In this course, students will develop English proficiency at the high beginner level. Students will practice speaking and reading skills and strategies to participate in daily routines. They will learn to read and understand speech and written text on familiar topics. Students will also practice reading, listening, and vocabulary strategies to understand basic information. They will learn to identify the purpose and main idea of a short text. Students will also learn foundational grammar and basic vocabulary needed to participate in conversations and communicate in writing.

This course also introduces expressions to participate in and maintain conversation about familiar topics and everyday routines. Students will also practice repair strategies to reduce communication breakdown. In this course, skills and strategies will be taught using familiar topics, such as culture, jobs, travel, family, hobbies, and neighborhoods.

In this course, students will develop English proficiency at the low intermediate level and learn English skills and strategies to participate actively in routine tasks in the community or at work. Students will further develop their skills to speak and write about familiar topics using basic grammar structures, and high frequency vocabulary. Students will learn to listen and understand basic conversations and to agree and disagree with familiar ideas expressed in speech or text. They will further develop their writing skills by learning about sentence and paragraph structure.

Students will practice writing on familiar topics using present, past and future grammatical tenses. In this course, skills and strategies will be taught using moderately familiar topics, such as people, places and things.

In this course, students will develop English proficiency at the intermediate level. They will learn English skills and strategies to complete moderately complex tasks for academic and professional purposes. Students will read and understand text on unfamiliar topics and develop strategies to identify the main idea and supporting details. They will analyze the most common academic words in English and build their understanding of intermediate grammatical structures. They will also focus on fluency and accuracy when speaking, and learn to communicate preferences, ask for and give advice, and agree and disagree.

Students will understand moderately complex speech when listening and will learn to apply active learning principles in their routine interactions. They will write about familiar and unfamiliar topics using active voice and moderately complex sentence structures and practice writing to express their opinion, request information and make a comparison.

In this course, students will develop English proficiency at the high intermediate level. They will learn English skills and strategies to complete moderately complex tasks for academic and professional purposes. Students will read and understand longer text on unfamiliar topics. They will learn the most common academic words in English and build their understanding of more advanced grammatical structures found in academic text. They will focus on fluency and accuracy when speaking, and use language for persuading, summarizing and interpreting data.

Students will also develop their ability to understand complex speech when listening to infer main points, supporting details and examples in academic discourse. They will learn about the writing process and write moderately unfamiliar topics. They will begin to use complex sentence structures and more advanced grammatical structures to write a variety of short essay types including descriptive, opinion and persuasive essays.