Intensive English Program - Level 5

Course Description

Morning Course:

This course will focus on developing your fluency and accuracy abilities. Since you should have a good foundation in general English skills by the time you enter this course, this course will extend your communicative competence further, refining your usage of the language. You will have many opportunities to carry out communicative tasks that require an exchange of information and negotiation of meaning. In addition, you will extend your oral and grammatical skills, and will have a lot of opportunities to practice them in authentic communicative contexts.

Afternoon Course:

This course is designed to help you reach a level of competence that will allow you to interact with a variety of more challenging, sophisticated current topics. You will have lots of opportunities to study a topic and react and respond to it and to your classmates. You will discuss the topics that native English adults like to discuss with each other, and will be given the skills and knowledge needed to effectively participate in such discussions in the real world.

TEXTBOOK: SUMMIT 1

COURSE OBJECTIVES: 1. Communicate effectively in most daily practical and social situations at both concrete and abstract levels. 2. Participate in formal and informal conversations involving problem solving and decision making. 3. Speak on familiar concrete topics at a descriptive level and present a detailed analysis or comparison. 4. Participate in conversations with confidence. 5. Demonstrate an increased ability to respond appropriately to the formality level of a social interaction. 6. Understand more complex indirect questions about personal experience, familiar topics, and general knowledge. 7. Follow main ideas, key words, and important details in an authentic 2-3 page text on a familiar and partially predictable topic. 8. Read in English for information, to learn the language and to develop reading skills.  Also begin to read very simple adult fiction. 9. Write coherent paragraphs on familiar topics with clear main ideas and some supporting details.  Develop a sense of audience. 10. Demonstrate mostly satisfactory control over complex structures, spelling, and mechanics. 11. Use and understand an expanded inventory of concrete and common idiomatic language.

TEXTBOOK: REAL TALK 1

COURSE OBJECTIVES: 1. Communicate effectively and actively in most daily practical and social situations. 2. Participate in formal and informal conversations involving problem solving and decision making. 3. Demonstrate an increasing ability to respond appropriately to the formality level of a social situation. 4. Speak on familiar topics at both concrete and abstract levels. 5. Understand important details in oral communication. 6. Follow most formal and informal general conversations. Use and understand an expanded inventory of concrete and common idiomatic language.