After the program, the students should be able to demonstrate generally effective English proficiency in listening and speaking. They should be able to speak English with general accuracy and fluency in a manner that they are well understood by a native English speaker and they, in turn, understand them with ease.

 The Blackbelt Concept

 The training contents, practice materials, and the methods in the program should enable students to achieve the target skills. However, this may not be the case if students have not gained mastery over each and every lesson or have not perfected the series of applications through extension activities. Under this circumstance, the students concerned will be advised to attend make-up classes in identified areas where mastery has not been shown. When students have already demonstrated mastery on such areas, they will undergo the passage tests which consist of a Listening Test and the Spoken English Language Proficiency Test (SEL-PT). In the event that the students are unable to obtain the required scores, they will be asked to undergo more practice activities and again will sit for the passage tests.

 Performance Indicators

 The English Oracy Blackbelt Certification will be awarded to the students only when they are able to demonstrate the following:

            1. Obtain not less than 90% in each of the session assessments;

2. Obtain not less than 90% in Listening Test

3. Obtain not less than the grade of 4 in SEL-PT

 Core Areas of Development

 This program has identified the building blocks towards the target skills and they are: grammar, vocabulary, phonology, and fluency. Learning activities center on these core areas.

 Skill Building Strategies

 Students should complete all lessons in a classroom where concepts and principles of the building blocks will be explained and each lesson is culminated with practice activities. After each class, the students will be provided with materials which they should accomplish on their own time.

 Performance Tracking System

The performance of each of the students will be monitored by a tracker. The teacher will turn over the lesson evaluation sheets of the students to the tracker who will keep a performance record of each of the students. Likewise, the output in extension activities will also be submitted to the tracker. The tracker will evaluate or grade the worksheets or speech samples of the students. It is the tracker who will recommend students for the passage tests, suggest for a make-up class or classes, and recommend for students to do more practice activities in preparation for a repeat passage tests.

 Learning Hours

 Students will have a total of seventy-two (72) hours in classroom activities with the teacher. Further, they will have at least forty-eight (48) hours to accomplish their extension activities at their own time, depending on their speed. Thus, the total learning hours for each student will be a minimum of one hundred twenty (120) hours.

 Learning Materials

 Learning materials shall consist of the following:

-          1,200 pages of practice sheets which are a mix of texts, graphics, and pictures.

-          40 compact discs (cds) of authentic audio recording by American English native speakers

-          students will be provided with a cassette recorder which they should return after the program. However, they will have to make a deposit of Php 1,000 refundable upon return of the equipment.

 Fee Schedule

Cash                                                   -               Php 7,500.00

Installment Scheme                              -               Php 8,500.00

 Note:

1. The installment should not be longer than 3 equal installments to be determined upon enrolment.

2. For students attending make-up classes, the fee is Php 300 per class for 3 hours

3. For students who have to undergo new sets of more practice activities in preparation for the repeat passage tests, the fee is Php 500 which includes the cost for the repeat passage tests.

 Schedule of Enrollment

 Enrolment is daily and an enrollee may start his program immediately.

 Who Will Benefit the English Oracy Blackbelt Program

 The program is ideal for college students, employees, and professionals who need to have maximum proficiency in English listening and speaking skills.

 Format

 Format of all unit lessons:

                 I. Objectives

                II. Subject Matter

                III. Presentation of the Lesson

                                A. Motivation

                                B. Grammar

                                C. Vocabulary

                                D. Pronunciation

                                E. Speaking

                IV. Generalization

                V. Evaluation

                VI. Extension Activities

 Unit Lesson/Subject Matter

 Lesson 1      Singular and Plural Nouns

                    Count Nouns and Non-count Nouns, Quantifiers

Lesson 2       Collective Nouns, Compound Nouns and Numbers

Lesson 3       Subject, Object and Possessive Pronouns

Lesson 4       Reflexive and Relative Pronouns

                    Definite and Indefinite Articles

Lesson 5       Simple Present & Present Continuous Tense

Lesson 6       Past Simple & Past Continuous Tense

Lesson 7       Present Perfect & Perfect Continuous Tense

Lesson 8       Past perfect & Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Lesson 9       Simple Futures, Future Progressive, Future

                    Perfect & Future Perfect Progressive Tenses

Lesson 10     Modals

Lesson 11     Gerund and Infinitives

Lesson 12     Active and Passive Voice

Lesson 13     Parts of the Sentence

Lesson 14     Sentence Types

Lesson 15     Prepositions

Lesson 16     Comparative Structures of Modifiers

Lesson 17     Parallelism and Word Forms

Lesson 18     Prepositional Phrase and Phrasal Verbs

Lesson 19     Noun Clauses

Lesson 20     Reported Speech

Lesson 21     Adjective Clause

Lesson 22     Adverb Clause

Lesson 23     Conjunction and Word Order                           

Lesson 24     Word Choices and Redundancy