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AMERICAN ENGLISH FILE STARTER SYLLABUS (FULL-INTENSIVE AEF-STARTER)

MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to promote excellence in the English language by providing opportunities for students to explore, discover, and learn English at all levels. Our goal is to help students develop the skills needed to communicate and interact effectively in their day-to-day lives.

OUR METHODOLOGY Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a modern language teaching approach that puts emphasis on teaching languages holistically, based on meaningful communication and interaction. In CLT, languages are learned not only as skills but also as social behaviors, by using tasks that learners would also do in the real world. New kinds of activities, such as a role play, games, debates, and discussions, are used, along with more interactive social forms, where students are asked to share their opinions in pairs or groups.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The basic level is for students who have had little or no prior school experience in English language acquisition. Students will develop a basic level of English vocabulary, pronunciation strategies, and grammatical structure in order to communicate successfully. Students will develop literary and analytical skills which will prepare them to be successful in higher-level courses.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Use a limited range of words and phrases like personal ID questions

• Comprehend basic expressed needs with simple words or phrases

• Understand simplified spoken English in short dialogues, simple conversations, interviews, and songs

• Have limited social conversations

• Demonstrate comprehension in reading tasks well as apply basic reading strategies.

• Produce simple written sentences

• Write basic sentences and questions, emails, and short paragraphs


• Identify and use correctly a variety of targeted basic grammatical structures.

• Use correct spelling and capitalization and basic vocabulary

COURSE MATERIALS

TEXTBOOKS

American English File – Starter (Student Book)

ISBN: 9780194776141 American English File – Starter (Workbook)

ISBN: 0194776387

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week Unit Topic Exercises

1 1A-1B Hello/Where are you from? Numbers/Days of the week/countries

2 2A-2B We’re Canadian/What’s his number? Nationalities/Personal information

3 3A-3B In your bag/Is that a hat? Small things

4 4A-4B Family & friends/That’s a cool car People & family/Colors/Adjectives

5 5A-5B Bad hair day/What do you have for breakfast?

Common verbs/Food & drinks

6 6A-6B English at work/Do you like mornings? Jobs/Places of work/A typical day

7 7A-7B Life at the end of the world/You can’t park here

Common verbs 2

8 8A-8B What are you doing?/Today is different Verb phrases/The weather

9 9A-9B In the jungle/Before they were stars Hotels/Places

10 10A-10B It changed my life/What did you do? Common verbs 3/Daily routines



11 11A-11B What do you think of it?/Strangers on a train Opinion words/Irregular verbs

12 12A-12B Trip of a lifetime/From start to finish Future time expressions/Verb collocations

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

Midterm Exam: 50% Final Exam: 50%

Midterm Exam Midterm exams are conducted on the 6th week of the course. Written exams are standardized, and all written exams need to be collected by the end of exam day. Students are not allowed to keep their test papers. Final Exam Final exams are conducted on the 12th week of the course. Written exams are standardized, and all written exams need to be collected by the end of exam day. Students are not allowed to keep their test papers.

GRADING SCALE:

93 – 100 Excellent 85 - 92 Very Good 77 – 84 Good

70 – 76 Fair 65 – 70 Minimum Passing 64 and below – Failing

IT IS SCHOOL POLICY THAT EVERY STUDENT MUST ATTEND CLASS WITH THE REQUIRED TEXTBOOK BY THE THIRD DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK. STUDENTS WHO REFUSE TO OBTAIN THE COURSE BOOK WILL BE SENT TO THE ACADEMIC COORDINATOR’S OFFICE.

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT HOMEWORK BE ASSIGNED AS AN INSTRUMENT TO ASSIST THE STUDENTS IN THE ACQUISITION OF THE MATERIAL BEING PRESENTED.

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AMERICAN ENGLISH FILE LEVEL 1 SYLLABUS (FULL-INTENSIVE AEF-1)

MISSION STATEMENT



COURSE DESCRIPTION

This level is geared to students who have had basic contact with English and who have some experience in spoken English. Students expand their knowledge of high-frequency words and phrases in order to communicate using routine statements. Students develop new structures in grammar, along with literary and analytical skills. Students continue to develop pronunciation strategies and listening skills to reinforce their ability to communicate successfully.


• Listen for main ideas and details

• Identify new vocabulary from context in reading and listening

• Have conversations in formal and informal settings

• Construct meaning from print material like reading

• Apply reading strategies

• Produce simple sentences in paragraph format on familiar topics


• Identify and use correctly a variety of targeted basic and more complex grammatical structures.

