Improve your writing accuracy and fluency by developing your English grammar and writing skills and improving your reading and vocabulary.
Developing skills in a second language involves understanding how the language works and taking the time to practice using it. ESL002 encourages you to work with new grammar ideas and word choices and practice using those topics to write about yourself and develop your writing skills.
In Unit 1, you will learn how past and present tenses change the meaning of what you read and write. Unit 2 improves your ability to read actively as you skim, scan, and read intensively. In Unit 3, you will read more to collect new vocabulary and learn strategies to develop it more with synonyms, antonyms, and suffixes. Unit 4 brings these skills together as you write a narrative paragraph about something you learned in the past. By the end of ESL002, you will be able to use different tenses to describe past experiences and explain to a reader how you best learn.
- Unit 1: Language Skills
- Unit 2: Reading to Comprehend
- Unit 3: Reading to Improve
- Unit 4: Reading to Write – Writing About the Past
- Use the present and past tense in simple statements about common activities;
- Apply basic comprehension strategies to understand short narrative or descriptive passages;
- Use vocabulary strategies to enlarge Standard American English vocabulary; and
- Write short narrative paragraphs on a familiar topic describing daily activities or past events.