This class continues and expands basic conversation strategies. Students learn strategies for eliciting details and prolonging conversations. The information presented in recorded dialogues becomes more detailed and complex. Strategies to improve specific pronunciation errors are introduced.
This course continues to work at the sentence level, introducing compound sentences to the students. Students are also introduced to paragraph writing and practice producing the components of an academic paragraph: a topic sentence, supporting sentence, and a concluding sentence.
This course has been created to provide additional instruction for students preparing to enter the Business school, with specific focus on the vocabulary and conceptual knowledge necessary to be successful in that field of study.
The primary focus of this class is the introduction of the present simple and progressive tenses, as well as the simple past of regular and irregular verbs, and the introduction of count and non-count nouns. Additionally, this course is designed to reinforce the simple sentence structure for the students to be able to discuss/write about everyday events: school, shopping, leisure etc.
In this course, students will complete their study of phonics and read simple fiction and non-fiction texts. They will be introduced to the reading strategies such as predicting and scanning.
This course is for low-advanced and advanced students in the IEP who would like to improve their phonetic and pronunciational (oral fluency) skills in English. Students will be trained to readjust their speech organs in order to minimize the influence of their native language sound system and improve their ability to distinguish and produce English sounds. Additionally, students will work on their oral fluency in English. Therefore, students will be introduced to articulatory and auditory phonetics in their applied forms.
Focus on primarily on the sentence level of a paragraph. Students will understand and demonstrate the basic structure of a sentence, use capitals letters, end punctuation and know the difference between simple and complex sentences. Students will write sentences to utilize comprehension, learn parts of a paragraph, learn connecting words, primarily the coordinating conjunctions.
Primary focus is the sentence level of a paragraph, which includes the basic structure of a sentence, connecting words, the use of capital letters, end punctuation, and the difference between simple and complex sentences.
Primary focus is understanding basic English grammar beginning with the verb form of 'be' in the present and past tense. In addition, students will study pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and the present tense of verbs.
Primary focus is: learning new vocabulary for academic use and basic reading strategies. Students will learn roots, affixes, and inflected forms of words, collocations, topics, main ideas, and supporting details.