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Intermediate 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 intermediate English conversation. Students practice conversational skills through real world English conversations; for examples, starting and ending a conversation, apologizing, getting clarification, being a customer, making an invitation, accepting and rejecting invitations, giving and receiving compliments, disagreeing, making requests, confirming acceptance, offering to help, accepting and rejecting offers, giving and responding to feedback, interrupting a conversation, and reacting to news.
Students will …
- Listen to a various types of audio such as:
-Gather information and ideas to write various types of writing such as:
-Gather information and ideas to
-Students will be able to use following vocabulary category correctly:
At the completion of Conversational Intermediate I level, students will be able to:
❏ Show interest
❏ Tell and responding to a story
❏ Describe experiences and events
❏ Ask for and giving directions
❏ Describe places
❏ Give a presentation using visuals
❏ Express worries, doubts, and
problems
❏ Call customer service
❏ Explain words you don't know
❏ Compare and contrast
❏ Describe people
❏ Describe feelings and emotions
❏ Guess meaning from context
❏ Preview
❏ Understand a speaker's purpose
❏ Recognize reductions with to
❏ Distinguish levels of formality
❏ Listen for specific information
❏ Listen for main ideas
❏ Recognize statements used as
questions
❏ Predict while listening
❏ Focus on key content words
❏ Recognize linking with consonants
❏ Recognize intonation in exclamation
❏ Recognize and understand synonyms
❏ Separate fact and opinion
❏ Recognize cause and effect
❏ Recognize prefixes
❏ Recognize words with more than one meaning
❏ Interpret visuals and data
❏ Note Taking
❏ Identify pronoun references
❏ Analyze characters in literary texts
❏ Recognize contrast linking words
❏ Use informal expressions in emails
❏ Use time expressions
❏ Use additional linking words
❏ Use the right tone in text message
❏ Use synonyms
❏ Write opening sentences
❏ Give opinions
❏ Give reasons
❏ Use sequencing words
❏ Write conclusions
❏ Use narrative tenses
❏ Communication
❏ Changes
❏ Education
❏ Traveling
❏ Expressions with make
❏ Photography
❏ Collocations with get
❏ Personal skills and jobs
❏ Fake news
❏ Fictions and movies
❏ Emotions
❏ Decisions
In reading, students are able to identify the synonyms, facts and opinions, cause and effect, prefixes, words with more than one meaning, pronoun references, contrast linking words. Also, students are able to take note.
In listening, students are able to guess meaning from context, identify speaker’s purpose, listen for specific information, main ideas, identify statements used as questions, and predict while listening.
Students are able to show interest, tell and respond to a story, describe experiences and events, ask for and give directions, describe places, express worries/ doubts/ problems, call customer service, explain unknown words, compare and contrast, describe people, and describe feelings and emotions.
In writing, students are able to use informal expressions in emails, time expressions, additional linking words, appropriate tone in a text message, synonyms, punctuation, give opinions, give reasons, write conclusions, and use narrative tenses.
Students are able to use simple present and present continuous, simple past, past continuous, present perfect, simple present in future time clauses, present tenses for future plans and schedules, make comparisons, quantifiers - both/ several/ most/ all/ too much/ too many/ a little/ a few/ a lot/ enough, must/ have to/ can’t deductions about the present, will/ might for predictions, can/ could/ may for permissions and requests, may/ might/ could/ be able to, zero/ first and second condition, passive voice - simple present and simple past, article use, indefinite pronouns and adverbs, and past perfect.