ELL C Syllabus

ELL C will include: Reading, Grammar, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Advanced Phonetic Vocabulary and Word Study

Our primary curriculum this year will be from Burlington English (Intermediate and Advanced)

Order of Units (Each Unit about 8 days)

Low Intermediate

September

-1) Personal Information - Simple Present / Present Continuous, Simple Past, used to, Future: will and going to

-2) Education - Present Continuous, Present Perfect

October

-3) Getting a Job - Gerunds and Infinitives, Present Perfect

-4) Money Matters - Comparatives, too and enough, Indefinite Pronouns

November

-5) Health - Quantifiers, present perfect continuous, adjectives with -ed, -ing

-6) In the Workplace - Polite Requests, Reported Comments and Requests, Advice, Suggesting Possibility

December

-7) Safety - Can, could, be able to, Past Continuous

-8) Housing - Superlatives, Time Clauses with before, after, Present Real Conditionals

January

-9) In the Community - Future Read Conditionals, Noun clauses, Future time clauses

-10) Government and Law- Simple Present Passive, Simple Past Passive, both..and, either...or

High Intermediate

February

-1)  Personal Information - Adjectives and Adverbs, Information Questions

-2) Adjective clauses with who, what, that, Gerunds and Infinitives

March

-3) Getting a job - Modals for advice: should, ought to, Present perfect vs. simple past

- 4) Money Matters - Present real conditionals, Future real conditionals

April

-5) Health - Embedded Questions, Reflexive Pronouns

-6) In the Workplace - Present Perfect Simple vs. Continuous, Modal Perfect

May

-7) Safety - Past Perfect and Simple Past, Direct and Reported Speech

-8) Housing - Modals of Certainty, Causatives using get and have

June

-9) In the Community - Present Unreal Conditionals, Tag Questions

-10) Government and Law- Would rather, Passive Voice: Simple Present and Simple Past

Advanced Grammar

Separable and Inseparable Phrasal verbs, Complex Sentences, Past Unreal Conditionals, Subject and Object Adjective Clauses, Connectors of Contrast, Tag Questions