English Language Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Program Goals, Course Goals, and Course Objectives
LEVEL 4 READING
Level 4
Program Goals
1. Students will learn to analyze,
synthesize, and infer from
medium-length/multi-paragraph
texts. Students also will be
introduced to the evaluation of
texts.
Level 4
Reading Goals
Students will analyze multi-paragraph
texts, charts, and graphs in academic,
personal and professional contexts to
identify main ideas and specific details
that support the main ideas.
Level 4
Reading Objectives
Given medium length texts on
academic, personal & professional
topics.
SWBAT:
 identify the main idea from a
series of options
Students will analyze devices of
 discriminate between main idea
coherence and cohesion in academic,
statements and supporting details
personal and professional contexts.
 extract specific information:
- to answer factual questions
Students will summarize the main ideas
- to answer opinion questions
of texts in academic, personal and
- to answer why-questions
professional contexts.
(reasons)
- identify numerical
Students will recognize reduced forms
information
in academic, personal and professional
- complete charts and graphs
contexts.
- identify examples
 identify referents of pronouns
Students will make inferences in
 recognize a summary that limits
academic, personal and professional
content to the main ideas and key
contexts.
supporting details of a text
 discriminate between inference
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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 4 READING
Level 4
Program Goals
Level 4
Reading Goals
Level 4
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
2. Students will learn to create
medium-length/multi-paragraph
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 & eliciting written or
spoken information on personal,
practical, social, and general
academic topics. Interaction will
include clarifying and negotiating
meaning. Students also will be
introduced to abstract topics.
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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 4 READING
Level 4
Program Goals
4. Students will use and interpret
language in socio-culturally
appropriate ways, including
recognizing & using different
registers and styles. Students will
be introduced to the concept of
language variety (e.g. slang,
commonwealth & North American
varieties).
5. Students will use targeted lexical,
phonological, morphological and
syntactic elements at a highintermediate level.
Level 4
Reading Goals
Level 4
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 meaning of
selected lexical items from the ELI
word list2 and additional target words.
SWBAT1:
 identify the definition provided
within the sentence related to the
unknown word
 identify the appropriate word or
definition to complete a given
vocabulary-focused activity
 recognize target words and their
inflected and common derivational
morphological variants in context
 use morphosyntactic information
Students will recognize part of speech
of selected lexical items from the ELI
word list2 and additional target words.
Students will derive meaning of
unknown vocabulary using contextual
cues.
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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 4 READING
Level 4
Program Goals
Level 4
Reading Goals
Students will map phonemes and
graphemes.
Level 4
Reading Objectives
(including articles, affixes, sentence
position) to distinguish between
types of information (reasons,
numerical, description, letters,
names, etc.)
Students will recognize appropriate
word order in subordinate clauses.
SWBAT1:
 recognize complex sentences using
some time adverbials (when, before,
after)
 recognize subject and possessive
relative clauses
 recognize reduced active relative
clauses
 recognize complement clauses
using gerunds and infinitives
Students will recognize questions and
simple modals.
SWBAT1:
 recognize correctly structured yesno and wh questions with dosupport when needed
 recognize simple modals such as
can, could, should, must, have to,
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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 4 READING
Level 4
Program Goals
Level 4
Reading Goals
Students will recognize negative
structures.
Students will recognize appropriate
intermediate verb morphology and
verb phrases.
Level 4
Reading Objectives
might, would
SWBAT1:
 recognize negative do-support in
main and subordinate clauses
 recognize negative modals in
simple and complex sentences
SWBAT1:
 recognize past tense and past
progressive sentences
 recognize simple and progressive
present perfect sentences with the
indefinite past meaning
 recognize future tense sentences
with will and present progressive
 recognize sentences using modals
and semi modals of possibility
(could, may), necessity (have to/must
 recognize sentences using past
modals of obligation and belief
(should have/must have + past
participle)
 recognize verb phrases with
common adverbs of description,
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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 4 READING
Level 4
Program Goals
Level 4
Reading Goals
Students will recognize some noun
phrase structures.
Students will recognize some
hypotheticals.
Level 4
Reading Objectives
manner and frequency
SWBAT1:
 recognize count and non-count
abstract nouns
 recognize article use to distinguish
between specific and general
 recognize articles to distinguish
between specific and general
meanings in a concrete focused
context
 recognize noun phrases with
adjectives
 recognize adjectival comparatives
involving –er, than, as ...as and
comparative adjective and comparative
adverb structures
 recognize quantifiers such as
most/most of, some/any, many/much,
little/few some, all,
SWBAT1:
 recognize wish structures in
present time
 recognize present unreal
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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 4 READING
Level 4
Program Goals
Level 4
Reading Goals
Level 4
Reading Objectives
conditionals
Students will recognize and recognize
passive voice structures.
SWBAT1:
 recognize passive voice structures
in most tenses
 recognize passive voice structures
in present and past tenses
SWBAT1:
 recognize basic separable phrasal
verbs
 recognize basic inseparable phrasal
verbs
Students will recognize phrasal verbs.
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11/13/07
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/]