• Correct spelling and capitalization and identify and use correctly vocabulary

COURSE MATERIALS

TEXTBOOKS

American English File – 1 (Student Book)

ISBN: 9780194776158 American English File – 1 (Workbook)

ISBN: 0194776395

COURSE SCHEDULE


1 1A-1B-1C My name is/All over the world/Open your books

Days of the week/Numbers/Greetings The world/Classroom language

2 2A-2B-2C Writer’s room/Stars & stripes/After 300 feet…

Things/Colors/Modifiers/Feelings

3 3A-3B-3C Things I love/Work & play/Meeting online

Verb phrases/Jobs/Question words

4 4A-4B-4C Is she his wife or his sister?/What a life!/Short life or long life?

Family/Everyday activities/Adverbs of expression of frequency

5 5A-5B-5C The next American Idol/Love your neighbors/Sun & the city

Verb phrases/the weather/The seasons

6 6A-6B-6C Reading/Times we love/Music is changing their lives

Phone language/dates/ordinal numbers/Music

7 7A-7B-7C At the Gallery/Chelsea girls/A night to remember

Word formation/Past time expressions/Go, have, get

8 8A-8B-8C Murder story/A house with a history/A night in a haunted hotel

Irregular verbs/The house/Prepositions

9 9A-9B-9C What I ate/White gold/Quiz night Food/Food containers/High numbers

10 10A-10B-10C The most dangerous road/CouchSurf around the world/What’s going to happen?

Places & buildings/Vacations/Verb phrases



11 11A-11B-11C First impressions/What do you want to do?/Men, women, and the internet

Common adverbs/Infinitive verbs/The internet

12 12A-12B-12C Books & movies/I’ve never been there!/The AEF questionnaire

Irregular past participles/Word groups




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COURSE DESCRIPTION

At this level student’s fluency is emergent and the focus is on preparing students to communicate using formal and informal language in a variety of situations. Students begin strengthening their strategic approach to learning and expand their knowledge and use of vocabulary, pronunciation strategies, and grammatical structures to strengthen their ability to communicate successfully.


• Students can comprehend simplified informal and formal spoken and apply basic listening strategies.

• Students can describe basic needs in simple statements and questions in present, past, or future tenses, and use limited vocabulary.

• Students can participate in real life situations like at a restaurant, at a hotel, at a pharmacy, and asking for directions.

• Students can construct meaning from print materials and apply basic reading strategies.


• Students can produce simple, well-organized paragraphs with sentences and some supporting detail forming the basic essay structure.

• Students will be able to identify and use correctly a variety of increasingly complex grammatical structures.

• Students can use correct spelling, vocabulary, and capitalization.

COURSE MATERIALS

TEXTBOOKS



ISBN: 9780194776400

COURSE SCHEDULE


1 1A-1B-1C Where are you from?/Choices/Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy

Vowel sounds/The alphabet/-es, -s/Prepositions of place

2 2A-2B-2C Right place, wrong person/Behind the photo/One dark October evening…

Regular verbs -ed /Sentence stress/Word stress

3 3A-3B-3C Plans & dreams/Let’s meet again/What’s the word?

Sentence stress/Sounding friendly/Dictionary pronunciation

4 4A-4B-4C Parents & teenagers/Fashion & shopping/Lost weekend

Make or do?/Shopping/Adjectives -ed, -ing

5 5A-5B-5C No time for anything/Superlative cities/How much is too much?

Time expressions/Describing a city/Health & the body

6 6A-6B-6C Are you a pessimist?/I’ll never forget you/The meaning of dreaming

Opposite verbs/2-syllable verbs/Letters ow

7 7A-7B-7C How to…/Being happy/Learn a language in a month!

Verbs+infinitive/Verbs+gerund/Modifiers

8 8A-8B-8C I don’t know what to do/If something can go wrong,…/You must be mine

Get/Confusing verbs/Adverbs of manner

9 9A-9B-9C What would you do?/Afraid of it for years/Born to sing

Animals/Phobias & fear/Biographies



10 10A-10B-10C The mothers of invention/Could be better/Mr. Indecisive

Invent, discover/Used to, didn’t use to/Diphthongs

11 11A-11B-11C Bad losers/Are you a morning person?/Coincidences

Sports/Phrasal verbs/Similarities

12 12A-12B-12C Strange but true!/Gossip is good for you/The AEF quiz

Had, hadn’t/Say or tell?




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COURSE DESCRIPTION

Students acquire the skills to be able to sustain conversations and instructions and communicate in a variety of typical situations. Students continue their progressive study of grammatical structures and begin using higher level approaches to read and listen. Students begin fine-tuning their writing skills, and develop further skills in vocabulary expansion, in addition to furthering their speaking and pronunciation abilities and broaden their grammatical structures.


• Interpret conversations and listen to formal and informal texts.

• Apply listening strategies.

• Students can engage in conversations beyond survival needs.

• Able to ask and answer questions give their opinion on a topic.

• Can give two-minute talks.

• Able to construct meaning from print materials.


• Make predictions about texts.

• Ability to summarize texts.

• Can identify main ideas and details.

• Can produce write essays, blog posts, articles, and biographies on personal topics.

