ESL Advanced Class

ESL CURRICULUM

Advanced Level

The purpose of this course is to help the students to draw their own conclusions about how the English grammar works. The students will have a variety of exercises to practice and reinforce grammar rules. At the same time the students will learn reading and writing from the exercises in this book. For this level also the students will have their classes in writing and reading with specific text books . The grammar Book Advance English Grammar will also help to develop topics of conversation during class.

  1. Verb Tenses

    a) Analyzing Verbs and Verbal

    b) Discussion of Verb Tenses

    c) Analyzing of Verb Tenses

    d) Analyzing of Tenses in a Long Piece of Writing

  2. Voice: Active and Passive

    a) Explanation of Passive Voice

    b) Practicing Active and Passive

    c) Analyzing Cohesion

  3. Auxiliary Verbs

    a) Analyzing Modals

    b) Explanation

    c) Practicing Modals in Context

    d) Research Projects

  4. Relative Concepts

    a) Relative Clauses

    b) Using Relative Clauses in Writing

    c) Relative Phrases-Adjective Phrases

    d) Cleft Sentences-Explanation and Practice

  5. Adverbial Concepts

    a) Explanation of Time, Place, and Situation

    b) Analyzing

    c) Practicing

    d) Adverbial Clauses of Cause/Effect and Reason/Result

    e) Adverbial Clauses to Express Purpose

  6. Participial Phrases & Absolute Constructions

    a) Explanation of Participial Phrases & Absolute Constructions

    b) Analyzing Participial Phrases & Absolute Constructions

    c) Practicing

  7. Adverbial Concepts of Contrast (Concession/Opposition) and Comparison

    a) Clauses and Phrases of Concession

    b) Clauses and Phrases of Opposition

    c) Clauses of Comparison

  8. Adverbial Clauses Expressing Condition

    a) Real Conditions: Present, Past, and Future

    b) Use of Conditionals to Answer Academic Questions

    c) Preparation for Standardized Tests

  9. Noun Clauses

    a) Comparing a Noun Clause to a Sentence

    b) Noun Clauses in Other Types of Roles

    c) Reduced Noun Clauses

  10. Infinitives, Gerunds, and Abstract Noun Phrases

    a) Infinitives

    b) Gerunds

    c) Gerunds versus Infinitives

    d) Abstract Noun Phrases

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