English Language Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Program Goals, Course Goals, and Course Objectives
LEVEL 5 SPEAKING
Speaking 5
Level 5
Program Goals
1. Students will learn to
analyze, synthesize, and
infer from medium-length
and long multi-paragraph
texts. Students also will
evaluate texts for content
and cohesion.
2. Students will learn to create
medium-length and long
multi-paragraph written and
spoken texts to express,
extend, and elaborate their
own ideas, to represent,
extend, and elaborate on the
ideas of others.
Level 5
Speaking goals
Students will analyze short
and medium-length spoken
texts for accuracy.
Students will synthesize
information from sources into
medium-length, original
spoken texts on personal,
practical, social, and general
academic topics.
Students will extend and
elaborate within mediumlength, original spoken texts
on personal, practical, social,
and general academic topics.
Students will summarize texts
(written or spoken) that
describe, narrate, explain, and
present opinions on personal,
practical, social, and general
academic topics.
Level 5
Speaking Objectives
SWBAT1:
 Identify and correct limited grammatical,
vocabulary, and pronunciation errors in spoken
samples
 Incorporate quotes and/or information into
medium-length, original spoken texts (5-8 min.)
such as speeches and panel presentations
SWBAT1:
 Construct and present a spontaneous, short,
original spoken text (≤ 3 min.) incorporating a
topic sentence and appropriate supporting ideas
 Construct and present a prepared, mediumlength, original spoken text (5-8 min.)
incorporating an introduction, appropriate
supporting ideas and a conclusion
 Elaborate and extend on original or given
information within spoken texts
 Construct spoken texts (2-4 min.) about complex
and multiple pictures, charts, or graphs
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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 SPEAKING
Level 5
Program Goals
Level 5
Speaking goals
3. Students will interact via
responding to written texts
and interlocutors & eliciting
written or spoken
information on personal,
practical, social, and general
abstract and academic topics.
Interaction will include
clarifying and negotiating
meaning.
Students will engage in
medium-length, spoken
exchanges requesting,
clarifying, negotiating
meaning, and responding to
information on personal,
practical, social, and general
academic topics.
4. Students will use and
interpret language in socioculturally appropriate ways,
including recognizing & using
different registers, styles,
language varieties, and genres.
Students will produce spoken
discourse in an informal social
register on personal, practical
and social topics.
Students will produce spoken
Level 5
Speaking Objectives
 Construct an oral summary (5-8 min.) restating
the main idea and incorporating the most
important supporting ideas and details
 Use transitions of addition, sequence,
exemplification, comparison/ contrast and
clauses introducing opinion and fact in original
and summary texts.
SWBAT1:
 Construct oral questions and statements on
personal, practical, social, and abstract and
general academic topics in order to initiate and
continue a conversation
 Answer questions on personal, practical, social,
and abstract and general academic topics
 Sustain a medium-length spontaneous
conversation on a single personal, practical,
social, or abstract and general academic topic by
clarifying and negotiating meaning
SWBAT1:
 Identify and revise errors in register or
dialectical variation
 Give an oral presentation displaying appropriate
register and language variety
 Use appropriate expressions and language
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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 SPEAKING
Level 5
Program Goals
Level 5
Speaking goals
discourse in formal registers
appropriate to classroom
presentations.
Level 5
Speaking Objectives
varieties for a given genre within a social context
such as a business meeting, a job interview,
small-talk, or an academic presentation
Students will use appropriate
language varieties for a given
social context.
5. Students will use targeted
lexical, phonological,
morphological and syntactic
elements at a low-advanced
level.
Students will use selected
lexical items from the ELI
word list2 and additional
target words in spoken texts
on academic, professional and
personal topics.
Students will produce
targeted segmental,
suprasegmental and syllable
structure elements.
SWBAT1:

Use 73% of vocabulary from selected lexical
items from the ELI word list2 and additional
target words in spoken texts on academic,
professional and personal topics.

Use 50% of vocabulary from selected lexical
items from the ELI word list2 and additional
target words in appropriately in spontaneous
spoken texts on academic, professional and
personal topics.

Produce the targeted elements during focused
activities, prepared speeches and most
spontaneous speech:
- consonants and vowels
- syllable structure
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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 SPEAKING
- word stress
- sentence stress
- intonation
(All the above at a level that is almost always
comprehensible.)
Students will produce
appropriate word order in a
variety of subordinate clauses.
SWBAT1:

Use complex sentences with
- time adverbials such as until, and by
- clauses of contrast
- all relative clauses
- reduced passive relative clauses
- reduced adverbial clauses
Students will produce yes/no
and wh questions.
Students will produce
appropriately negative
structures.
SWBAT1:

Use yes/no and wh questions in all tenses in the
affirmative and negative

Use embedded questions
SWBAT1:

Use negative subject nominals such as 'No man
is an island'
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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 SPEAKING

Students will use appropriate
intermediate to advanced verb
morphology and verb phrases.
Students will produce and
appropriately use noun
phrase structures.
Students will produce and
recognize some
hypotheticals.
Use sentence- intial negatives such as "Rarely
have I seen such poor work."
SWBAT1:

Use all present and past tenses

Use simple present and progressive future
tenses

Use all modals and in all the above tenses
SWBAT1:

Use count and non-count meanings of the same
noun

Use demonstratives with metaphoric meaning

Use and recognize articles in the non-specific
and generic uses

Use the comparative expression the more/the
better

Use equative structures
SWBAT1:

Use wish structures in past time

Use past unreal conditionals
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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 SPEAKING

Students will recognize and
use passive voice structures.
Students will be able to use
and recognize phrasal verbs.
Use related formulaic subjunctive expressions
such as "If only she had done a better job..."
SWBAT1:

Recognize passive voice structures in all tenses

Use passive voice structures in all tenses

Use modals in passive structures

Use passive causatives "She had her roof checked."

Use reporting passive structures such as "It is
said/thought/believed that..."
SWBAT1:

Use common two and three word phrasal verbs,
separable and inseparable
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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/]