Students review the skills learned in 3B and practice new skills, including taking notes on readings and summarizing main ideas from notes, understanding the concept of outlining and filling in partial outlines, distinguishing the difference between fact and opinion in readings, and expanded dictionary skills. ESL 3C or equivalent skills. Students learn to identify and understand standard English spoken by various voices. Listening practice discriminates among verb tenses. Speaking practice will produce statements and questions in the appropriate verb tenses.
Students learn to interpret American culture through body language and common idioms.
Students will give brief presentations. The primary emphasis is on the practice of writing organized, well-developed paragraphs and essays as well as reading and critical thinking skills. Prewriting, rough draft, editing, and rewriting will lead to the finished composition. Attention is given to self-correcting grammar errors. ESL 5A satisfies the requirement for the vocational certificate.