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High Beginning English for Non-Native Speakers Part 1

Course ID: COM-3711J2
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Learn to use English for everyday life at home, work and in the community. Practice speaking, listening, reading and writing descriptive sentences. Improve your skills by talking about common topics like family, health, travel and entertainment. Build confidence and prepare for the next level of English.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, students will be able to use new vocabulary to talk about a variety of topics.

By the end of this course, students will be able to use grammatical structures to talk about things happening now and things that happened in the past.

By the end of this course, students will be able to describe their feelings and moods, exceptions to their routines, their past abilities and their opinions.

Outline of instruction

Using the verb "to be," talking about yourself, using the present simple tense to talk about routines

Using the present continuous tense to describe what's happening now and to ask questions about activities happening now

Learning the difference between action verbs and state verbs and using them to talk about activities. Using adjectives of emotions to describe our feelings and moods.

Transportation vocabulary, talking about exceptions to our routines

Health-related vocabulary, describing health complaints

Talking about the weather, travel vocabulary, making comparisons

Using superlative adjectives to talk about extremes, vocabulary used to describe geographical features and animals

Using "which" and "what" to make and ask about choices, using large numbers

Talking about dates and using expressions such as "was born" and "ago," simple past of the verb "to be"

Talking about things we did in the past, using "could" to talk about past abilities, entertainment-related vocabulary

Past-simple irregular verbs, using "while" and "after" to show the sequence of events, vocabulary about tools

Using "about" to describe media and culture, using "because" to give a reason for why we like or don't like something

CEUs

7.2

Industry Standard, State or National Certification

Certification

None

Website

None

Certification Learning Outcomes/Requirements

CE or CU Articulation

Prerequisites

Students taking this class should have one of the following prerequisites:
1. Completed Beginning English for Non-Native Speakers, Part 1 and Part 2 at Wake Tech
2. Completed Level 1 ESL at Wake Tech
3. Be able to have a simple, basic conversation with a native speaker

Text and Supplies Needed

Information about textbooks is posted in the course details.

Clinical Site/Special Facilities

N/A

Requirements for Successful Completion

80% attendance

Accreditation/Special Approval Requirements

N/A

Intended Audience

This course is designed for students who have already studied English at the beginner level. Students taking this class should have one of the following prerequisites:
1. Completed Beginning English for Non-Native Speakers, Part 1 and Part 2 at Wake Tech
2. Completed Level 1 ESL at Wake Tech
3. Be able to have a simple, basic conversation with a native speaker