UVU Course Catalog Description

•   Prerequisite(s): Department Approval
•   For students whose native language is other than English
•   Studies high-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
• Expands use of modal auxiliaries, conditional sentence usage, phrases and adjective clauses
• Introduces noun and adverbial clauses

Course Objectives

This course

• develops
  • a deeper understanding and control of the contrasting uses of tenses to express present, past, and future time,
  • the ability to use the modals of possibility and past modals accurately,
  • the ability to understand the difference between the active and passive voice and to form passives accurately,
  • a deeper understanding and control of article use;
• teaches students to
  
  • understand the various patterns of identifying adjective clauses,
  • understand the various patterns of verb complementation and be able to use gerund and infinitive complements accurately,
  • understand the distinction between real and unreal conditions and be able to form these clauses accurately,
  • be able to express wishes accurately,
  • understand the difference between direct and indirect speech, and be able to form embedded information and yes/no questions,