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      Advanced II

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      Advanced II
      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 (R302)
      Listening & Speaking (C302)

      Relevant Level

      High Advanced

      COURSE GOALS

       

      This course focuses on advanced English conversation. Students practice conversational skills through real world English conversations; for examples, picking up on implied meaning, defending someone, interrupting versus interjections, warnings, drawing out information, redirecting a negative conversation, giving encouragement, expressing sympathy, defending a point of view, evading, clearing up a misunderstanding and persuading.



      COURSE OBJECTIVES


      Students will …

      Reading

      - Read a various types of text such as:

      • Recognize and understand register and style
      • Locate advantages and disadvantages
      • Highlight and annotate
      • Recognize and understand mood and atmosphere
      • Work out meaning from context
      • Identify subjective versus objective information
      • Recognize and understand rhetorical questions
      • Identify and understand analogy
      • Read from perspective of historical or cultural context

      Writing

      - Gather information and ideas to write the followings:

      • Give your opinion
      • Use vague language
      • Use attitude adverbs
      • Use language to praise and criticize
      • Report a real event
      • Select appropriate vocabulary
      • Use words/ phrases to convey feelings
      • Use formal email language
      • Use discourse markers
      • Use appropriate register 
      • Use inversion and cleft sentences for emphasis

      Listening

      - Listen to a various types of audio such as:

      • Listen for the main ideas and supporting evidence
      • Listen for detail
      • Distinguish between fact-based opinion and speculation
      • Recognize the speaker's audience and purpose
      • Recognize participle clauses
      • Recognize metaphors and idioms
      • Recognize word boundaries
      • Recognize features of connected speech
      • Take notes
      • Recognize the use of attitude adverbs
      • Recognize the use of thinking and reporting verbs
      • Recognize unusual word order for emphasis

      Speaking

      - Gather information and ideas to:

      • Give a presentation: signposting, generalizing, and clarifying points
      • Critique and reviewing constructively
      • Paraphrase
      • Speculate and hypothesizing about causes and consequences
      • Reach a consensus
      • Concede a point
      • Express opinions and reason for opinion
      • Express attitudes and feelings
      • Express shades of opinion and certainty
      • Express certainty, probability, and doubt
      • Negotiate
      • Emphasize a point, feelings, or an issue

      Vocabulary

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

      • Music
      • Literature
      • Decisions
      • Health
      • Fabrics
      • Crimes and law
      • Characteristics
      • Emotions
      • Science and technology
      • News and media
      • Communication
      • Employment
      • Marketing and advertising

      Student Learning Outcomes

       

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

      Speaking

       

      ❏ Give a presentation: signposting,
      generalizing, and clarifying points
      ❏ Critique and reviewing constructively
      ❏ Paraphrase
      ❏ Speculate and hypothesizing about
      causes and consequences
      ❏ Reach a consensus
      ❏ Concede a point
      ❏ Express opinions and reason for
      opinion
      ❏ Express attitudes and feelings
      ❏ Express shades of opinion and
      certainty
      ❏ Express certainty, probability, and
      doubt
      ❏ Negotiate
      ❏ Emphasize a point, feelings, or an
      issue

      Listening

       

      ❏ Listen for the main ideas and
      supporting evidence
      ❏ Listen for detail
      ❏ Distinguish between fact-based
      opinion and speculation
      ❏ Recognize the speaker's audience and
      purpose
      ❏ Recognize participle clauses
      ❏ Recognize metaphors and idioms
      ❏ Recognize word boundaries
      ❏ Recognize features of connected
      speech
      ❏ Take notes
      ❏ Recognize the use of attitude adverbs
      ❏ Recognize the use of thinking and
      reporting verbs
      ❏ Recognize unusual word order for
      emphasis

      Reading

       

      ❏ Recognize and understand register
      and style
      ❏ Locate advantages and disadvantages
      ❏ Highlight and annotate
      ❏ Recognize and understand mood and
      atmosphere
      ❏ Work out meaning from context
      ❏ Identify subjective versus objective
      information
      ❏ Recognize and understand rhetorical questions
      ❏ Identify and understand analogy
      ❏ Read from perspective of historical or cultural context

      Writing

       

      ❏ Give your opinion
      ❏ Use vague language
      ❏ Use attitude adverbs
      ❏ Use language to praise and criticize
      ❏ Report a real event
      ❏ Select appropriate vocabulary
      ❏ Use words/ phrases to convey feelings
      ❏ Use formal email language
      ❏ Use discourse markers
      ❏ Use appropriate register
      ❏ Use inversion and cleft sentences for emphasis

       

       

      Vocabulary

       
      Use the following vocabulary correctly:

      ❏ Music
      ❏ Literature
      ❏ Decisions
      ❏ Health
      ❏ Fabrics
      ❏ Crimes and law
      ❏ Characteristics
      ❏ Emotions
      ❏ Science and technology
      ❏ News and media
      ❏ Communication
      ❏ Employment
      ❏ Marketing and advertising

       

       

      Student Achievement Scale


      In reading, students are able to identify register and style, advantages and disadvantages, mood and atmosphere, rhetorical questions, and analogy.


      In listening, students are able to listen for the main ideas and supporting evidences and detail, fact-based opinion and speculation, the speaker’s purpose, participle clauses, metaphor and idioms, and note-taking while listening.


      Students are able to give a presentation, critique and review constructively, paraphrase, reach a consensus, express opinions and reason for opinion, express attitude and feelings, express shades of opinion and certainty/ probability/ doubt, negotiate, and emphasize a point, feeling or an issue.


      In writing, students are able to give opinions, use vague language, use attitude adverbs, use language to praise and criticize, report a real event, use formal email language, use discourse markers and registers, and use inversion and cleft sentences for emphasis.


      Students are able to use perfect infinitives and perfect -ing forms, verbs patterns after verbs of senses, quantifiers, articles, noun phrases, the future perfect continuous, relative clauses, participle phrases and clauses, conditionals, passive voice, tag questions, and auxiliaries to avoid repetition.

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