In this plus level, a big focus is helping the learner give more and more detail about their lives—for example, telling when their job or school starts and what they do at what time during the day. They learn a great deal of vocabulary for schools and jobs. They begin to be able to describe locations and give directions. Time …
In this plus level, the range of key concepts expands to include more precision in time relations—for example, the frequency of an event. Learners are finally able to communicate their likes and dislikes and favorites. The range of topics appropriate for this plus level expands to include relatively detailed information about a learner’s family and job/school.
After earning the highest CEFR level in the English Language Learning courses, you will be eligible to receive your final Program Certificate.
At this level, learners should be able to communicate and understand even extremely complex topics that are not in their area of expertise. In AL & Dialog, learners will be encountering complex discussions and lectures with meaning sometimes implied, rather than directly stated. One big addition from previous levels is the language of argumentation. The NDE 8 unit on ‘For …
At this level, learners should be able to deal with almost anything, with the sole reservation that there will be some errors in grammar and vocabulary. In AL & Dialog, learners will be encountering run-on and fragmented sentences with meaning sometimes implied, rather than directly stated. They should be able to understand normal conversational English that is disrupted by a …
This plus level continues the rise in sentence and concept complexity that was evident in the previous level. Learners are exposed to sophisticated nuance, speculation, hypotheses and advanced techniques for defining and explaining complicated scientific information. This sentence is a good example: ‘ Sometimes, when looking back on his life, he wonders what might have happened had he not been …
The complexity of the ideas and structures increases greatly in this level, especially in the communication of nuances that use structures slightly more complex than what was taught before. For example, in the lower levels, learners saw that things can increase or decrease. In this level, they increase ‘dramatically’ or ‘steadily’ or ‘linearly’. Instead of saying that they didn’t change, …
In this plus level, few totally new grammar structures are introduced, but the complexity of the sentences ramps up quickly with a very high number of multiclause sentences using adverb or noun clauses. Past time relations are a key focus here—for example, events that happened simultaneously or one then the other or started in the past and continued to the …
In this plus level, learners will master ever increasingly difficult concepts for time relations, which will take them beyond the simple past, present and future ideas. For example, learners will encounter language for giving a background to a past event (The driver was driving too fast.) and for describing an action that happened at a time that isn’t specified. Multiverb, …
In this plus level, learners will master ever increasingly difficult concepts, which will give them the ability to participate in transactions, conversations and discussions more precisely. For example, they learn how to use ‘will’ for volunteering and the modal ‘can’ for a future action. Examples of new or newly emphasized concepts are stating a contrast, stating thoughts/beliefs, inviting, stating possibilities, …
