Detailed Description
ESL Level 2 is a full-semester beginning academic sequence designed for students whose native language is not English. Admission to the class is by placement testing, completion of ESL Level 1 or by teacher recommendation. The course meets four days a week, 12 hours a week for 16 weeks (including exams). The purpose of this level is to develop students' listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in personal and cultural contexts such as family, house and neighborhood, immigration, American geography, and education.
Students who are successful in passing this level move on to Level 3. Students who need more time at the level must repeat the entire course.
Activities common to Level 2
Learn vocabulary such as numbers, streets, family relationships, house and neighborhood, clothes and shoppping and more
- Learn and review grammar such as the present verb to be, the present continuous, past tense, future tense, yes/no questions, wh-questions and more
- Read stories from Introducing the USA, 2 Longman Readers Or
Samantha
- Write compositions based on class material
- Write in a journal
- 1 hour a week of computer lab
- Daily homework assignments
- Quizzes: Grammar, Vocabulary, Spelling, Reading, and others
- Midterm Exam and Final Exam
Textbooks appropriate for this course:
Grammar Plus Basic Text, Vol. 1 and Workbook, Vol. 1; DeFilippo & Mackey; [Pearson Education];
Listen to Me; Foley; [Heinle & Heinle]
Introducing the USA; Broukal & Murphy;[Pearson Education]
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