Full Time English Program - L3

Course Description

Morning Course:

This course will prepare you to enter the intermediate language proficiency level: this means that you will be able to use the basic language skills you learned in at the beginners level courses and extend that knowledge and usage to more complicated settings. You will learn how to learn and practice increasingly more complicated topics, and will be expected to use your communications skills inside and especially outside the class with native speakers.

Afternoon Course:

This course is for Intermediate level students who want to practice and solidify their listening and speaking skills. As an Intermediate student, you are still developing the foundations of your knowledge of English. This course will give you more opportunities to talk and practice conversational English at your proficiency level. Your teacher will give you a lot of exercises that focus on a theme, so that you can develop more effective speaking and listening skills. You will work in groups, discuss different real-life topics and express and share your opinion and your culture's perspective about the topics. The purpose of the course is to broaden your knowledge and use of speaking and listening abilities in real-life contexts, and to help you understand some cultural aspects of North American society.

TEXTBOOK: TOP NOTCH 2

COURSE OBJECTIVES: 1. Participate in most routine social conversations and talk about needs and familiar topics of personal relevance. 2. Understand simple exchanges, common daily instructions, direct questions about familiar topics, routine media announcements, etc. 3. Understand the purpose, main ideas, and some detail in some authentic 2-3 paragraph texts. 4. Effectively convey an opinion, feeling, or experience in a simple paragraph. 5. Write short letters and notes on a familiar topic. 6. Use and understand a range of common everyday vocabulary. 7. Use a variety of simple structures and some complex ones when speaking. 8. Effectively communicate basic needs in a culturally appropriate manner.

TEXTBOOK: NorthStar 3

COURSE OBJECTIVES: 1. Participate with some effort in routine social conversations. 2. Talk with confidence about needs and familiar topics of personal relevance. 3. Show relatively fluent and connected speech. 4. Follow very broadly the gist of oral communication between native speakers in more demanding contexts (e.g. radio broadcasts, formal conversations, etc.) 5. Catch the main point in short, clear, simple messages. 6. Show a range of common everyday vocabulary.