Welcome students to what is hopefully your last ESL class before entering academic university studies. I know many of you already and you know me, so there won't be big surprises.
The four main thrusts of this 2-day part of the course are:
* Listening
* Speaking
* Literature interpretation and analysis via reading and writing
* Vocabulary -- mastery of 90 words from the academic word list
It is a very challenging course that will focus on getting you to think and analyse. You will be refining many of your skills rather than learning something entirely new, although some of you may not be familiar with literary analysis.
I encourage you to engage in dialogue with me both in class and in cyberspace. It is essential that you understand what you are doing.
Also, I highly recommend signing-up for/joining these two internet websites/newsletters:
vocabulary.com and about.com:ESL
Good luck. Enjoy the journey.
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