This document outlines a 15-week MELP course curriculum with learning outcomes addressed each week. It includes the unit topic, learning goals from the textbook, and assessments for each week. Key learning outcomes practiced each week are identifying main ideas and details, note-taking, giving presentations, and participating in discussions. Outcomes for all presentations are speaking 1-2 minutes on familiar topics, presenting 3-5 minute presentations, and using accurate grammar and vocabulary. The document provides an overview of what students will learn and be assessed on each week of the course.

1. MELP Learning Outcomes addressed EVERY WEEK: Identify topic, main ideas, and details, predict content by using pictures, discussion questions,and
accessing background knowledge, using different methods to take notes about a lecture or a listening, give short reports on small group presentations,
limit excessive filler pauses and false starts, lead and participate in mini discussions, use appropriate language to communicate with classmates and
instructor about classroom tasks, paraphrase, summarize, and synthesize information from short lectures, show comprehension by confirming notes and
discussing and responding to content
MELP Learning Outcomes addressed in ALL PRESENTATIONS: Speak for 1-2 minutes on familiar and academic topics, plan and present 3-5 minute
individual presentations, use academic vocabulary accurately in prepared presentations and speaking assignments , use appropriate grammatical
structures and vocabulary while presenting
Week
1 (1/2124)
Unit/Theme
Unit 1: Gender and
Society
2 (1/2731)
Unit 1: Gender and
Society
3 (2/3-7)
Unit 2: Reproducing
Life
4 (2/1014)
Unit 2: Reproducing
Life
Learning Goals (from textbook)
Listening: Note-taking, listening for main ideas & details
Speaking: Talking about rules & expectations, explaining opinions
MELP Learning Outcomes: ask for and give
opinions, support opinions with personal examples,
guess meanings of words from context, use notes to
discuss and answer questions about material,
agreeing and disagreeing, describe personal
information about yourself and others
Listening: Note-taking, listening for main ideas & details, pronunciation of
“can” & “can’t”
Speaking: Giving reasons, explaining opinions,
evaluating reasons, using inclusive language, talking about rules
& expectations in the past
Due/Assessment
Presentation Focus
Listening: Listening for main ideas & details, stress patterns, key words
Speaking: Key words, explaining a process, making suggestions, stress
patterns before suffixes
MELP Learning Outcomes: Ask for clarification and repetition, identify word
stress of familiar vocabulary, use syllable stress of familiar words accurately,
give and ask for advice, give instructions and make suggestions, correctly
produce noun and verb word stress patterns in two-syllable words, identify
words that signal a part of a process or presentation, identify content and
function words in simple sentences
Listening: Listening for main ideas & details, stress patterns, key words,
identifying specific information
Speaking: Asking for repetition, using specific details, stress patterns before
suffixes
Group presentation
Identify and perform group
member roles, use
appropriate non verbals
while presenting, use
appropriate voice volume,
monitor appropriate use of
grammar and vocabulary in
recorded assignments and
presentations
Unit 1 & 2 Listening
Test

2. MELP Learning Outcomes addressed EVERY WEEK: Identify topic, main ideas, and details, predict content by using pictures, discussion questions,and
accessing background knowledge, using different methods to take notes about a lecture or a listening, give short reports on small group presentations,
limit excessive filler pauses and false starts, lead and participate in mini discussions, use appropriate language to communicate with classmates and
instructor about classroom tasks, paraphrase, summarize, and synthesize information from short lectures, show comprehension by confirming notes and
discussing and responding to content
MELP Learning Outcomes addressed in ALL PRESENTATIONS: Speak for 1-2 minutes on familiar and academic topics, plan and present 3-5 minute
individual presentations, use academic vocabulary accurately in prepared presentations and speaking assignments , use appropriate grammatical
structures and vocabulary while presenting
5 (2/172/21)
Unit 5: Making a
Living, Making a
Difference
Listening: Understanding a speaker’s purpose, taking notes on a lecture,
Speaking: Asking for reasons, using numbers & statistics, showing interest
while listening
6 (2/2428)
Unit 5: Making a
Living, Making a
Difference
Listening: Listening to a small group discussion, fast speech, asking sensitive
questions
Speaking: Practicing & timing your presentation, small group discussions
MELP Learning Outcomes: recognize third person –s and –ed endings, lead
and participate in mini discussions, identify and perform group member
roles and use language to hold the floor, use non-verbal cues to show
interest and active listening, keep a conversation going, ask follow-up
questions, use pauses and fillers appropriately in prepared and impromptu
speaking
Midterm Exam/ Oral
Interview
7 (3/3-7)
Unit 4: Fascinating
Planet
Listening: Tuning out distractions, taking notes on a documentary, using
cause/effect graphic organizers
Speaking: Talking about historical events, explaining causes & effects
MELP Learning Outcomes: use checklists to identify
strengths and weaknesses of peer and self
presentations, give good peer feedback, responding
to audience questions with brief responses
8 (3/10Unit 4: Fascinating
Listening: Listening to informal conversations
14)
Planet
Speaking: Pronunciation for choices or lists, making eye contact, responding
to suggestions
(3/17-21) Spring Break—No Classes!
9 (3/24Unit 7: After Oil
Listening: Considering viewpoint & bias, listening for main ideas & details,
3/28)
making inferences, reported speech
Poster Presentations
(individual)
Unit 4 & 5 Listening
Test
Use notes, pictures and
basic powerpoint slides,
respond to audience
questions

