Beginner Class Objectives:
- Focus on vocabulary acquisition
- Learn to speak confidently and effectively in everyday survival situations
- Learn the sounds, rhythms, and intonation of standard American English
- Communicate simple needs and wants using formulaic structures and basic models
- Understand and follow directions relating to sequence and location
- Introduce oneself and others using formulaic expressions
- Ask and tell time; use basic time expressions, including dates
- Ask about and respond to questions about the weather
- Use shopping language to purchase clothing and food
- Understand how to take and leave simple telephone messages
- Order food and drinks using a menu
- Understand and use basic idiomatic expressions
Intermediate Class Objectives:
- Work on vocabulary acquisition
- Learn to speak confidently and effectively in everyday survival situations
- Learn essential elements of the sentence (i.e., parts of speech)
- Recognize and use simple tenses in affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms
- Understand simple and compound sentences in affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms
- Write descriptive sentences
- Make accurate subject-verb agreement
- Understand how to form imperatives
- Identify forms of irregular verbs
- Use correct spelling, end punctuation, and capitalization
- Construct simple sentences using correct sentence order (SVO)
- Construct compound sentences using simple conjunctions (and, so, but, or)
- Use correct question formation using BE-verbs and WH questions
- Write notes and messages in imperative form (recipes, directions, phone messages, etc.)
- Develop use of quantity expressions (few, little, much, many, a lot, some)
Advanced Class Objectives:
- Work on vocabulary acquisition
- Learn to speak confidently and effectively in everyday survival situations
- Understand the features of a paragraph: topic sentence, supporting sentences, transitions, etc.
- Work on idea formation within paragraphs
- Write within the following rhetorical structures: definitions, processes, and comparison/contrast
- Use comparatives and superlatives when working with adjectives
- Use personal pronouns in subject, object, and possessive forms
- Use past progressive and present perfect tenses with time clauses
- Identify and select between passive and active voice
- Use advanced punctuation correctly (colons, semicolons, hyphens, and dashes)
- Develop paraphrasing and summarizing skills
- Understand infinitives and gerunds
