Description:

Continuation of work begun in Level 1. Students improve their ability to express themselves in formal and informal situations. There is a balance between speaking and listening during class. Prerequisite: Acceptance to the ELI program.

Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Ask and answer simple information questions with more elaboration
• Use clear, logical and grammatically understandable language in everyday survival situations (using the telephone, taking care of business in a bank, making healthcare appointments, shopping, asking for movie times)
• Give and follow directions (catching buses and transferring) more accurately
• Ask for clarification with more sophistication
• Demonstrate oral proficiency of the grammatical structures—verb tenses, modals, adverbs, nouns, pronouns
• Use increasingly complex vocabulary appropriate to a variety of topics/settings
• Pronunciation
• Distinguish between and produce minimal pairs—increased frequency and accuracy
• Identify intonation patterns used in basic sentence types—increased frequency and accuracy in declarative and question forms
• Identify and produce present and past tense final –s and –ed endings—increased frequency and accuracy
• Listening
• Distinguish the number of speakers in a taped conversation
• Determine the main ideas and supporting details expressed by each
• Introduction to oral presentation outcomes
• Be able to take simple, usable notes from short presentations or mini-lectures