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Basic II First Half
High quality ESL instruction to non-native speakers of English
This course builds upon foundation English language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing for everyday situations and academic purposes. The class is taught using a student-centered communicative approach to English language learning. The total time of the course is 108 hours.
Students will be able to communicate with and understand basic II level written, spoken, and aural English. Students read short texts, write short paragraphs about various topics introduced in class, and actively participate in class discussions. In this course, the focus is on improving students’ ability to understand written and spoken English, and improving their ability to communicate in real-world situations. Students practice listening skills through various types of audios. In addition, students discuss and present information to their classmates. The core competencies of reading, writing, listening, and speaking will be given equal importance.
Students will …
- Read several short articles in a textbook.
- Gather information and ideas to write various types of writing such as:
- Listen to a various types of audio such as:
-Use information and ideas to
At the completion of Basic II level (first half), students will be able to:
❏ Ask for repetition and clarification.
❏ Present information from notes.
❏ Introduce topics in a presentation.
❏ Use eye contact, facial expressions and body language.
❏ Identify key words and phrases
❏ Identify main ideas and details.
❏ Understand numbers and dates while listening.
❏ Identify specific information.
❏ Skim a text and find important information.
❏ Read charts, graphs, and tables.
❏ Identify the topic sentence in a paragraph.
❏ Write a main idea and supporting sentences.
❏ Connect sentences with but and so.
❏ Correct paragraph structure.
❏ Write a topic sentence.
❏ Use words that are both nouns and verbs correctly.
❏ Use modifying nouns correctly.
❏ Identify parts of speech and use them in sentences correctly.
❏ Use the suffixes -ful and -ing correctly.
❏ Use synonyms in a sentence correctly.
❏ Pronounce simple past -ed endings correctly.
❏ Pronounce the schwa sounds correctly.
❏ Use the reduced pronunciation of be going to correctly.
❏ Pronounce the simple present third-person -s/ -es correctly.
❏ Use verbs + infinitives (like, want, and need) correctly.
❏ Use the simple present and simple past correctly.
❏ Write sentences with because.
❏ Use sentences with when correctly.
❏ Use should/ shouldn't and it’s+adjective+infinitive correctly.
❏ Use be going to correctly.
❏ Use the simple present for informal narratives correctly.
Students are able to skim a text and find important information, read charts, graphs, and tables. Also, students can identify a topic sentence and supporting sentences, facts and opinions, and pronoun references in articles
In listening, students are able to Identify key words, phrases, main ideas, details, specific information, signal words, examples and different opinions. Also, students are able to understand numbers and dates and make inference while listening.
In speaking, students are able to ask for repetition, clarification, give their opinion, present information from notes, introduce topics in a presentation and use eye contact, facial expressions, body language and express emotion. Students are able to source information and check listeners’ understanding. In terms of pronunciation, students are able to pronounce simple past -ed endings, the schwa sounds, the reduced pronunciation of be going to, and the simple present third-person -s/ -es correctly. Also students are able to use correct intonation in questions, link consonants to vowels, link vowel sounds with /w/ or /y/, and use content word stress in sentences.
Students are able to write a main idea and supporting sentences and put them in a complete paragraph with a topic sentence, supporting sentences and details and concluding sentences. Also, students are able to connect sentences with but, so and contrast ideas with however.
Students are able to use verbs + infinitives (like, want, and need), the simple present and simple past, sentences with when, prepositions of location, infinitives of purpose, clauses with before/ before that and after/ after that, comparative adjectives, should/ shouldn't and it’s+adjective+infinitive, be going to, the simple present for informal narratives, gerunds as subjects or objects, the conjunctions and and but, the imperative of be+adjective, so and such with adjectives correctly. Also, students are able to write sentences with because.
Students are able to use words that are both nouns and verbs, prefix un-, the suffixes -ful and -ing, verb-noun collocations, synonyms, percentages and fractions, modifying nouns, and idioms and expressions in sentences correctly. Also, students are able to identify parts of speech and use them in sentences correctly.