Reading Writing Grammar
EAP 0341/2: Level 3 (A2 Pre-Intermediate)
Goal #1 : Read and understand texts on personal, social, and emerging academic themes at the pre-intermediate level.
Goal #2: Produce well-structured paragraphs with central themes and a range of sentence structures.
Goal #3: Apply knowledge of grammar to verbal and written communication at the pre-intermediate level.
Student Learning Outcomes
Reading
- Read and comprehend texts on topics of immediate relevance such as people, climate, jobs, food and culture, and transportation at the A2 pre-intermediate level, demonstrating understanding of key vocabulary.
- Use skimming and scanning strategies for main ideas and details.
- Infer meaning from context and textual cues in A2 pre-intermediate level texts.
- Identify text purpose and text audience in A2 pre-intermediate level texts.
- Restate main ideas of different reading passages verbally and in writing.
- Distinguish between fact and opinion in A2 pre-intermediate level readings.
- Summarize a reading to demonstrate global comprehension.
Writing
- Employ and accurately spell high-frequency words related to topics of immediate relevance such as people, climate, jobs, food and culture, and
- Produce simple, compound, and basic complex sentences with coordinating conjunctions and connectives for reason in Simple Present, Simple Past, and Simple Future.
- Produce structured paragraphs with topic sentences, supporting details, and concluding sentences at the A2 pre-intermediate writing level.
- Produce writing with correct mechanics at the A2 pre-intermediate level: correct use of capitalization, commas, periods, question marks, etc.
- Use self-editing skills and teacher feedback to improve paragraph drafts for accuracy, coherence, and cohesion.
- Compose well-structured paragraphs under timed, exam conditions.
- Write for a specific purpose and audience, selecting appropriate vocabulary, tone, and organizational structure for different text types (e.g., description, narrative, informal message).
Grammar
- Use Simple Past irregular verbs accurately in affirmative, negative, and question forms.
- Use the Simple Past and Past Progressive correctly, distinguishing between completed actions and actions in progress.
- Use be going to and will accurately to express future plans, intentions, and predictions.
- Use basic modals of ability (can/could), permission (may/can), and request (could/would) accurately.
- Use modifying adjectives, noun modifiers, linking verbs with adjectives, and adjective-adverb combinations in sentences.
- Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs (more/most, -er/-est, as…as).
- Use the definite article (the) accurately for second mention, unique reference, and shared knowledge in connected writing.
- Use present, past, and future time clauses accurately in complex sentences.
Listening Speaking Pronunciation
EAP 0310/0311/0312: Level 3 (A2 Pre-Intermediate)
Goal #1: Develop ability to understand the main points of clear, standard conversational speech, brief simplified academic tasks, and informational audio clips at the pre-intermediate level.
Goal #2: Develop students’ ability to discuss familiar and personal interest topics in a connected way, describe experiences and events, and briefly explain processes in a presentational context.
Goal #3: Develop students’ phonemic and prosodic awareness for comprehensibility and clarity.
Student Learning Outcomes
Listening and Speaking
- Listen to and respond to spoken language on familiar topics of immediate relevance such as places, everyday events, technology, and weather at the A2 pre-intermediate level.
- Begin, maintain, and close a short conversation or discussion on a familiar, everyday topic, asking questions and making requests politely.
- Participate in classroom exchanges on familiar topics using level-appropriate vocabulary, and manage communication difficulties by asking for clarification, rephrasing, and checking understanding.
- Give a 2-3-minute structured presentation on a familiar topic using level-appropriate vocabulary and simple organizational phrases.
- Identify the main ideas and distinguish key supporting details in short listening passages, including both conversational and simple informational texts.
- Take notes on short listening passages to demonstrate comprehension.
- Identify the genre and overall structure of short spoken texts, including conversations, descriptions, narratives, and simple instructions, and use this awareness to support comprehension.
- Summarize the main points of a short listening passage on a familiar topic.
Pronunciation
- Identify the communicative purpose of rising and falling intonation patterns in authentic speech, and produce pitch variation to convey basic meaning distinctions — such as interest, surprise, and confirmation — in everyday interactions.
- Produce peak vowel focus words and clearly defined thought groups in both prepared and spontaneous speech.
- Use intonation deliberately to convey emotion, attitude, and to self-correct in everyday spoken interactions.
- Differentiate between and accurately produce easily confused sounds, including /s/ /ʃ/ /t͡ʃ/, /p/ /b/, /l/ /r/, and /ɪ/ /iː/.
- Apply consonant-to-vowel linking and recognize reduced forms of common function words (e.g., gonna, wanna) in connected speech.
- Produce accurate word stress in two- and three-syllable words, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives with shifting stress patterns (e.g., ˈrecord vs. reˈcord), and apply syllable reduction in unstressed function words.
- Adjust volume and pace appropriately in pair and group interactions to suit the audience and context.