Course Name Year Term Period Faculty / Graduate School All Instructors Credits
14604:[2025 Fall]EnglishⅡ(Advanced) (1) 2025 Fall Tue2,Thu1 College　Of　Law WARD DALE JOHN 2

Campus

KIC/KIC

Class Venue

ZONSHINKAN　ZS302/ZONSHINKAN　ZS302

Language

Language

Course Outline and Method

Students in this activity-oriented, integrated-skills course shall be inspired as entry-level members of the academic community and become an independent learner of and through English. More specifically, students shall build onto their communicative English proficiency and acquire the skills listed as “Student Attainment Objectives".
Feedback on quizzes and assignments will be given in-class and/or via manaba+R.

Student Attainment Objectives

(1) Listening
- Can understand standard spoken language, live or broadcast, on both familiar and unfamiliar topics normally encountered in personal, social, academic or vocational life.
- Can understand documentaries, live interviews, talk shows, plays and the majority of films in standard dialect.
(2) Reading
- Can read with a large degree of independence, adapting style and speed of reading to different texts and purposes, and using appropriate reference sources selectively.
(3) Spoken interaction
- Can communicate spontaneously with good grammatical control without much sign of having to restrict what he/she wants to say, adopting a level of formality appropriate to the circumstances.
(4) Spoken production
- Can give clear, detailed descriptions and presentations on a wide range of subjects related to his or her field of interest, expanding and supporting ideas with subsidiary points and relevant examples.
(5) Written production
- Can write clear, detailed texts on a variety of subjects related to his or her field of interest, synthesizing and evaluating information and arguments from a number of sources.

Recommended Preparatory Course

Course Schedule

Lecture/Instructor（When there are multiple instructors) Theme
Keyword, References and Supplementary Information
1

Unit 7: Natural resources

Grammar: mixed conditional sentences wish, would rather and if
Vocabulary: conservation, oil, word building, collocations related to one word, strong feelings.

2

Unit 7: Natural resources

Real life function: making your points
Pronunciation: contractions in conditionals, sentence stress.

3

Unit 8: The News

Grammar: reporting verbs, passive reporting verbs.
Vocabulary: photography, the feel-goodfactor, word building: forming adjectives from verbs.

4

Unit 8: The News

Real life functions: reporting what you heard,
Pronunciation: week forms in verbs: the schwa.

5:

Unit 9: Talented people

Grammar: articles: the or zero article?
Relative clauses
Reduced relative clauses
Vocabulary: careers, word building: verb and noun collocations
Word focus: long

6

Unit 9: Talented people

Real life functions: describing skills, talents and experience.
Pronunciation: linking vowels and difficult words.

7

Unit 10: Customs and behaviour

Grammar: official actions: present tenses, will, used to, usually, be used to and get used to.

8

Unit 10: Customs and behaviour

Real life functions: describing traditions
Pronunciation: the letter S.

9

Unit 10: Customs and behaviour

Vocabulary: raising children: verbs food and eating habits, word focus: common weddings
Word building: word pairs:

10

Unit 11: Knowledge and learning

Grammar could, was able to, manage to and succeed in, future in the past.
Vocabulary: learning word building: idiomatic expressions.
Word focus: learn

11

Unit 11: Knowledge. and learning

Real life functions: getting clarification
Pronunciation: contrast of sentence stress, linking in question forms.
[+R class] See manaba+R for details

12

Unit 12: The Economy

Grammar: focus adverbs: only, just, even.
Focus adverbs, too, as, well, also.
Causative having to get

13

Unit 12: The Economy

Vocabulary: money, domestic help, word building: the + adjective
Getting things done
Word focus: hard

14

Final Test and Presentations

Final Test and Presentations

Class Format

All class sessions will be face-to-face.

Recommendations for Private Study

Students should prepare and review class contents and revise materials covered in the textbook Reading and listening as much as possible about topics related to the textbooks will help them to succeed in the unit tests, midterm and final tests. Students should check course news and contents sections on Manaba+R to receive information on themes/assignments.

Grade Evaluation Method

Kind Percentage Grading Criteria etc.
Final Examination (Written)

Report Examination
(A report to be submitted by the unified deadline)

Exams and/or Reports other than those stated above, and Continuous Assessment　
(Evaluation of Everyday Performance in Class)		 100

Unit quizzes (5 X 6): 30%
Essay: 20%
Mid-term test: 10%
Poster presentation: 10%
Final test: 10%
Course work (Journal, attendance, participation, effort): 20%

Grade Evaluation Method （Note）

Students are required to attend at least two thirds of the classes.

Advice to Students on Study and Research Methods

Textbooks

Title Author Publisher ISBN Code Comment
Life 5 (American English), Second Edition, Student Book with Web App 978-1-33-790566-4

Textbooks （Frequency of Use, Note）

Reference Books

Reference Books （Frequency of Use, Note）

Web Pages for Reference

How to Communicate with the Instructor In and Out of Class(Including Instructor Contact Information)

Communication Paper,Interactive Sheet,Learning Management System （manaba+R）,Talk with Students,Other (Separate instructions will be provided)

Other Comments

Students who do not successfully complete this course are required undertake the relevant credit recovery classes.
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