PREFACE The Nonintensive American Language Course (NALC), Volume 4, is designed as curriculum: for the fourth year of a nonintensive language training program. The NALC curriculum has ‘been developed by the Defense Language Institute English Language Center (DLIELC), which is a US Department of Defense school. This course is intended to familiarize students with basic English. Included in this volume are 32 lessons; enhancing these lessons are coordinated listening skills activities and homework exercises. Each lesson requires approximately four hours of class time and may be taught over several class periods; additional time is required for the listening exercises and homework. The instructional packaze consists of the following: Snudent Text (ST) Instruetor Guide (IG) Homework Text (HT) Listening Skills Text (LST) Audio recordings (tape or CD) Quiz kits oo a eee Inquiries concerning these materials, including purchase requests, should be addressed to: DLIELC/LESF 2235 Andrews Avenue Lackland Air Force Base, Texas 78236-5259 E-mail: [email protected]:mil, Copyright © 2004 by Defense Language Institute English Language Center and its licensors. Notice of Rights: All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. First edition, January 2004 Second printing, November 2004 ‘This edition supersedes the Nonintensive American Language Course Volume 4, Laboratory Text, April 2000TO THE READER ‘The Nonintensive American Language Course (NALC) is based on the American Language Course (ALC) intensive materials. The NALC was redesigned to include shorter lessons and corresponding homework and listening materials suitable for nonintensive programs. The NALG, like the ALG, is designed primarily for the military student in English language training. Throughout the materials, military themes and terminology are used. All efforts are made to provide the military student with realistic, relevant language. The student is given step-by-step instruction from basic survival English to a low intermediate level of fluency and communicative proficiency. ‘The NALC currently consists of four volumes. Each volume contains the most important objectives from intensive ALC books. The levels are as follows. Level ALCPT range Volume 1 — | Low Elementary 0-25 Volume2 | Elementary 25-35 Volume3 | High Elementary | 35 - 50 Volume4 | Low Intermediate | 50- 60 NALC deals with vocabulary, grammar, language skills—speaking, listening, reading, and writing—as well as sociolinguistic appropriateness. It integrates these areas of the language in various activities. It provides the student with numerous opportunities to practice naturally spoken English. ‘The materials are sequentially designed. One block of instructional material builds on the previous block, The objectives are then reinforced and recycled throughout the materials. Homework exercises and language skills activities for every lesson ensure that the student has sufficient practice to master the objectives. istening Skills Text ‘The listening materials include 32 audiotapes or 17 CDs with a total of approximately thirty minutes of listening activities for the language laboratory for each lesson. Each student should have a Listening Skills Text. The Instructor Guide contains scripts for the language laboratory activities. The listening activities are completely self-contained and offer a complete but different presentation of the lesson objectives. While the activities have been designed primarily to support the lesson, they can also be used for independent study, The material is designed for minimum monitoring by instructors. There is immediate confirmation of the answers to the activities, Correct responses are contained on the tapes or on the answer pages in the Listening Skills Text. Page iilLesson Lesson, Lesson Lesson Lesson Lesson, Lesson Lesson Lesson 9 Lesson 10 Lesson 11 Lesson 12 Lesson 13 Lesson 14 Lesson 15 Lesson 16 Lesson 17 Lesson 18 Lesson 19 Lesson 20 Lesson 21 Lesson 22 Lesson 23 Lesson 24 Lesson 25 Lesson 26 Lesson 27 Lesson 28 Lesson 29 Lesson 30 Lesson 31 Lesson 32 OI SH RON — TABLE OF CONTENTS I'm Sure She'll Win Is He Supposed to Salute? Si, Could | Speak With You? Can You Play Soccer? Bargains and Discounts Let’s Go Shopping. How Deep Is The Ocean? How Many Pencils Do You Have? They Are Sergeants. Bill ls As Old As Bob. Ranches and Farms Tell Me About Your Farm: It Must Be Jim’s Birthday. Flying Airplanes Is His Job. Jack Is Taking A Tour, We Met By Chance. Frank's In Basic Training. They Are At Attention. Can You Come To Our School? | Must Prepare A Delicious Meal We Were Going To The Beach They Want To Go To San Antonio. 1 Go To The Dispensary Weekly. Please Take Care Of Yourself. You'd Better Listen. It’s Fun To Swim Laps. What's His Rank? ‘An Honorable Profession I'd Rather See A Movie. It’s Easy fo Understandl She Wasn't Able To Fix It. There Are Too Many Choices. VW 15 19 27 31 35 43 51 59 67 73 81 87 93, 103 107 Ww Ws 9 123, 129 135, 139 145, 181 157 161 165 val 77 Page vCUMSURESHELLWIN, LESSON | EXERCISE 1: Repeat the sentences. Then match the sentence to the picture. Listening Skills Text Page 1Ld: 12, Nonintensive ALC, Volume 415; EXERCISE 2: First listen to a dialog. Then say your part of the dialog. i A: B: Hard? What do you mean? I don't think it’s hard. A B: You mean like the word “match”? A: B: And there are many more, but don’t worry. Soon you will find that English isn’t too difficult. Listening Skilis Text Page 3A B: A B: A: 10. om 12. EXERCISE 3: Change roles in the dialog. You begin. Ididn’t know that learning English would be so hard, ‘You just used the word “mean.” It has more than one meaning. It’s all the different, meanings that a word has that makes the language difficult for me. Yes, and there's also “tie,” “beat,” and “field.” EXERCISE 4: Repeat the words and sentences. Til race you to the car. Larry lives the farthest from the city. She was quite happy with her quiz score. Tean surely finish by tomorrow, Isaw Pete this morning. He was driving towards town. ‘There's going to be a car race next weekend. ‘Tommy's a reporter for the Houston city newspaper. The shoelaces on Johnny's tennis shoes are too long. Saturday, we're going to play our baseball game in the new stadium. Thelieve that you made a good decision, limagine that all my friends will be at the party. Victor's goal is to own a restaurant. Page 4 Nonintensive ALC, Volume 4EXERCISE 5: Listen fo paragraphs. Write the missing words. Ali is going to his brother to see who can run the and the fastest. Ali is___ sure that he will his older brother won't be able to run very far. Yuriis a for the local TY station, He had a meeting with the mayor of Dallas to tallk about the new soccer _ - The mayor's is to have anew before the next soccer season starts. He that the will bring professional soccer to the city, and he that this will bring in a lot of money for the city. EXERCISE 6: Look at the pictures and listen fo the sentences. Then answer the question. 1. Lt Vera's time Capt Smith’s time ‘Sgt Rogers’ time 2. Line A Line B Line C listening Skills Text Page 53. Mr Miller's class ‘Ms. Havel's class ‘Mrs. Jackson's class 4. Marcus William, Jack 5. 55 mph 85 mph 600 mph Page 6 Nonintensive ALC, Volume 46. Mrs. Wilson EXERCISE 7: Listen to the descriptions. Write answers to the questions. Take notes | essary. ifnecessary. Notes: £ Notes: 2, Notes: 3. Notes: 4. Notes: Listening Skills Text Page 7Notes: EXERCISE 8: Listen fo a paragraph. Select the information you hear. a. the football player’s name b. where he played last year ©. how tall he is a. if ae’s a good player ¢. which team he's going to play for f. if ais brother plays football g. ifne’s playing in the new stadium if 2e's excited about his new team Page 8 Nonintensive ALC, Volume 4