Intermediate English (ESL 202)

Read level-appropriate texts and accurately identify topics and main ideas by recognizing familiar vocabulary, grammar structures, and illustrations from written materials, such as news articles, web sites, surveys, etc.
Answer to factual questions and identify true statements taken from authentic reading materials with 70% accuracy.
Appropriately employ tenses, modals, adjective and noun clauses, and prepositions in writing activities to give advice, describe holidays and traditions, provide instructions, describe and solve problems, and complete health forms.
Utilize learned grammar, vocabulary and expressions to orally make small talk, make appointments, describe quality of service, express agreement and disagreement, and make comparisons with some errors.
Appropriately ask and respond using social language and conversation strategies to demonstrate empathy, make suggestions, introduce or change a topic, politely insist, and acknowledge well-wishes.
Use rhythm, stress and intonation to properly produce and pronounce reduction of “have” in modals, direct and indirect speech, short answers with “think”, “hope”, “guess”, and “believe”, and contractions with ‘d.