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    The document outlines a 6-week curriculum for a beginner ESL speaking course. Each week focuses on a different functional language theme like greetings, small talk, using public transportation, ordering in a restaurant, shopping, and working. For each week, the document lists the theme, sample situations, language functions covered, and features. The course aims to teach essential conversational skills to adult immigrants and refugees between ages 25-75 from various countries.

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    The document outlines a 6-week curriculum for a beginner ESL speaking course. Each week focuses on a different functional language theme like greetings, small talk, using public transportation, ordering in a restaurant, shopping, and working. For each week, the document lists the theme, sample situations, language functions covered, and features. The course aims to teach essential conversational skills to adult immigrants and refugees between ages 25-75 from various countries.

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    The document outlines a 6-week curriculum for a beginner ESL speaking course. Each week focuses on a different functional language theme like greetings, small talk, using public transportation, ordering in a restaurant, shopping, and working. For each week, the document lists the theme, sample situations, language functions covered, and features. The course aims to teach essential conversational skills to adult immigrants and refugees between ages 25-75 from various countries.

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    The document outlines a 6-week curriculum for a beginner ESL speaking course. Each week focuses on a different functional language theme like greetings, small talk, using public transportation, ordering in a restaurant, shopping, and working. For each week, the document lists the theme, sample situations, language functions covered, and features. The course aims to teach essential conversational skills to adult immigrants and refugees between ages 25-75 from various countries.

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    Weeks:

    Themes:

    Situations:

    Functions:

    Week 1

    Saying
    Greetings &
    Goodbyes

    -Meeting New
    People

    -Introductions
    -Greeting People
    -Leave Taking

    Week 2

    Small Talk &


    Weather
    Conversation

    -Certainty/Uncertainty
    -Possibility/Impossibility

    Week 3

    Using Public
    Transportation

    Week 4

    Ordering in a
    Restaurant

    Week 5

    Shopping in a
    grocery store

    Week 6

    Working in a
    grocery store

    -Talking to an
    Acquaintance
    -Discussing the
    Weather
    -Taking Public
    Transportation
    -Asking For
    Directions
    -Ordering Food
    at a Restaurant
    -Asking the
    Waiter for a
    Forgotten Item
    -Asking for the
    Locations of
    Items
    -Shopping in a
    Grocery Store
    -Shopping in a
    Clothing Store
    -Talking to the
    Boss
    -Assisting
    Customers

    -Directions/Location
    -Asking For and
    Reporting Additional
    Information
    -Requests
    -Likes/Dislikes
    -Advice/Suggestions

    Language
    Features:
    -Channel Open
    Signals
    -Pre-closings
    -Channel Open
    Signals
    -Backchannel
    Signals
    -Turnover
    Signals
    -Preempt Signals

    -Restaurant
    Ordering Script

    -Attracting Attention
    -Approval/Disapproval
    -Offering to Help

    -Shopping Script

    -Permission
    -Regret
    -Correcting
    -Instructing

    -Conversational
    Gambits

    The context of this speaking course (6 weeks) is a beginner ESL class of adult immigrants and
    refugees. Their ages are between 25 and 75. They come from Myanmar, Mexico, Vietnam, Syria,
    Pakistan, and Iraq.

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