ESL 40 Level 4
This core course provides the opportunity to expand written and oral communication into a wider range of styles and situations. While topics vary, students are encouraged to express personal ideas and present convincing arguments supported by facts and research. Students who successfully complete this course are able to discuss the future in detail; make schedules; predict possibilities and outcomes; connect the present to actions progressing at a certain time in the future; show abilities; make kind requests and offers; give suggestions; prohibit certain actions; claim necessary actions; explain preferences; note what is possible and impossible in the future; explain ideas by speaking actively about complex situations; use prepositions in speaking with lexical chunks; compare actions and people; articulate equality and inequality; describe challenges surrounding terrible situations (e.g. natural disasters); and improve writing through use of complex sentence structure, descriptive clauses, and conjunctions. Prerequisites: ESL030, Oxford Online Placement Test score of 40-49, TOEFL iBT score of 35-54, or IELTS Band 4-5.
Prerequisite
(( ESL030 D- O ESL030 TC ) O ESL031 D- O