Skill Elementary

Read a beginning level text of at least 500

Reading
words with 75% or better comprehension.

Writing Write a unified, coherent paragraph.

Understand the main ideas and some details

Listening of a 2 to 3 minute listening selection on a
familiar or personal topic.
Understand and participate in simple social
Speaking interactions.
Speak briefly on familiar, personal topics,
 Intermediate
Read an intermediate level text of at least 800 words
with 75% or better comprehension.

Write a unified and coherent three-paragraph essay.

Understand the main idea and some details of a 5 to 8

minute listening selection on a social, simple academic
or professional topic
Participate in group discussions on social, simple
academic or professional topics
 Advance
Read a low advanced level text of at least 1500 words
with 75% or better comprehension.

Write a unified and coherent five-paragraph essay.

Understand the main idea and most of the details of a 15-

20 minute listening selection on an academic or
professional topic.
Effectively participate in group discussions on a range of
academic, non-academic and professional topics
 https://americanliterature.com/childrens-stories/cinderella

Once upon a time there was a man who married, for his second wife. The woman has two daughters from a
previous marriage and the man has a beautiful daughter from a previous marriage too, and his daughter name is
Cinderella. No sooner were the ceremonies of the wedding over, but the mother-in-law began show herself in
her true color. She couldn’t bear the good qualities of this pretty girl and the less because they made her own
daughters appear the more odious. The mother in law employed her in the meanest work of the house. In
contrast to her, Cinderella’s two half-sisters are needed very well by their mother.
Cinderella bore all patiently, and dared not tell her father, who would have rattled her off; for his wife governed
him entirely. It happened that King’s Son gave a ball, and invited all persons of fashion to it. Cinderella’s two
stepsisters were very enthusiastic. They talked about what clothes they would wear at the ball and this was a
new trouble to Cinderella because she was the one who has to do all the work todress them up. Cinderella could
only cry because she couldn’t go to the ball.
Then the fairy godmother appeared who helped him, he asked Cinderella to bring mice and pumpkins and then
changed them with her magic. Pumpkins turned into chariots, mice turned into horses, and one became a
coachman. Finally he changed Cinderella’s dress and gave her a glass shoes. Cinderella was so beautiful that
everyone at the ball looked at her.
Prince invites Cinderella to dance, he always stares and beside her. Cinderella looked very beautiful, kind and
polite. Prince was interested in her. The next day, Cinderella came to the ball again, she dressed more
magnificently than before. The King’s Son was always by her, and never ceases the kind speeches to her; to
whom all this was so far from being tiresome that she quite forgot what her godmother had recommended to
her, she then rose up and fled, as nimble as a deer. She left behind one of her glass slippers, which the Prince
took up more carefully.
Prince who felt attracted to Cinderella tried to find the girl. He sent a messenger to find the girl who owned the
glass slipper, he caused it to be proclaimed that he would marry her whose foot the slipper would just fit. The
girls tried to force their feet to fit in the shoes but nothing could. Arriving at Cinderella’s house, her two
stepsisters were also unsuccessful. Then Cinderella volunteered to try on the shoes and it worked, she also took
out another shoe and put it on. The fairy godmother came and bewitched her and her clothes changed. So
Cinderella was brought to the palace and married the prince.
 SKILL BEGINNING
Read a beginning level text of at
least 500 words
Read at a rate of 100 words per
minute
Read with at least 70%
Reading,
comprehension
Writing,
Make simple statements and
Grammar
questions
Use the writing process to find
ideas and write a paragraph
Write a paragraph of at least 5
sentences in 30 minutes
Understand a 2 to 3 minute
listening selection https://youtu.be/tHvpD-fy2c0
Understand and participate in
P
simple social situations
Listening and
Speak for 1 to 2 minutes on a
Speaking P
familiar, personal topic
 INTERMEDIATE I INTERMEDIATE II
Read an intermediate level text Read an intermediate level text of at
of at least 500 words least 800 words
Read at a rate of 120 words per Read at a rate of 150 words per
minute minute
Read with at least 70% Read with at least 70%
comprehension comprehension
Use the writing process to draft a Use the writing process to draft a 3 to
three paragraph essay 4 paragraph essay
Write a variety of correct Use modality, clause structure, and
sentence structures passive voice
Write a paragraph of at least 7 Write a well-built 3 paragraph essay
sentences in 30 minutes in 50 minutes
Understand a 3 to 5 minute Understand a 5 to 10 minute
https://youtu.be/7nGz7xgGJzc (
listening selection academic listening selection
Understand and participate in a Speak on a range of academic and
P
variety of social situations non-academic topics
Make a well-organized 3 to 5 minute
Give a 2 to 4 minute prepared
P prepared presentation on a social or
presentation on a familiar topic
simple academic topic
 INTERMEDIATE III
Read a low-advanced level text of
at least 1000 words
Read at a rate of 200 words per
minute
Read with at least 70%
comprehension
Use the writing process to draft a 4
to 5 paragraph essay
Better control sentence structure
and tense sequences
Write a well-built 4 to 5 paragraph
essay in 50 minutes
Understand a 10 to 15 minute
academic listening selection
Effectively participate in and lead a
group discussion
Speak clearly on a range of
academic and non-academic topics
Give a well-organized 5 to 7 minute
prepared presentation on an
academic topic
ADVANCED
Read an advanced level text of at
least 1500 words
Read at a rate of 250 words per minute
Read with at least 70% comprehension
Use the writing process to draft an
essay of 5 or more paragraphs
Construct writing pieces in a variety of
rhetorical forms
Write a well-built 5+ paragraph essay
in 50 minutes
Understand a 15 to 20 minute
academic listening selection
Participate effectively in open-ended
academic speaking tasks
Speak with ever improving clarity and
comprehensibility
Give a structured 8 to 10 minute
prepared presentation on a well-
researched academic topic
https://americanliterature.com/childrens-stories/cinderella

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 The table below shows what you will do in the extra classes that are offered in this term

Preparation for
Academic Study

Exam Preparation

Presentations

Focus on Conversation

Vocabulary
The table below shows what you will do in the extra classes that are offered in this term
demonstrate ability to appropriately and actively participate in the academic setting.
demonstrate a basic understanding of faculty life, the tenure system, and faculty communications.
demonstrate familiarity with student attitudes and the role of opinion in the classroom.
demonstrate improvement in their academic note-taking, reading and writing skills.
demonstrate familiarity with the format of the IEC exams.
employ the strategies needed to achieve higher scores in their weaker skills areas.
effective create and use visual aids.
effectively organize presentations.
effectively use strategies for connecting with an audience.
effectively use strategies for reducing presentation anxiety.
demonstrate familiarity with conversations between native American speakers.
demonstrate command of conversational tools and strategies.
demonstrate command of the lexis and grammar needed to engage in conversations with native American
speakers.
pronounce English clearly enough so that it is intelligible to native English speakers.
master strategies for learning new words.
demonstrate ability to guess the meaning of words from various types of context.
become proficient at using online resources that are useful for learning about words.
acquire the habits necessary for consistent, ongoing vocabulary expansion into long-term memory.
use grammatical knowledge to enlarge vocabulary faster, more accurately, and more effectively.