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Seoul National University
Language Education Institute
Foreign Language Education Center
Level 6
INSTRUCTOR: Wesley Williams
INSTRUCTOR E-MAIL: [email protected]
OFFICE: N/A
OFFICE HOURS: N/A
Course textbook: American English File 5 (Student book), Second Edition |
Oxford University Press | Christina Latham-Koenig and Clive
Oxenden
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Students placed in English Conversation Series Level 6 can produce long turns
with very little effort and without pausing or self-correcting too much. They use
rhythm, stress and intonation consistently and effectively, and they have very
little trouble being understood. Their vocabulary range is extensive enough to
allow them to speak on a wide variety of topics, and they have the ability to use
idiomatic language and other less common structures accurately. Error-free
sentences are common, even when using complex structures, and knowledge of
advanced-level grammatical structures is often evident.
Upon completion of this level students should be skilled at utilizing formal and
informal speech registers and discussing complex issues at length. They should
possess a broad lexicon, including a repertoire of phrasal verbs, and negative
prefixes, and should know the full complement of modal tenses. They should
have no difficulty using real and unreal forms, and verbs in the perfect aspect,
and should be able to utilize inversion, cleft sentences, ellipsis and substitution to
add emphasis.
Seoul National University
Language Education Institute
Foreign Language Education Center
Selected Key Functions
 Discussing health; giving advice; debating
ideas
 Talking about events; discussing paintings or
images
 Emphasizing an event or sequence of events
 Discussing time management: analyzing
 Decisions; describing routines
 Discussing addictions, obsessions, self-help,
and health
 Expressing cultural issues
 Referring to people or things in terms of
what they are for, what they are made of, or
what kind they are
 Expressing permission, obligation, and
necessity
Selected Key Grammar
 Paraphrasing
 Quantitative language
 Ellipsis and substitution
 Adding emphasis: cleft sentences –
what happens is (that), what happened was
(that), the person who, the place where…, the
first/last time that…, the reason why…
 Unreal past forms (e.g., It’s about time
they did.)
 Perfect aspect (past perfect, present
perfect, future perfect)
 Real, unreal, and mixed conditionals
 Alternatives to if in conditional
sentences
 Modifiers with comparatives and
superlatives
 Complex gerunds and infinitives
 Negative prefixes; phrasal verbs
 Formal vs. informal language
 Compound nouns
 Expanded use of modal verbs