UNIS Moodle: Courses

All ESOL students are integrated into a homeroom and attend mainstream classes with their class.  Depending on their level of English, they also attend ESOL classes one to three periods a day during Humanities, English, and/or Language.  During ESOL, students practice all aspects of their English language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking with the goal of working successfully at the level of their peers.  The program includes instruction for the academic language needs of the mainstream content courses as well as practice for basic interpersonal communication.

The aim of the beginning level ESL course is acquisition of basic English communicative and functional language skills, and beginning academic language proficiency. Students learn to communicate about themselves, family, feelings and special interests. They acquire vocabulary to function in the immediate school environment, and in New York City. The students learn simple English sentence structures in the affirmative, negative and question forms. They learn to read and comprehend fiction and non-fiction materials for the ESL beginning reader. Vocabulary needed for math and science classes is acquired, and students work with simplified materials in the content area subjects. Stimulated by reading, pictures, films or class discussions, students follow the sequence of the writing process in their beginning writing development. Students learn word processing on the computer. This course leads to: Intermediate ESL and partial integration in the mainstream curriculum.

The aim of the beginning level ESL course is the acquisition of basic English communicative and functional languages skills, and beginning academic language proficiency. Students learn to communicate about themselves, family, feelings and special interests. They acquire vocabulary to function in the immediate school environment and in New York City. The students learn simple English sentence structures in the affirmative, negative and question forms. They learn to read and comprehend fiction and non-fiction materials for the ESL beginning reader. Vocabulary needed for math and science classes is acquired, and students work with simplified materials in the content area subjects. Stimulated by reading, pictures, films or class discussions, students follow the sequence of the wirting process in their beginning writing development. Students learn word processing on the computer. This course leads to: Intermediate ESL and partial integration in the mainstream curriculum.