Course Syllabus
Welcome
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Course Overview
Mizzou K-12 has partnered with Rosetta Stone Education to offer this competency-based, interactive language learning course. Previously known as Tell Me More, Rosetta Stone Advantage is a language learning program for individuals with at least an intermediate level of language proficiency. If you have completed all levels in our American English 1A - 4B, or have demonstrated equivalent skills (such as completing our placement test), you are ready for our Advanced English series. This series encompasses six courses, Advanced American English 1 through 4B. The courses are aligned to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (Council of Europe, 2001), and allow students to place according to the CEFR Level. Achievement tests also provide a CEFR Level outcome.
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Course Description
Advanced American English 3B
This course will introduce and help you assimilate, in context, the vocabulary and structures most commonly used for: ordering at a restaurant, making purchases, making an appointment by telephone, seeing a doctor, talking about written correspondence, and withdrawing money. Different activities allow you to practice using the corresponding words, expressions, and structures in a number of communicative situations.
Associated Press Videos and Resources
Our Advanced English courses come with additional resources, focusing on domain-specific areas for college and career interests. While they are available to practice from 1A through 4B, these should be more thoroughly explored when students reach English 3A through 4B. The mobile app will also expose students to additional vocabulary outside of their language learning program.
Automotive Industry | |
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Lessons | Estimated Length |
Fuel Efficiency | 31m |
Luxury Hybrid Car | 30m |
Meet Shelley, an Autonomous Vehicle | 26m |
Electric Cars: Promise or Fantasy? | 25m |
Collectible Cars | 22m |
Insurance and Financial | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
A Loan Modification Program | 30m |
Pharmaceutical Buyout | 27m |
Unemployment Rate Analysis | 27m |
Home Construction and the Housing Market | 24m |
Federal Open Market Committee Report | 29m |
Regulatory Reform Testimony | 25m |
World Markets | 25m |
Pharmaceutical |
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Lessons | Estimated Length |
Vaccines: Interest and Investment | 26m |
Generic Drugs on the Rise | 27m |
Painkiller Safety | 28m |
Pharmaceutical Buyout | 27m |
Autism Ruling | 24m |
Medicine and Health | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
Cancer Testing: A Promising Method | 26m |
Salmonella Outbreak | 28m |
Sixteen Weeks Premature | 28m |
Medical Innovations | 24m |
Angioplasty Alternatives | 28m |
High-Tech Hospital for Animals | 24m |
Wearable Health Sensors | 25m |
Split-Liver Transplant | 26m |
Pandemic Readiness | 27m |
Accessibility Lab | 27m |
Diabetes: An Opportunity | 23m |
Industry and Manufacturing | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
Algae: A Fuel Alternative | 24m |
Coal's Journey from Mine to Sea | 24m |
Inside a Factory | 23m |
London Taxis Made in China | 22m |
Law and Justice | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
International Court Conviction | 25m |
A Long Legal Battle | 24m |
An Alleged Conspiracy | 23m |
Regulatory Reform Testimony | 25m |
Autism Ruling | 24m |
Foreclosure Proceedings | 25m |
Accusations in California | 23m |
Hospitality | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
Supersized Hotels | 26m |
Cruising the Seas on the World's Biggest Ship | 25m |
Smart Restaurants: Tables and Tablets | 27m |
Building and Construction | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
White House Construction | 27m |
Straw: An Eco-Friendly Construction Material | 27m |
A Dynamic Skyscraper | 28m |
Home Construction and the Housing Market | 24m |
Home Recycling | 26m |
Energy and Fuel | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
A Clean Energy Revolution | 29m |
Fuel Efficiency | 31m |
Natural Gas Speculation | 28m |
Wave Energy | 27m |
Algae: A Fuel Alternative | 24m |
Coal: Pros and Cons | 25m |
Computers and IT | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
Social Networks | 27m |
Windows Makeover | 25m |
Accessibility Lab | 27m |
Cybersecurity | 27m |
Robotic Helicopters Mimic Flights | 25m |
Wearable Health Sensors | 25m |
Wireless Memory Cards | 25m |
Marketing and Advertising | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
