Course

75861451 ESL Upper Intermediate
Course Information
Description
ESL Upper Intermediate is designed for adult 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 paragraphs, at the upper 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.)
    Upper Intermediate: Use stress, tone and rise and falling intonation

  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 and present continuous, future with the present continuous be going to, and will, noun clause
    Apply linguistic and cultural applications of simple present and present continuous, future with the present continuous be going to, and will, noun clause
    Form grammar structures using infinitives and gerunds, gerunds as objects of prepositions, simple past and present perfect
    Apply linguistic and cultural applications using infinitives and gerunds, gerunds as objects of prepositions, simple past and present perfect
    Form grammar structures using phrasal verbs, negative yes/no questions, in direct instructions, commands, and requests
    Apply linguistic and cultural using phrasal verbs, negative yes/no questions, in direct instructions, commands, and requests
    Form grammar structures using present real conditional, adverb clauses of time, past continuous for interrupted action
    Apply linguistic and cultural using present real conditional, adverb clauses of time, past continuous for interrupted action
    Form grammar structures with gerunds as subjects, passives, simple present and simple past, adverbs clauses of condition and contrast
    Apply linguistic and cultural applications of gerunds as subjects, passives, simple present and simple past, adverbs clauses of condition and contrast
    Form grammar structures with articles: a, an, the, no article, future real conditionals, present and future unreal conditionals
    Apply linguistic and cultural applications of articles: a, an, the, no article, future real conditionals, present and future unreal conditionals

  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 sharing personal information, employment and job search skills, transferable skills, weather and home safety, government and legal rights, citizenship, financial literacy appropriate to level
    Identify thematic vocabulary related to sharing personal information, employment and job search skills, transferable skills, weather and home safety, government and legal rights, citizenship, financial literacy appropriate to level
    Use thematic vocabulary related to sharing personal information, employment and job search skills, transferable skills, weather and home safety, government and legal rights, citizenship, financial literacy appropriate to level in conversation
    Produce thematic vocabulary related to sharing personal information, employment and job search skills, transferable skills, weather and home safety, government and legal rights, citizenship, financial literacy appropriate to level in various writing contexts