Oral practice in class reinforces the structures studied.
Students practice writing extensively both in and out of class.
It is characterized by an emerging ability to understand and produce appropriate responses in high-frequency situations utilizing learned materials, standardized messages, phrases and expressions including certain content required for basic communication, such as dates, time, weather, food, family, etc. Students will learn all the sounds of English, and be introduced to the intonation patterns of American English. Communication will be comprehensible to a sympathetic listener accustomed to interacting with non-native speakers. It is an introduction to writing English. Students will learn to spell through phonetics and sight words, phrases, parts of speech and the elements of basic sentences.