In the first 6 weeks of Survival English, the student will learn skills that will enable them to easily communicate in authentic language in their every-day lives. This will be supported with grammar sections throughout the course. Students will especially learn the English language skills to:

• Make introductions
• Understand and give directions
• Identify common machines and give instructions
• Talk about clothes and colors
• Ask for and give times, days, and dates
• Talk about food
• Talk about abilities and responsibilities
• Describe symptoms and injuries
• Make payments with cash, check, and credit card
• Interview for a job, talk about jobs, skills

The second part of Survival English will introduce additional specific topics. Also, new grammatical structures are presented. Students will learn to:

• Make and receive phone calls
• Interpret classified ads, lease and rental agreements
• Report problems with vehicles, schedule repair
• Interpret ads, compare prices
• Use different types of transportation
• Ask a favor
• Understand procedures, rules, policies
• Give warnings, follow safety instructions
• Open a bank account, cash a check
• Make suggestions, complete a form

After Survival English parts A and B, the student will be introduced to the ideas of society, relationships, and money. Students will learn to:

• Prepare for a job interview
• Use building diagrams and directories
• Discuss a product warranty
• Ask for service, write complaint letters
• Discuss payment, reschedule events
• Use food coupons, comparison shop
• Understand rules, laws, summons
• Return an item, fill a prescription
• Interpret credit card statements
• Accept feedback, praise others

Level 2 will conclude with the last set of life skills. Students learn to:

• Avoid telemarketing fraud
• Understand tenant rights, negotiate time
• Keep cool under pressure, drive safely
• Make hotel reservations, evaluate travel offers
• Manage time, plan to meet deadlines
• Understand insurance
• Understand elements of the U.S. justice system
• Separate weight-loss facts from myths
• Borrow money from a friend
• Write a job history and resume

The main focus of level 3 is to foster the grammatical knowledge the student gained from levels 1 and 2. This time, the main concentration is intensive grammar, and the supporting activities around these points will be very communicative in nature. In addition, there are From Grammar to Writing, and listening sections to ensure a complete understanding and real-life applicability of the material. The following are the main points of study during the first half of the course:

• Present and Past Tenses
• Future Tenses
• Negative Questions and Tag Questions
• Gerunds and Infinitives
• Phrasal Verbs
• Adjective Clauses

The program is also designed to enhance the student's knowledge of vocabulary by presenting the student with new terminology and language usage in every single chapter.

In the second part of Level 3, we continue with the second volume of the same book. The following are the main points of study during the first half of the course:

• Modals
• The Passive
• Conditionals
• Indirect Speech and Embedded Questions
• Appendices that will cover most of the necessary elements of grammar to get the student ready for further English studies. There are 30 appendices all together, each focusing on a distinctly separate grammar point.

This course is designed to enhance the student's ability to read text in different formats and styles. The reading exercises will be supported with additional material focusing on American pronunciation. This will enable the student to use reductions and gain fluency when speaking English. The main skills that the course will focus on are:

• Reading for pleasure
• Previewing and making predictions
• Scanning
• Making inferences
• Building a powerful vocabulary
• Learning to look for the topic
• Understanding paragraphs
• Finding the pattern of organization
• Skimming

This course teaches the student how to transfer his or her ideas into many forms of text. The program focuses on points such as:

• Understanding Paragraphs
• Organizing Information
• Supporting the Main Idea
• Writing Descriptions
• Expressing an Opinion
• Writing Personal and Business Letters

A vital part of language acquisition is the capability to identify idiomatic language. There are big differences between the literal meaning and the idiomatic meaning of a word. This course will serve as an introduction to a wide range of phrasal verbs and complex idioms used in daily life. Supporting this course will be through pronunciation development. Idioms will be presented in the following categories:

• Career
• Debate
• Love
• Resolutions
• Crime
• Strange stories
• Advice
• Last wishes
• Predictions
• Small town, big city
• Fame
• Law and marriage

For many non-native English speakers, understanding a fluent English speaker can be a challenge. To overcome this problem, we use a listening and speaking program that focuses on 10 separate listening skills, and cover topics that engage the student in lively conversations. Also, vocabulary and grammar is presented throughout the program in connection with the listening sections. For each unit there is a video on DVD in parallel to the subject matter in the text book. Students will develop skills to:

• identify chronology, promote a product with attention-grabbing language
• interpret speakers' emotions, express and defend opinions
• listen for rhythm in speech, make predictions
• identify stress patterns in speech, enhance storytelling with adjectives, adverbs, and details
• take notes on a lecture, lead a group discussion
• categorize end sounds, use transition words
• listen to jokes and predict punch lines, compose and tell original jokes
• identify a speakers point of view, manipulate intonation to change meaning of a sentence
• interpret a speaker's intensity of opinion, support an opinion with facts, statistics, anecdotes
• determine a speaker's point of view, use word stress to change the meaning of a sentence