ESLAO – English as a Second Language

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This course builds on students’ previous education and language knowledge to introduce them to the English language and help them adjust to the diversity in their new environment. Students will use beginning English language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing for everyday and essential academic purposes. They will engage in short conversations using basic English language structures and simple sentence patterns; read short adapted texts; and write phrases and short sentences. The course also provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to begin to adapt to their new lives in Canada.

$450.00

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Overall Curriculum Expectations

By the end of this course, students will :

Listening and Speaking

  • demonstrate the ability to understand, interpret, and evaluate spoken English for a variety of purposes;
  • use speaking skills and strategies to communicate in English for a variety of classroom and social purposes;
  • use correctly the language structures appropriate for this level to communicate orally in English

Reading

  • read and demonstrate understanding of a variety of texts for different purposes;
  • use a variety of reading strategies throughout the reading process to extract meaning from texts;
  •  use a variety of strategies to build vocabulary;
  • locate and extract relevant information from written and graphic texts for a variety of purposes

Writing

  • write in a variety of forms for various purposes and audiences;
  • organize ideas coherently in writing;
  •  use correctly the conventions of written English appropriate for this level, including grammar, usage, spelling, and punctuation;
  •  use the stages of the writing process.

Socio-cultural Competence and Media Literacy

  • use English and non-verbal communication strategies appropriately in a variety of social contexts;
  • demonstrate an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of Canadian citizenship, and of the contributions of diverse groups to Canadian society;
  • demonstrate knowledge of and adaptation to the Ontario education system;
  • demonstrate an understanding of, interpret, and create a variety of media works

Outline of Course Content

Student-Teacher Introductions

Topics:  

  • Eating habits of North Americans, Groceries, Cooking
  • Word associations and relations
  • Strategies/Resources for Success

Assignments and Tests:

  • Journal (daily free writing) and other
  • portfolio entries
  • Writing Conventions Test (1)

Grammar:

  • Subject and Object
  • Be
  • There is/are
  • Question forms- yes/no
  • Information Questions
  • Final Punctuation
  • Negation of Be, Do, Will simple present
  • Simple sentence: subject and object
  • Capitalization of first word
  • Capitalization of proper nouns

Topics:

  • Habits and Routines
  • Responding to Teachers and Peers
  • Non Verbal Communication
  • The Classroom
  • Academic/Personal/Community Differences in
  • behaviour

Assignments and Tests:

  • Student-Teacher Conference
  • Individual Presentation: topics TBA
  • Reading Test (2)

Grammar:

  • Count and non-count nouns: singular, plural, regular,
  • irregular
  • Apostrophe: contractions and possessive
  • Possessive form of proper nouns
  • Articles
  • Demonstrative Pronouns
  • Impersonal Expressions
  • Have, Can
  • Simple Present
  • Simple past regular and irregular
  • Let’s

Topics:

  • Regional Differences
  • Citizenship- Levels of Government
  • Current Issues in Canada and the World
  • Diverse Societies

Assignments and Tests:

  • Biographical letter

Grammar:

  • Cardinal umbers
  • Ordinal Numbers
  • Simple future
  • Present Progressive
  • Contractions with be, do
  • Imperative forms
  • Possessive
  • High frequency adjectives
  • Comparative/Superlative
  • Some, any, every, all

Topics:

  • Types of Media
  • TAP (Topic, Audience, Purpose)
  • Sources of Information
  • Creating Media Texts

Assignments and Tests:

  • News Report
  • Media Project

Grammar:

  • Adverbs to modify adjectives
  • Adverbs of time and frequency
  • Too
  • Conjunctions: and, but, or, because
  • Prepositions of location, direction and time

Final Evaluation:

  • Final exam
  • Student-teacher conference

Total Hours : 110

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