Detailed Description
ESL Level 1 is a full-semester low beginning academic sequence designed for students whose native language is not English. Admission to the class is by placement testing, or by teacher recommendation. The course meets four days a week, 12 hours a week for 14 weeks (including exams). The purpose of this level is to develop students' proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The emphasis is on improving fluency in the language needed for a variety of everyday contexts such as personal information, family, house and neighborhood, and shopping.
Students who are successful in passing this level move on to Level 2. Students who need more time at the level must repeat the entire course.
Activities common to level
Learn vocabulary such as numbers, streets, family relationships, house and neighborhood, clothes and shopping and more
Learn grammar such as the present verb to be, the present continuous, yes/no questions, wh-questions and more
Read basic books from the library
Write an autobiography
Write in a journal
1 hour a week of computer lab
Homework assignments
Quizzes: Grammar, Vocabulary, Spelling, Reading, and others
Midterm Exam and Final Exam
Choice of Textbooks for this course:
English in Action, Book 1 by B. Foley and E. Neblett[Heinle / Cengage]
English in Action, Book 1 Workbook by B. Foley and E. Neblett [Heinle / Cengage]
The Oxford Picture Dictionary by Shapiro and Adelson-Goldstein [Oxford]
The Heinle Picture Dictionary [ Heinle / Cengage ]
So The Story Goes by DeSandies and Wollman Back to top ]