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Reading Writing Grammar

EAP 0441/2: Level 4 (B1 Intermediate)

Goal #1: Develop ability to read, understand and analyze multi-paragraphed text on general and introductory academic themes.

Goal #2: Construct multi-paragraph compositions with a central theme, cohesion, and coherence using emerging academic writing conventions.

Goal #3: Apply knowledge of grammatical structures and functions in verbal and written communication at the intermediate level.

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Student Learning Outcomes

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Reading

• Read and comprehend general English and emerging academic texts at the B1 intermediate level, demonstrating understanding of key vocabulary in context.
• Apply previewing, skimming, and scanning strategies to B1-level texts.
• Distinguish between main ideas and supporting details in B1 intermediate level texts.
• Use a variety of context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases.
• Make inferences and draw conclusions from B1-level texts.
• Distinguish between fact and opinion in B1 intermediate level texts.
• Identify and distinguish among common patterns of text organization, including narrative, compare and contrast, problem and solution, and cause and effect.
• Develop note-taking and in-text annotation skills for use with B1-level academic texts.

Writing

• Use a wide range of B1-level general English and emerging academic vocabulary accurately.
• Produce multi-paragraph compositions including introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion.
• Write with varied sentence structure — simple, compound, and complex — using cohesive devices and punctuation to create flow and coherence.
• Use connective and transitional phrases for addition, sequencing, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, argument, and conclusion.
• Identify and correct sentence fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences.
• Use self-editing skills, peer-review, and instructor feedback to revise multi-paragraph compositions.
• Apply correct mechanics at the B1 level: capitalization, periods, commas, semicolons, and other punctuation.
• Use pre-writing strategies such as brainstorming, clustering, and basic outlining to plan and organize paragraph and multi-paragraph compositions before drafting.

Grammar

• Use future forms accurately, distinguishing between will, be going to, simple present, and present progressive for future meaning, and use future time clauses correctly.
• Use the Present Perfect to express past experiences, recent events, and actions with present relevance (with since, for, yet, already, ever, never); use the Present Perfect Progressive for ongoing and recently completed actions.
• Use the Past Perfect to describe actions completed before another past action.
• Use modals and modal phrases for certainty (could, might, may), advice (could, should), and obligation (must, have to) accurately.
• Use the definite article (the) accurately for geographical names, second mention, and unique or specific reference.
• Form and use adjective clauses (relative clauses) accurately at the B1 level.
• Use gerunds and infinitives correctly as verb complements (verb + gerund, verb + infinitive, verb + gerund or infinitive).
• Form and use noun clauses (beginning with if/whether and that) and reported speech with common reporting verbs (say, tell, ask).

Listening Speaking Pronunciation

EAP 0410/0411/0412: Level 4 (B1 Intermediate)

Goal #1: Develop ability to listen to and understand short discussions, interviews, and lectures on a variety of general and academic topics.

Goal #2: Develop conversational skills and academic presentation skills on familiar topics, current events, and intermediate level academic topics.

Goal #3: Increase comprehensibility and intelligibility through focus on prosody and phonemic awareness.

Student Learning Outcomes

Listening and Speaking

• Listen to and respond to spoken language on general and emerging academic topics such as the environment, health, customs, and technology at the B1 intermediate level.
• Use appropriate turn-taking, active listening, and clarification strategies in conversations of varying formality, adapting vocabulary, tone, and register to suit the communicative context.
• Participate in formal class discussions and debates using appropriate vocabulary and register.
• Give a 3-5-minute academic presentation using appropriate structure, transitions, vocabulary, and register.
• Identify the main ideas, supporting details, and relevant inferences in formal or academic listening passages, including lectures and group discussions.
• Use general academic vocabulary accurately and appropriately in discussions, presentations, and spoken responses at the B1 intermediate level.
• Utilize notes from formal or academic listening passages to demonstrate comprehension and summarize the main points of a brief academic listening passage.
• Use paraphrase and circumlocution strategies when lacking a precise word or expression.

Pronunciation

• Apply peak vowel stress, focus word stress, and thought groups to enhance clarity in spoken interactions and presentations.
• Use rising and falling intonation accurately for lists, attitude, and emotion in discussions and presentations.
• Produce connected speech with final consonant reduction and linking (e.g., final /t/ /d/).
• Recognize and produce elision and assimilation in natural connected speech (e.g., next door → nex’ door; did you → didja).
• Apply weak and strong forms of function words accurately in connected speech (e.g., a, an, the, do, does, to, from, at, of).
• Identify silent consonants and apply vowel reduction in natural speech (e.g., /b/ in climb, /g/ in sign, /l/ in calm).
• Use pitch range and volume deliberately to signal emphasis, contrast, attitude, and key points in discussions and presentations.
• Produce comprehensible, fluent spoken language in discussions and individual presentations.