# ESL Lifeskills (Noncredit Certificate of Competency)

Gavilan College · 2026-2027 Catalog · Department: English as a Second Language

Source: https://gavilan.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/4089/4132/4346

Courses are designed to meet the needs of students whose first language is other than English. The mission of ESL programs for adults in California is to equip students with the language and cultural proficiencies required for the eventual fulfillment of personal, vocational, academic, and citizenship for participation in American society.

**Learning Outcome(s):**

1.  Request very basic services within the context of the life skills topics covered.
2.  Make simple present, present continuous, simple past, and future affirmative and negative oral and written statements within the context of the life-skills topics covered.
3.  Read simple paragraphs and do simple guided writing exercises using the vocabulary related to the life-skills topics covered.
4.  Pronounce and spell the names of objects, people, places and activities within the context of the life skills topics covered.
5.  Use subject, object and demonstrative pronouns, possessive adjectives, the structures can and have to, simple nouns, basic prepositions, adjectives, frequency adverbs and the interrogatives: when, where, why, how, who, whose and what.

| Course | Title | Units |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ESL 786 | NC ESL Lifeskills 2A | 0-6 |
| ESL 787 | NC ESL Lifeskills 2B | 0-6 |
| or ESL 788 | NC ESL Lifeskills 1 | 0-10 |
| ESL 789 | NC ESL Lifeskills 2 | 0-10 |
| ESL 775 | ESL Literacy I | 5 |
| ESL 776 | ESL Literacy II | 5 |
| ESL 784 | NC ESL Lifeskills 1A | 0-6 |
| ESL 785 | NC ESL Lifeskills 1B | 0-6 |
| **Total** | | **** |