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Formation
Générale Propre
aux Techniques Anglais
(Ensemble no. 2)
Weighting: 2-1-3
Prerequisite: 604-102-03
Session: Winter 2004
prof: Norman Spatz
Room 10.41b
Tel:(514) 982-3437 ext 2232
e-mail: [email protected]
website:
http://www.cvm.qc.ca/nspatz
Introduction
This is your second and last English course at the
college level. It is designed for technical and professional program students who have high-intermediate / advanced-level English language skills
and who have successfully completed 604-102-03.
The focus of this course is on understanding and
using English as it relates to your particular field of
study as well as using literature and other thematic
materials to expand your ideas and vocabulary.
Target Competency
To communicate with ease in English
using current forms of expression that can
be applied to real-life situations and contexts related to the workplace.
The Four Elements of Competency
1. Listening: Understand the meaning of an
authentic oral message after one listening.
1.1 Understand the main and secondary ideas of
the message.
1.2 Use pertinent information from the listening to
accomplish a specific task.
2. Reading: Understand the important elements of
an authentic text related to your field of study in
order to accomplish a specific task.
2.1 Understand the main idea of the text.
2.2 Identify elements that are of use to accomplish
a specific task.
2.3 Use information from a text to accomplish a
specific task (e.g. use information from articles to
write a summary and develop a critique).
3. Speaking: Discuss some aspect of your field of
study for a minimum of five minutes.
3.1 Communicate in a sophisticated manner about
a subject that is rich in information and comprehensible to a non-expert.
3.2 Communicate in an appropriate manner in a
given context (i.e. show awareness of the interplay
between the message, intention, audience, and
register).
3.3 Use appropriate terms and expressions related
to your field of study.
4. Writing: Produce written texts related to your
field of study.
4.1 Write 500 words in a clear, coherent manner,
comprehensible to a non-expert, on a subject related to
your field of study.
4.2 Use terms and expressions related to your field
of study.
4.3 Use appropriate and correct grammar and
spelling.
4.4 Write in a manner which indicates an awareness of text genre, appropriate rhetoric, and audience (e.g. report writing versus letter writing).
CÉGEP DU VIEUX MONTRÉAL DÉPARTEMENT DE LANGUES
Course Content
To attain the required level of competency
in each skill, mastery and acceptable
application of the following aspects is necessary:
Grammatical notions:
1. Verb tense review (active and passive voice;
affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms):
-present simple and continuous
-past simple and continuous
-present perfect
-past perfect
-future with time clauses
2. Modal auxiliaries
3. Subject-verb agreement
4. Count/non-count nouns
5. Comparatives/superlatives
6. Simple and complex clauses including connectors
7. Avoiding Gallicisms
8. reported speech
9. conditionals
10 gerunds and infinitives
Writing notions
1. Basic punctuation (periods, commas, apostrophes, question and quotation marks)
2. Capitalisation
3. Connectors and conjunctions
4. Components of résumés, business letters and
reports,
5. How to reference and cite works
Speaking functions and notions:
1. Expressing an opinion, agreement or disagreement, debating and supporting one’s view
2. Structuring an oral presentation
Reading and listening strategies:
Predicting, scanning, skimming, underlining main
points and details, note-taking, summarising, paraphrasing, glossing
Teaching Strategies
1. For the oral component, the student will engage
in the following activities: role-playing, small group
discussions, class discussions, short presentations, and debates.
2. For the listening component, the student will listen in class to the thoughts of the other students
and respond to these ideas, as well as listening to
audio or video tapes and discussing their content.
Also the student will write summaries of the main
ideas found in the listening material presented to
him/her, as well as integrating and analysing the
ideas found in the aural material with those found
in the written texts.
3. For the reading component, the student will read
texts of a wide variety of general interest and business related texts. The student will examine these
texts in light of main and secondary ideas, author's
purpose, vocabulary and grammatical usage. The
readings will allow the students to interact with the
author’s ideas as well as discussing and developing their own ideas concerning the topic.
4. For the writing component, the student will
develop ideas suitable for business writing, workshop writing with other students, and produce at
least four edited workplace-related documents.
Also the students will examine and practice
through error correction and other exercises any
grammatical forms which have not been mastered
in previous courses.
5. There will be an emphasis on practical skills
which will allow the student to successfully integrate into the workplace. These study skills involve
note taking, active reading, research skills, and
oral presentation techniques.
Evaluation
Required Textbooks
During the course, students will be able to evaluate their progress in the following forms of evaluation:
Portfolio Plus (by Pierre Richard) & Portfolio Plus
Grammar (by Deborah Payne and Pierre Richard)
Available at Librairie Michel-Fortin:
3714 St-Denis (849-5719)
Formative Evaluation
For each concept studied in class, there will be
activities which permit students to assess their
comprehension of the material taught. Immediate
correction and feedback allow students to ask for
clarification, and / or to take the necessary steps
to address any problems which may become
apparent. Students should always feel free to ask
for clarification or extra help during or outside of
class.
