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Level IV: Advanced

Many of the objectives in this unit will have been approached during Level III: Intermediate II. In this unit, grammar points are developed through language use and are refined through grammar explanations. As a rule, language development is largely intuitive and therefore students should have an opportunity to develop intuitive knowledge prior to grammar explanations. Preliminary and follow-up assessments are provided.

These lesson plans are not necessarily sequential and therefore do not have to be used in the order presented here. It is more important that lesson plans be used many times until students have mastered objectives. New content may be substituted each time a plan is used.

Objectives

Students will:

• use modal auxilaries appropriately in writing and speaking
• use the subjunctive mode appropriately in writing and speaking
• use the second and third conditionals appropriately in writing and speaking
• form complex sentences
• understand and use gerunds, participles, and the infinitive in writing and speaking
• use cause and effect as a writing strategy in essay development
• use exemplification as a writing strategy in essay development
• use process analysis as a writing strategy in essay development
• develop literal and inferential listening and reading comprehension
• develop research skills
  NOTE: NO LESSON PLAN PROVIDED FOR THIS OBJECTIVE

I. Modal auxiliaries

Objective: Students will use modal auxiliaries appropriately in writing and in speaking.

II. The Subjunctive Mode

Objective: Students will correctly use the subjunctive mode in oral and written English.

III. First, Second and Third Conditional

Objective: Students will learn to use the second and third conditionals appropriately in writing and speaking.

IV. Forming Complex Sentences

Objective: Students will form complex sentences using appropriate grammar and conjunctions, including adverb clauses, noun clauses and adjective clauses, as well as learning how to reduce adjective and adverb clauses.

V. Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles

Objective: Students will learn to understand and use gerunds, infinitives and participles in writing and speaking.

VI. Using Cause and Effect as an Essay Development Strategy

Objective: Students will develop essays which discuss causes and effects.

VII. Using Exemplification as an Essay Development Strategy

Objective: Students will use exemplification as a strategy for developing a thesis.

VIII. Process Analysis as a Writing Strategy for Thesis Development

Objectives: Students will use process analysis as a strategy for developing a thesis.

IX. Reading Comprehension

Objective: student will develop reading comprehension and fluency.