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Intermediate 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 intermediate English conversation. Students practice conversational skills through real world English conversations; for examples, making inquiries, giving and reacting to news, interrupting and resuming, asking for and giving clarification, asking for and giving advice, asking for and giving opinions, making a complaints, promising, giving and receiving criticism, correcting someone, saying sorry, and giving and responding to instructions.
Students will …
- Gather information and ideas to write various types of writing such as:
- 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 Intermediate II level, students will be able to:
❏ Answer interview questions
❏ Describe an event
❏ Give a presentation
❏ Describe a process
❏ Give practical instructions
❏ Talk about past habits
❏ Talk about similarities and differences
❏ Describe the plot of a book or a movie
❏ Talk about wishes and regrets
❏ Report a conversation
❏ Recognize sentence stress and word
boundaries
❏ Recognize linkers in fast speech
❏ Recognize rephrasing in a talk
❏ Interpret changes in volume, speed,
and pitch
❏ Recognize levels of formality
❏ Listen for specific information
❏ Recognize chunks of language
❏ Identity modals in conditionals and
regrets
❏ Identify topic sentences
❏ Work out meaning from context
❏ Classify information from a text
❏ Recognize and understanding
exemplification
❏ Use questions when reading
❏ Recognize and understand forward
and backward references
❏ Understand contrasting points
❏ Recognize and understand
connotation
❏ Distinguish between fact and
speculation
❏ Recognize and understand register
❏ Recognize and understand words with more than one meaning
❏ Use appropriate language
❏ Use references and pronouns
❏ Write paragraphs and topic sentences
❏ Use examples and explanation linking words
❏ Use addition and contrast linking
words
❏ Note-taking while listening
❏ Use a variety of sentence lengths
❏ Use cause and effect linking words
❏ Use definitions and relative clauses
❏ Use reasons and result linking words
❏ Use ellipsis
❏ Write conclusions
❏ Personal developments
❏ Comment adverbs
❏ Exporation
❏ Explanation of process
❏ Education
❏ Technology
❏ Movie making
❏ Mysteries
❏ Problems
❏ Improvement/progress
In reading, students are able to identify topic sentences, identify forward and backward references, contrasting points and registers, and identify words with more than one meaning.
In listening, students are able to identify sentence stress and word boundaries, linkers in fast speech, levels of formality, listen for specific information, identify models in conditionals and regrets, and distinguish speakers.
Students are able to answer interview questions, describe an event, give a presentation, describe a process, give practical instructions, talk about past habits, talk about similarities and differences, describe the plot of a book or a movie, talk about wishes and regrets, and report a conversation.
In writing, students are able to use references pronouns, write paragraphs and topic sentences, use examples and explanation linking words, use addition and contrast linking words, note taking while listening, use a variety of sentence length, use cause and effect linking words, use definitions and relative clauses, use reasons and result linking words, and write a conclusion.
Students are able to use simple present continuous, present perfect, simple past, past continuous, past perfect, and present perfect continuous. Also, students are able to use all/ both/ either/ so/ such, adjectives with prepositions, advice and warning with should/ ought to/ had better, obligations with must and have to, time expressions with the present perfect and simple past, use to and be/ get used to, too and enough with the to infinitive, tag questions, and reported speech.