A multi-level course designed to develop beginning and intermediate listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation skills. Materials are video-based. An intermediate course focusing on the development of reading, research, and vocabulary skills. Students read authentic English texts independently, answer comprehension questions, and participate in class discussions. An intermediate writing course which focuses on narration, exposition, summary, biographical narration, and classification.
Students gather information through reading, transform and organize it in their writing.
They practice justifying opinion, comparing and contrasting, evaluating and analyzing. An introduction to using listening and reading strategies for understanding authentic materials. Students practice predicting, summarizing, analyzing, and taking notes using news, short media features, documentaries, general periodicals and internet articles. This course integrates reading and writing to improve students' abilities to read critically and use information they have read in their writing. Focus is on authentic reading materials and writing formal academic paragraphs, essays, and reports.