ESOL 0352: Advanced Intermediate Grammar (Level 3) Syllabus

Instructor: DyAnne Phillips

Days/Times/Location: Tuesdays 8:30-10:10 and Thursdays 8:30-11:10, Room 118

Office Phone: 713-718-7750 (main office) / 713-718-7972 (DyAnne’s office)

Email: dyanne.phillips@hccs.edu

Office Hours: Please make an appointment to see me if you have any questions or need some help.

Course Description: A continuation of ESOL 0348. This course provides a review of essential grammatical and structural features while introducing their finer points. Emphasis is placed on compound and complex sentence structures and is designed to lead students toward active mastery of the patterns and principles of formal written English.

ESOL 0352 Statement of Purpose: ESOL 0352, Advanced Intermediate Grammar, seeks to prepare students for college level academic or workforce study by accomplishing the following objectives:

• Building on the syntactic knowledge that students have gained in previous study of English grammar while introducing more advanced structures as well as the finer nuances involving tense and aspect of English verbs;
• Strengthening the students’ abilities to produce the new grammatical structures in a variety of communicative contexts.

Course Outcomes: After taking ESOL 0352, the student should:

1. Be able to use all verb tenses except for the past perfect progressive and the future perfect tenses;

2. Be able to use present and future modal auxiliaries and related expressions;

3. Be able to use subjective, objective, and possessive personal pronouns;

4. Show familiarity with the structure and use of adjective and noun clauses;

5. Be able to use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions to connect ideas, including the use of punctuation;

6. Be able to recognize and use gerunds and infinitives;

7. Be able to use the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs;

8. Show familiarity with quoted/reported speech and conditionals.

Grade Breakdown: The grading scale is: A (90-100), B (80-89), and C (70-79). Anything below a 70 is not a passing grade and will receive an F or an IP (in progress). The course grade will be determined as follows:

Tests 50%

Homework/Other 5%

Midterm Exam 20%

Final Exam 25%

100%

Textbook: You are required to buy the following textbook for this course: Fundamentals of English Grammar (third edition) by Betty Azar. NO USED BOOKS!

Attendance: If you miss 8 or more hours, you will be dropped from the course. If you are fifteen minutes late to class (or more), you will be marked absent. Missing lab or being late to lab will also count as being absent.

Tardiness: An accumulation of three tardies will count as an absence.

Withdrawals: A student may drop this course for any reason up to April 3^rd at 4:30 p.m. A student may also be dropped for excessive absences until that date. After April 3, 2008, a student will receive the grade that she/he has earned. College policy prohibits instructors from entering a grade of "W" after the official drop date.

Dictionaries: You may use a dictionary in this class. However, you may not use it on tests or quizzes.

Makeup Tests: If you are absent on the day of a test, you will be able to make it up on the following class day. You may only make up ONE test during the semester.

Homework and Handouts: I will give you a lot of homework and handouts in this class. Please have a place where you can keep all of your grammar materials together. Homework is due at the BEGINNING of class. When you come to class, place your homework in the location I will show. I will not accept late homework or homework I see you doing in class.

Academic Honesty/Cheating: Any form of copying, cheating, or plagiarism will result in a 0 for the assignment. See the HCCS Student Handbook for further information.

Students with Disabilities: HCCS Policies: Any student with a documented disability (e.g. physical, learning, psychiatric, vision, hearing, etc.) who needs to arrange reasonable accommodations must contact the Disability Services Office at the respective college at the beginning of each semester. Students at Gulfton should contact Dr. Becky Hauri, at 713-718-7909.

Sexual Harassment Policy: Sexual harassment in any form is not tolerated at Houston Community College. See the HCCS Student Handbook for further information.

Repeating three or more times: Students who repeat a course three or more times will face significant tuition/fee increases at HCC and other Texas public colleges and universities. If you are considering course withdrawal because you are not earning passing grades, confer with your instructor/counselor as early as possible about your study habits, reading and writing homework, test-taking skills, attendance, course participation, and opportunities for tutoring or other assistance that might be available.

ESOL 0352: Level Three Grammar

Weekly Schedule

NOTE: This schedule is approximate; I may make changes to it if necessary to cover the required material in this course.

Week 1 Chapter 1: Present Tense

(1/15 & 1/17))

Week 2 Chapter 2: Past Tense

(1/22 & 1/24) Chapter 3: Future Tense

Week 3 Chapter 3: Future Tense

(1/29 & 1/31) Test #1: Chapters 1-3

Week 4 Chapter 4: Present and Past Perfect

(2/5 & 2/7)

Week 5 Chapter 4: Present and Past Perfect

(2/12 & 2/14) Test #2: Chapter 4

Week 6 Chapter 5: Asking Questions

(2/19 & 2/21) Chapter 7: Modal Auxiliaries

Week 7 Chapter 7: Modal Auxiliaries

(2/26 & 2/28) Test #3: Chapter 5

Week 8 Midterm Exam

(3/4 & 3/6)

Week 9 Chapter 10: The Passive

(3/18 & 3/20)

Week 10 Chapter 10: The Passive

(3/25 & 3/27) Test #4: The Passive

Week 11 Chapter 12: Adjective Clauses

(4/1 & 4/3)

Week 12 Chapter 12: The Passive

(4/8 & 4/10) Test #5: Chapter 12

Week 13 Chapter 13: Gerunds and Infinitives

(4/15 & 4/17)

Week 14 Chapter 13: Gerunds and Infinitives

(4/22 & 4/24) Chapter 14: Noun Clauses

Week 15 Chapter 14: Noun Clauses

(4/29 & 5/1) Test #6: Chapters 13 &14

Week 16 Final Exam

(5/6)

NOTE: Students will do most of chapters 6 and 11 and appendices 1 and 2 on their own.