Overview
Description
Course is designed to help pre-intermediate (A2+/B1) students improve the accuracy of the grammatical structures they use and expand their vocabulary so they can more clearly speak and write about concrete facts related to their daily lives. Through text and speech analysis, guided practice exercises and communicative tasks, students study the form, meaning and use of new grammatical structures and work to integrate them into their everyday language production.
Units
0 units
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Attributes
S U Only
Learning Outcomes
- ask and answer questions about present and past routines, habits, preferences, and future hopes, plans and predictions.
- ask for and give advice and suggestions about common everyday problems.
- describe an everyday event and invite others to attend.
- express an opinion, giving simple reasons.
- begin and maintain a conversation, asking and responding to follow-up questions.
- participate in a simple discussion, offering comments on others’ ideas.
- write a paragraph that includes a series of linked sentences.
- use a variety of simple and compound sentences in a paragraph.
- describe everyday actions and experiences in writing, using descriptive adjectives and adverbs.
- describe future plans and predictions, and past events and actions, in writing.
- use time phrases to identify the chronology of events.
- write questions for a simple conversational interview.
- write about a problem, offering concrete advice to solve it.
- write a simple summary of a plan, giving reasons to explain why it was chosen.
- write an email inviting someone to join an outing.