Pre-advanced / Advanced Level

Student will build more advanced skills of communications, academic reading, writing, and critical thinking that prepare the learner for high school or college work. Student is expected to work on comprehension and analysis of a variety of texts and expressing himself/herself more fluently with increasingly sophisticated vocabulary and language. Listening and speaking activities include watching news, lectures, and TED Talks, with emphasis on listening comprehension strategies, effective note-taking, oral communications, and presentations. Student is expected to become more skilled in analysis which include reading between the lines, making inferences, drawing conclusions, evaluating and synthesizing information from various sources. Student is also expected to do rhetorical analysis on speeches. These tasks help develop student’s critical thinking ability. Writing sessions will focus on essay development. Learning by doing projects and/or fundamental research on topics of each student’s interests is a component of the language development.  With parent’s consent, student may visit a museum of his/her choice and write a report or an essay about the visit.