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100 Hours: Level: Intermediate Level Syllabus

This document outlines an intermediate-level English syllabus aimed at helping students acquire communication skills. The 100-hour course is divided into 80 hours of theoretical language instruction, 18 hours of practical application, and 2 hours for evaluation. Course objectives include developing daily conversational abilities, numeracy skills, and receptive understanding. Specific goals cover grammar, descriptive skills, numeracy, reading, writing, terminology based on student needs, and use of authentic materials to extend learning. Communicative activities like role-plays and debates supplement the curriculum.

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100 Hours: Level: Intermediate Level Syllabus

This document outlines an intermediate-level English syllabus aimed at helping students acquire communication skills. The 100-hour course is divided into 80 hours of theoretical language instruction, 18 hours of practical application, and 2 hours for evaluation. Course objectives include developing daily conversational abilities, numeracy skills, and receptive understanding. Specific goals cover grammar, descriptive skills, numeracy, reading, writing, terminology based on student needs, and use of authentic materials to extend learning. Communicative activities like role-plays and debates supplement the curriculum.

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LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE LEVEL SYLLABUS

This syllabus is a general outline for courses taken at an intermediate level ESL /
ELL. Its aimed at helping students acquire the language they need to
communicate.

TIME: 100 Hours

This course has been designed as a 100-hour course. It could be used over the
course of a year for classes that meet twice weekly, or for an intensive course lasting
a month or more.

 80 hours theoretical - language function, grammar, and learning goals


 18 hours practical applications (extending learning to the "real world"
 2 hours of final examination and evaluation

Course Objectives

Students should come out of the course confident in a wide range of


communicative skills including:

 Daily life questions and answers


 Basic person and place descriptive abilities used in small talk
 Number, time, quantity, and cost use
 Daily life receptive understanding skills
 Written usage to express situations, give instructions and explanations,
communicate opinions, and narrate and comprehend stories
 Specific terminology use based on students' needs

70 Hour Course Goals

Course Goals and Timings

24 hours basic grammatical skills including use of the interrogative and discourse
forms covering:

 Verb forms and other grammatical structures


 Introductions and greetings
 Asking for information
 Offering
 Requesting

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 Inviting

6 hours descriptive skills including:

 Comparative language
 Vocabulary building for people and places
 Communicative structures for expression of opinions
 Asking for descriptions

6 Hours English numeration including:

 Time, quantity, cost and numbering vocabulary


 Buying and selling structures
 Requesting and giving the time
 Various numerical expressions including cardinal numbers, fractions, decimals, etc.

10 hours of receptive skills development including:

 Listening comprehension focusing on varying elements of vocabulary and structure


 Video comprehension developing combined visual-audio receptive skills to deduce
meaning from context
 Reading skills strategies including intensive skimming and scanning development
tasks, as well as intensive reading exercises

10 hours written skills development including:

 Development of basic writing skills applying studied grammatical structures


 Standard writing formats including formal and informal letters
 Expression of opinions in writing
 Instruction flow writing skills
 Narrative written structures to express past events

14 hours of basic terminology based on students' needs

 Identification of equipment required, intensive vocabulary training


 Descriptive language development of equipment use and functions
 Integrated interrogative and discourse use with targeted vocabulary and
functions
 Language formation for instruction in, and explanation of basic equipment
use

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30 Hours Additional Authentic Material Instruction

14 hours use of "Authentic" materials -Reading comprehension of authentic


to extend receptive development timetables and schedules
including both classroom and self-
instruction: -Listening comprehension of authentic radio
broadcasts in both British and American
English

-Communicative and decision making


activities based on authentic reading materials

-Authentic video materials to improve the


extraction of information from an authentic
source

-Use of the Internet to extract authentic


materials on specific areas of interest

-Introduction to self-instruction English sites


located on the Internet including quizzes,
listening comprehension, and idiomatic
language development

-Written communication tasks for authentic


task-oriented goals

-Self-instruction CD-ROM using various


English learning software packages

-Self-instruction using listening and video


materials from the self-access language
laboratory with follow-up comprehension
exercises
10 hours of class communicative -Role-plays in various authentic situations
activities including:
-Debating various points of view to strengthen
the ability to express points of view

-Information gathering activities concerning


time, place, cost and personal descriptions

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-Project development in groups and pair-work
to increase communication practice

-Group generated narrative writing production


6 hours of specifically targeted -Interviewing activities to enhance instruction
vocabulary development: and explanation processes with a specific focus
on basic individual vocabulary needs

-Lexis development and extension in


appropriate areas

-Role-play to increase active use of targeted


language areas

-Group created written reports giving


instruction on various aspects of target
vocabulary

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