Program Components

Listening

Students will practice applying essential interactive listening strategies to actively analyze a variety of low intermediate real-world multi-paragraph spoken texts such as lectures, discussions, debates, and interviews.  Students will also practice identifying purpose, main ideas, and important details.

Reading

Students will practice applying essential reading comprehension strategies to actively analyze a variety of written real-world multi-paragraph texts at the low-intermediate level. Students will also practice identifying the communicative purpose, main ideas, and important details of a text or a section of a text.

Writing and Speaking

Students will practice following a process based approach to plan, revise, and edit written and spoken work in order to produce coherent essays and presentations at the low intermediate level with an introduction, a body and a conclusion .

Students will practice supporting and developing their spoken and written ideas by integrating their personal experiences, observations, opinions and/or recommending a relevant course of action. Students will practice composing and delivering relevant and coherent ideas (sentences) at the low intermediate level using a range of connectors and transitions, as well as developing platform skills while refining and increasing spoken fluency.