Grammar Level 2: Course Goals and Objectives
Goal 1: Students will demonstrate basic oral and written proficiency with past tense and
wh-questions.
Objective 1: Students will be able to distinguish between who and what.
Goal 2: Students will demonstrate basic proficiency with common English verbs that have
irregular past tenses.
Objective 1: Students will demonstrate increasing proficiency with form pasting tense in the
following verbs: cost, cut, forget, give, hit, hurt, lend, make, shut, spend, blow, draw, fall, feel,
frow, keep, know, swim, throw, win, become, bend, bite, build, feed, fight, hide, hold, shake, and
understand.
Objective 2: Students will be able to distinguish before and after in time clauses.
Goal 3: Students will be able to show basic ability to use and understand the past
progressive.
Objective 1: Students will be able to form the past progressives and distinguish its use from
simple past tense.
Goal 4: Student will be able to demonstrate basic proficiency with the future tense.
Objective 1: Students will be able to form the future tense by using be going to.
Objective 2: Students will be able to use common English words for past and future: yesterday,
last week, minutes ago.
Objective 3: Students will be demonstrate basic proficiency with a couple of, a few with ago.
Objective 4: Students will demonstrate elementary proficiency with will in forming the future
tense.
Objective 5: Students will be able to use clauses with before, after, and when in the future.
Objective 6: Students will be able to use if with future tense verbs.
Goal 5: Student will demonstrate elementary proficiency with English modals.
Objective 1: Students will be able to distinguish between may, might, and will.
Objective 2: Students will be able to use can and know how to.
Objective 3: Students will be able to use could and form can and could in the past
Objective 4: Students will be able to use should, have, and must.
Goal 6: Students will be able to use modifiers in basic sentenes in English.
Objective 1: Students will be able to use nouns and common adjectives as modifiers of nouns.
Objective 2: Students will be able to use expressions of quantity.
Objective 3: Students will be able to use and understand indefinite pronouns.
Objective 5: Students will be able to use linking verbs and adjectives.
Objective 6: Students will be able to use common adverbs to modify verbs.
Goal 7: Students will be able to make comparisons.
Objective 1: Students will be able to make comparisons using like and alike.
Objective 2: Students will be able to make comparisons using comparatives and superlatives.