MCCCD Program Description

Directed Practice in English for ESL II

Course: ESL025

First Term: 2002 Summer II

Lec + Lab 1 Credit(s) 8 Period(s) 5.9 Load
Subject Type: Academic
Load Formula: S

Description: Designed to provide students learning English as a second language the opportunity for the practice of English in a supervised setting. Practice listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in English using modals, auxiliary verbs, comparatives and superlatives, pronouns, and everyday words.

MCCCD Official Course Competencies
1. Use modals to express possibility, probability, obligation, need, and ability in statements and questions. (I) 2. Use has, have, and had to form perfect tense questions and statements. (II) 3. Use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs in sentences. (III) 4. Use subject, object, possessive, and reflexive pronouns in sentences. (IV) 5. Use everyday verbs, nouns, modifiers, and prepositions appropriately. (V)
MCCCD Official Course Competencies must be coordinated with the content outline so that each major point in the outline serves one or more competencies. MCCCD faculty retains authority in determining the pedagogical approach, methodology, content sequencing, and assessment metrics for student work. Please see individual course syllabi for additional information, including specific course requirements.

MCCCD Official Course Outline
I. Modals A. Possibility B. Probability C. Obligation and need D. Request E. Ability II. Perfect tense auxiliary verbs A. Present perfect B. Past perfect C. Future perfect III. Comparative and superlative IV. Pronouns V. Vocabulary expansion (everyday words)

MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: 12/11/2001

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