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Advanced English for Non-Native Speakers Part 1

Course ID: COM-3711L2
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Strengthen your communication skills for real-world situations with engaging, practical topics that prepare you for success in work, school and social settings. Explore themes like storytelling across tenses, making suggestions and predictions, discussing hypothetical situations and using language effectively in interviews, meetings and presentations. Gain the confidence and control needed to communicate clearly and naturally in advanced-level conversations.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, students will be able to use a variety of vocabulary and grammar to talk about real-world situations and topics related to work, school and social situations.

By the end of the course, students will be able to produce extended spoken and written narratives using a variety of verb tenses to describe past events, hypothetical scenarios and future possibilities.

By the end of the course, students will be able to apply advanced grammatical structures to give advice, make predictions and participate in discussions.

By the end of the course, students will be able to demonstrate effective communication strategies in job interviews, meetings and presentations through role plays and structured speaking tasks.

Outline of Instruction

Making conversation with tag questions, using action and stative verbs to talk about our lives

Incorporating collocations, complex adjectives and generalizations into everyday conversation

Vocabulary related to travel and tourism, using narrative tenses to tell a story

Giving advice and making predictions

Vocabulary related to family and relationships; communicating cause/effect, emphasis, contrast and comparison

Talking about past habits and states; using "as...as" to compare and contrast quantities and qualities of people, places and things

Vocabulary related to education and studying, expressions used to describe approximate quantities

Using the passive voice to change emphasis, expressions used to talk about hypothetical situations

Vocabulary and expressions used to talk about employment

Complex verb patterns: verb + infinitive, verb + gerund

Direct and indirect objects

Vocabulary and expressions for participating in meetings and making presentations

Contact Hours

CEUs

Industry Standard, State or National Certification

Certification

None

Website

None

Certification Learning Outcomes/Requirements

CE or CU Articulation

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, students should have at least ONE of the following:
1. Completed Beginning, High Beginning and Intermediate courses in the English for Non-Native Speakers series at Wake Tech
2. Completed Level 4 ESL at Wake Tech
3. Be able to understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. Can deal with most situations likely to arise while traveling in an area where the language is spoken. Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

Learning Supplies Needed

Information about textbooks is included in the course details.

Clinical Site/Special Facilities

N/A

Requirements for Successful Completion

80% attendance

Accreditation/Special Approval Requirements

N/A

Intended Audience

Before taking this course, students should have at least ONE of the following:
1. Completed Beginning, High Beginning and Intermediate courses in the English for Non-Native Speakers series at Wake Tech.
2. Completed Level 4 ESL at Wake Tech
3. Be able to understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. Can deal with most situations likely to arise while traveling in an area where the language is spoken. Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.