This course is for beginning level students who want to practice basic listening and speaking skills.  Beginner level students will learn basic listening, speaking and pronunciation skills.  The course will help students develop confidence when talking with native speakers about familiar topics.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Follow simple personal information questions and commands or directions in a familiar context.
• Ask and respond to simple, routine and predictable questions on very familiar topics (e.g. where he/she lives and people he/she knows).
• Build vocabulary about different common everyday topics to express him/herself clearly.

This course is for high beginning students who want to practice and improve their basic listening, speaking and pronunciation skills.  This course will help students communicate basic skills with little or no help.  Students will develop skills to follow simple conversations.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Communicate in short routine conversations about needs and familiar topics of personal relevance.
• Ask and respond to simple and familiar questions.
• Describe situations of personal relevance in simple terms (e.g. a situation, living conditions, obtaining goods and services, etc.)
• Recognize and follow many common everyday instructions and directions.
• Develop an adequate vocabulary for routine everyday communication.

This course is for students who have mastered basic language proficiency and who are developing intermediate conversational skills.  Students will refine their ability to communicate their basic needs while beginning to experiment with communication in more demanding contexts of language use.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Participate with some effort in routine social conversations.
• Talk with confidence about needs and familiar topics of personal relevance.
•  Show relatively fluent and connected speech.
• Follow very broadly the gist of oral communication between native speakers in more demanding contexts (e.g. radio broadcasts, formal conversations, etc.)
• Catch the main point in short, clear, simple messages.
• how a range of common everyday vocabulary.

This course is for students who have mastered basic language proficiency and who are developing intermediate conversational skills.  Students will refine their ability to communicate their basic needs while beginning to experiment with communication in more demanding contexts of language use.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Participate with some effort in routine social conversations.
• Talk with confidence about needs and familiar topics of personal relevance.
• Show relatively fluent and connected speech.
• Follow very broadly the gist of oral communication between native speakers in more demanding contexts (e.g. radio broadcasts, formal conversations, etc.)
• Catch the main point in short, clear, simple messages.
• Show a range of common everyday vocabulary.

This course is designed to help students solidify their intermediate proficiency while at the same time it touches on some beginning skills students will need to develop advanced proficiency in spoken English.  During this course, students will communicate with increasingly higher degrees of fluency and spontaneity with native speakers.   Students will become much more confident with participating in conversations.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Communicate effectively and actively in most daily practical and social situations.
• Participate in formal and informal conversations involving problem solving and decision making.
• Demonstrate an increasing ability to respond appropriately to the formality level of a social situation.
• peak on familiar topics at both concrete and abstract levels.
• Follow most formal and informal general conversations.
• Use and understand an expanded inventory of concrete and common idiomatic language

This course is designed to help higher-level students break away from classroom talk and enter the world of authentic English language usage.  It stimulates students to break away from being comfortable with being able to communicate in the safe environment of the classroom.  Students will be encouraged to spontaneously and independently take part in oral exchanges about simple and complex situation.  Students will also develop some academic skills such as note-taking and outlining, and will be engaged in more complex speaking activities such as role plays, presentations and debates.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

•  Provide and exchange key information for complex routine and non-routine situations.
•  Actively participate in short formal exchanges about complex, abstract and conceptual information.
• Analyze, problem-solve and make decisions.
• Interact to coordinate tasks with others, to advise or persuade and to reassure others in one-on-one situations.
• Follow a broad variety of general interest and some technical topics.
• Comprehend an expanded range of concrete, abstract and conceptual language.
• Can determine mood, attitudes and feelings.
•  Infer speaker’s bias and purpose and some other attitudinal and socio-cultural information.
•  Understand and use sufficient vocabulary, idioms and colloquial expressions to follow detailed stories of general popular interest.