Objectives: Students will develop listening comprehension skills necessary for an academic environment. The students will develop note-taking skills, test-taking skills, and strategies for guessing and predicting information.
Tentative Schedule:
Week 1-2 Education and Student Life (Ch.1)
Week 3-4 Business and Money (Ch.3)
Week 5-6 Jobs and professions (Ch.4)
Week 7-8 Lifestyles (Ch.5)
Week 9-10 The Global Village (Ch.6)
Week 11-12 Tastes and Preferences (Ch.8)
Week 13-14 Medicine, Myth and Magic (Ch.10)
Week 15-16 The Media (Ch.11)
Grading:
n TALK Scores (20%)
n Vocabulary Quizzes (20%)
n Pop Quizzes (20%)
n Midterm and Final (40%)
Academic Honesty Policy:
If a student is observed looking at another student’s paper during a test or quiz, the offending student’s paper will be taken away. The student will receive a zero on the test or quiz.
Text Book:
Interactions Two: A Listening/Speaking Skills Book
Authors: Judith Tanka and Lida R. Baker
Attendance Policy is as stated in the IEP student
guidelines