Reading Writing Grammar
EAP 0441/2: Level 4 (B1 intermediate)
Goal #1: Develop ability to read, understand and analyze multi-paragraphed text on general and introductory academic themes.
Goal #2: Construct multi-paragraph compositions with a central theme, cohesion, and coherence using emerging academic writing conventions.
Goal #3: Apply knowledge of grammatical structures and functions in verbal and written communication at the intermediate level.
Student Learning Outcomes
Reading
- Demonstrate understanding of high-frequency and core academic vocabulary at the intermediate level.
- Demonstrate understanding of intermediate key vocabulary on the topics: Animals, the Environment, Transportation, Customs, Health and Fitness, Discovery and Invention, Fashion, and Economics.
- Demonstrate reading strategies such as previewing, skimming, and scanning in intermediate level texts.
- Demonstrate ability to distinguish between main ideas and supporting details in intermediate level texts.
- Use a variety of context clues to aid comprehension of unfamiliar words and phrases.
- Use inferences to make conclusions and predictions.
- Demonstrate ability to distinguish between fact and opinion in intermediate level texts.
- Identify patterns of organization to aid comprehension.
- Develop note-taking skills using Venn diagrams and other graphic organizers.
- Demonstrate in-text annotation skills.
Writing
- Employ and spell a wide range of high frequency vocabulary and an emerging use of core academic vocabulary.
- Produce six free-writing passages on instructor-generated general and academic topics at the intermediate level.
- Produce four multi-paragraph essays that include introductory paragraph with thesis statement, body paragraphs, and concluding paragraph:
- Problem-Solution essay.
- Cause and Effect essay.
- Compare and Contrast essay.
- Argument essay.
- Compose writing with simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentence structure and use varied sentence structures and punctuation to add variety, flow, and interest to writing.
- Demonstrate command of connectives and transitional phrases for addition, sequencing, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, concession, argument, and conclusion.
- Identify and self-correct sentence fragments, comma splices, and run-ons in written communication.
- Paraphrase ideas from a reading; summarize a level appropriate text.
- Employ revising and editing strategies to improve organization, word choice, grammatical correctness in written communication and use self-editing skills, peer-review, and instructor feedback for review and revision of essays.
- Demonstrate command of mechanics at the intermediate level including capitalization, periods, commas, semi colons, and other punctuation marks.
- Compose multi-paragraph essays under timed, exam conditions.
Grammar
- Demonstrate command of future forms: Simple Present, Present Progressive, will vs be going to and review of future time clauses.
- Demonstrate command of Present Perfect with emphasis on since and for, yet, already, ever, never, and multiple past experiences.
- Demonstrate command of Present Perfect Progressive for habitual actions with since and for
- Demonstrate command of Past Perfect.
- Demonstrate command of modals and modal phrases of:
- Certainty: could, might, may
- Advice: could, should, ought to, had better
- Obligation (present/future): must, have to
- Expand usage of definite article: geographical names, second mention, unique/specific entity.
- Demonstrate command of adjective clauses, restrictive and non-restrictive.
- Demonstrate knowledge of gerunds and infinitives:
- verb + gerund
- go + ing
- verb + infinitive
- verb + gerund or infinitive
- Demonstrate command of noun clauses including:
- Noun clauses that begin with if and whether
- Noun clauses that begin with that
- Quoted speech vs reported speech.
- Verb forms in reported speech
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Listening Speaking Pronunciation EAP 0410/2: Level
4 (B1 intermediate)
Goal
#1: Develop ability to listen to and understand short discussions, interviews, and lectures on a variety of general and academic topics.
Goal
#2: Develop conversational skills and academic presentation skills on familiar topics, current events, and intermediate level academic topics.
Goal
#3: Increase comprehensibility and intelligibility through focus on prosody and phonemic awareness.
Student Learning Outcomes
Listening and Speaking
- Understand vocabulary from audio and video clips on the topics Animals, The Environment, Transportation, Customs and Traditions, Health and Fitness, Discovery and Invention, Fashion, Economics.
- Demonstrate understanding of appropriate conversation skills in varying levels of formality and contexts.
- Participate in formal class discussions and debates using appropriate vocabulary and register.
- Give 3‐5-minute academic presentations using appropriate structure, transition markers, vocabulary, and register.
- Identify the main ideas and distinguish relevant supporting details of brief formal or academic listening passages on general topics.
- Utilize notes on formal or academic listening passages to demonstrate comprehension.
- Identify main ideas and key details expressed in a group discussion listening passage on general or conversational topics.
- Summarize the main points of a brief academic listening passage.
Pronunciation
- Listen for and demonstrate use of peak vowel stress, focus word stress, and thought groups in spoken interactions and presentations.
- Listen for and demonstrate intonation of lists.
- Demonstrate connected speech with final /t/ /d/.
- Listen for and demonstrate intonation for attitude and emotion.
- Listen for and demonstrate use of weak and strong forms such as a, an, the, do, does, to, from, at, of
- Listen for and demonstrate awareness of vowel omission and silent letters such as /b/ /g/ /l / /tʃ/
- Demonstrate comprehensibility in discussion and pair/individual presentations.
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