About this Course
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Description (Beginning):
General English will provide students with an opportunity to develop listening and speaking skills, enhance structural accuracy, and foster an expansion of everyday English communication skills. The beginning level of this program will help students to listen for details in conversations, organize oral information, distinguish between fact and opinion, take notes on a variety of oral sources, respond to both personal questions and questions about overheard discussions, use the Simple Present and Simple Past tense accurately, and work with various parts of speech in context.
Beginning Objectives:
Students will be able to:
• discuss clothing, transportation, the body, and health
• give and understand opinions
• recognize the difference between fact and opinion
Description (Intermediate):
General English will provide students with an opportunity to develop listening and speaking skills, enhance structural accuracy, and foster an expansion of everyday English communication skills. The intermediate level of this program will help students to evaluate, integrate, and paraphrase information from a variety of sources, deliver summaries on information, argue a stance on a particular topic, and utilize all of the simple tenses as well as the present progressive, past progressive, present perfect and present perfect progressive tenses in context.
Intermediate Objectives:
Students will be able to:
• determine solutions to communication problems
• expand vocabulary through the use of synonyms and antonyms
Description (Advanced):
General English will provide students with an opportunity to develop listening and speaking skills, enhance structural accuracy, and foster an expansion of everyday English communication skills. The advanced level of this program will help students to brainstorm, discuss, restate, ask about, and respond to information found in a variety of current events and general topics; associate cause and effect and classify information from a variety of oral sources, including live and technological resources and determine the value of this information; identify and produce sentences incorporating adverb, adjective, and noun clauses, including true and untrue conditionals; produce sentences in all of the English verb tenses; and produce and respond to critical analysis questions about a variety of topics.
Advanced Objectives:
Students will be able to:
• carry out a Power Point presentation or Prezi on a travel destination
Learning modules
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Week One
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Collocations
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Homonyms
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Week Two
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Vocabulary
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Synonym & Antonyms
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Week Three
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Thanksgiving Vocabulary
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Surveillance Vocabulary
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Surveillance Reading
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Thanksgiving Listening
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Week Four
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Suffixes
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About the Instructor
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