Beginning Level
ESL
Intermediate Level
ESL
Pre-advanced / Advanced Level
ESL
Beginning Level
Student will be prepared to understand basic communications and use everyday expressions. Student is expected to learn basic greetings, introductions, short conversations, and interaction in simple social situations. Learning activities include reading picture books, watching videos, and listening to audios as well as building basic vocabulary and writing words and simple sentences to describe daily activities. Student will work on projects and play language games to learn English with fun. Student may also learn English through fairytales, Disney stories, songs, and films. With parent’s consent, student may participate in field trips like art galleries and book fairs. Student can meet his/her favorite authors and learn more about characters, stories and the writing process of their books. Student may do speaking and writing assignments relating to the field trips. More challenging tasks will be assigned to student who wants to get ahead.
Intermediate Level
Student will be prepared for more complex communications for personal and academic purposes. Vocabulary building is an important component of language learning. Student is expected to learn to use high frequency vocabulary to communicate in social situations and academic settings, including retelling stories and articulating opinions. Student is expected to learn to use a combination of simple, compound and complex sentences to write letters, emails, reading responses, and paragraphs to express and support opinions on a variety of topics. The reading classes will provide student with strategies to skim, scan and predict texts. The learning tasks also include enhancing reading comprehension and developing reading skills such as identifying main ideas, details and purpose of texts. Tutor helps student uncover and interpret layers of meaning in a text. Sharpening critical thinking skills is an integral part of the learning activities. With parent’s consent, student may visit a museum of his/her choice and write a report about the visit. More challenging tasks will be assigned to student who wants to get ahead.
Pre-advanced / Advanced Level
Student will build more advanced skills of communications, academic reading, writing, and critical thinking that prepare the learner for high school or college work. Student is expected to work on comprehension and analysis of a variety of texts and expressing himself/herself more fluently with increasingly sophisticated vocabulary and language. Listening and speaking activities include watching news, lectures, and TED Talks, with emphasis on listening comprehension strategies, effective note-taking, oral communications, and presentations. Student is expected to become more skilled in analysis which include reading between the lines, making inferences, drawing conclusions, evaluating and synthesizing information from various sources. Student is also expected to do rhetorical analysis on speeches. These tasks help develop student’s critical thinking ability. Writing sessions will focus on essay development. Learning by doing projects and/or fundamental research on topics of each student’s interests is a component of the language development. With parent’s consent, student may visit a museum of his/her choice and write a report or an essay about the visit.
