ADS 304 - ESOL Level 3 – EL Civics

6 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to enable the student to learn to develop English language skills and be introduced to civics concepts. Topics to be covered include more complex reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, and pronunciation, along with civics concepts.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

1. demonstrate the ability to participate in routine social conversations in familiar contexts,
2. express agreement or disagreement and give an opinion,
3. identify and produce sentence stress,
4. identify thought groups in speaking and reading,
5. demonstrate the ability to listen/read for specific information and to make inferences and take notes,
6. use pre-writing and editing strategies,
7. write a descriptive paragraph with details on a familiar topic,
8. demonstrate the ability to begin to appropriately use the perfect tense,
9. demonstrate the ability to begin to understand U.S. Civics concepts, and
10. compare/contrast U.S. and home country civics concepts.