level 2 academic courses

Reading Writing Grammar
 EAP 0241/2: Level 2 (A1 High Beginner)

Goal #1: Develop students’ abilities to read and understand texts at the high-beginner level.

Goal #2: Develop students’ abilities to produce writing level on familiar topics such as daily life, interests and hobbies, families, and food at the high-beginner level.

Goal #3: Develop students’ abilities to apply knowledge of grammar to verbal and written communication at the high-beginner level.


Student Learning Outcomes

Reading

  • Demonstrate understanding of high-beginner key vocabulary on the topics People, Climate, Lifestyle, Places, Jobs, Homes and Buildings, Food and Culture, and Transportation.
  • Identify main ideas and details in readings at the high-beginner level.
  • Identify basic antecedents/referents within sentence and paragraph.
  • Identify vocabulary from context.
  • Interpret simple charts, maps, and forms in high-beginner level readings.
  • Predict content using visuals, headings, and subheadings at the high-beginner level

Writing

  • Use level-appropriate vocabulary related to writing topics on People, Climate, Lifestyle, Places, Jobs, Homes and Buildings, Food and Culture, and Transportation.
  • Produce simple and compound sentences on familiar topics of daily life, interests, hobbies, and on everyday actions, and events using Simple Present and Simple Past.
  • Use coordinating conjunctions in compound sentences.
  • Produce a unified narrative paragraph.
  • Produce a unified descriptive paragraph.
  • Summarize a level-appropriate text to demonstrate global understanding.
  • Demonstrate level-appropriate use of punctuation such as capital letters, periods, comas, and question marks in paragraphs.
  • Produce paragraph writing under timed, exam conditions.

Grammar

  • Demonstrate command of Simple Present in affirmative, negative, and question forms (Yes/No and WH questions).
  • Demonstrate command of subject, object and possessive pronouns.
  • Demonstrate use of adverbs and adverbial phrases of frequency: sometimes, never, often, usually, every day, once a year, etc.
  • Demonstrate command of possessive nouns.
  • Demonstrate command of Present Progressive in affirmative, negative, and question forms (Yes/No and WH questions).
  • Demonstrate command of Simple Past regular and high-frequency irregular verbs (be, do, have, go) in affirmative, negative, and question forms.
  • Demonstrate command of tangible count and non-count nouns.
  • Demonstrate command of basic quantifiers some, (how) much, (how) many.
  • Demonstrate command of the indefinite article (a/an) and basic use of definite article (the).
  • Demonstrate command of common prepositions of time and place: at, in, on.

Listening Speaking Pronunciation
EAP 0210/2: Level 2 (a1 high Beginner)

Goal #1: Familiarize students with common phrases, requests, responses, and frequently used expressions related to daily interaction.

Goal #2: Develop students’ ability to communicate information about familiar topics, simple and routine tasks, participate in classroom conversations and mini presentations.

Goal #3: Increase students’ overall comprehensibility and intelligibility.

Student Learning Outcomes

Listening and Speaking

  • Understand key vocabulary from audio and video clips on the topics of People, Climate, Lifestyle, Places, Jobs, Homes and Buildings, Food and Culture, Transportation at the high beginner level.
  • Participate in short conversations in routine contexts on topics of interest.
  • Ask and answer questions and exchange ideas and information on familiar topics in predictable everyday situations with guidance.
  • Give 2‐3-minute informal presentations on a biographical and social topics in class using the past/present tenses.
  • Identify the main ideas and key details of brief informal or conversational listening passages about topics that have been discussed in class.
  • Select and/or note key words, phrases, or short sentences from a short listening passage.
  • Retell the main points of a simple conversation.

Pronunciation

  • Replicate peak vowel sounds in focus words.
  • Demonstrate awareness of syllable stress and sentence stress.
  • Demonstrate intonation in questions and directions.
  • Demonstrate ability to pronounce the weak forms of have to/should.
  • Demonstrate correct pronunciation of numbers with -teen -ty.
  • Produce spoken language with distinction between past tense -d/-ed in regular simple past verbs.
  • Pronounce consonant phonemes /p/ /b/ /d/ /t/ /s/ /z/ clearly.