English Language Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Program Goals, Course Goals, and Course Objectives
LEVEL 5 READING
Level 5
Program Goals
1. Students will learn to analyze,
synthesize, and infer from mediumlength and long multi-paragraph texts.
Students also will evaluate texts for
content and cohesion.
Level 5
Reading Goals
Level 5
Reading Objectives
Given extended texts and multiple
texts on academic, personal &
Students will analyze medium-length
professional topics.
and long texts, charts, and graphs to
identify main ideas and specific details SWBAT1:
 identify the main idea of a text
that support the main ideas in
 discriminate between main idea
academic, professional and personal
statements and supporting details
contexts.
 extract specific information:
Students will analyze devices of
- to answer factual questions
coherence and cohesion in academic,
- to answer opinion questions
professional and personal contexts.
- to answer why-questions
(reasons)
Students will summarize the main idea
- identify numerical information
of texts in academic, professional and
- complete charts and graphs
personal contexts.
- identify examples
 identify referents of pronouns
Students will make inferences in
 identify relationships in sentences
academic, professional and personal
containing complex grammatical
contexts.
structures
 produce a summary that limits
Student will evaluate the importance
content to the main ideas and key
and relevance of textual information in
supporting details of a text
academic, professional and personal
 discriminate between inference
contexts.
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2. The ELI word list is a list of very frequently used words and is compiled by feeding the Coxhead list into the BNC Vocabulary
Profiler: [http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/bnc/]
English Language Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Program Goals, Course Goals, and Course Objectives
LEVEL 5 READING
Level 5
Program Goals
Level 5
Reading Goals
Students will identify point of view in
academic, professional and personal
contexts.
Level 5
Reading Objectives
statements that can be derived from
the text and inference statements
that cannot be derived from the text
 discriminate between fact, opinions
and inference statements that can be
derived from the text
 interpret texts in light of personal
experiences and opinions
 determine whether texts are
appropriate for specific functions
(such as following advice, using it as
a source for a paper)
 identify or select texts that support a
point of view
2. Students will learn to create
medium-length and long multiparagraph written and spoken texts
to express, extend, and elaborate
their own ideas, to represent,
extend, and elaborate on the ideas
of others.
3. Students will interact via responding
to written texts and interlocutors &
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1. SWBAT = Students will be able to ...
2. The ELI word list is a list of very frequently used words and is compiled by feeding the Coxhead list into the BNC Vocabulary
Profiler: [http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/bnc/]
English Language Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Program Goals, Course Goals, and Course Objectives
LEVEL 5 READING
Level 5
Program Goals
eliciting written or spoken
information on personal, practical,
social, and general abstract and
academic topics. Interaction will
include clarifying and negotiating
meaning.
4. Students will use and interpret
language in socio-culturally
appropriate ways, including
recognizing & using different
registers, styles, language varieties,
and genres.
5. Students will use targeted lexical,
phonological, morphological and
syntactic elements at a lowadvanced level.
Level 5
Reading Goals
Level 5
Reading Objectives
Students will identify genre and
intended audience
SWBAT1:
 identify the appropriate genre to
describe a written text
 identify the intended audience of a
written text
Students will comprehend the
SWBAT1:
meaning of selected lexical items from  identify the appropriate word or
the ELI word list2 and additional target
definition to complete a given
words in spoken texts on academic,
vocabulary-focused activity
professional and personal topics.
 identify the definition provided
within the sentence related to the
Students will recognize part of speech
unknown word
of selected lexical items from the ELI
 recognize target words and their
word list2 and additional target words.
inflected and common derivational
in spoken texts on academic,
morphological variants in context
professional and personal, topics.
 use morphosyntactic information
(including articles, affixes, sentence
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1. SWBAT = Students will be able to ...
2. The ELI word list is a list of very frequently used words and is compiled by feeding the Coxhead list into the BNC Vocabulary
Profiler: [http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/bnc/]
English Language Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Program Goals, Course Goals, and Course Objectives
LEVEL 5 READING
Level 5
Program Goals
Level 5
Reading Goals
Students will derive meaning of
unknown vocabulary using contextual
cues
Students will recognize and interpret
figurative language and collocations
Students will recognize
appropriate word order in a variety
of subordinate clauses.
Students will recognize yes/no and
wh questions and modals.
Level 5
Reading Objectives
position) to identify the part of the
speech when presented with a
unknown word in context
 use contextual information to
identify meaning when presented
with a unknown word in context
 identify the collocation/figurative
language in a text that corresponds
to a given meaning
 interpret limited collocations and
figurative language
SWBAT1:
 recognize complex sentences with
- time adverbials such as until,
and by
- clauses of contrast
- all relative clauses
- reduced passive relative clauses
- reduced adverbial clauses
SWBAT1:
 recognizeyes/no and wh questions in
all tenses in the affirmative and
negative
 recognize embedded questions
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1. SWBAT = Students will be able to ...
2. The ELI word list is a list of very frequently used words and is compiled by feeding the Coxhead list into the BNC Vocabulary
Profiler: [http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/bnc/]
English Language Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Program Goals, Course Goals, and Course Objectives
LEVEL 5 READING
Level 5
Program Goals
Level 5
Reading Goals
Level 5
Reading Objectives
 recognize past modal expressions
Students will recognize negative
SWBAT1:
structures.
 recognize negative subject
nominals such as 'No man is an
island'
 recognize sentence- intial negatives
such as "Rarely have I seen such
poor work."
Students will recognize appropriate SWBAT1:
intermediate to advanced verb
 recognize all tenses
morphology and verb phrases.
 recognize all modals in all tenses
Students will recognize noun
SWBAT1:
phrase structures.
 recognize count and non-count
meanings of the same noun
 recognize demonstratives with
metaphoric meaning
 recognize and recognize articles in
the non-specific and generic uses
 recognize the comparative
expression the more/the better
 recognize equative structures
Students will recognize and
SWBAT1:
recognize some hypotheticals.
 recognize wish structures in past
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1. SWBAT = Students will be able to ...
2. The ELI word list is a list of very frequently used words and is compiled by feeding the Coxhead list into the BNC Vocabulary
Profiler: [http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/bnc/]
English Language Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Program Goals, Course Goals, and Course Objectives
LEVEL 5 READING
Level 5
Program Goals
Level 5
Reading Goals
Level 5
Reading Objectives
time

recognize past unreal conditionals

recognize related formulaic
subjunctive expressions such as "If
only she had done a better job..."
SWBAT1:
Students will recognize passive
voice structures.
Students will recognize phrasal
verbs.

recognize passive voice structures
in all tenses

recognize passive voice structures
in all tenses

recognize modals in passive
structures

recognize passive causatives "She
had her roof checked."

recognize reporting passive
structures such as "It is
said/thought/believed that..."
SWBAT1:
 recognize common two and three
word phrasal verbs, separable and
inseparable
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1. SWBAT = Students will be able to ...
2. The ELI word list is a list of very frequently used words and is compiled by feeding the Coxhead list into the BNC Vocabulary
Profiler: [http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/bnc/]
English Language Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Program Goals, Course Goals, and Course Objectives
LEVEL 5 READING
7 of 7
10/31/07
1. SWBAT = Students will be able to ...
2. The ELI word list is a list of very frequently used words and is compiled by feeding the Coxhead list into the BNC Vocabulary
Profiler: [http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/bnc/]