They develop fluency and pronunciation so that they can build confidence in speaking. They work in small groups and also improve their ability to speak before the whole class. The course includes regular work on pronunciation and intonation. All assignments and activities are connected with the readings that are done for the class. Students develop their reading and writing ability through independent reading projects in which they read articles of their own choice, read two novels, and do reading assignments in class.
All activities combine reading, writing, vocabulary, and discussion.
Computer exercises for writing, formatting, and reading continue at this level. The grammar curriculum is based on a spiraling repitition of structures through the levels and on the communicative use of those structures. Grammar 4 combines study of specific grammatical points with communicative, contextual pracitice in speaking and writing. It approaches grammar from a sentence and discourse level. It also focuses on training students to edit their own writing for grammatical errors.