ESL 31 Read to Discuss
This elective course is ultimately meant to encourage reading outside of school texts alone. Upon completing this course, students are able to read short stories, read chapter books, summarize a story, follow a plot, gain vocabulary meaning from context, identify and discuss basic literary concepts, learn and recite from memory, appreciate nuances in writing, understand irony, discern between British and American English, explain coincidences, examine phrasal connectivity, have intonation while reading aloud, act natural while reading aloud, recognize the importance of adjectives in effective writing, and follow models to write their own stories. Prerequisites: ESL020, Oxford Online Placement Test score of 30-39, TOEFL iBT score of 35-54, or IELTS Band 0-3.5.
Prerequisite
( ESL020 D- O ESL021 D- O