ESL: Port of Entry Full-Time Program Intermediate
This is the intermediate course designed to provide non-native students with the academic, linguistic, verbal, aural, and note-taking skills necessary to succeed on the TOEFL exam and in higher education. This course expands upon different genres of listenings based on authentic materials, challenges students to take what they have learned, organize that information, and synthesize it in a meaningful and coherent way. This course leads students from learning the unit specific vocabulary to practicing and expanding their use of it and finally producing it on speaking tasks. Topically connected reading selections may be provided at the teacher's discretion.
Students in this class will study the following topics in English grammar:
- The present, past, and future tenses: a quick review with expansion
- Pronouns and phrasal verbs
- Modal auxiliaries and similar expressions with expansion
- The present perfect tense
- Adjectives and adverbs
Supplemental lessons will be given in English writing in the following skills:
- Combining sentences with time words
- Using pronouns for coherence
- Using appropriate modals to express ability, permission,
- requests, advice, and suggestions
- Composing the topic sentence and improving paragraph unity
- Using descriptive adjectives
- Combining sentences with because, although, and even though
Upon successful completion of the course, students will demonstrate the following competencies:
- Identify Main Ideas and Details
- Generate notes and take dictation based on different listening genres
- Identify stress patterns in speech
- Infer inexplicit information
- Compare and contrast different types of listening
- Recognize speaker's attitude and emotion thru tone/emphasis
- Analyze problems and propose solutions
- Infer speaker's opinions
- Recognize a variety of global English-accents
- Predict content and outcomes
- Construct and perform a dialogue based on new vocabulary
- Enhance storytelling with adjectives, adverbs, and details
- Tell a story or anecdote using rhetorical devices for cohesion
- Support opinions with facts, statistics, examples, and anecdotes
- Lead and participate in group discussions
- Perform a short, spontaneous, and reactive speech
- Present an oral report based on research
- Infer word meaning from context
- Generate synonyms and antonyms from new vocabulary
- Use word stress to change meaning of sentences
