Overview
Description
Students develop the ability to understand essential information about everyday topics from writing and speech, and to state and write straightforward, factual information from their daily lives.
Units
0 units
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Attributes
S U Only
Learning Outcomes
- identify: main idea and supporting details of a paragraph/short text on a familiar topic; author’s purpose.
- differentiate fact and opinion in a short text on an everyday topic.
- identify main idea and key details of short conversation or talk on an everyday topic.
- make general predictions about upcoming information in a short conversation or talk about a familiar topic.
- recognize cause and effect relationships among key points in a short talk.
- use rejoinders and positive body language to show interest.
- ask follow-up and clarification questions to get more information.
- ask for and give examples.
- check and confirm understanding.
- describe an everyday person or thing in concrete detail.
- express personal opinions on common everyday topics.
- participate in a group discussion about solving an everyday problem; present plan as member of group.
- write: unified descriptive/explanatory paragraphs on everyday topics; topic sentence conveying paragraph’s topic/main idea clearly.
- support main idea of a paragraph with examples/other details; write both simple and compound sentences in a paragraph.
- write both simple and compound sentences in a paragraph; explain a process as a series of linear steps in chronological order.