Mary Katherine Moen
Adult Education Director
Nevada Department
of Education
755 N Roop Street Ste 201
Carson City, NV 89701
Phone: (775) 687-7289
Fax: (775) 687-8636
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Adult Basic Education is funded by a grant from the Workforce Investment Act, Title II (Adult Education and Family Literacy) through the Nevada Department of Education. There is no discrimination or denial of participation on the basis of gender, race, national origin, color, disability, age, or sexual orientation.
ESL Curriculum MaterialsNote: These files are in Adobe Acrobat format. If you do not have the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader (5.0), you can download it here for free. Earlier versions of Acrobat Reader are not recommended. If you have trouble viewing the PDF within your browser, you may need to download the PDF to your hard drive first (Windows users: right-click the link and choose "Save Target As..." from the pop-up menu; Mac users hold the mouse button down as you click on the link and choose "Save Link As..." from the pop-up menu), then launch Acrobat Reader and open the PDF from your hard drive. 1. ESL LOW INTERMEDIATE CORE CURRICULUM Course Information The purpose of this course is to address important competencies at the low intermediate level. Students at this level function satisfactorily in the use of English in basic survival situations related to their needs. They still need to acquire more skills that will help them function more independently in their jobs, such as handling job training and work situations that involve oral communication skills on both a non-technical and technical level. They also need to know how to interpret written directions and other related materials.
2. ESL LOW ADVANCED CORE CURRICULUM Course Information In this course students will focus on higher- level life skills and employability skills than what was achieved at the intermediate level. They will learn how to read and interpret maps and graphs as well as learn how to make various kinds of graphs for various reasons. Knowing how to read a map is essential when trying to get around in a new town or city. Interviewing at a new job site, finding an address of a new place to live, locating stores, friends, a doctor’s office — all of these skills require knowing how to read a map. Interpreting graphs facilitates understanding when reading the newspaper, publications, and business-related information.
3. ESL HIGH INTERMEDIATE CORE CURRICULUM Course Information The purpose of this course is to address important competencies at the high intermediate level. By now students have a basic firm grasp of the English language. They still have many life skills and employability skills that they need to learn. In Session I, students are given learning activities that help them interpret maps. For many of them, driving from one destination to another is challenging in a new country. They are taught to utilize the index on the back of the map to find names of streets and different community resources like hospitals, churches, and parks. Following the intersection of letter and number on the front of the map is shown to be helpful when trying to find a location. Analyzing the different possible ways of getting somewhere allows them to decide the shortest, safest, or most scenic route.
4. ESL HIGH ADVANCED CORE CURRICULUM Course Information The purpose of this course is to fine tune important skills learned at the low advanced level. High advanced ESL students’ ability to solve problems and make decisions becomes more complex (as is realistically reflected in the work environment) at this level. Now they are expected to work with more sophisticated types of information, which will enhance their capabilities on the job. |
