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AE = Accurate English; CI = Consider the Issues; BP = The Big Picture; HO = Handout

LEC #TOPICSKEY DATESHOMEWORK
1Introduction to the Course, Materials, and Homework

Overview of the NAE Sound System
Registration DayAE 1: Read pp. 1-5, Do pp. 6-7

AE 2: Read pp. 12-16, Do pp. 17-19 (D, E, H, I)
2Phonetic Alphabet

AE 3 - Vowel Overview
CI 5: What's Happening to Home?
3AE 4 - Vowels in Detail

CI 5: What's Happening to Home? ( /I/ and /i/ )
BP 3: Knowledge is light, territory, a path.
4AE 4 - Vowels in Detail (cont.)

AE 4.5 - Same Spelling, Different Pronunciation.
As Long as you Love Me
CI 11: What Constitutes a Family?
5AE 5.2 - Dialogues for Vowels

CI 10: What Constitutes a Family? (Suffix Pronunciation in Different Word Forms)
 
6Colloquial ChallengesQuiz I: Phonetic Alphabet and Vowels (Tape due)CI 12: Green Consumerism
7AE 12 - Consonant Overview

CI 12: Green Consumerism (Words with Silent Consonants)
BP 4: An argument is a vehicle, a construction, battle.
8AE13 - Difference Between Voiced and Voiceless Consonants (Positional Variation)Progress Report Memo #1 due in classBP 5: Emotion
9NAE Flap/Glottal Stop

Lubricant Expressions/Maintaining Conversation Skills
BP 6 and 7: Money is blood, food, dirty. Bottom is source.
10AE 14 - <ed> and <s> Endings

Consonant Clusters
BP 9: People are food, animals.
11AE15 - Consonants in DetailBP 10: Beginning of the journey
12AE 15-Consonants in Detail (cont.)

Strip Story
BP 11: Middle of the journey
13Adjustments in Connected Speech
Prints vs. Prince
Idiom Quiz I
14Expressing Opinions

Interactive Listening/Speaking Skills
Quiz II: Vowels and Consonants (Tape due)CI 11: Business across Borders
15AE 6 - Stress

CI 11: Business across Borders (Stress Changes in Words with Suffixes)
BP 12: More about journeys 
16AE 7 - Stress (Advanced)Progress Report Memo #2 dueCI 8: Medicine by the Minute
17Chapter 10 - Stress in Compound Nouns

CI 8: Medicine by the Minute (Noun Compounds)
CI 3: Kids and the Media

BP 13: Cards
18AE 8 - Rhythm

CI 3: Kids and the Media (Reductions of Have)
BP 14: Baseball

CI 6: Create Controversy to Generate Publicity
19AE 8 - Rhythm (cont.)

CI 6: Create Controversy to Generate Publicity (Thought Groups)
CI 7: A Contribution to Make the World a Better Place
20AE 9 - Rhythm (Advanced)
 
CI 7: A Contribution to Make the World a Better Place (Prominence)
BP 15: Sports

Debate Gambits
21Debate: Protest a low Grade or keep Quiet?Idiom Quiz IIAE 11: Do pp. 117-118;

Start preparing for Idiom presentation

CI 4: Is it a Sculpture, or is it Food?
22AE16 - Intonation (and pp. 117-118)

CI 4: Is it a Sculpture, or is it Food? (Listing Intonation)

23AE 16 - Intonation (cont.)Quiz III: Vowels, Consonants, and Supra-segmentals (Tape due)Debate Gambits (HO)
24Course Wrap-upIdiom presentation

Progress Report Memo #3 due

 








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