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      Basic I

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      Basic 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 (RW101)
      Listening & Speaking (C101)

      Relevant Level

      Low Beginning

      COURSE GOALS

       

      This course focuses on basic English conversation. Students practice conversational skills through real world English conversations; for examples, greetings and introductions, being polite to strangers, giving directions, asking for the time, asking someone to repeat something, keeping the conversation going, apologizing, reacting to news, accepting and rejecting offers, giving opinions and making suggestions, turn taking and accepting and refusing invitations.



      COURSE OBJECTIVES


      Students will …

      Reading

      Read several text types such as:
      • Recognize nouns and pronouns
      • Recognize numbers in a text
      • Identify and understand proper nouns
      • Identify key words: Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives
      • Use headings
      • Take notes with important words
      • Understand and, but
      • Scan for specific information
      • Understand the organization of a text: Topic Sentence
      • Recognize and understand subject-verb-object sentences
      • Skim texts
      • Guess meaning from context

      Writing

      Find information and ideas to write about different topics such as:
      • Use capital letters for proper nouns
      • Spell basic words
      • Use subject and verb agreement correctly
      • Use also and too
      • Use for example
      • Add information: Using because
      • Use Sequence words
      • Connect ideas with but
      • Use adjectives to make the writing more interesting
      • Write informally with contractions
      • Add details using time expressions

      Listening

      Listen to a various types of audio such as:
      • Understand content words in speech
      • Understand numbers
      • Understand why you are listening: Specific information
      • Listen for specific information
      • Recognize statements as questions
      • Listen for the beginning and ending of sentences
      • Listen for details
      • Listen for individual words in a sentence
      • Understand the structure of a talk or a radio program
      • Understand different voices

      Speaking

      Use information and ideas to:
      • Give personal information
      • Ask and answer questions
      • Ask where places are
      • Describe habits or routines
      • Buy tickets
      • Talk about abilities
      • Make excuses
      • Talk about dates
      • Order food and drink
      • Make comparisons
      • Ask and answer personal questions
      • Describe plans

      Vocabulary

      Students will be able to use following vocabulary category correctly:
      • Nationalities
      • Jobs
      • Personal items
      • Places in a town
      • Rooms in a house
      • Family
      • Habit and routines
      • Transportation
      • Sports and activities
      • Weather
      • Clothes
      • Food and drink
      • Geography
      • Vacation
      • Education
      • Work
      • Celebrations

      Student Learning Outcomes

       

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

      Speaking

       

      ❏ Give personal information
      ❏ Ask and answer questions
      ❏ Ask where places are
      ❏ Describe habits or routines
      ❏ Buy tickets
      ❏ Talk about abilities
      ❏ Make excuses
      ❏ Talk about dates
      ❏ Order food and drink
      ❏ Make comparisons
      ❏ Ask and answer personal questions
      ❏ Describe plans

       

      Listening

       

      ❏ Understand content words in speech
      ❏ Understand numbers
      ❏ Understand why you are listening:
      Specific information
      ❏ Listen for specific information
      ❏ Recognize statements as questions
      ❏ Listen for the beginning and ending of sentences
      ❏ Listen for details
      ❏ Listen for individual words in a sentence
      ❏ Understand the structure of a talk or a radio program
      ❏ Understand different voices

      Reading

       

      ❏ Recognize nouns and pronouns
      ❏ Recognize numbers in a text
      ❏ Identify and understand proper nouns
      ❏ Identify key words: Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives
      ❏ Use headings
      ❏ Take notes with important words
      ❏ Understanding and, but
      ❏ Scan for specific information
      ❏ Understand the organization of a text: Topic Sentence
      ❏ Recognize and understand
      subject-verb-object sentences
      ❏ Skim the text
      ❏ Guess meaning from context

      Writing

       

      ❏ Use capital letters for proper nouns
      ❏ Spell basic words
      ❏ Use subject and verb agreement
      correctly
      ❏ Use also and too
      ❏ Use for example
      ❏ Add information: Using because
      ❏ Use Sequence words
      ❏ Connect ideas with but
      ❏ Use adjectives to make the writing
      more interesting
      ❏ Write informally with contractions

      ❏ Add details using time expressions

       

       

      Vocabulary

       
      Use the following vocabulary correctly:

      ❏ Nationalities
      ❏ Jobs
      ❏ Personal items
      ❏ Places in a town
      ❏ Rooms in a house
      ❏ Family
      ❏ Habit and routines
      ❏ Transportation
      ❏ Sports and activities
      ❏ Weather
      ❏ Clothes
      ❏ Food and drink
      ❏ GeographyVacation
      ❏ Education
      ❏ Work
      ❏ Celebrations

       

      Student Achievement Scale


      In reading, students are able to identify nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, numbers in a text, proper nouns, and topic sentences. In addition, students are able to take notes with important words.


      In listening, students are able to identify numbers, contractions (short forms) with be and simple present negatives, the beginning and ending of sentences.


      Students are able to give personal information, ask and answer questions, describe habits or routines, buy tickets, talk about abilities, make excuses, talk about dates, order food and drink, make comparisons, and describe plans.


      In writing, students are able to use capital letters for proper nouns, spell basic words correctly, use subject and verb agreement, use also, too, because, for example, but, and sequence words correctly. In addition, students are able to write informally with contractions.


      Students are able to use verbs in affirmative and negative forms, singular and plural nouns, possessive adjectives, there is, there are, simple present, adverbs of frequency, like/ love/ hate + Ving, can/ can’t, adverbs of manner, simple past tense, countable/ uncountable nouns, Quantifiers, would like, object pronouns, comparative adjectives, present continuous, superlative adjectives, and going to for future plans correctly.

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