<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 42pt; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-CA">This course builds on students’ previous education and language knowledge to introduce the English language and help students adjust to their new cultural environment. Students will use beginning English language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing for everyday and essential academic purposes; use basic English language structures and simple sentence patterns in short conversations; read short adapted texts; and write phrases and short sentences. The course also provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to begin to adapt to their new lives in Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 42pt; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-CA">Prerequisite: None</span></p>