CANAKKALE 18 MART UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

ENGLISH PREP PROGRAM
GENERAL ENGLISH PREPARATORY PROGRAM
SPEAKING
FALL 2020 TERM
SYLLABUS AND PACING

Course Description:
This course is designed for students at B1 level in listening and speaking. Students
are offered a wide variety of practice activities, appropriate stage of the lesson or unit.
Throughout the course, learners encounter texts that have been carefully selected to
appeal to a wide range of learners from a variety of cultural backgrounds. All texts are
accompanied by receptive tasks that support the development of speaking and
listening skills. In addition, students practice speaking throughout every lesson. These
include personalized tasks which make the target language in every unit meaningful to
the individual learner. The course focuses on pronunciation and conversation skills.
The students are encouraged to use the target language in an appropriate way and to
self-correct and seek peer feedback.

Objectives

At the end of this course students will be able to:

⮚ Recognize numbers and statistics.
⮚ Give tips or suggestions.
⮚ Listen for signposts and use listening signals.
⮚ Recognize a speaker’s tone and feelings.
⮚ Recognize reasons and give reasons
⮚ Identify pronunciation of difficult sounds.
⮚ Apply appropriate rhythm and intonation.
⮚ Detect a wide variety of accents.
⮚ Use descriptive language.
⮚ Identify new words and explain them.
⮚ Build vocabulary for both receptive and productive language use.
⮚ Discuss a topic by using necessary key words and phrases.
⮚ Use accurate and fluent language.
⮚ Develop several speaking strategies for effective speaking.
⮚ Produce presentational or interactional speaking tasks.
⮚ Develop professional and academic speaking skills.
⮚ Have a deeper understanding of idiomatic English.

Coursebook: Ted Talks 21st Century Communication Listening, Speaking, and Critical
Thinking: National Geographic Learning and Cengage Learning, Second Edition

Supplementary Materials

✔ The Online Workbook: Myelt.heinle.com

Required Materials:
 ⮚ 21st Century Communication Listening, Speaking, and Critical Thinking:
National Geographic Learning Ted Talks Second Edition
⮚ An English-English Dictionary
⮚ FlipGrid Account

Workload:
Students must be prepared to:
✔ participate in all class activities,
✔ complete all homework and assignments
✔ complete all other assignments (oral presentations)
(No late assignments will be accepted unless prior permission has been given.)

Assessment

⮚ Quiz %10
⮚ Performance Grade %10
(Online Workbook, homework, and video projects)

Attendance:

Course attendance and participation are very important aspects of this course. You
are expected to be online ON TIME and attend ALL classes. You should ‘be prepared’
for online courses and participate actively in online class activities. Do not forget that it
is your responsibility to find out what material and assignment you missed.

*Plagiarism: Plagiarism is defined as the deliberate representation of another's

words, thoughts, or ideas as one's own without attribution to them so please not use
someone’s words without referencing the source or including the information in
quotation marks.
● Intentional plagiarism will not be tolerated, and intentionally plagiarized essays
and assignments will receive an automatic “F”.
● We will discuss the proper methods for the documentation of the sources,
adhere to those methods and you will not have any problems with plagiarism.

Final Note:
Communication and understanding are important elements of this class. If at any time
you have questions about the course content or about your papers, please
communicate with the course instructor via e-mail.

PACING

Date Content
Tasks and Testing
Week 1
05-09 Introduction to the course
October 2020 Getting to know each other

Week 2 Ted Talks

12-16
October 2020 UNIT 1 Small Actions, Big Results

Part 1 Tips for Saving Water

Week 3 Ted Talks

19-23
October 2020 UNIT 1 Small Actions, Big Results

Part 2 How to Use a Paper Towel

Week 4 Ted Talks

26-30
October 2020 UNIT 1 Small Actions, Big Results

Putting It Together
Communicate
Prepare
Present

Week 5 UNIT 2 Connecting to Nature

02-06
November 2020 Part 1 Photos from a safari

Week 6 Ted Talks

09-13
November 2020 UNIT 2 Connecting to Nature

Part 2 Photos from a storm chaser

Week 7 UNIT 2 Connecting to Nature

16-20
November 2020 Put It Together
Communicate
Prepare
Present

Week 8 UNIT 3 Going Places

23-27
November 2020 Part 1 No Cars, No Worries
Week 9 UNIT 3 Going Places
30 Nov-4 Dec 2020
1st Midterm
Part 2 A skateboard with a boost

Week 10 UNIT 3 Going Places

7-11
December 2020 Put It Together
Communicate
Prepare
Present

Week 11 UNIT 4
14-18 Music, Music Everywhere
December 2020
Part 1 What’s Your Music Listening
Style

Week 12 UNIT 4
21-25 Music, Music Everywhere
December 2020
Part 2 Why I take a piano on the
road….and in the air

Week 13 UNIT 4
28 December 2020-1 Music, Music Everywhere
January 2021
Put It Together Quiz
Communicate
Prepare
Present
Week 14
04-08
January 2021 Review

Week 15 -16
11-15
2nd Midterm
January 2021