible. 

• Diagnostic
• If needed, you will meet me in my office to do a placement test. 

Homework:

• If you plan on staying in ESL 504, purchase Well Said: Pronunciation for Clear Communication
• I will not copy pages from the book after the third week of class unless the bookstore is sold out.