Beginning 1 ESL

General Class Description

This class is for the student who has very limited English vocabulary but can decode English or Western script. One goal of Beginning 1 is to provide basic vocabulary and oral comprehension to enable the student to follow directions or do simple classroom assignments. This student may have no knowledge of the American classroom and its participatory style.

In Beginning 1 we will work on all four ESL domains. Our goal is that our students acquire the following:

• Speaking: Learners can organize information and ask simple questions related to survival needs and simple social interchanges with some control of basic grammar, intonation and pace.
• Listening: Learners can listen actively, monitor comprehension of simple conversations with support of repetitions and slow rate of speech and use appropriate listening strategies.
• Reading: Learners can use reading strategies that include previewing, viewing, and predicting and can read material in familiar contexts when vocabulary is controlled.
• Writing: Learners can produce simple written texts, motes, or messages that are organized and present information to serve the purpose, context, using complete sentences with basic grammar structures (present and past tense) and use correct punctuation.

Unit Titles

• Unit 1 Who We are
• Unit 2 My Community
• Unit 3 Autumn
• Unit 5 Giving Thanks
• Unit 6 Winter
• Unit 7 Tolerance
• Unit 8 American Innovations
• Unit 9 Art

Syllabus for Beginning 1