Advanced I
High quality ESL instruction to non-native speakers of English
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.
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.
Students will …
- Read a various types of text such as:
- Gather information and ideas to write the followings:
- Listen to a various types of audio such as:
- Gather information and ideas to:
- Students will be able to use following vocabulary category correctly:
At the completion of Conversational Advanced I level, students will be able to:
❏ 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
❏ 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
❏ 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
❏ 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
❏ 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
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.