Effective Term: Fall 2007
Status: Pending
 
PALOMAR COLLEGE
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  • Courses numbered 1 - 49 are remedial or college preparatory courses which do not apply toward an A. A. Degree and are not intended for transfer.
  • Courses numbered 50-99 apply toward an AA Degree, but are not intended for transfer.
  • Courses numbered 100 and higher apply toward an AA Degree and/or are intended for transfer to a four-year college or university.
 
Course Number and Title: ESL 34 Intermediate ESL I
 

Unit Value: 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, or 4  

Lecture Hours Per Week:  

Lab Hours Per Week:  

Lecture/Lab Hours Per Week: 3, 4.5, 6, 7.5, 9, 10.5, or 12  

 

Grading Basis: Grade/Credit/No Credit
 
Basic Skills Requirements: Appropriate Language and/or Computational Skills.
 
Requisite(s)

Prerequisite:
A minimum grade of 'C' in ESL 3 or eligibility determined through the English as a Second Language placement process
Corequisite:
None
Prerequisite: Completion of, or concurrent enrollment in
None
Recommended Preparation:
None
Limitation on Enrollment:
None
Scope of Course:
Listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills for non-native speakers of English at the low-intermediate level.
 
Specific Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to:
  1. Engage successfully in casual, everyday conversations;
  2. Give simple everyday instructions and directions;
  3. Tell a story about an everyday activity;
  4. Get key information and main ideas from a variety of authentic written texts;
  5. Use standard reference texts;
  6. Identify factual details in a variety of listening situations and discourse;
  7. Demonstrate comprehension of details and inferred meanings in a variety of authentic oral texts;
  8. Write personal messages using appropriate language and content;
  9. Copy information accurately and use legible handwriting;
  10. Fill out forms accurately;
  11. Write short texts about a personal or familiar situation, event, personal experience, and future plans;
  12. Identify and use certain parts of speech;
  13. Recognize and use certain verb tenses and aspects in writing and in speaking;
  14. Recognize and use certain modal verbs;
  15. Recognize and use grammatical forms at the low intermediate level in appropriate word order and context;
  16. Use basic computer operations and programs;
  17. Demonstrate an understanding of the career planning process;
  18. Identify Student Services, the ESL counselor, and related resources.
 
Methods of Instruction:
Methods of Instruction may include, but are not limited to, the following:
  1. Lecture/Lab
 
Content in Terms of Specific Body of Knowledge:
  1. Speaking skills
    1. Use appropriate language in casual, everyday conversations
      1. Openings, closings, and responses
      2. Introductions
      3. Phone situations
        1. Common expressions for telephone usage
        2. Telephone messages
    2. Give directions, requests, responses
    3. Tell stories: connected discourse on everyday activities
    4. Express needs, preferences, satisfaction, or dissatisfaction
  2. Reading skills
    1. Comprehend key information, main ideas, important details and specific information
      1. Authentic personal texts
      2. Instructions and instructional texts
    2. Find information and specific details in formatted texts
      1. Forms, tables, schedules, directories
      2. Brochures, notices, form letters, flyers
    3. Comprehend text types and purposes, main ideas and details, and facts and opinions in two- to three- paragraph texts
      1. News articles
      2. Educational / content materials
      3. Stories
    4. Use reference texts to find information
      1. Dictionaries
      2. Maps
      3. Diagrams and graphs
  3. Listening skills
    1. Identify main ideas, details, key words, and inferred meanings
      1. Casual, everyday conversations
      2. Spoken discourse
      3. Persuasive oral texts
      4. Reports or stories
    2. Follow four- to five-step verbal instructions
  4. Writing skills
    1. Write short texts
      1. Informal or formal personal messages
        1. Appropriate language and content
        2. Main ideas and details in a paragraph structure
        3. Simple grammar, punctuation, and spelling with few errors
      2. Business messages
      3. Description of a situation, event, experience, or future plans
        1. Basic paragraph structure
        2. Main ideas and supporting details
        3. Adequate vocabulary
        4. Correct spelling and punctuation
    2. Copy information
      1. Accurate and complete information
      2. Legible writing
    3. Fill out forms
  5. Grammar skills
    1. Parts of speech
      1. Identify and use
        1. Nouns and pronouns
        2. Verbs
        3. Adjectives and adverbs
        4. Prepositions
        5. Subject and object
    2. Verbs, verb tenses, verb aspects, and verbals
      1. Identify and use
        1. Present progressive / continuous
        2. Simple present tense
        3. Past tense
          1. Simple regular
          2. Simple irregular
          3. Used to
          4. Past continuous
        4. Future
          1. Be going to
          2. Will
      2. Identify
        1. Present perfect / present perfect continuous
        2. Past participles
        3. Gerunds and infinitives
    3. Specific grammatical forms, word order and context
      1. Identify and use
        1. Nouns
          1. Singular / plural
          2. Count / non-count
          3. Possessive
        2. Pronouns
          1. Subject / object
          2. Direct / indirect
          3. Possessive
          4. Reflexive / reciprocal
        3. Adjectives
          1. Descriptive
          2. Possessive
          3. Comparative
          4. Superlative
        4. Adverbs
          1. Frequency
          2. Manner
        5. Prepositions
          1. Location / Place
          2. Time
        6. Modals and modal-like expressions
          1. Can / could
          2. Should
          3. Have to
          4. Must / have to / be supposed to
          5. May / might
      2. Identify
        1. Sentence types and clauses
          1. Independent
          2. Dependent
  6. Computer literacy
    1. Basic computer operations
    2. Microsoft Word
    3. Internet
  7. Career Awareness skills
    1. Jobs and careers
    2. Preparing for future jobs and careers
    3. Palomar College educational system
Textbooks/Resources:
May Include Textbooks, Manuals, Periodicals, Software, and Other Resources
  1. Fuchs, Marjorie; Bonner, Margaret; Westheimer, Miriam. Focus on Grammar 3B. Pearson Education, Inc, 2006.ISBN: 0131899953
  2. Elbaum, Sandra. Grammar in Context 2B. 4th ed. Heinle, 2006.ISBN: 1413007449
  3. Anderson, Neil. Active Skills For Reading: Bk 3. Heinle, 2003.ISBN: 0838426115
  4. Heyer, Sandra. Even More True Stories. 3rd ed. Pearson Education, Inc, 2007.ISBN: 0131751735
  5. Furch, Marty. Career Awareness Project Level 4 (ESL 34). 2nd ed. PCGRAPHICS, 2005.ISBN: 0434872138
Required Reading:
Engage in daily reading of personal texts, instructional texts, reference texts, news articles, and/or stories.
 
Suggested Reading:
 
Critical Thinking:
Identify key facts / information in readings.
Transform textual information to graphic and vice versa.
Draw conclusions based on evidence.
Apply information to real-life situations.
 
Required Writing:
Engage in daily writing tasks and write at least four original, well-organized paragraphs, each with 5-7 sentences and with a simple topic sentence and concluding sentence.
 
Outside Assignments:
Students are expected to spend a minimum of three hours per unit per week in class and on outside assignments, prorated for short-term classes.

Methods of Assessment
Methods of Assessment may include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Class Work
  • Exams/Tests
  • Homework
  • Quizzes
 
Open Entry/Open Exit
No, course is not offered as open entry/open exit
 
Is Course Repeatable for Reason(s) Other Than Deficient Grade?
No
 
Contact Person: Tracy Fung