Course

75861351 ESL Intermediate
Course Information
Description
ESL Intermediate is designed for adults learners of English. The course focuses on using English in different situations, understanding a variety of written materials, and writing different types of documents, including basic paragraphs, at the intermediate level. Topics include asking for clarification, using grammar, employing pronunciation strategies, understanding signs, and engaging in basic functional communication. Students will also learn computer literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
Total Credits
2
Course Competencies (Course Outcomes)
  1. Reading
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
    Unit tests at 70% or above
    Criteria
    Identify structural components of a text (for example, title, subtitles, heading, graphic organizers, images, etc.) as appropriate for level
    Analyze text for comprehension
    Describe the author’s purpose for writing a text
    Connect text to personal experiences, knowledge, and/or learning
    Summarize text at intermediate level
    Infer Meaning

  2. Writing
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
    Unit tests at 70% or above
    Criteria
    Analyze model theme-related texts as appropriate for level
    Organize ideas around theme-related texts as appropriate for level (Intermediate: paragraph)
    Produce theme-related content as appropriate for level (Intermediate: paragraph)
    Revise student-produced writing (self-edit, peer edit, etc.)

  3. Listening
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
    Unit tests at 70% or above
    Criteria
    Identify main ideas
    Interpret details
    Recognize speech patterns such as tone, intonation, reduced speech, specific speech sounds, etc.
    Determine inferred message

  4. Speaking
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
    Unit tests at 70% or above
    Criteria
    Use communicative strategies to stay in the target language
    Make use of theme-related ideas using unit vocabulary
    Communicate using affirmative, negative, and question forms in target grammar structures
    Increase use of extended speech as appropriate for level
    Produce speech patterns as appropriate for level (tone, intonation, reduced speech, specific speech sounds, etc.)
    Intermediate: Use stress, tone and rise and falling intonation, and others

  5. Grammar
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
    Unit tests at 70% or above
    Criteria
    Form grammar structures of simple present tense and adverbs of frequency
    Apply linguistic and cultural applications of simple present tense and adverbs of frequency
    Form grammar structures using participial adjectives, preposition + gerund
    Apply linguistic and cultural applications using participial adjectives, preposition + gerund
    Form grammar structures using quantifiers and count / non-count nouns
    Apply linguistic and cultural using quantifier and count / non-count nouns
    Form grammar structures using future tense with will/might/going to/present continuous
    Apply linguistic and cultural applications of future tense with will/might/going to/present continuous
    Form grammar structures with present perfect and present perfect continuous with questions and statements
    Apply linguistic and cultural applications of present perfect and present perfect continuous with questions and statements
    Form grammar structures with past tense of used to
    Apply linguistic and cultural applications of past tense of used to
    Form grammar structures of superlatives, verb + gerund as object and gerund as subject
    Apply linguistic and cultural applications of superlatives, verb + gerund as object and gerund as subject
    Form grammar structures of one/ones, verb + object + infinitive and reported speech
    Apply linguistic and cultural applications of one/ones, verb + object + infinitive and reported speech

  6. Vocabulary
    Assessment Strategies
    Skill demonstration through writing, speaking, listening, and reading performances with classmates and instructor
    Unit tests at 70% or above
    Criteria
    Apply thematic vocabulary related to countries, goal setting, employment, getting a job, healthcare and transition appropriate to level
    Identify thematic vocabulary related to countries, goal setting, employment, getting a job, healthcare and transition appropriate to level
    Use thematic vocabulary related to countries, goal setting, employment, getting a job, healthcare and transition appropriate to level in conversation
    Produce thematic vocabulary related to countries, goal setting, employment, getting a job, healthcare and transition appropriate to level in various writing contexts