Times Square's Newest Name | 27m |
Trade Show Marketing Strategies | 27m |
L.A.'s Signage Sprawl | 27m |
When Advertising Is Too Successful | 27m |
Telecommunications | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
GPS and Broadband: At Odds? | 26m |
Communication Technology: A Look Back | 26m |
On the Road to a Smart Society | 27m |
Over-the-Limit Notifications | 26m |
Network Venture | 24m |
Airlines and Aerospace | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
The Plastic Plane's First Flight | 26m |
Paperless Boarding | 26m |
Fantastic Folding Plane | 25m |
Robotic Helicopters Mimic Flights | 25m |
GPS Air Traffic System | 27m |
Ultrafast Helicopters | 27m |
Slower Flights to Save Fuel | 24m |
Airport Stress: Causes and Solutions | 26m |
Luxury Goods and the Retail Sector | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
China's Luxury Shopper | 23m |
Holiday Shopping | 25m |
Luxury Shopping in a Tough Economy | 22m |
Fashion Brands in Superstores | 24m |
Military and Defense | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
Shipping Squads from Sea to Shore | 26m |
Detection Hardware | 26m |
Ultrafast Helicopters | 27m |
Naval Drones in Pursuit | 25m |
On the Job with a Homeland Security Agent | 24m |
Government and the Public Sector | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
Mayor's Election Victory Speech | 22m |
Federal Government Jobs | 23m |
New York Term Limits | 25m |
Canine Political Action Committee | 24m |
Education | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
Chemistry Kids | 24m |
Classroom Clickers | 25m |
Charter School | 23m |
Science Fair Sparks Kids' Interest | 25m |
The Natural Sciences | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
Chemistry Kids | 24m |
A Powerful Laser for Clean Energy | 23m |
Liquid Scanners | 22m |
The Hunt for the Higgs Boson | 27m |
Weather and the Environment | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
Almanac Predictions | 23m |
Heat Advisory | 22m |
Weather Preparations | 23m |
Changes in the Antarctic Ocean | 23m |
A Concrete Solution for Global Warming | 23m |
Methods without Means: A Texas Water Plan | 24m |
Culture in the United States | |
Lessons | Estimated Length |
The Art of American Portraiture | 23m |
Mardi Gras and the Float Business in New Orleans | 22m |
The Statue of Liberty: A Stirring Symbol | 22m |
Guardian Angel of Route 66 | 22m |
White House Halloween | 21m |
Memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. | 23m |
Fourth of July Fireworks | 23m |
Collectible Cars | 22m |
Course Content and Objectives
The Advanced American English language program allows students to work on all the skills and knowledge areas of the English language.
All the activities, resources and exercises of the Rosetta Stone method are included, enabling students to establish a close link between comprehension and production. This varied Language Program includes all the lessons for one level of the method and allows students to review concepts and rules they have already learned, to maintain their current level, or to progress even further. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening, as well as grammar and vocabulary, are all included.
(The "estimated length" does not reflect practice, mobile vocabulary practice, tutoring, or interaction with the "Resource" section of our program.)
Advanced American English 3B (B1/B2)
Situtations
Lessons | Estimated Length |
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Breakfast Menus | 4h 16m |
'Still Hungry?' | 3h 57m |
The Menu | 5h 10m |
Desserts | 3h 16m |
Cultural Exercises 1 | 1h 02m |
Window-shopping | 3h 56m |
The Fitting Room | 3h 58m |
An Emergency | 4h 08m |
At the Doctor's | 4h 08m |
Cultural Exercises 2 | 1h 22m |
Correspondence | 3h 56m |
At the Post Office | 4h 00m |
Banks and ATMs | 4h 10m |
Paying a Bill | 3h 56m |
Cultural Exercises 3 | 1h 41m |
Learning Objectives:
- Order breakfast and ask the waiter questions. Learn basic breakfast vocabulary.
- Send back something you ordered and order something else. Express your dissatisfaction.
- Order a meal. Name your favorite dishes, say what you do not like and learn basic food vocabulary.
- Ask questions about the dessert tray in a restaurant. Order dessert and ask for the bill.
- Take the bus downtown to go shopping for shoes with a friend. Give your opinion on an article.
- Learn the names of clothes. Discuss size, color and express your taste.
- Seek assistance for an injured person. Learn basic medical vocabulary and parts of the body.
- Describe your symptoms and discuss treatment options.
