UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
ELP Super-Intensive Program Course Schedule
Spring 1, 2012
Course Titles Day Dates Time
Courses for 100-400 Level Students
Spelling Practice Tuesdays Jan 10 – Feb 21 6:00-8:30 pm
Conversation Practice Thursdays Jan 12– Feb 23 6:00-8:30 pm
Courses for 500-800 Level Students
Academic Spelling
Tuesdays Jan 10 – Feb 21 6:00-8:30 pm
Power
Pronunciation
Wednesdays Jan 11 – Feb 22 6:00-8:30 pm
Improvement
Vocabulary Expansion Wednesdays Jan 11 – Feb 22 6:00-8:30 pm
Listening and Speaking
Thursdays Jan 12– Feb 23 6:00-8:30 pm
with Confidence
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Super Intensive Evening Practice Courses — Spring 1, 2012
COURSES FOR 100-400 LEVEL STUDENTS
Spelling Practice (100, 200, 300 and 400 levels): This course will help you improve your
spelling by focusing on the connection between the way words look and the way they sound.
One important goal of the course is to help students hear a word and to be able to spell it well
enough to recognize it in a text or to look it up in a dictionary. There will also be instruction on
some of the skills of written English, such as capitalization and punctuation.
Conversation Practice (100, 200, 300 and 400 levels): Practice strategies for starting and
continuing conversations, describing people and situations, and talking about what they do.
Build listening and speaking skills through communicative practice activities and by listening to
audio clips of short stories and informal conversations.
COURSES FOR 500-800 LEVEL STUDENTS
Academic Spelling Power (500, 600, 700 and 800 levels): As spelling is often the first
impression our writing makes on a reader, this course is designed to provide you with strategies
to improve your spelling and other important conventions of written English. This course
provides students with important spelling and punctuation rules and allows them to practice what
they have learned through various activities and diagnostic quizzes in the classroom.
Pronunciation Improvement (500, 600, 700 and 800 levels): This course provides you with
essential skills for speaking American English clearly. You will analyze sounds in various
formal and informal situations and practice using connected speech in rehearsed, partially
planned, and creative ways. Stress and intonation, reductions, consonant replacements, and
inflectional endings are emphasized.
Vocabulary Expansion A: (500, 600, 700 and 800 levels): Explore the rich resource of words
in English. At the same time, learn techniques for finding, understanding, and remembering
words and expressions. Increase professional and social vocabulary, learn idioms and their
usage, and practice using various on-line resources that can help build vocabulary. Part A and B
use different chapters of the same textbook, so you can take the course for two sessions.
Listening and Speaking with Confidence A: (500, 600, 700 and 800 levels): Build your
confidence in understanding others and communicating your thoughts, ideas, and opinions
through activities that emphasize speaking clearly and fluently in different social and
professional situations. Practice these skills through authentic listening and speaking activities
based on news broadcasts, interviews, debates, discussions, and stories.
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