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

Final deadline for all exercises: January 31, 2019.

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 2018 
  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

  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 4

  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


  Also, report the following in a table format:

    the number of samples (n)

    the mean and standard deviation of the y values

   of each set.

  How to make a simple homepage with tables

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) in Spring 2018 
      can use the same iQ Online Practice account 
      for Fall 2018 and do not have to repeat the work.)

  3)  Listen to:

        "Vocabulary 1 Pronunciation"

      and do:

        "Vocabulary 1 Practice"
        "Reading Comprehension:  Politeness in American Culture"

      for Unit 3 in the iQ Online Practice.

Exercise 6

  Submit your answers for:

    D., E. (Writing Skill, pp.68-69)

  for Unit 3 to the instructor.  In part E., write
  your answer in academic English outline format.

Exercise 7

  Do:

    "Reading Skill:  Identifying supporting details"
    "Writing Skill:  Supporting your main idea with examples"
    "Grammar Practice:  Subject-verb agreement"
    "Grammar Expansion:  Subject-verb agreement"

  for Unit 3 in the iQ Online Practice.

Bonus Exercise 2

  Do:

    "Unit Video:  Cell Phone Politeness in Japan"

  for Unit 3 in the iQ Online Practice.

Exercise 8

  Listen to:

    "Vocabulary 1 Pronunciation"

  and do:

    "Vocabulary 1 Practice"
    "Reading Comprehension:  An Unusual Game"
    "Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary"

  for Unit 4 in the iQ Online Practice.

Exercise 9

  Submit your answers for C., D., and E. (Writing Skill, p.93)
  for Unit 4.  For part C., write your paragraph plan in academic
  English outline style.

  Deadline for 21014251 class:  November 30, 2018 

  Deadline for 21014242, 21014248 classes:  December 5, 2018

Bonus Exercise 3

  Repeat E9 for the topic you did not select for E9.

Bonus Exercise 4

  Sign up with the instructor for the Kawamoto Lab. English 
  vocabulary study experiment (in class only).

Exercise 10

  Listen to:

    "Vocabulary 2 Pronunciation"

  and do:

    "Vocabulary 2 Practice"
    "Writing Skill:  Writing an opinion paragraph"
    "Grammar Practice:  Modals"
    "Grammar Expansion:  Would like, would prefer, and would rather"

  for Unit 4 in the iQ Online Practice.

Exercise 11

  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"

  for Unit 5 and listen to

    "Vocabulary 1 Pronunciation"

  and do:

    "Vocabulary 1 Practice"
    "Reading Comprehension:  Sell Your Stuff Online"

  for Unit 7 in the iQ Online Practice.

Bonus Exercise 5

  Do:

    "Unit Video:  Under Armour Speed Skating Uniforms"

  for Unit 4 and

    "Univ Video:  Zippers"

  for Unit 5 and

    "Unit Video:  One Man's Trash, Another's Treasure"

  for Unit 7 in the iQ Online Practice.

Final Exercise

  Do the following:

    STEP 1.  Deadline:  January 15, 2019

      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?
      * English education in Japan
      * young children and sports
      * how technology helps/harms us

    STEP 2.  Deadline:  January 22, 2019

      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 
      details for your thesis statement.  Write the thesis 
      statement at the the top of the page and underline it.

    STEP 3.  Deadline:  January 31, 2019

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

    STEP 4.  Deadline:  January 31, 2019

      Fill out and submit the "Self-assessment" checklist together
      with your essay.

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

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Final deadline for all exercises: January 31, 2019.

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