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Advanced II
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, 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.
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 II level, students will be able 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
❏ 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
❏ 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
❏ 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
❏ Music
❏ Literature
❏ Decisions
❏ Health
❏ Fabrics
❏ Crimes and law
❏ Characteristics
❏ Emotions
❏ Science and technology
❏ News and media
❏ Communication
❏ Employment
❏ Marketing and advertising
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.