ESL Intermediate Class

ESL CURRICULUM

Intermediate Level

At this level the students will enter a new series of textbooks that will reinforce their learning skills. At the same time the students will Jean more grammar and their conversational skills will improved . The students will also work on the writing reading, listening and pronunciation.

  1. Connecting Ideas

    a) Connecting Ideas Using: And, But, Or, So, Either, Neither, Because, Even though, Although

    b) Phrasal Verbs: Separate and non Separate

  2. Gerunds and Infinitives

    a) Verb + Gerund

    b) Go + -ing

    c) Verb + Infinitive

    d) Uncompleted Infinitives

    e) Preposition + Gerund

    f) Using Gerunds as Subjects

  3. Passive Sentences

    a) Active & Passive Sentences

    b) Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

    c) Passive Modal Auxiliaries

  4. Adjectives Clauses

    a) Singular and Plural Verbs in Adjective Clauses

    b) Using Prepositions in Adjective Clauses

    c) Phrasal Verbs: Separable and Nonseparable

  5. Comparisons

    a) Making Comparisons Using As... ...As

    b) Comparative and Superlative

    c) Using More with Nouns

    d) Using Double Comparatives

  6. Noun Clauses

    a) Noun Clauses That Begin with a Question Word

    b) Using Who, What, Whose + Be

    c) Using If or Whether

    d) Using That

  7. Quoted Speech and Reported Speech

    a) Verb Form Usage In Reported Speech: Formal Sequence of Tenses

    b) Using Verb + Infinitive to Report Speech

  8. Using Wish and If

    a) Expressing Wishes About the Present, Future, or Past

    b) Using If: Contrary-to-Fact in the Present or Future

High Intermediate Level

This Program has the purpose to prepare the students to a high level of conversation. The grammar book will also help the students to develop all language skills such as reading writing and listening. Volume A of Understanding and Using English Grammar concentrates on verb forms. Volume B concentrates on complex structures.

Students will work on:

  1. Review of all tenses

    a) Simple/ Progressive/Perfect/Perfect Progressive

    b) Past Perfect/Past Perfect Progressive/Simple Future/Expressing the Future in Time Clauses

    c) Future Progressive/Future Perfect/ Future Perfect Progressive

  2. Modal Auxiliaries and Similar Expressions

    a) Polite Requests With I, You, and Would You Mind.

    b) Advisability: Should, Ought To, Had Better

    c) Expectations: Be Supposed To and Be To

    d) Making Suggestions: Let's, Why Don't, Shall I/We, and Could

    e) Degrees of Certainty: Present Time, Present Time Negative, Past Time, and Future Time

  3. The Passive

    a) Forming and Using the Passive

    b) Indirect Objects Used As Passive Subjects

    c) Stative Passive

    d) The Passive With Get

  4. Gerunds and Infinitives

    a) Using Gerunds As The Objects of Prepositions

    b) Go + Gerund

    c) Common Verbs Followed by Infinitives or Gerunds

    d) The Use of It + Infinitive

    e) Use of In Order To, Too, Enough, Need, Let, Help, Make, Have, and Get.

    f) Special Expressions Followed By The -ing Form Of A Verb.

  5. Singular And Plural

    a) Final -s/-es

    b) Irregular Plural Nouns

    c) Progressive Nouns

    d) Using Nouns as Moditlers

    e) Count and Noncount Noun

    f) Using A Few and Few; A Little and Little

    g) Singular Expressions of Quantity: One, Each, and Every.

  6. Adjective Clauses

    a) Using Subject Pronouns: Who, Which, and That.

    b) Using Object Pronouns: Who(m), Which, and That

    c) Using Whose, Where, and When

  7. Noun Clauses

    a) Nouns Clauses which begin with a Question word

    b) Nouns Clauses which begin with Whether or If

  8. Showing Relationships between Ideas

    a) Using Paired Conjunctions: Both... ...And; Not Only... ...But Also; Either... ...Or; Neither... ...Nor

    b) Use of Prepositions To Show Cause and Effect

    c) Use of Transitions To Show Cause and Effect

    d) Showing Opposition

    e) Adverb Clauses of Condition

    f) Expressing Conditions

  9. Conditional Sentences

    a) Basic Verb Use in Conditional Sentences

    b) True in the Present or Future

    c) Untrue (Contrary to fact) in the Present/Future

    d) Untrue (Contrary to fact) in the Past

    e) Implied Conditions

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