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ELI 104 COURSE DESCRIPTION

Level Four (Intermediate)

Textbook: New Headway Plus Intermediate, by Liz and John Soars, 2006

Oxford University Press

Course Code: ELI 104                        Credits: 2

Key Features

• Clear focus on grammar, all-new presentations
• Balanced, integrated-skills syllabus with 100% new texts and listenings 
• Real-world speaking skills - Everyday English, Spoken English, Music of English

Course Objectives

l. Grammar

Students demonstrate control of the following structures:

• Tenses: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple, Past Continuous, Present Perfect Simple, Present Perfect Continuous, Past Perfect, Future forms, Conditionals, Passives, Reported Speech
• Verbs: Auxiliary Verbs, Modals - present & past, Verb patterns {verb + -ing vs. verb + infinitive)
• Sentence Building: (Wh-Questions &Yes/No Questions, Short answers, Negative sentences, Indirect Questions, Question Tags, Time clauses, Relative clauses, Participles, Questions with like (e.g. What's she like?)
• Adverbs: Time expressions (until, since, while, etc.)

II. Vocabulary

Students can control a repertoire of words and phrases dealing with concrete everyday topics and more abstract areas, including:

• Nationalities
• Numbers (large numbers, fractions, decimals, etc.)
• Food & drink
• Travel
• Sport & leisure
• Art and literature
• Jobs
• Weather
• Social trends (e.g. charity, family size, collecting, forgetfulness)
• Cultural traditions
• Life events (birth, marriage, death)

Word Building: Word formation

Phrasal Verbs: Literal and idiomatic (e.g. look out!), Separable and inseparable

Adjectives: Base and Strong Adjectives (e.g. angry -furious, funny – hilarious), Character Adjectives (e.g. reliable, sociable)

Adverbs: Modifying adverbs (very, really, absolutely, etc)

Collocations: Verb + noun (e.g. paint a picture, read o poem), Adjective + noun (e.9. fresh food, historic cities), Compound nouns (e.g. toothache, travel agent)

Idioms: Body idioms (e.g. store into space, kick the habit)

III- Speaking / Conversation Skills

Students can express complex ideas while working independently and/or in a group setting. Students can present short speeches on a variety of subjects. They can deal with most situations likely to arise while travelling in an area where the language is spoken, including:

• Social expressions (e.g. Never mind, Take core!)
• Communicating numbers and dates
• Travelling around (e.g. Could you tell us when it's our stop?)
• Understanding signs

• Can ask for and give opinions (e.g. 'What did you think of ...?' 'lt was ....)
• Can make requests and offers (e.g. Could you ...?, Would you ...?, Shall I ...?)
• Can make suggestions (e.g. let's,.., Why don't you...?)
• Can give advice {e.g. I think he should...)
• Can agree and disagree (e.g. So do l! Neither do I!)
• Can apologise (e.g. I'm so sorry! Pardon}
• Can conduct phone conversations (e.g. Can I take o message? Would you like to hold?)
• Can discuss cultural issues (Can you get married when you're 76?)
• Can arrange meetings {e.g. What are you doing on Friday morning?)
• Can discuss books and films (e.9. Who wrote it? Who directed it?)
• Can discuss an ideal holiday
• Can discuss cities, food and people
• Can give advice for a foreign visitor
• Can discuss current news
• Can discuss dream jobs
• Can discuss hypothetical situations (e.g. What would you do with £5 million?)

IV. Writing

Students can produce connected text on a variety of topics, using appropriate sentence construction and cohesive devices. Students can self-correct written errors of grammar, punctuation and spelling.

• Extended Writing:
• Writing a narrative
• Writing a discursive text {for and against a topic)
• Writing a description (of a person, place, book, film)
• Writing a biography
• Can write clear topic and concluding sentences
• Email writing
  • Beginnings and endings of emails
  • Informal email {e.g. Write an email to an old friend)
  • Formal email {e.g. Hotel reservation)
• Letter Writing:
  • Beginnings and endings of letters
  • Formal Letter { e.g. Writing a job application}
• Relative Clauses:
  • Use of relative pronouns who, which, whose, where, that

Linking words / Transitional phrases:

Use of the following linking words to add cohesion to writing:

• before, as soon as, while, during, when
• because, so
• but, Although, However, Nevertheless
• For instance, Moreover, One (dis)advantage is, Another point is that ...,
• In fact, Actually, Of course, Naturally, Fortunately, Unfortunately, In my opinion,..
• Finally, In conclusion, All things considered, Anyway,

V. Listening

Students...

• Can demonstrate understanding of most aspects of all conversational topics.
• Can draw conclusions and extract the essential information from recorded passages
• Can demonstrate understanding of high-frequency idioms.
• Can understand conversations containing unfamiliar vocabulary in familiar contexts.
• Can apply active listening skills to obtain and clarify information.
• Can take notes while listening

VI. Reading

Students...

• Can scan a text for specific information
• Can identify the main idea of a paragraph in a text
• Can make inferences draw conclusions
• Can predict the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary items in a reading text using contextual clues
• Can make predictions about texts
• Can use the Internet to research answers to questions