English Language Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Program Goals, Course Goals, and Course Objectives
LEVEL 5 LISTENING
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
Listening Goals
(Academic, professional & personal
contexts)
Students will analyze medium-length
and long texts, charts, and graphs to
identify main ideas and specific details
that support the main ideas in
academic, professional and personal
contexts.
Students will analyze devices of
coherence and cohesion in academic,
professional and personal contexts.
Students will summarize the main
ideas of texts in academic, professional
and personal contexts.
Students will recognize reduced forms
in academic, professional and personal
contexts.
Level 5
Listening Objectives
Given long oral passages on
academic, personal & professional
topics.
SWBAT1:
 answer main idea questions
 extract specific information:
- to answer factual questions
- to answer opinion questions
- to answer why-questions
(reasons)
- identify numerical information
- complete charts and graphs
- identify examples
 identify signals used by speakers
(e.g. topic change, chronological
order, intro. and conclusion)
 complete or construct an outline of
a text
 incorporate abbreviations, key
words, timelines into notes
 recognize a summary that limits
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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 LISTENING
Level 5
Program Goals
Level 5
Listening Goals
Students will make inferences in
academic, professional and personal
contexts.
Students will evaluate the importance
and relevance of textual information in
academic, professional and personal
contexts.
Students will identify point of view in
academic, professional and personal
contexts.
Level 5
Listening Objectives
content to the main ideas and key
supporting details of a text
 aurally map reduced forms to nonreduced forms and vice-versa in
spoken texts
 recognize information from the text
to answer inference questions
 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.
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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 LISTENING
Level 5
Program Goals
Level 5
Listening Goals
Level 5
Listening Objectives
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.
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 low-advanced
level.
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 the
SWBAT1:
meaning of selected lexical items from
the ELI word list2 and additional target
 identify the definition provided
words. in spoken texts on academic,
within the sentence related to
professional and personal, topics.
the unknown word
 select or recognize the
Students will recognize part of speech
appropriate word or definition
of selected lexical items from the ELI
to complete a given vocabulary2
word list and additional target words.
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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 LISTENING
Level 5
Program Goals
Level 5
Listening Goals
in spoken texts on academic,
professional and personal, topics.
Students will derive meaning of
unknown vocabulary using contextual
cues.
Students will use stress and intonation
cues to interpret meaning.
Students will map phonemes and
graphemes.
Students will recognize and interpret
figurative language and collocations.
Level 5
Listening Objectives
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
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
 identify the
collocation/figurative language
in a text that corresponds to a
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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 LISTENING
Level 5
Program Goals
Level 5
Listening Goals
Level 5
Listening Objectives
given meaning
 interpret limited collocations
and figurative language
Students will recognize appropriate
word order in a variety of subordinate
clauses.
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:
 recognize yes/no and wh questions
in all tenses in the affirmative and
negative
 recognize embedded questions
 recognize past modal expressions
SWBAT1:
 recognize negative subject
nominals such as 'No man is an
island'
 recognize sentence- intial negatives
Students will recognize yes/no and wh
questions and modals.
Students will recognize negative
structures.
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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 LISTENING
Level 5
Program Goals
Level 5
Listening Goals
Level 5
Listening Objectives
such as "Rarely have I seen such
poor work."
Students will use intermediate to
advanced verb morphology and verb
phrases.
Students will recognize and
appropriately use noun phrase
structures.
SWBAT1:
 recognize all tenses
 recognize all modals in all tenses
SWBAT1:
 recognize count and noncount
meanings of the same noun
 recognize demonstratives with
metaphoric meaning
 recognize articles in the nonspecific and generic uses
 recognize the comparative
expression the more/the better
 recognize equative structures
SWBAT1:
Students will recognize and recognize
some hypotheticals.

recognize wish structures in past
time

recognize past unreal conditionals

recognize related formulaic
subjunctive expressions such as "If
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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 LISTENING
Level 5
Program Goals
Level 5
Listening Goals
Level 5
Listening Objectives
only she had done a better job..."
Students will recognize passive voice
structures.
SWBAT1:
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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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/]