English Language Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Program Goals, Course Goals, and Course Objectives
LEVEL 4 LISTENING
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
Listening 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
Listening Objectives
Given medium-length oral passages on
academic, personal & professional
topics.
SWBAT1:
 answer main idea questions
 extract specific information:
Students will analyze devices of
- to answer factual
coherence and cohesion in academic,
questions
personal and professional contexts.
- to answer opinion
questions
Students will summarize the main ideas
- to answer why-questions
of texts in academic, personal and
(reasons)
professional contexts.
- identify numerical
information
Students will recognize reduced forms
- complete charts and
in academic, personal and professional
graphs
contexts.
- identify examples
 identify signals recognized by
Students will make inferences in
speakers (e.g. topic change,
academic, personal and professional
chronological order,
contexts.
introduction, and conclusion)
 complete or construct an outline
of a text
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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 4 LISTENING
Level 4
Program Goals
Level 4
Listening Goals
Level 4
Listening Objectives
 incorporate abbreviations, key
words, timelines into notes
 Recognize a summary that
limits content to the main ideas
and key supporting details of a
text
 aurally map reduced forms to
non-reduced forms and viceversa in spoken texts
 use information from the text to
answer inference questions
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
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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 LISTENING
Level 4
Program Goals
meaning. Students also will be
introduced to abstract topics.
Level 4
Listening Goals
Level 4
Listening Objectives
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).
Students will identify genre and
intended audience
SWBAT1:
 identify the appropriate genre to
describe a spoken text
 identify the intended audience of a
spoken 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
 listen for morphosyntactic
information (including articles,
affixes, sentence position) to
5. Students will use targeted lexical,
phonological, morphological and
syntactic elements at a highintermediate level.
Students will recognize part of speech
of selected lexical items from the ELI
word list2 and additional target words
in social, broadcast, and academic
language.
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 LISTENING
Level 4
Program Goals
Level 4
Listening Goals
Students will use stress and intonation
cues to interpret meaning
Students will map phonemes and
graphemes
Level 4
Listening Objectives
distinguish between types of
information (reasons, numerical,
description, letters, names, etc.)
 discriminate between intonation
patterns to understand emotion
from tone of voice
 discriminate between intonation
and stress patterns to interpret
meaning
 transcribe dictated texts at various
levels
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
SWBAT:1
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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 4 LISTENING
Level 4
Program Goals
Level 4
Listening Goals
simple modals.
Students will recognize negative
structures.
Students will recognize intermediate
verb morphology and verb phrases.
Level 4
Listening Objectives
 recognize correctly structured yesno and wh questions with dosupport when needed
 recognize simple modals such as
can, could, should, must, have to,
might, would
SWBAT:1
 recognize negative do-support in
main and subordinate clauses
 recognize negative modals in
simple and complex sentences
SWBAT:1
 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
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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 LISTENING
Level 4
Program Goals
Level 4
Listening Goals
Students will recognize and some
noun phrase structures.
Students will recognize some
hypotheticals.
Level 4
Listening Objectives
participle)
 recognize verb phrases with
common adverbs description,
manner and frequency
SWBAT:1
 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,
SWBAT:1
 recognize wish structures in
present time
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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 LISTENING
Level 4
Program Goals
Level 4
Listening Goals
Students will recognize passive voice
structures.
Students will recognize phrasal verbs.
Level 4
Listening Objectives
 recognize present unreal
conditionals
SWBAT:1
 recognize passive voice structures
in most tenses
 recognize passive voice structures
in present and past tenses
SWBAT:1
 recognize basic separable phrasal
verbs
 recognize basic inseparable 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/]