- Learn vocabulary for letter writing: writing paper, ink, envelopes.
- Learn vocabulary to do with the postal service: sending a parcel, express delivery, registered mail, metered mail, stamp collecting.
- Learn how to explain a problem and learn vocabulary associated with banks: credit card, expiration date, commission, etc.
- Learn about different means of paying for something: by check, in cash, etc.
Grammar:
“The simple present and the “present continuous
““Would like:” expressing wishes
“The use and omission of “the”
““Little” - “A little” - “Much”
Regular comparatives
Adjectives ending in “-ing”
““Too” - “Too much”
“Placement of “enough”
“Construction of the past tense
““Also” - “As well” - “Too”
“Different meanings of “all”
“Use of the past tense
“Use of the past participle as an adjective
“Final prepositions
Use of the present conditional
Construction of compound nouns
“Verb + infinitive clause
Use of compound nouns
“Compound adjectives
“Absolute superlative
Construction of the present perfect continuous
“Use of the present perfect continuous
“Irregular comparatives
“The sequence of tenses
““That” and dependent clauses
“Kind of” followed by a noun
Verbs expressing a wish to act
Possessive pronouns
Anaphoric “to”
“As much as” - “As many as”
More uses of the possessive
“For” - “Since” - “Ago”
Construction of the passive
Use of the passive
Construction of the present conditional
The past subjunctive
“To let”
Required Materials
There are no required materials for the course. Please view the technical requirements for items such as headsets and minimum technology requirements.
Technical Requirements
The most up-to-date requirements can be found here:
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR WORLD LANGUAGE COURSES
- USB Headset or USB earbuds. The headset includes a microphone and should be certified for speech recognition, either by the vendor or a third party. We recommend theMicrosoft LifeChat LX-3000 headset. (Links to an external site.)
- Bandwidth: 500Kbps download, 400 Kbps upload.
- Latency: <300ms
- Test bandwidth and latency here (Links to an external site.)
- For Mobile, at least 75Mb free on device. Available on Android or iOS. (Links to an external site.)
Purchase the Microsoft LifeChat Headset (Links to an external site.)
Test Bandwidth and Latency Here (Links to an external site.)
Mobile App
What is the Mobile App?
The Mobile App is intended as a supplement to your learning and does NOT contain the core learning program. As such, the activities you see on the app are different from the lessons in your online account.
Will My Progress Sync?
If you log in to the mobile app with your institution's credentials, then the time spent in the mobile application will be tracked in your online account. This is helpful if your organization requires you to spend a certain amount of time practicing in your language studies. However, as the app is intended as a supplement to your learning, the activities you see on the app are different from the lessons in your online account. So, while your time will be counted, your progress will not be synced back to your online program.
Download Rosetta Stone Advantage Extra Practice Mobile App(s) (Links to an external site.)
NetTutor
NetTutor offers English tutoring, including spoken American English tutoring. Simply click on "NetTutor" and go to "English Language Learner." ("English" is for Language Arts support.)
Canvas and Technical Support
Canvas Support
Canvas is the where course content, grades, and communication will reside for this course.
- Your courses website: courses.mizzouk12.missouri.edu
- This course is mobile-friendly. Download the mobile apps on your iOS, Android device.
- Getting Started with Canvas
- View the Getting Started in your Course Resources
- View the Getting Started Canvas Guides.
- For Canvas, Passwords, or any other computer-related technical support create a ticket in Canvas or contact Mizzou K-12 Support.
- How to Get Help in Canvas
- Mizzou K-12 Support Phone: +1 855 256-4975
- http://mizzouk12.missouri.edu
- mizzouk12online@missouri.edu
Rosetta Stone Technical Support
- Chat: Need technical assistance? Use the HELP CHAT
- Camera, Headset, and Microphone Setup:
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Toll-Free Numbers:
- US Main Support Line:
- Global/Worldwide Phone Support:
- +001 540-236-7983
- UK 0800-145-6078
- AUS 1800-730-637
- Product Support Email: instsupport@rosettastone.com
Grades
The work that you do in the online Rosetta Stone course is synced back into one assignment called "Advanced English Performance Grade." This assignment is worth 100 points.
