Conversation Practice (100, 200, 300 and 400 levels): Practice strategies for starting and continuing conversations, describing people and situations, and talking about what they do. Build listening and speaking skills through communicative practice activities and by listening to audio clips of short stories and informal conversations.
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Pronunciation Practice (100, 200, 300 and 400 levels): Develop your ability to hear and pronounce difficult sounds and words, and to understand and use American English intonation and stress patterns. Practice a variety of listening and speaking activities working from controlled to free speaking.
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Spelling Practice (100, 200, 300, 400 levels): This course will help you improve your spelling by focusing on the connection between the way words look and the way they sound. One important goal of the course is to help students hear a word and to be able to spell it well enough to recognize it in a text or to look it up in a dictionary. There will also be instruction on some of the skills of written English, such as capitalization and punctuation.
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Academic Spelling Power (600, 700 and 800 levels): As spelling is often the first impression our writing makes on a reader, this course is designed to provide you with strategies to improve your spelling and other important conventions of written English. This course provides students with important spelling and punctuation rules and allows them to practice what they have learned through various activities and diagnostic quizzes in the classroom.
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Grammar Practice (600, 700 and 800 levels): Learn to communicate accurately using a range of grammatical structures. In this class, you review the rules of grammar, analyze spoken and written English and learn to monitor and correct your own language.
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Conversational Interactions (600, 700, 800 levels): This course helps you talk more easily and comfortably in a variety of formal and informal social situations. You learn about the social and language rules of conversational interactions by viewing clips from American films and by participating in interactive activities such as simulations and problem-solving tasks.
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Listening and Speaking with Confidence (600, 700 and 800 levels): Build your confidence in understanding others and communicating your thoughts, ideas, and opinions through activities that emphasize speaking clearly and fluently in different social and professional situations. Practice these skills through authentic listening and speaking activities based on news broadcasts, interviews, debates, discussions, and stories.
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Pronunciation Improvement (600, 700 and 800 levels): This course provides you with essential skills for speaking American English clearly. You will analyze sounds in various formal and informal situations and practice using connected speech in rehearsed, partially planned, and creative ways. Stress and intonation, reductions, consonant replacements, and inflectional endings are emphasized.
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Vocabulary Expansion A/B (500, 600 and 700 levels): Explore the rich resource of words in English. At the same time, learn techniques for finding, understanding, and remembering words and expressions. Increase professional and social vocabulary, learn idioms and their usage, and practice using various on-line resources that can help build vocabulary. Part A and B use different chapters of the same textbook, so you can take the course for two sessions.
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Academic Skills for TOEFL Preparation IBT (600, 700 and 800 levels): his course focuses on building the academic skills necessary for the IBT (Internet Based TOEFL) and for success in the university classroom. Key academic skills of reading, listening, writing, and speaking are identified, explained and practiced. Emphasis is placed on the integration of these skills through listening to lectures and note-taking, identifying main ideas in reading and in listening, and organizing main and supporting ideas in speaking and writing. Students take a complete, multi-skills practice test at the end of the session.
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Test Strategies for the TOEFL iBT (600, 700 and 800 levels): This course complements the Academic Skills for the TOEFL iBT course that is offered in alternating sessions. In particular, the aim of this course is to develop your ability to approach the TOEFL iBT with the appropriate strategies for each section of the test (reading, writing, listening, and speaking). The focus will be on your identifying effective strategies (e.g. planning, time management, text handling, etc.) for each set of tasks, practicing these strategies frequently in practice test assignments, and developing priorities for further practice that can be self-directed. The teacher will assist you in determining when and how to apply various test-taking strategies and give you practice with authentic TOEFL-like tasks and materials.
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Links:
[1] http://www.sas.upenn.edu/elp/intensive_super#001
[2] http://www.sas.upenn.edu/elp/intensive_super#002
[3] http://www.sas.upenn.edu/elp/intensive_super#003
[4] http://www.sas.upenn.edu/elp/intensive_super#004
[5] http://www.sas.upenn.edu/elp/intensive_super#005
[6] http://www.sas.upenn.edu/elp/intensive_super#006
[7] http://www.sas.upenn.edu/elp/intensive_super#008
[8] http://www.sas.upenn.edu/elp/intensive_super#009
[9] http://www.sas.upenn.edu/elp/intensive_super#010
[10] http://www.sas.upenn.edu/elp/intensive_super#011
[11] http://www.sas.upenn.edu/elp/intensive_super#012
[12] http://www.sas.upenn.edu/elp/intensive_super#top
[13] http://www.sas.upenn.edu/#top
[14] http://www.sas.upenn.edu/elp/programs/intensive/courses/intensive_intermediate.php#top