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Money Unit -- Vocabulary

Money
The words below are some of the most important used when talking about Money.
Money - Banking
account
bank statement
bankrupt
borrow
budget
cash
cashier
check
traveler's check
credit (card)
currency
debt
deposit
exchange rate
interest (rate)
invest
investment
lend
loan
mortgage
owe
pay
save
savings
shares
withdraw
Money - Buying
bargain
bill
cost
expense
installments
price
purchase
purse
receipt
reduction
refund
spend
wallet
Money - Earning
bonus
earn
earnings
income
gross income
net income
rise
salary
wage
Money - Giving
collection
donate
donation
fee
fine
grant
income tax
inherit
inheritance
pension
pocket money
rent
scholarship
tip
winnings
Money - Verbs
add up
go up / down
make ends meet
pay back
pay into
put down
put towards
run out
save up
take out
Money - Other Related Words
profit
property
valuable
value
waste of money
wealth
worth
worthless
Money - Related Adjectives
affluent
broke
generous
hard-up
mean
poor
prosperous
rich
stingy
wealthy
well off

Course Syllabus

Course Title: Intensive English Program (IEP) III Reading Comprehension
Department and Number: English IEP 3
Credit: Non-credit
Prerequisite(s): None
Semester: Fall 2009 – Tuesdays 12:30—1:30, 1:45-2:45, 3:-4:15
Instructor: Dr. Sylvia Y. Schoemaker Rippel
Email: sysr@lincolnuca.edu
Course-related email for the semester: profsr20@gmail.com
Office hours and location: T, Th 11:45-12:30 and by arrangement, room 307
Office phone: 510-628-8036

Instructional Materials and References

Required text:
Richards, Jack C. and Samuela Eckstut-Didier. Strategic Reading 1: Building Effective Reading Skills. Los Angeles, CA: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0521555809

Recommended texts:
Dictionary, thesaurus

Description
Students will improve reading comprehension and rate; they will increase vocabulary through assigned readings, word study exercises, and discussions. Readings deal with a variety of subjects, including American culture, and academic and personal issues.

Course Objectives
Students will develop reading skills for functional communicative purposes, in context-centered study and expansions. Students will demonstrate improved discrete and holistic reading comprehension skills through targeted readings, presentations, quizzes, tests (pre and post) and exercises (class and text-based).

Instructional Methods
A cooperative learning model is employed. Small group and individual discovery exercises and presentations will augment lectures, discussion and applications.

Topical Outline
Reading selections are of immediate academic and socio-cultural relevance. Among topics included are: music, money, work, sports, weather, culture, Internet

Week	Tuesdays	Unit	Topic	Reading I	Reading II	Reading III
Wk 1	25-Aug-09		Introduction
Wk 2	1-Sep-09	Unit I	Music	Music and Moods	Louis Armstrong
Wk3	8-Sep-09	Unit I	Music			Biology of Music
Wk 4	15-Sep-09	Unit II	Money	Dangers in Shopping	How to be a Millionaire	Pity the Poor Lottery Winner
Wk 5	22-Sep-09	Unit III	Work	Your First Job	Job Satisfaction	Are You a Workaholic?
Wk 6	29-Sep-09	Unit IV	Sports	Do Pro Athletes Make Too Much Money?	Extreme Sports	Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Olympic Games
Wk 7	6-Oct-09	Review	Review	Review	Review	Review
Wk 8	13-Oct-09	Midpoint Exercises	Midpoint Exercises	Midpoint Exercises	Midpoint Exercises	Midpoint Exercises
Wk 9	20-Oct-09	Unit V	Weather	Keeping an Eye on the Weather	Nature's Weather Forecasters	Could You Survive a Natural Disaster?
Wk 10	27-Oct-09	Unit VII	Clothes	Dressing for Success	Casual Dress in the Workplace	T-shirts Out; Uniforms In
Wk 11	3-Nov-09	Unit VIII	Culture	Adventures in India	Body Language in the US	Cross-cultural Differences
Wk 12	10-Nov-09	Unit IX	Outer Space	Living in Space	The Planets	Space Tours Not So Far Off
Wk 13	17-Nov-09	Unit X	Animals	The Terrible Toads	Exotic Animals -- Not as Pets!	Let's Abandon Zoos
Wk 14	24-Nov-09	Presentations	Presentations	Presentations	Presentations	Presentations
Wk 15	1-Dec-09	Review	Review	Review	Review	Review
Wk 16	8-Dec-09	Post tests	Post tests	Post tests	Post tests	Post tests

Assessment Criteria & Method of Evaluating Students
As participants in a course that is part of the non-credit IEP program, students do not receive letter grades. Instead, successful students will earn a completion report from their instructors based on their course work, progress, post-test measures, and individual profiles. Students successfully completing the program with the prerequisite instructor recommendations will receive a Certificate of Completion. The following table lists some of the primary areas evaluated for progress indication purposes:

Class attendance and Participation	25%
Exercises and Quizzes	15%
Projects	15%
Homework Assignments	15%
Presentations	15%
Final Review Tests	15%
Total	100%

The following letter grade / point scale is provided for informational purposes only. While individual assignments may be evaluated on such a scale, no final letter grades will be assigned beyond the complete/incomplete evaluations as discussed above.

100-95	A
94-90	A-
89-87	B+
86-84	B
83-80	B-
79-77	C+
76-74	C
73-70	C-
69-67	D+
66-64	D
63-60	D-
59 or <	F

Date Syllabus was Last Reviewed: August 2009

Assignment Schedule

Note: Map, summarize, and complete assigned exercises for each chapter of the book by the date indicated on the schedule.

Week	Date	Unit	Topic
1	8/25/2009	1	Music
2	9/1/2009	2	Money
3	9/8/2009	3	Work
4	9/15/2009	4	Sports
5	9/22/2009	5	Weather
6	9/29/2009	6	Clothes
7	10/6/2009	7	Culture
8	10/13/2009	8	Outer space
9	10/20/2009	9	Animals
10	10/27/2009	10	Travel
11	11/3/2009	11	The Internet
12	11/10/2009	12	Friends
13	11/17/2009	13	Gifts
14	11/24/2009	14	Emotions
15	12/1/2009	15	Food; Sleep and dreams
16	12/8/2009	16	Post Tests

Music Unit Vocabulary Map

Vocabulary Map -- Music Context