English for Special Educators - B (2023)

Continuous assessment tasks

1. Language Learning Journey

Submit a link to a shared electronic document. If you have kept your Language Learning Journey document from last semester, please continue adding to it. 

Do not forget to change the permissions for your documents to "Anyone with the link can edit."

That is important so that your instructor can not only view your submission but also add comments. 

Due in Weeks 12/13. 

2. Grammar Quizzes

Use the table below to check the grammar topic for each week. Use the resources and the ROPOTs to prepare for the quiz IN ADVANCE.

All quizzes will be done IN CLASS.

List of grammar topics by week

Week 

Quiz Topic + Resources

ROPOTs

1.

No quiz - intro week


2.

Mock quiz (no points)

Study: Grammar 1 Present Simple and ContinuousPast Simple and Continuous,

Expressing Future

ROPOT: Tense Review

3.

Quiz 1: Tense Review - Present, Past, Future

Study:  Grammar 2 Present Perfect Simple

ROPOT: Present Perfect Simple

4.

Quiz 2: Present Perfect Simple

Study: Grammar 3 Defining and Non-defining Relative Clauses

ROPOT: Relative Clauses

5.

Quiz 3: Relative Clauses, Relative Pronouns, and Adverbs


Study: Grammar 4 Indirect Speech - Reported Speech

ROPOT: Reported Speech

6.

Quiz 4: Reported Speech

Study: Grammar 5 1st conditional and future time clauses

2nd conditional - unreal situations

1st and 2nd conditionals

ROPOT: 1st/2nd Conditionals

7.

Quiz 5: 1st conditional / 2nd conditional

Study: Grammar 6 Passive verb forms


ROPOT: Passive

8.

no quiz (article mediation task in class)


9.

Quiz 6: Passive

Study: Grammar 7 Have to, Must, Should - obligation, necessity, prohibition, advice

Modal Verbs of Deduction - must, may, might, could, can’t

ROPOT: Modals

10.

Quiz 7: Modal Verbs of Obligation, Ability, and Possibility

Study: Grammar 8  Part 2Part 3



ROPOT: Phrasal Verbs

11.

Quiz 8: Phrasal Verbs

Study: Grammar 9 Dependent prepositions (verbs)

ROPOT: Verb + preposition

12.


13.

Quiz 10: Adjective + preposition


FINISH!!!

3. Presentation and recorded peer feedback

Upload your presentation to the homework vault below.

Upload an audio file or a link to your recorded feedback within a week of seeing the presentation you have been assigned.

4. Article mediation

This task will be completed in class in Week 8 (November 6th - November 9th). Use the sign-up sheet below to reserve a slot. 

5. Discussion forum post

6. Vocabulary collections


Submit a document with 48 collocations that you have collected throughout the semester.

Each entry should contain the following elements:

COLLOCATION (raise awareness)

EXPLANATION ( to inform and educate people about a topic or issue with the intention of influencing their attitudes, beliefs, etc.)

EXAMPLE(s) (A series to raise awareness of dementia. She is actively involved in raising awareness of addiction within her community.)

NOTES on usage  (to raise awareness OF something; AMONG/WITHIN).

TRANSLATION is optional. 

IMAGES are optional. 

Note: You can add your vocabulary collection to your LLJ shared document, in which case you only need to upload the link again. 

Due in Week 13

Vocabulary collections
Submit by Week 13.

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