Program Overview

Program Overview

The Preparatory English Program (PEP) is an academic program that serves as the starting point for students. The program focuses on developing pre-intermediate skills, with an emphasis on structured reading and listening texts.

Course Description

The PEP course is designed to introduce students to basic sentence structure and essay formation. The materials used in the course are at a CEF A2-B1 level, which provides a foundation for further language development.

Learning Outcomes

The program has several learning outcomes, which are categorized into different skills:

Listening

• Develop their listening skills
• Extract specific information
• Identify the main subject of a listening text

Reading

• Develop their reading skills
• Extract specific information from a text
• Make inferences from information provided in a text
• Identify the main subjects at both the paragraph and whole-text level
• Infer the meaning of unknown vocabulary from context
• Link pronouns with their referents

Writing

• Produce a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors like "and", "but", and "because"
• Produce a series of simple phrases and sentences about their family, living conditions, educational background, or present or most recent job
• Create short, simple imaginary biographies and simple poems about people
• Produce simple texts on familiar subjects of interest, linking sentences with connectors like "and", "because", or "then"
• Give their impressions and opinions about topics of personal interest (e.g., lifestyles and culture, stories), using basic everyday vocabulary and expressions

Speaking

• Develop their speaking ability to pre-intermediate level in grammatical accuracy, pronunciation, interactive communication, and management of discourse

Vocabulary

• Be able to properly use at least 800 known and newly-acquired vocabulary items, (A2/B1 level)