English Language Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Program Goals, Course Goals, and Course Objectives
LEVEL 3 SPEAKING
Level 3
Program Goals
1. Students will learn to analyze and
synthesize short texts at the literal
(propositional) level.
Level 3
Speaking Goals
Students will analyze short, spoken
texts for accuracy.
Students will synthesize information
from sources into short, original
spoken texts on personal/concrete
topics.
2. Students will learn to create short
written and spoken texts to express
their own ideas and to represent the
ideas of others.
Students will produce short, original
spoken texts on a number of personal
and concrete topics such as the
description of people, preferences,
places, and regularly occurring
activities.
Students will summarize texts (written
or spoken) that describe, narrate,
explain, and present opinions.
Level 3
Speaking Objectives
SWBAT1:
 Identify and correct limited
grammatical, vocabulary, and
pronunciation errors in recorded
spoken samples
 Incorporate basic quotes and/or
information into short, original
spoken texts (≤ 4 min.) such as
process speeches, or panel
presentations
SWBAT:
 Construct and present a
spontaneous, short, original spoken
text (≤ 3 min.) incorporating a topic
sentence and appropriate
supporting ideas
 Construct and present a prepared,
short, original spoken text (≤ 5
min.) incorporating an
introduction, appropriate
supporting ideas and a conclusion
 Construct a series of linked
statements about pictures, simple
charts or graphs
 Construct an oral summary (≤ 2
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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 3 SPEAKING
Level 3
Program Goals
Level 3
Speaking Goals
3. Students will interact via
responding to written texts and
interlocutors & eliciting written or
spoken information on personal &
concrete topics.
Students will engage in short, spoken
exchanges requesting and responding
to information on personal and
concrete topics.
4. Students will use and interpret
language in socio-culturally
appropriate ways, including
recognizing & using different registers
and styles.
Students will produce spoken
discourse in an informal social register
on personal and concrete topics
Students will produce spoken
discourse in formal registers
appropriate to classroom presentations
Level 3
Speaking Objectives
min.) restating the main idea and
incorporating the most important
supporting ideas and details
 Use limited transitions of addition,
sequence, exemplification,
comparison/ contrast and clauses
introducing opinion and fact in
original and summary texts.
SWBAT:
 Construct oral questions and
statements on personal and
concrete topics in order to initiate,
and continue a conversation
 Answer basic questions on personal
and concrete topics
SWBAT:
 Identify and correct errors in
register
 Use formulaic expressions such as
greetings, making polite requests
and leave-taking
 Give an oral presentation
displaying appropriate register
such as process speeches and panel
presentations
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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 3 SPEAKING
Level 3
Program Goals
5. Students will use targeted lexical,
phonological, morphological and
syntactic elements at a lowintermediate level.
Level 3
Speaking Goals
Students will use core vocabulary
selected from the ELI word list2 and
additional target words. in spoken
texts on personal and concrete topics.
Students will produce targeted
segmental, suprasegmental and
syllable structure elements.
Level 3
Speaking Objectives
SWBAT:
 Use 73% of vocabulary from a
teacher prepared list based on core
vocabulary selected from the ELI
word list2 and additional target
words appropriately in prepared
texts
 Use 50% of vocabulary from a
teacher prepared list based on core
vocabulary selected from the ELI
word list2 and additional targeted
vocabulary appropriately in
spontaneous texts
Pronunciation:
SWBAT:
Produce the targeted elements during
focused activities and prepared
speeches:
 consonants and vowels
 syllable structure
 word stress
 sentence stress
 intonation
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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 3 SPEAKING
Level 3
Program Goals
Level 3
Speaking Goals
Level 3
Speaking Objectives
(All the above at a generally
comprehensible level. Sentence stress
and intonation accuracy may be
limited to formulaic utterances.)
Students will produce English
SWBAT:
sentences with appropriate word order  Produce sentences with
(SVO).
appropriate word order in the
main clause.
 Produce coordinated clauses with
appropriate word order.
 Produce some complement clauses
(think/say, want/like)
 Produce adverb clauses of reason
(because)

Students will produce questions.
SWBAT:
 Produce yes-no questions
 Produce wh questions
Students will produce negative
sentences and negative questions.
SWBAT:
 Produce negative yes-no questions
involving copula and non-do
support
 Produce negative wh- questions
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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 3 SPEAKING
Level 3
Program Goals
Level 3
Speaking Goals
Level 3
Speaking Objectives
involving copula
 Produce negative sentences using
do-support and copula
 Produce negative sentences using
modals can & will
Students will use appropriate basic
verb morphology
and verb phrases.
SWBAT:
 Produce simple present tense and
present progressive sentences
 Produce simple past sentences
involving regular verbs and a
determined list of high frequency
irregular verbs
 Produce simple present perfect
sentences with the 'past until now'
meaning
 Produce future tense sentences
with be going to
 Produce sentences using modals of
ability, requests, possibility (might),
necessity (must)
 Produce verb phrases with
common adverbs description,
manner and frequency
SWBAT:
Students will be able to produce and
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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 3 SPEAKING
Level 3
Program Goals
Level 3
Speaking Goals
appropriately use some noun phrase
structures.
Students will be able to use
hypothetical structures.
Students will be able to use
prepositions.
Students will be able to use some
phrasal verbs.
Level 3
Speaking Objectives
 Use non-existential singular and
plural demonstratives
 Use count and noncount concrete
nouns
 Recognize article use to distinguish
between specific and general
 Use articles to distinguish between
specific and general meanings in a
concrete and focused context
 Use noun phrases with adjectives
 Produce adjectival comparatives
involving –er, than, as ...as and
comparative adjective and comparative
adjective structures
 Use quantifiers such as some, all,
many, most
SWBAT:
 Produce present and future real
conditional sentences
SWBAT:
 Use basic prepositions of time and
place such as in, on, at
SWBAT:
 Use basic separable phrasal verbs
from a determined list
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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 3 SPEAKING
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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/]