UVU Course Catalog Description

• Prerequisite(s): Department Approval 
• For students whose native language is other than English
  
• Studies
  
  • low-intermediate English usage,
  • correct speech and writing forms and patterns,
  •  verb tenses and their related structures, and
  • use of nouns,
    
    •  pronouns,
    • adverbs,
    •  sentence connectives,
    • descriptives, and
    • related forms

• Introduces modal auxiliaries, conditional sentence usage, phrases, and adjective clauses

Course Objectives

• develops use of
  • comparatives and superlatives,
  • appropriate modals with accompanying verb structures,
  • past and present progressive tenses,
  • present perfect tense with accompanying structures,
  • appropriate noun determiners,
• introduces students to gerunds and infinitive structures;
• teaches students to 
  • distinguish between will and be going to in future tense,
  • form subject and object who- questions with complexity appropriate to low-intermediate level,
  • form tag questions,
  • combine sentences with complexity appropriate to low-intermediate level,
  • show basic knowledge of definite and indefinite articles,
  • show basic knowledge of prepositions,
  • show basic knowledge of the grammar of phrasal verbs