AE = Accurate English; CI = Consider the Issues; BP = The Big Picture; HO = Handout
| LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES | HOMEWORK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Introduction to the Course, Materials, and Homework
Overview of the NAE Sound System |
Registration Day |
AE 1: Read pp. 1-5, Do pp. 6-7
AE 2: Read pp. 12-16, Do pp. 17-19 (D, E, H, I) |
| 2 |
Phonetic Alphabet
AE 3 - Vowel Overview |
CI 5: What’s Happening to Home? | |
| 3 |
AE 4 - Vowels in Detail
CI 5: What’s Happening to Home? ( /I/ and /i/ ) |
BP 3: Knowledge is light, territory, a path. | |
| 4 |
AE 4 - Vowels in Detail (cont.)
AE 4.5 - Same Spelling, Different Pronunciation. |
CI 11: What Constitutes a Family? | |
| 5 |
AE 5.2 - Dialogues for Vowels
CI 10: What Constitutes a Family? (Suffix Pronunciation in Different Word Forms) |
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| 6 | Colloquial Challenges | Quiz I: Phonetic Alphabet and Vowels (Tape due) | CI 12: Green Consumerism |
| 7 |
AE 12 - Consonant Overview
CI 12: Green Consumerism (Words with Silent Consonants) |
BP 4: An argument is a vehicle, a construction, battle. | |
| 8 | AE13 - Difference Between Voiced and Voiceless Consonants (Positional Variation) | Progress Report Memo #1 due in class | BP 5: Emotion |
| 9 |
NAE Flap/Glottal Stop
Lubricant Expressions/Maintaining Conversation Skills |
BP 6 and 7: Money is blood, food, dirty. Bottom is source. | |
| 10 |
AE 14 - <ed> and <s> Endings
Consonant Clusters |
BP 9: People are food, animals. | |
| 11 | AE15 - Consonants in Detail | BP 10: Beginning of the journey | |
| 12 |
AE 15-Consonants in Detail (cont.)
Strip Story |
BP 11: Middle of the journey | |
| 13 |
Adjustments in Connected Speech Prints vs. Prince |
Idiom Quiz I | |
| 14 |
Expressing Opinions
Interactive Listening/Speaking Skills |
Quiz II: Vowels and Consonants (Tape due) | CI 11: Business across Borders |
| 15 |
AE 6 - Stress
CI 11: Business across Borders (Stress Changes in Words with Suffixes) |
BP 12: More about journeys | |
| 16 | AE 7 - Stress (Advanced) | Progress Report Memo #2 due | CI 8: Medicine by the Minute |
| 17 |
Chapter 10 - Stress in Compound Nouns
CI 8: Medicine by the Minute (Noun Compounds) |
CI 3: Kids and the Media
BP 13: Cards |
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| 18 |
AE 8 - Rhythm
CI 3: Kids and the Media (Reductions of Have) |
BP 14: Baseball
CI 6: Create Controversy to Generate Publicity |
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| 19 |
AE 8 - Rhythm (cont.)
CI 6: Create Controversy to Generate Publicity (Thought Groups) |
CI 7: A Contribution to Make the World a Better Place | |
| 20 |
AE 9 - Rhythm (Advanced) CI 7: A Contribution to Make the World a Better Place (Prominence) |
BP 15: Sports
Debate Gambits |
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| 21 | Debate: Protest a low Grade or keep Quiet? | Idiom Quiz II |
AE 11: Do pp. 117-118;
Start preparing for Idiom presentation CI 4: Is it a Sculpture, or is it Food? |
| 22 |
AE16 - Intonation (and pp. 117-118)
CI 4: Is it a Sculpture, or is it Food? (Listing Intonation) |
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| 23 | AE 16 - Intonation (cont.) | Quiz III: Vowels, Consonants, and Supra-segmentals (Tape due) | Debate Gambits (HO) |
| 24 | Course Wrap-up |
Idiom presentation
Progress Report Memo #3 due |