3. MELP Learning Outcomes addressed EVERY WEEK: Identify topic, main ideas, and details, predict content by using pictures, discussion questions,and
accessing background knowledge, using different methods to take notes about a lecture or a listening, give short reports on small group presentations,
limit excessive filler pauses and false starts, lead and participate in mini discussions, use appropriate language to communicate with classmates and
instructor about classroom tasks, paraphrase, summarize, and synthesize information from short lectures, show comprehension by confirming notes and
discussing and responding to content
MELP Learning Outcomes addressed in ALL PRESENTATIONS: Speak for 1-2 minutes on familiar and academic topics, plan and present 3-5 minute
individual presentations, use academic vocabulary accurately in prepared presentations and speaking assignments , use appropriate grammatical
structures and vocabulary while presenting
Speaking: Reporting what someone has said, giving informal presentations,
using appropriate volume
MELP Learning Outcomes:Use appropriate voice volume while presenting,
recognize reduced forms, recognize third person –s and –ed ending, use
strategies to improve pronunciation of difficult consonant and vowel sounds,
ADDITIONAL FOCUS ON PRONUNCIATION (exact content TBD)
10 (3/314/4)
Unit 7: After Oil
Listening: Checking notes for accuracy, listening to conversations & lectures
Speaking: Discussing timelines, making judgments about the future,
reductions, softening assertions
11 (4/711)
Unit 8: Traditional &
Modern Medicine
12 (4/1418)
Unit 8: Traditional &
Modern Medicine
13 (4/2125)
Unit 6: A World of
Words
14 (4/285/2)
Unit 6: A World of
Words
Listening: Asking questions while listening, listening to a conversation in a
professor’s office, real conditionals, evaluating claims
Speaking: Real conditionals, discussing health, evaluating claims
MELP Learning Outcomes: Start and end conversations using small talk,
keep a conversation going, asking follow up questions,
Listening: Linking vowels with /y/ & /w/ sounds, listening to a conversation
Speaking: Linking vowels with /y/ & /w/ sounds, using quantifiers, making
suggestions, ending a conversation, looking up while speaking
Listening: Understanding sidetracks, main ideas & details, review question
intonation
Speaking: Negative questions, making sidetracks, staying neutral, giving a
summary, discussing personal preferences
Listening: Understanding sidetracks, main ideas & details, review question
intonation
Speaking: Negative questions, making sidetracks, staying neutral, giving a
Presentations
(individual)
Unit 7 & 8 Listening
Test
Identify and use
introduction and
conclusions, use transitional
phrases to connect ideas

4. MELP Learning Outcomes addressed EVERY WEEK: Identify topic, main ideas, and details, predict content by using pictures, discussion questions,and
accessing background knowledge, using different methods to take notes about a lecture or a listening, give short reports on small group presentations,
limit excessive filler pauses and false starts, lead and participate in mini discussions, use appropriate language to communicate with classmates and
instructor about classroom tasks, paraphrase, summarize, and synthesize information from short lectures, show comprehension by confirming notes and
discussing and responding to content
MELP Learning Outcomes addressed in ALL PRESENTATIONS: Speak for 1-2 minutes on familiar and academic topics, plan and present 3-5 minute
individual presentations, use academic vocabulary accurately in prepared presentations and speaking assignments , use appropriate grammatical
structures and vocabulary while presenting
summary, discussing personal preferences
MELP Learning Outcomes: Identify intonation in wh- and yes/ no questions,
using appropriate non verbals in speaking, paraphrase, summarize and
synthesize information from short lectures
15 (5/5-9)
Final Listening Test & Stress content words in
Oral Interview,
prepared presentations,
groups presentations
in conjunction with
R/C