Basic Oral Communication B
Learning Plan 1
Using Correcty Grammar Orally

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Overview
Title Using Correcty Grammar Orally
Developer(s) Anna Albrecht & Cauline Howell
Date 5/8/2001

Purpose
Assist students in recognizing and using correct grammar orally.

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Target Learning Outcomes

Target Competency
A. Use correct grammar.
Linked Core Abilities
A. Communicate effectively
B. Demonstrate critical thinking

Performance Standards
Competence will be demonstrated:
a. by using correct grammar in all oral presentations and conversations.
b. in spontaneous and structured debates.
c. in extemporaneous and planned timed speeches.
d. in group discussions or classroom conversations.


Criteria - Performance will be satisfactory when:
a. learner makes fewer than three grammar errors in an oral presentation, debate or structured conversation.
b. learner speaks clearly and grammitacally with no more than three grammatical errors in a specified context and format.
c. learner identifies own or another's grammatical errors.
d. learner revises own grammatical errors or suggests revisions for another's grammatical errors.
e. learner uses grammar of standard or non-standard American English according to recognized standards for appropriate contexts or audiences.

Learning Objectives
This learning plan addresses the following learning objectives to help you master the competency:
a. Analyze the difference between standard and non-standard American English.
b. Use correct grammar in all oral conversations, presentations and debates.
c. Use proper parallel structure in compound sentence parts in speech.
d. Use subject-verb, and pronoun-antecedent agreement in all oral communication.
e. Use all parts of speech according to standard American English.
f. Produce orally simple, compound, complex and compound-complex sentences.
g. Produce orally sentences containing prepositional phrases, participial phrases, infinitive phrase, and gerund phrases.
h. Produce orally sentences that contain adjective, adverb, and noun clauses in complex sentences and compound-complex sentences.

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Learning Activities
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Find and correct the grammar errors in an oral or recorded presentation.

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Roleplay an interview in which you request a raise using proper formal English.

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Participate in a group discussion on a current political, educational or social issues.

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Explain to a classmate or to the class the differences between subject, object and possessive pronouns.

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Explain to a classmate or to the class the formation and the use of the passive voice.

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Explain to a classmate or to the class the differences between adjectives and adverbs.

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Discuss with the class the differences between verbs and verbals.

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Explain to the class the uses of gerunds, infinitives, and participles.

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Explain to the class the difference between phrases and clauses using illustrations.

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Present a two minute speach that is is gramatically correct.

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Explain to the class the use of parallel forms in series using illustrations.

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Assessment Activities
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Complete oral tests of proper agreement, proper use of tenses, proper use of pronouns.

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Complete listening tests on grammar.

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Participate in peer and instructor evaluations.

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Basic Oral Communication B
Learning Plan 2
Compose Complete Sentences Orally

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Overview
Title Compose Complete Sentences Orally
Developer(s) Anna Albrecht & Cauline Howell
Date 5/7/2001

Purpose
To assist students in speaking in a variety of types of complete sentrences

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Target Learning Outcomes

Target Competency
B. Compose complete sentences.
Linked Core Abilities
A. Communicate effectively
B. Demonstrate critical thinking

Performance Standards
Conditions - Competence will be demonstrated:
a. in peer revision of oral work.
b. in self-evaluation of oral work.
d. with technology.
c. in the production of assigned oral presentations.
e. under instructor observation.
f. in life and work situations.


Criteria - Performance will be satisfactory when:
a. learner revises sentence errors.
b. learner composes specified structures.
c. learner uses appropriate voice.
d. learner uses structures appropriate to audience.
e. learner connects thoughts logically in oral sentences..
f. learner speaks sentences with 95% accuracy or according to a standard performance checklist.
g. learner asks yes/no, information and clarification question in discussion and feedback to oral presentations.
h. Prepared oral presentation contains simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

Learning Objectives
This learning plan addresses the following learning objectives to help you master the competency:
a. Produce sentences with correct word order for standard American English.
b. Produce orally sentences with subject-verb agreement.
c. Produce orally sentences with pronoun-antecedent agreement.
d. Produce orally sentences using prepositional phrases. participial phrases and gerund phrases.
e. Produce orally sentences using verbal phrases( participle, gerund, and infinitive)
f. Produce sentences containing coordinate conjunctions between words, phrases, and clauses in speech, i.e. compound subjects, predicates, prepositional phrase, participial phrases, gerund phrase, infinitive phrases and compound sentences.
g. Produce orally sentences with multiple modifiers in the proper order.
h. Use active and passive voice in speech.
i. Recognize and revise faulty sentence structure.

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Learning Activities
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Discuss the components of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

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Listen to a series of sentences and identify them as simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex.

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Orally produce sentence simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

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Work with another student or small group to critique and revise grammar in program-specific or workplace documents.

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Use the grammar check option on a word processor to proofread for subject-verb agreement, pronoun-antecedent agreement and sentence fragments and run-ons.

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Match grammar terms with examples in quiz show format. Verbal Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Sentence Type Millionaire?

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Discuss in the lab or classroom the differences between standard and non-standard English grammar.

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Identify standard and non-standard English grammar in examples from taped or recorded oral presentations or literary works.

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Locate, Compare and Analyze differences between standard and non-standard American English grammar in selected examples taken from media.

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Assessment Activities
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Combine orally sets of two or three simple sentences.

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Make simple sentences from sets of tow or three sentences.

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Orally correct written or oral examples of incomplete sentences.

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Critique written or oral work.

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Complete listening assignments, tests and quizzes on complete sentences, and sentence types.

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Basic Oral Communication B
Learning Plan 3
Compose Complete Sentences in Oral Presentations

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Overview
Title Compose Complete Sentences in Oral Presentations
Developer(s) Kay A. Sell
Date 1/30/1996

Purpose

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Target Learning Outcomes

Target Competency
B. Compose complete sentences.
Linked Core Abilities
A. Communicate effectively
B. Demonstrate critical thinking

Performance Standards
Conditions - Competence will be demonstrated:
a. in peer revision of oral work.
b. in self-evaluation of oral work.
d. with technology.
c. in the production of assigned oral presentations.
e. under instructor observation.
f. in life and work situations.


Criteria - Performance will be satisfactory when:
a. learner revises sentence errors.
b. learner composes specified structures.
c. learner uses appropriate voice.
d. learner uses structures appropriate to audience.
e. learner connects thoughts logically in oral sentences..
f.