Intermediate Level

Student will be prepared for more complex communications for personal and academic purposes. Vocabulary building is an important component of language learning. Student is expected to learn to use high frequency vocabulary to communicate in social situations and academic settings, including retelling stories and articulating opinions. Student is expected to learn to use a combination of simple, compound and complex sentences to write letters, emails, reading responses, and paragraphs to express and support opinions on a variety of topics.  The reading classes will provide student with strategies to skim, scan and predict texts. The learning tasks also include enhancing reading comprehension and developing reading skills such as identifying main ideas, details and purpose of texts. Tutor helps student uncover and interpret layers of meaning in a text. Sharpening critical thinking skills is an integral part of the learning activities. With parent’s consent, student may visit a museum of his/her choice and write a report about the visit. More challenging tasks will be assigned to student who wants to get ahead.