OPIE D400 - High-Intermediate Core Skills

• Student appropriately uses target structures: articles and determiners, modification patterns, gerunds and infinitives, passive voice, subordination, perfect tenses, and quantity expressions. Student distinguishes sentences from fragments and run-ons.
• Student produces previous (OPIE 0200) target patterns with increasing accuracy, i.e. sentence patterns; time, tense, and verb patterns; noun/pronoun patterns; article patterns; modification and relationship patterns.
• Student uses learned target structures and vocabulary to write 4 to 5 paragraphs which express his/her ideas about familiar topics. Student orders ideas/information in a logical way: chronological, topical, or spatial order, and order of importance.
• Student uses learned target structures to create sentences which express his/her own ideas about familiar topics and topics grounded in personal experience, to ask and answer information questions, and to request and give clarification.
• Student uses learned target structures to participate orally in both simulated and authentic university and community contexts, including: health, safety, housing, using the university library, and other campus facilities.
• Student uses target structures and vocabulary to indicate cause and effect and to make comparisons and to show contrasts. Student uses different types of support (examples, facts, description, and quotes) and transition words to show organization.
• With guidance and feedback student writes paragraph (100 - 125 words) on familiar topics in the following rhetorical modes: description, narration, describing a process, giving instructions, and retelling (summarizing) a story.
• With instructor guidance and feedback, student writes, revises, and edits essays of at least 4- 5 paragraphs and writes sentence and paragraph-length summaries of non-academic texts.