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      Advanced I

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      Advanced I
      High quality ESL instruction to non-native speakers of English


      COURSE DESCRIPTION

       

      In this course, students will practice speaking and understanding basic conversational English. Through dynamic conversational activities, students will improve comprehension and expression techniques, widen vocabulary knowledge, and improve fluency. Activities will include a thematic focus on vocabulary building, learning new idiomatic expressions, situational role-plays, and abundant conversational practice in partners and as a group.

      CLASS SCHEDULE

      Class schedule TBD

      Length of Study

      12 Weeks (216 Hours)

      Course Code

      Reading & Writing (R301)
      Listening & Speaking (C301)

      Relevant Level

      Low Advanced

      COURSE GOALS

       

      This course focuses on advanced English conversation. Students practice conversational skills through real world English conversations; for examples, starting a formal conversation, listening and participating in a group discussion, agreeing and disagreeing, expressing regret, delivering bad news, expressing sympathy, persuading, sharing news about yourself, complaining, expressing reactions, giving and responding compliments, and giving criticism.



      COURSE OBJECTIVES


      Students will …

      Reading

      - Read a various types of text such as:

      • Recognize scenarios
      • Recognize and understand chronology
      • Identify an argument and counterargument
      • Recognize homographs
      • Recognize and understand tone: Humor
      • Recognize and understand metaphors
      • Recognize and understand idioms
      • Recognize and understand generalizations
      • Recognize and understand complex sentences with subordinate clauses
      • Recognize reason and consequence
      • Recognize and understand addition and contrast linking words

      Writing

      - Gather information and ideas to write the followings:

      • Write paragraphs and topic sentences
      • Use discourse markers for time and sequence
      • Summarize
      • Use reason and result linking words
      • Introduce examples and explanations
      • Use reported speech
      • Write main and supporting arguments
      • Include significant details
      • Use synonyms to avoid repetition
      • Use addition and contrast linking words

      Listening

      - Listen to a various types of audio such as:

      • Recognize opinions and speculation
      • Recognize speaker's audience and purpose
      • Listen for gist
      • Make inferences
      • Recognize speaker's attitude and mood
      • Listen and note-taking
      • Recognize paraphrase
      • Identify main ideas and key details
      • Identify main ideas and supporting evidence
      • Recognize and understand vague language

      Speaking

      - Gather information and ideas to:

      • Narrate experiences
      • Critique and review
      • Support opinions with evidence and examples
      • Describe experiences
      • Make speculations
      • Structure a presentation
      • Evaluate and synthesizing
      • Tell a story
      • Use data to support a point of view
      • Expand ideas with related points and examples
      • Talk about advantages and disadvantages
      • Elicit and making relevant comments on the opinions of others

      Vocabulary

      - Students will be able to use following vocabulary category correctly:

      • Social issues
      • Emotions and memories
      • Computing
      • Jobs and money
      • Sports and competition
      • Health and medicine
      • Neologisms
      • Finance and business
      • Alternative words for things
      • Relationships
      • Personal Qualities

      Student Learning Outcomes

       

      At the completion of Conversational Advanced I level, students will be able to:

      Speaking

       

      ❏ Narrate experiences
      ❏ Critique and reviewing
      ❏ Support opinions with evidence and
      examples
      ❏ Describe experiences
      ❏ Make speculations
      ❏ Structure a presentation
      ❏ Evaluate and synthesizing
      ❏ Tell a story
      ❏ Use data to support a point of view
      ❏ Expand ideas with related points and
      examples
      ❏ Talk about advantages and
      disadvantages
      ❏ Elicit and making relevant comments
      on the opinions of others

      Listening

       

      ❏ Recognize opinions and speculation
      ❏ Recognize speaker's audience and
      purpose
      ❏ Listen for gist
      ❏ Make inferences
      ❏ Recognize speaker's attitude and
      mood
      ❏ Listen and note-taking
      ❏ Recognize paraphrase
      ❏ Identify main ideas and key details
      ❏ Identify main ideas and supporting
      evidence
      ❏ Recognize and understand vague
      language

      Reading

       

      ❏ Recognize scenarios
      ❏ Recognize and understand chronology
      ❏ Identify an argument and
      counterargument
      ❏ Recognize homographs
      ❏ Recognize and understand tone:
      ❏ Humor
      ❏ Recognize and understand metaphors
      ❏ Recognize and understand idioms
      ❏ Recognize and understand
      generalizations
      ❏ Recognize and understand complex sentences with subordinate clauses
      ❏ Recognize reason and consequence
      ❏ Recognize and understand addition and contrast linking words

      Writing

       

      ❏ Write paragraphs and topic sentences
      ❏ Use discourse markers for time and sequence Summarize
      ❏ Use reason and result linking words
      ❏ Introduce examples and explanations
      ❏ Use reported speech
      ❏ Write main and supporting arguments
      ❏ Include significant details
      ❏ Use synonyms to avoid repetition
      ❏ Use addition and contrast linking
      words

       

       

       

      Vocabulary

       
      Use the following vocabulary correctly:

      ❏ Social issues
      ❏ Emotions and memories
      ❏ Computing
      ❏ Jobs and money
      ❏ Sports and competition
      ❏ Health and medicine
      ❏ Neologisms
      ❏ Finance and business
      ❏ Alternative words for things
      ❏ Relationships
      ❏ Personal Qualities

       

       

      Student Achievement Scale


      In reading, students are able to identify scenarios, chronology, an argument and counterargument, homographs, tone-humor, metaphors, idioms, generalization, complex sentences with subordinate clauses, reason and consequence, and addition and contrast linking words.


      In listening, students are able to identify the speaker's purpose, attitude and mood, make inferences while listening, note taking while listening, paraphrase the ideas, listen for main ideas, key details, and supporting evidence.


      Students are able to narrate experiences, critique and review, support opinions with evidence and examples, describe experiences, make speculation, structure a presentation, tell a story, use data to support a point of view, expand ideas with related points and examples, talk about advantages and disadvantages, and make relevant comments on the opinions of others.


      In writing, students are able to write paragraphs and topic sentences, summarize, use result linking words, introduce examples and explanations, use reported speech, write main and supporting arguments, use synonyms to avoid repetition, and use addition and contrast linking words in writing.


      Students are able to use present perfect, present perfect continuous, past perfect simple, past perfect continuous, and future perfect. Also, students are able to use different question types, contrast clauses, articles, determiners and quantifiers - each of/ every one of/ either … or, neither … nor, modals of necessity, obligation and prohibition, Verb+ing form, defining and non-defining relative clauses, participle clauses, reported speech, passive voice, intensifying adverbs, conjunction clauses, second, third and mixed conditional.

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