Classification Of English Levels
Our program aims to let the students learn to organize their thoughts and ideas and express them with eloquence and clarity as they explore English. It aims to let the students apply their skills and abilities in professions requiring exceptional communication skills such as public relations staff, editor, writer, desktop publisher, reporter, legal assistant, and research assistant. ;It aims to help students improve their communication and business skills in all areas: speaking, listening, reading, and writing for a specific purpose.; It also aims to let the students increase their confidence in speaking.
Thus, our program consists of three different levels to accommodate student's specific needs: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.
Levels
Each level studies the grammar and vocabulary necessary for academic work in English. Students begin building up their ability to recognize correct language structures and progressively work on producing more and more complex grammar.
Beginner
Skills:
Θ Recognize correct structures in academic English.
Θ Control structures in basic sentences.
Θ Increase knowledge of the most common vocabulary across academic fields.
Θ Prepare to read university-level academic texts.
Target Goals
By the end of this course, the student should be able to do the following:
Θ identify these parts of speech in sentences: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, descriptive adverbs (including comparative and superlative forms), prepositions, and modal auxiliaries
Θ identify subjects, verb phrases, objects, object of prepositions, and prepositional phrases
Θ state the number of clauses in a sentence
Θ identify and correct incomplete sentences and comma splices
Θ recognize and name the four basic verb tenses: simple present, simple past, present continuous, and past continuous
Θ recognize and name four perfect tenses: present perfect, present perfect continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous
Θ recognize common errors in meanings of modals
Θ recognize non-count and count nouns
Θ identify and correct incomplete sentences and comma splices
Θ recognize and correct incorrect expressions of future time
The student should also be able to control these structures:
existential "there" and false subject "it"
Θ simple present, present continuous, simple past, and past continuous in a paragraph
Θ subject-verb agreement
Θ irregular verbs
Θ present perfect and present perfect continuous with for and since
Θ causatives
Θ gerunds and infinitives as subjects and as objects of verbs and prepositions
Θ the list of common non-count nouns
Θ the "singular count noun cannot go bare" rule
Θ plural -s
Intermediate
Skills:
Both levels need to focus on the following skills but using a different approach and different book.
Θ Recognize correct use of the passive voice
Θ Learn to control structures in all of the verb tenses and in adjective and adverb clauses
Θ Increase knowledge of the most common vocabulary across academic fields
Θ Prepare to read university-level academic texts
Target Goals
By the end of this course, the student should be able to recognize the following:
Θ correct forms and use of the passive voice
The student should also be able to control these structures:
Θ verb tenses: simple present; past and future; present and past perfect (progressive); future perfect (progressive)
Θ adjective and adverb clauses, except conditionals
Θ the six perfect verb tenses
Θ modals (all forms)
Θ the / a with singular count nouns
Θ causatives (e.g., make, let, get)
Θ correct use of subordinating conjunctions and transitional expressions in a controlled situation
Θ noun clauses in an object position: (wh-questions, yes / no questions, reported speech, that clauses)
Advance
Skills:
Θ Learn to control grammar and vocabulary in complex sentences
Θ Increase your knowledge of the most common vocabulary across academic fields
Θ Improve editing of your own writing
Θ Read university-level academic texts
Target Goals
By the end of this course, the students should be able to identify correct use of inverted and implied conditionals.
The student should also be able to control these structures:
Θ noun phrases (articles and plural nouns)
Θ verb tenses
Θ passive voice
Θ subordinating conjunctions and transitions
Θ sentence completeness
Θ noun clauses
The student should also be able to control, in sentence level production, these new skills:
Θ passive and active participial phrases
Θ real and unreal conditionals (conversation)
Θ grammar competence when writing 100-word passages