Unless otherwise specified, exercises should be completed by two days before the next class meeting.

Final deadline for all exercises: January 31, 2020.

Exercise 1

  Send a request in English to the instructor 
  for your submission status page ID.  (You may 
  also request an ID of your choice.)

  Students who completed this in the Spring 2019 
  Academic English I (Kawamoto) courses do not 
  need to repeat the work, but if you would like to
  change your previous ID, send a new request.

Exercise 2

  Use a medium sized English dictionary (1500-2000 pages)
  and take a 2 percent sample of the words (e.g., for a 
  1500 page dictionary, you would need 30 pages).  Classify 
  the words in the sample as:

    A - very familiar
    B - somewhat familiar
    C - not familiar, unknown

  Multiply the number of your A, B ranked words 
  by 50 to make an estimate of your vocabulary size
  and report this to the instructor.

  Also report the dictionary you used and its size.

Bonus Exercise 1

  Find a homepage that will automatically calculate
  your English vocabulary size.  Submit the URL and
  your computed vocabulary size.

Exercise 3

  Determine whether each set of data below is
  strongly, weakly, positively, negatively, or
  not correlated.



Set A:
x
y
1
1
2
4
3
9
4
16
5
25
6
36


Set B:
x
y
1
2
2
4
3
6
4
8
5
10
6
12


Set C:
x
y
1
-1
2
-2
3
-3
4
-4
5
-5
6
-6


Set D:
x
y
1
0
2
0
3
1
4
1
5
2
6
2


Set E:
x
y
1
2
2
2
3
1
4
1
5
0
6
0


Set F:
x
y
16
12
16
12
16
10
15
14
16
15
16
14
2
12
2
7
2
5



Set G:
x
y
9
63
10
76
11
89
11
75
10
84
11
80
8
72

Exercise 4

  Find three tables in technical papers in your field that
  show information on the number of samples (n), mean (average),
  and standard deviation of data.  Highlight the information and 
  submit the tables to the instructor together with the reference 
  information (i.e., author name(s), paper title, name of 
  publication, volume number, issue number, date of publication, 
  page(s)) of each paper.

Exercise 5

  1)  Follow the instructions inside the front cover
      of your textbook to register for the iQ Online 
      Practice (iQOP) service.  Look over the 
      contents of the online practice for each unit.

  2)  Get the iQ Online Practice class code 
      from the instructor and register your account.

      * Students who completed 1) and 2) for Spring 2019 
        Kawamoto Academic English I classes can use the 
        same iQ Online Practice account for Fall 
        2019 and do not have to repeat the work.

  3)  Listen to:

        "Vocabulary 1 Pronunciation"

      and do:

        "Vocabulary 1 Practice"

      for Unit 7 in the iQ Online Practice.

Bonus Exercise 2

  Participate in one session of the word card
  application experiment of the Kawamoto Laboratory.

    Time:  one hour in Monday 4th period or 
      Wednesday 4th period
    What to bring:  PC (w/mouse), writing utensils
    Deadline to apply:  November 20, 2019

  Contact the instructor to participate.

Exercise 6

  Submit your answer for:

    C. (Writing Skill, p.164)

  for Unit 7 to the instructor by e-mail.

Exercise 7

  Submit your information for B. (Unit Assignment, p.167)
  in academic English outline style by e-mail to the instructor.

  Using the guidelines in C. (Unit Assignment, p. 168),
  write and submit a paragraph based on your outline
  by e-mail to the instructor.

  Note:  Do not submit writing to the iQ Online
    Practice Writing Tutor.

  Deadline:  December 15, 2019

Exercise 8

  Do:

    "Reading Comprehension:  Sell Your Stuff Online"
    "Reading Skill:  Identifying fact and opinion"
    "Unit Video:  One Man's Trash, Another's Treasure"

  for Unit 7 in the iQ Online Practice.

Bonus Exercise 3

  Listen to:

    "The Q Classroom"

  for Unit 7 in the Media Center of the iQ Online
  Practice.  Complete the conversation text you
  hear and submit it to the instructor by e-mail.

Exercise 9

  Revise your outline and paragraph for E7.

  Submit the new and old versions to the
  instructor by e-mail with a description of
  the points you changed.

  Note:  Peer review papers will be e-mailed
    by 12/31 1/7.  

Exercise 10

  Listen to:

    "Vocabulary 2 Pronunciation"

  and do:

    "Vocabulary 2 Practice"
    "Vocabulary Skill: Phrasal verbs"
    "Writing Skill: Using sentence variety"
    "Grammar Practice: Simple past and past continuous"
    "Grammar Expansion: Simple past and past continuous"

  for Unit 7 in the iQ Online Practice.

Exercise 11

  Listen to:

    "Vocabulary 1 Pronunciation"

  and do:

    "Vocabulary 1 Practice"
    "Reading Comprehension:  Voice Recognition Systems"
    "Reading Skill:  Identifying the author's purpose"
    "Vocabulary Skill:  Using the dictionary"
    "Unit Video: Robot Waiters"

  for Unit 6 in the iQ Online Practice.

Exercise 12

  Listen to:

    "Vocabulary 1 Pronunciation"
    "Vocabulary 2 Pronunciation"

  and do:

    "Vocabulary 1 Practice"
    "Reading Comprehension:  Who is in Your Family?"
    "Reading Skill:  Skimming"
    "Vocabulary 2 Practice"
    "Vocabulary Skill:  Using the dictionary"
    "Writing Skill:  Unity in a paragraph"
    "Grammar Practice: Comparative and superlative adjectives"
    "Grammar Expansion:  Superlatives"
    "Unit Video:  Zippers"

  for Unit 5 in the iQ Online Practice.

Bonus Exercise 4

  Listen to:

    "The Q Classroom"

  for Unit 6 in the Media Center of the iQ Online Practice.  
  Complete the conversation text you hear and submit it 
  to the instructor by e-mail.

Bonus Exercise 5

  Listen to:

    "The Q Classroom"

  for Unit 5 in the Media Center of the iQ Online Practice.  
  Complete the conversation text you hear and submit it 
  to the instructor by e-mail.

Final Exercise

  Do the following:

    STEP 1.  Deadline:  January 15, 2020

      Write and submit 5 sample thesis statements for 
      an opinion essay (in English or Japanese) about 
      the following topics:

      * Is it better to save what we have or buy 
        new things?
      * (In your future career), would you prefer 
        to get/give help from a person or a machine?
      * English education in Japan
      * successful engineers

    STEP 2.  Deadline:  January 22, 2020

      Choose one of your thesis statements in STEP 1 
      and brainstorm some ideas for an opinion essay.  
      Write and submit an outline (in English or Japanese) 
      with 2-3 supporting points for your thesis statement.  
      Write the thesis statement at the the top of the page 
      and underline it.

    STEP 3.  Deadline:  January 31, 2020

      Write your opinion essay (in English, 4+ paragraphs) 
      based on your outline in STEP 2.  Underline the thesis 
      statement.  

      Fill out the "Self-assessment" checklist and submit it
      together with your essay to the instructor by e-mail.

    Submit your work for each step to the instructor by the 
    specified deadlines.

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Final deadline for all exercises: January 31, 2020.

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