Level 5 - Intermediate (ESL 202)

This integrated course consisting of Conversation (ESL202-1, 87.75 hours), Grammar (ESL202-2, 87.75 hours), and American Culture (ESL202-4, 58.5 hours), is designed to deepen students’ ability to comprehend and respond appropriately to natural, authentic spoken English. It prepares students to respond to multi-step directions and communicate using formal and information language in a variety of situations. Students follow written instructions, read narratives and interpret material. The course teaches to use spoken English in a variety of social, academic and professional settings; broadens students’ ability to comprehend and use grammatical structures in both written and spoken English in various contexts; analyze authentic texts, organize information and produce summaries.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to state detailed descriptions of events, activities and personal experiences, identify main ideas and some details of extended conversations and broadcasts, employ clarification strategies, speak so others can understand to recall and use high-frequency vocabulary, display control of more advanced grammar and a variety of sentence types, read with understanding to decode and recognize most every day and some unfamiliar words, identify sequence of events in extensive readings, examine and analyze authentic documents to locate specific information, determine the purpose and audience for communicating in writing, convey ideas in a short essay with detailed information, identify and modify sentences for time frame errors and mechanics, such as spelling, punctuation and capitalization..

There are Optional Courses are offered parallel to the above course.