Helping the students to develop their confidence as well as their competence in conversational situations is a critical part of this course. By participating in presentations at elementary schools in the community and by acting out scenes from popular movies, students can experience a sense of being able to communicate important and meaningful ideas and emotions in English. At the same time, while preparing for these activities, students take the time to focus on appropriate responses in specific cultural contexts and they work on improving their pronunciation. Just as it frequently occurs in both social and academic situations, a number of activities emphasize problem solving and cooperation while working in groups.

Besides acting out movie scenes and giving presentations to elementary school students, students visit a travel agency in order to help them to prepare for creating their own travel agency that then "sells" travel packages to ILC "customers." They also interview other ILC students as a way to develop their interviewing skills and as a basis for discussion. The information obtained in these interviews is used as the basis for a formal presentation. Finally, listening is a skill that is given a great deal of attention at this level. Students practice listening to level-appropriate academic lectures, they develop and maintain listening logs, and they do an out-of-class listening activity that involves the regular listening to an episodic story (book on tape, Connect with English, a television series, etc.).