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A. Aural Skills: Students will be able to:
1. Use specific listening attack strategies to receive information
and instructions and respond correctly.
2. Identify topics and key points on such themes as personal data
and consumer issues, employment, health, rights and obligations
of this society, etc.
B. Oral Skills: Students will be able to:
1. Identify self and family members, giving personal data, including
correct spelling and pronunciation of street names and numbers.
2. Introduce self and others, using appropriate greetings and small
talk to begin and end a conversation.
3. Form simple questions and polite requests, including asking
permission.
4. Indicate lack of understanding and clarify information.
5. Give basic explanation of needs and problems including health,
employment, schools, housing, and residency issues.
6. Name and give simple description of persons, situations, places,
and common objects.
7. State simple consumer preferences, including food orders, and
identify currency correctly.
8. Understand time expressions and make, change, and reschedule
appointments.
9. Report emergencies and summon help.
10. Ask for and give basic directions.
11. Use the telephone for basic needs
a. Make and answer telephone calls, including use of Directory
Assistance.
b. Respond appropriately to wrong numbers and recordings.
c. Take and leave simple messages.
12. Describe work, skills, and educational background in simple terms
and indicate job and working condition preference.
13. Express regret, including apologies, make excuses, and express
ability/inability.
14. State short and long range goals: personal, educational and/or
vocational.
C. Socio-linguistic and Cultural: Students will be able to:
1. Recognize common expectations for behavior in school, community,
and the workplace.
2. Identify appropriate sources of assistance for health and other
consumer needs.
3. Recognize rights and responsibilities in U.S. society.
a. Advocate appropriately for oneself in interactions with law
enforcement agencies, health care providers, etc.
b. Observe laws, rules, and basic safety.
D. Reading Skills:
1. Reading for information: Students will be able to read and respond
appropriately to the following:
a. personal data forms such as simple applications
b. medicine labels
c. food storage instructions
d. maps
e. telephone book
f. bills, bank forms, and other basic consumer correspondence
g. clocks and appointment cards
2. Reading for pleasure and fluency: Students will be able to
recognize main ideas and supporting points in basic, brief
reading passages:
a. readings from texts and handouts
b. readings from student-produced sentences and paragraphs
E. Vocabulary Skills: Students will be able to employ:
1. basic high frequency vocabulary/sight words
2. basic word attack skills for comprehension of word forms.
F. Grammar: Students will be able to recognize and produce the
following:
1. Simple sentences with basic English word order (S+V+O)
2. Compound sentences with "and," "but," "so," etc.
3. Basic verb tenses, with focus on the verb "BE."
4. Basic pronoun and preposition use.
5. Basic question/answer formation:
a. WH questions in simple present, present continuous, and past
tenses.
b. Both short answers and complete answers in appropriate tenses.
6. Basic affirmative and negative sentences, with attention to the
most common auxiliary and/or modal verb forms in simple tenses.
7. Noun forms including singular, plural, count, non count, and
possessives.
8. Adjectives in common use, recognizing their relative position with
nouns.
9. Adverbs in high frequency use.
G. Writing: Students will be able to demonstrate beginning skills in:
1. Letter/sound correspondence for producing letters of the alphabet
and correct spelling of common/high priority words.
2. Completion of forms asking for basic personal data, such as
applications.
3. Completion of forms for basic consumer needs such as banking or
postal services.
4. Message taking for telephone calls.
5. Message writing for basic communication at work and in the
community.
6. Sentence completion in response to text/handout exercises.
7. Sentence and guided paragraph production in response to:
a. text exercises and handouts
b. journal assignments
c. peer conversation and writing activities
d. class discussions on designated topics
8. Revision and editing of student-produced passages.
9. Basic formatting of written work, including correct simple
punctuation.
10. Introductory word processing skills at the sentence and paragraph
level where feasible.
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A. Aural/Oral Skills:
1. Listening, Speaking, and Pronounciation strategies and applications:
a. Clarifying information
b. Expressing needs and asking for assistance
c. Initiating questions
d. Giving/receiving information on such topics as personal data,
school, health, employment, time/scheduling, plans and goals,
housing, rights, laws and expectations of this society, use of
telephone and U.S. currency, and general basic consumer needs.
e. Describing persons, locations, and objects.
2. Socio-linguistic and Cultural
a. Recognizing rights, responsibilities, and common expectations
for behavior in U.S. society
b. Identifying and utilizing appropriate resources.
B. Reading:
1. Reading for information: comprehension of basic forms,
instructions, and consumer information
2. Reading for pleasure: identification of main ideas and major
points in short and very basic sentences and brief passages.
C. Vocabulary Skills: High frequency vocabulary and basic word
attack skills
D. Grammar:
1. Recognition and production of simple sentences with basic word
order
2. Recognition and production of beginning grammar forms and
basic verb tenses.
E. Writing:
1. Recognition and correct production of the letters of the
alphabet, and personal data, such as name, address, etc. found
on forms
2. Basic formatting and punctuation of written work
3. Basic sentence formation, including correct word order and
pronoun use
4. Guided paragraph writing for simple, short paragraphs in pencil,
ink, and/or the computer where feasible
5. Beginning attention to editing/proofreading
6. Basic note writing for messages
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SIDE BY SIDE I, 2ND ED., by Molinsky and Bliss (Prentice Hall Regents)
1995
SIDE BY SIDE WORKBOOK, (1A and 1B) and Video (Beginning Level) by
Molinsky, Bliss ({Prentice Hall Regents), 1983
COLLABORATIONS, by Weinstein-Shr and Huizenga (Heinle & Heinle), 1997
BASIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 2ND ED., (Azar, Prentice Hall Regents), 1994
Supplements: WORD BY WORD PICTURE DICTIONARY, by Molinsky, Bliss
(Prentice Hall Regents), 1995
