THE american english experience PROGRAM

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•  Use and apply vocabulary learning strategies to acquire level-appropriate vocabulary

•  Demonstrate an understanding and use of level-appropriate grammar including regular and irregular verbs, possessive pronouns, and third person singular and plural -s endings

•  Talk about activities using the simple present and present progressive tenses introduce themselves and others

•  Deliver short presentations about topics related to their lives

•  Identify main ideas and details in short conversations about everyday topics

•  Compose sentence using beginner vocabulary related to everyday topics

•  Use and apply vocabulary learning strategies to acquire level-appropriate vocabulary including

•  listening for meaning in context.

•  Demonstrate an understanding and use of level-appropriate grammar including simple present

•  and present progressive, plural nouns, possessive nouns/pronouns, subject pronouns, and yes/no questions.

•  Identify and take notes on main ideas in short listening.

•  Plan and deliver simple presentations regarding personal experiences and ideas using proper intonation and word stress.

•  Use and apply vocabulary learning strategies to acquire level-appropriate vocabulary.

•  Demonstrate an understanding and use of level-appropriate grammar including past progressive, present perfect, comparatives and superlatives, and wh-questions.

•  Deliver simple oral presentations.

•  Recognize and apply speaking strategies to emphasize meaning including intonation, stress, reduction, and linking.

Breakdown a listening to identify the main ideas, details, and speaker’s emotion

•  Use and apply vocabulary learning strategies to acquire level-appropriate vocabulary including deducing meaning from context and word families.

•  Demonstrate an understanding and use of level-appropriate grammar.

•  Summarize main ideas and details from listening.

•  Synthesize content from various listening sources.

•  Deliver three-to-four-minute presentations.

•  Employ strategies for continuing conversations/responding.

•  Use and apply vocabulary learning strategies to deduce meaning from context

•  Analyze listening for the main idea, supporting detail and author’s purpose.

•  Demonstrate an understanding and use of level-appropriate grammar including verb tenses for expressing past events, and passive voice.

•  Analyze organizational structure and purpose of lectures and speeches.

•  Use and apply vocabulary learning strategies to acquire level-appropriate vocabulary including deducing meaning from context and providing synonyms/antonyms.

•  Deliver four-to-five-minute presentations.

•  Use reported speech verbs to restate information.

•  Restate specific information from listening and visuals.

•  Use the future perfect and the future perfect progressive to talk about future plans in formal and informal contexts.

•  Respond to and refute an argument with academic language.

•  Infer information not stated in a conversation.

•  Use past modals to make guesses about the past and to make inferences.

•  Produce and deliver informative and persuasive speeches

•  Utilize techniques for controlling presentation anxiety

•  Employ appropriate body language and vocal characteristics while giving speeches

•  Design and utilize visual aids in presentations

•  Solicit further information after listening

•  Deliver impromptu speeches

•  Discuss in detail issues related to success, including building a motivated, successful team.

•  Talk in some detail about your favorite paintings and the architecture of buildings that you like.

•  Discuss societal problems, possible solutions for problems and what role corporations can play.

•  Compare and contrast various forms of education and individual schools.

•  Discuss various types of humor, including subtle forms like sarcasm.

•  Understand various communication styles, including direct, indirect, formal and informal.

•  Understand and discuss issues related to ethics, like civil disobedience.