By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• read and understand long passages on academic topics.

• answer questions about details, inferences, sentence restatements, sentence insertion, vocabulary, pronoun reference function, and overall ideas.

• determine main ideas, details, function, stance, inferences, and overall organization from listening passages and related questions.

• answer opinion questions about some aspect of academic life.

• listen to long passages and summarize and offer opinions on the information in the passages.

• read an academic essay and listen to an academic passage, and write about how the ideas in the two passages are related.

• write a personal essay.