Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Listening
• Listen effectively for key words and idioms in short conversations
• Identify conditionals, causatives and modals in short conversations
• Identify negative expressions, time expressions, expressions of quantity, and expressions of comparison in short conversations.
• Understand nuances expressed through intonation
• Identify implications intended by speakers
• Make inferences about people and context
• Identify main ideas and comprehend details in longer conversations and short lectures
• Follow a sequence of events through a process in longer conversations and short lectures
• Comprehend cause and result relationships in longer conversations and short lectures
• Make inferences and predictions based on information in longer conversations and short lectures
• Structure
• Subject, objects, and noun complements
• Subject verb agreement
• Verb tense, forms, and meanings
• Active and passive voice
• Modals
• Noun clauses and appositives
• Gerunds and infinitives
• Personal, possessive, and reflexive pronouns
• Expressions of quantity
• Parallel structure and paired expressions
• Word form and function
• Adjectives, adjective clauses and nouns
• Subordination with adverb clauses
• Comparative and superlative adjective and adverb constructions
• Word order
• Articles
• Prepositions
• Reading
• Use word parts to predict meaning of new vocabulary
• Use vocabulary in context to determine meaning of unknown words
• Use skimming and scanning to find test answers quickly
• Understand the organizational pattern of a passage
• Recognize pronoun referents
• Identify the main idea(s) of a passage
• Identify details and factual information in a passage
• Make inferences from a passage
• Recognize the author’s attitude and tone
• Identify and understand question types
• Identify likely location of answers based on the question type
• Toffel test taking skills
• Understand and follow the directions for the various sections of the test
• Fill out the scoring grid correctly
• Score and convert a practice test
• Budget study time
• Identify test problem areas
• Use time wisely during test taking
• Use effective guessing techniques
• Use effective test stress reduction techniques