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Instructor: Lizz Caplan-Carbin, Ph.D.
Second Language Acquisition
Curriculum and Instructional Technology
Germanic Language and Literature (A.B.D.) Ph.D.
English native speaker (American)

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Section 1 | Section 2 | Section 3

Section 1

Vocabulary

Idioms, Expressions, and Phrasal Verbs
http://a4esl.org/q/h/idioms.html

 

Slang: A | C | D | E | F | G | H | I
  1. Find the missing word http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/mw001.html
  2. Identifying sentence problems
    http://a4esl.org/q/h/9901/cw-sentprob.html
  3. Assorted Grammar quiz http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/assortgr.html
  4. Infinitive or -ing? http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-m_infinitive-ing.htm
  5. Gerund vs. Infinitive http://esl.lbcc.cc.ca.us/eesllessons/gerundinf/gerundinf.htm
  6. OWL Verbals, Gerunds, Participles, & Infinitives
     http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/01/
  7. Verb Structure Quiz
  8. Gerund vs. Infinitive Quiz

Reading

Descriptive Essay: Young Lions, Young Ladies
http://www.rscc.cc.tn.us/owl&writingcenter/cyberspace/lions.html

Conversation

Discussion Topics
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/discuss.html

10 Food

* Odd Man Out Vocabulary Exercise
* Short Text for Dictation
* Dialogue for Pronunciation & Techniques
* Discussion Questions

Writing

Tense Consistency Exercise
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_tensecEX1.html

Top 20, Great Grammar for Great Writing http://college.hmco.com/esl/vestri_solomon/top20/1e/students/exercises/unit01/index.html

 Verbs followed by a gerund
 http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/verbsgerund.html

Listening

from Engines of our Ingenuity

Amerigo Vespucci
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1350.htm
 

Section 2

Vocabulary

 

1) used to / be used to / get used to
2) used to 1 | used to 2 (BBC)
3) Used to / Would / Be used to / Get used to exercise
4) use to / get used to exercise

Reading

The Rainbow Passage
http://web.ku.edu/idea/readings/rainbow.htm
Descriptive Essay: Leo's Place
Descriptive Essay: Curse of the Dump - vocabulary practice

Conversation

Discussion Topics
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/discuss.html

09 Fashion

* Odd Man Out Vocabulary Exercise
* Short Text for Dictation
* Dialogue for Pronunciation & Techniques
* Discussion Questions

Writing

Rhetorical Strategies for Descriptive writing
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/descript.html

Organizing Descriptive Detail http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/quizzes/composition/
descriptivedetail.htm

Listening

Streamlining and Fashion
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1029.htm
 
 

Section 3

Pronunciation

Grammar

  1. Topic sentence and controlling idea
    http://www.eslbee.com/topic_sentences.htm

Listening

Working: Bad jobs    -   Quiz

Writing

What would be a very bad job for you and why?

 

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