Lesson 4 (Sept 30 & Oct 2)

The lesson for this week will cover the following units:

• Unit 2: Matsuo Basho - Simple past (pg. 16 - 23 & pg. A1)

• Unit 3: Disaster at Sea - Past progressive & Simple past (pg. 31 - 38)

• Unit 4: The Awesome Eighties - Simple past: Used to (pg. 45 - 48, pg. 55)

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MyLinE Login

Students of UB00102 are required to complete 17 online tasks this semester. You will have to log in to the website in order to complete your tasks.

Step 1: 
Go to http://myline.utm.my/ and click on login.

Step 2:
Type in your username and password.

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The password = your matrics no. (Example: BZ13110033)

Step 3:
If you cannot log in, please go to eHelp Desk.

Step 4: 
Fill in the form and click submit.

Step 5:
Check your email to get the login ID and assigned password. Try to log in again following the instructions in your email.

Step 6: 
Once you are logged in, click on World of Challenges.

... and you will see this page.

Scroll down and you will see the quizzes. Please wait for further instructions from me before you take the tests on Weeks 8 - 9.

Lesson 3 (Sept 23 & 25)

The lesson for this week will cover the following units:

• Unit 1: What's Your Cross-cultural IQ? - Present Progressive & Simple Present (pg. 2 - 10)

• Subject-Verb Agreement (pg. 12 - 27, attachment)

• Contractions & Verb Forms (pg. A12, FOG)

Notes:
attachment = the RM3 photostatted booklet
FOG = Focus on Grammar textbook
A12 = page number towards the end of FOG

Lesson 2 (Sept 18 & 20) & Replacement Class for Group 36

The lesson for this week will cover the following units:

• Unit 19: Wakefield House - Adjectives and adverbs (pg. 266 - 275)

• Unit 20: A New Place for Pizza - Comparisons: as ... as, than (pg. 282 - 289, A5 - A6)

• Unit 21: A Superlative City - Comparatives & Superlatives (pg. 296 - 300)

• Review - Vocabulary

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To Group 36 (Monday):

Your replacement class (Lesson 2) is scheduled on this Friday, September 20, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. at Bilik Studio 4, ground floor, at PPIB.

The Wednesday class is too full to accommodate extra students.

Lesson 1 (Sept 9 & 11)

The lesson for this week will cover the following units:

• Introduction: Course overview, course book, assessment, etc.

• Parts of speech: Nouns - singular & plural

• Unit 18: Two Fables - Articles: a, an, the (pg. 246 - 253)
  

• Unit 17: Pompeii: A Window to Ancient History - Quantifiers (pg. 235 - 237)

Academic Calendar 2013 / 2014 for Semester 1

Events                                           Date                                               Duration


Student registration                       1 Sept 2013                                     1 day


Orientation week                            2 - 6 Sept 2013                               1 week


Course registration                         7 Sept 2013                                     1 day


Lectures                                          9 Sept - 1 Nov 2013                       8 weeks


Mid-semester break                        2 - 10 Nov 2013                              1 week


Lectures                                         11 Nov - 22 Dec 2013                     6 weeks


Convocation                                   23 - 25 Nov 2013                            3 days


Revision week                                23 - 29 Dec 2013                           1 week


Final exams                                    30 Dec - 19 Jan 2014                     3 weeks


Semester break                               20 Jan - 16 Feb 2014                    4 weeks

Note:

Dates are subject to SENATE change from time to time.

Course Assessment

Source

  
Test 1 (Week 6) - 20%

• Listening to a recorded text and responding to the questions that follow (5%)
• Identifying parts of speech of the words underlined in a written text (taken from FOG 3) (5%)
• Answering grammar questions based on a text taken from FOG 3 (5%)
• Spelling 20 words (5%)

Writing Assignments: Individual Work (Week 10) - 20%

• Writing ten exchanges of questions and answers based on the text of one of these genres: a letter, a newspaper report, a dialogue, a short story or an extract of an article (10%) 
• Online MCQ at http://myline.utm.my/ (10%)

Presentation: Pair Work (Week 13) - 30%

• Writing a dialogue based one of the given situations (10%)
• Presenting the dialogue with a partner (20%)

Test 2 (Week 14) - 30%

• Multiple choice questions on grammar structures (5%)
• Text completion on tenses (5%)
• MCQ on cloze comprehension (5%)
• Task-based questions on grammar (5%)
• Error detection and correction at sentence level (5%)
• Writing a short paragraph around 100 words on one of the given topics (5%)

Synopsis

Course Title: Communicative English Grammar

Course Code: UB00102

Credit Hours: 2

Contact Hours: 3

Synopsis:

This module aims to help students to understand and practice English grammar within communicative contexts. Grammatical structures will be taught in natural context, such as engaging in conversations and reading articles. To practice both form and meaning of these grammatical structures, students will be provided with numerous and varied controlled exercises including identifying common grammatical errors and correcting them. In addition, students will be encouraged to use the structures freely and creatively in motivating open-ended communicative activities. In order to incorporate the four major language skills tested in MUET (Malaysian University English Testing), an integrated skills approach is emphasized through activities and assessments that require students to listen, speak, read and write effectively as well as to be able to respond appropriately to audio input.

Expected Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

• communicate with one another using grammatical English
• apply the acquired language skills in their respective courses

Assessment Components:

1. Test 1 (Formative) - 20%
2. Test 2 (Formative) - 30%
3. Assignment (Summative) - 20%
4. Presentation (Summative) - 30%

Textbook

The textbook for this module is:

Fuchs, M., Bonner, M., & Westheimer, M. (2012). Focus on Grammar 3: An Integrated Skills Approach., Fourth Edition. New York: Pearson-Longman.

You can purchase this book at RM49.00 per copy at the lobby of PPIB between 7.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. during the whole of Week 1.

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