Summative Evaluation
During the semester, there will be homework
assignments which will sometimes be corrected
and which may contribute to the course work portion of your final grade. Students will always be
informed in advance when an assignment is to be
counted towards the final grade. Regardless, the
completion of all assignments greatly contributes
to a high level of success in this class.
A good English dictionary is required for this
course.
Bibliography
Fournier, P. This Way Out. Prentice Hall
Lannon, J. M. The Writing Process. Little, Brown
and Company, 1983.
McCrimmon, J. M. Writing with a Purpose. (6th
edition) Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.
Quirk, R. and Greenbaum, S. A University
Grammar of English. Longman, 1987.
Raimes, A. How English Works. St. Martin’s Press,
1990.
Richard, P. Clear Signals. CEC, 1997
Grade Distribution
COURSE WORK
listening activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10%
reading activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15%
writing activities
(e.g. résumé, cover letter,
business letters, etc.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 %
grammar quizzes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10%
invention project
(oral presentation and
written funding proposal) . . . . . . . . . . . .15%
group leader activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10%
FINAL EXAM
Reading and
Writing,
- 20%
Rules and Regulations
1. Travaux
Un étudiant présent au cours qui ne rend pas
le devoir requis lors de sa présence est pénalisé. En outre, si le travail n’est pas déposé au
bureau du professeur au plus tard lors de la
journée ouvrable antérieure à celle du cours
suivant, une note de zéro sera attribuée à ce
devoir.
Weekly Schedule
This is a tentative schedule and is subject to change.
Week Folder Content and Activities
1
Introduction to the course
2
1
Entry survey
Reading strategies :
vocabulary, skimming, scanning
Grammar: Tense review
3
1
Reading strategies:
summarising viewing strategies
Grammar: Perfect Tenses
Set up group leader project
4
1+3
Reading strategies: critical reading
Speaking strategies: discussion
Grammar: reported speech
5
3
Job interview
Resume + Cover letter
(writing #1 assigned)
Viewing quiz #1
Grammar: punctuation
6
2
Folder 2: Science and Technology
Group Leader project
Grammar: conditionals
7
2
Grammar quiz #1
Folder 2: Science and Technology
Group leader project
N.B. L’étudiant doit conserver ses travaux corrigés jusqu’à l’expiration des délais fixes pour
la révision de notes.
8
3
2
Business letters (writing #2)
Start Invention project
Grammar: connectors
Group Leader project
3. Plagiat et fraude
Le plagiat ou la fraude lors d’un examen ou
d’un travail sont sanctionnées par la note de
zéro. Il est entendu que le pourcentage alloué
à cet examen ou à ce travail sera respecté
dans le calcul de la note finale sur 100.
9
2
Writing #2 due
Folder 2: Social Sciences and
Business Administration
Continue invention project
Grammar: passive
Group Leader project
10
2
Folder 2: Social Sciences and
Business Administration
Folder 3: Start Reports +
funding proposal based on invention
Grammar: gerunds & infinitives
Un étudiant qui a une absence justifiée à une
cours doit remettre son devoir au bureau du
professeur au plus tard lors de la journée
antérieur à celle du cours suivant, faute de
quoi une note de zéro sera attribuée à ce
devoir.
2. Examens
Si, pour des circonstances exceptionnelles, l’étudiant n’a pu se présenter à une date prévue
pour un examen, le professeur peut l’autorise
à reprendre ce contrôle en autant que (1) la
raison de l’absence soit consignée par écrit et
agréée par le professeur et que (2) l’étudiant
subisse un examen équivalent dans les délais
qui lui sont impartis.
Aucun examen ou travail de reprise n’est
admis une fois les résultats de l’évaluation
transmis à l’organisation scolaire, soit la fin de
la semaine d’encadrement et d’évaluation.
4. Présence au cours
Quoique l’absence au cours d’anglais n’entraîne pas automatiquement un échec, il est de
première importance que l’étudiant soit
présent. Les situations d’apprentissage de la
langue seconde (séance de laboratoire,
débats, la pratique de techniques de lecture et
d’écriture, etc.) exigent sa présence. Il en
résulte que les absences sont préjudiciables à
la réussite de cours. Si un étudiant doit s’absenter, il est de sa responsabilité de prendre
les démarches qui s’imposent avant le cours
suivant (prendre contact avec son professeur,
s’informer auprès de ses compagnons ou compagnes de classe, emprunter des notes, etc.)
pour récupérer par lui-même la matière
enseignée pendant son absence.
3
11
2
Funding proposal due
Viewing quiz #2
Folder 2: Social Sciences and
Business Administration
Grammar: review
12
2
Grammar quiz #2
Folder 2: Arts & Literature
13
2
Folder 2: Arts & Literature +
Exam preparation
14
Listening exam and Reading exam
15
Speaking exam and Writing exam