Within the system, the 100 points are broken down into 3 separate components:
- Time Worked (5% of your grade, or 5 points)
- Language Program Completion Rate (45% of your grade, or 45 points)
- Language Program Success Rate (50% of your grade, or 50 points)
The system keeps track of your current progress and will continually update the Canvas assignment as to your current number of points you have earned so far in the course.
Read below how each of these areas works.
Your grade is calculated in Rosetta Stone Advantage system and is sent back to Canvas. As such, there is only one assignment, and it is updated with points. Because of this, you will start with low points and continue accumulating points throughout your program.
Source for Grade | Weight |
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Work (5 points max) + Completion (40 points max) + Success (55 points max) | 100% |
Total | 100% |
Grade | Percentage |
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A | 90–100 |
B | 80–89 |
C | 70–79 |
D | 60–69 |
F | 0–59 |
After completing the course, unofficial transcripts will be available in the Tiger Portal. See this page for information on requesting official transcripts.
Exams
There are no exams in this course. There are, however, placement tests, progress tests, and achievement tests. The achievement tests will give you an official CEFR level. The tests provide you with feedback on your learning but are not associated with your grade in the course.
Getting Started Resources (Canvas and Other Resources)
View the content below to learn more about each of these elements and how they work in your Mizzou K-12 Canvas course.
Academic Integrity
Our academic integrity policy at Mizzou K-12 is based on our values of ethical behavior, learning, and giving all stakeholders the benefit of the doubt. Collaboration, research, and technical literacy are vital 21st-century skills when combined with academic integrity.
Definitions
Mizzou K-12’s academic integrity policy is aligned with the University of Missouri’s academic integrity policy. The definitions of what constitutes "cheating" and "plagiarism"are posted on the Provost’s Advising Council’s webpage which can be found here: https://advising.missouri.edu/policies/academic-integrity.
Issues Involving Violations of Academic Integrity
If, when completing any of your assignments or exams for this course, you are found to have demonstrated cheating or plagiarism as defined above, this is a violation of academic integrity. At your teacher's discretion, violations of academic integrity may be subject to either or both of the following actions:
- receiving a zero for the assignment or exam
- receiving an F for the course
Accessibility
If you anticipate barriers related to the format or requirements of this course, please let Mizzou K-12 know as soon as possible. If disability-related accommodations are necessary (for example, a scribe, reader, extended time on exams, captioning), please contact Mizzou K-12.
About Exams at Mizzou K-12*
*This section describes the policies of exams at Mizzou K-12. This section only applies if you have exams in your course. See the section above to see if you have exams.
ABOUT EXAMS
Your exams are online. It is your responsibility to schedule your exams.
During exams, unless otherwise noted, you are not allowed to navigate away from the exam or use any other resources. If you deviate from the exam guidelines without proper prior permission, it is considered cheating on an exam.
SCHEDULING EXAMS
Global Courses
First, request approval for your proctor. Allow enough time (2 weeks) for our office to receive your request and communicate with your chosen exam site and proctor. Mizzou K-12 has approved exam sites throughout the United States and around the world.
Request Exam Date and Proctor Approval Form
- Choose a proctor and make arrangements for taking the exam.
- At least 2 weeks prior to taking your exam, submit your proctor information to Mizzou K-12
- You will be sent an email notice indicating if your chosen proctor has been approved or denied.
- Arrive at your proctor’s testing site at the scheduled time with a photo ID. At testing time, you will log into your Mizzou K-12 account and select the exam for your proctor to access and administer.
Co-Teach Courses
If you are taking a co-teach course, work with your local teacher to identify your date of the exam and how you will be proctored. You do not need to request an exam date with the above form.
HOW TO PREPARE FOR EXAMS
- Complete and review all assignments.
- Review the learning objectives; make sure you can accomplish them.
- Be prepared to explain any key terms and concepts.
- Review all the lessons, exercises, and study questions.
- Review any feedback and/or comments on your assignments and previous exams; look up answers to any questions you missed.
- Take the exam review, use the study guide to help you self-evaluate your readiness and prepare for the exam.
Additional Course Policies and links
- Course add/drop/transfer
- Exams and exam proctoring**
- Examity Online Proctoring**
- Course extensions**
- Course length**
- Flexible and Global format course policy**
- Fees
**Not applicable to World Language courses.
Course Summary:
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