Prerequisite: English as a Second Language—Level 4 or equivalent

Overall Goals:

1. Provide students who already have a degree of fluency with communicative strategies for expressing themselves more precisely via more complex structures in oral and written English.
2. Enhance students’ listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills using a variety of communicative activities focusing on topics such as cultural awareness, life plans, and technology.

Intended Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Describe a busy schedule and discuss manners, etiquette, and cultural awareness.
• Show concern and offer help regarding health matters.
• Identify and discuss symptoms, medical procedures, and treatments.
• Offer a solution to a problem, indicate acceptance, and evaluate the quality of a service.
• Identify genres of reading/viewing material and recommend something to read or watch.
• Convey a message and tell someone about the news.
• Describe natural disasters and prepare for an emergency.
• Practice writing emails.

Methodology:

• Vocabulary activities
• Writing activities (brainstorming ideas, drafting, revising, editing, etc.)
• Grammar activities and games
• Individual and group presentations
• Role play
• Pronunciation activities
• Pair and group discussions
• Listening activities (listening for gist, for specific information, and for details)
• Reading activities (skimming, scanning, and inference tasks)

Required Material:

Students may choose to purchase either a digital book or a paper book, not both.
The purchase should only be made after the first class.

• Headphones and an external microphone
• High-speed stable internet connection
• Access to a computer with a minimum of Windows 7 or Mac G5
• Book