• Use with correct spelling, punctuation, and structured grammar in their writing.

• Students will be able to identify and use correctly a variety of targeted complex grammatical structures.

• Can use vocabulary, phrasal verbs, and phrases and can collocate verbs

COURSE MATERIALS

TEXTBOOKS



ISBN: 0194776417

COURSE SCHEDULE


1 1A Mood food Food & cooking

2 1B Family Life Family & adjectives of personality

3 2A-2B Spend or save?/Changing lives Money, letter O /Strong adjectives

4 3A-3B Race across Miami/Stereotypes Transportation/Collocations

5 4A-4B Failure & Success/Modern manners -ed, -ing adjectives/Phone language

6 5A-5B Sports superstitions/Love at Exit 19 Sports/Relationships

7 6A-6B Shot on location/Judging by appearances

Movies/The body

8 7A-7B Extraordinary school for boys/Ideal home

Education/Houses

9 8A-8B Sell & tell/What’s the right job for you? Shopping/Work

10 9A-9B Lucky encounters/Too much information!

Making adjectives & adverbs/Electronic devices



11 10A Modern icons Compound nouns

12 10B Two crime stories Intonations




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COURSE DESCRIPTION

Students practice using different tenses together. New words are added to vocabulary by adding prefixes and suffixes. New vocabulary is put into practice with emphasis on pronouncing new words and sounds clearly.


• Able to construct sentences together using different combined tenses.

• Apply listening strategies.



• Can give two-minute talks.

• New vocabulary is put into practice with emphasis on pronouncing new words and sounds clearly.

• Can produce write essays, blog posts, articles, and biographies on personal topics.


• Use with correct spelling, punctuation, and structured grammar in writing.


COURSE MATERIALS

TEXTBOOKS



ISBN: 0194776425

COURSE SCHEDULE


1 1A Questions & answers Friendly intonation

2 1B Do you believe in it? Compound adjectives

3 2A-2B Call the doctor/Older & wiser? Illnesses & injuries/Clothes & fashion

4 3A-3B Truth about air travel/Incredibly short stories

Air travel/Adverbial phrases

5 4A-4B Eco-guilt/Are you a risk taker? The environment, the weather/Vowel sounds

6 5A-5B The survivors’ club/it drives me crazy! Feelings/Expressing feelings with verbs

7 6A-6B Music & emotion/Sleeping beauty Movies/Sleep

8 7A-7B Don’t argue!/Actors acting Forms of have/Silent letters

9 8A-8B Beat the robbers/Breaking news The letter U/The media

10 9A-9B Truth & lies/Megacities Advertising & business/Word building

11 10A The dark side of the moon Science

12 10B The power of words Word pairs





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COURSE DESCRIPTION

Using natural conversation skills, students use a wide range of structures to express different concepts. Vocabulary is enriched by focusing on idioms and synonyms. Student are taught to use the appropriate word depending on the situation. Pronunciation of difficult sounds and natural rhythm and intonation in conversation are emphasized.


• Able to construct sentences together using different combined tenses.



• Vocabulary is enriched by focusing on idioms and synonyms.

• New vocabulary is put into practice with emphasis on pronouncing new words and sounds clearly.

• Vocabulary is enriched by focusing on idioms and synonyms.



COURSE MATERIALS

TEXTBOOKS



ISBN: 9780194776431

COURSE SCHEDULE


1 1A What motivates you? Work

2 1B Who am I? Personality & family

3 2A-2B Whose language is it?/Once upon a time

Language terminology/Abstract nouns

4 3A-3B Don’t get mad, get even!/History goes to the movies

Phrases with get/Stress in word families

5 4A-4B Breaking the silence/Lost in translation Deduction/Describing books

6 5A-5B Are there 31 hours in a day?/Do you have Affluenza?

Time/Money

7 6A-6B Help yourself/Can’t live without it Compound adjectives/Phone language

8 7A-7B Who’s in control/Just any old bed Prefixes/Place & movement

9 8A-8B Trick or treatment/A moving experience

Health & medicine/Travel & tourism

10 9A-9B Pets & pests/Recipe for disaster The natural world/Preparing food

11 10A The promised land Intonation in cleft sentences

12 10B Sports on trial Homographs





GRADING SCALE:


70 – 76 Fair 70 Minimum Passing 69 and below – Failing

*IT IS SCHOOL POLICY THAT EVERY STUDENT MUST ATTEND CLASS WITH THE REQUIRED TEXTBOOK BY THE THIRD DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK. STUDENTS WHO REFUSE TO OBTAIN THE COURSE BOOK WILL BE SENT TO THE ACADEMIC COORDINATOR’S OFFICE.

*IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT HOMEWORK BE ASSIGNED AS AN INSTRUMENT TO ASSIST THE STUDENTS IN THE ACQUISITION OF THE MATERIAL BEING PRESENTED.

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