English as a Second Language (ESL)

Introduction to our programs

The intensive English classes have been designed to provide students with the necessary language skills and basic information needed to function successfully in American society.

For those completing the most advanced levels of instruction, classes are designed to acquire the English proficiency necessary to be accepted into U.S. colleges and universities.

The program is designed to provide students with dramatically improved language skills by using a standardized, intensive, and a comprehensive curriculum, which integrates listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.

Students may join these classes at any time and may remain in the course until they have achieved the desired score.

Our small student-teacher ratio provides the students with the personal attention needed to master the English language.

Pre-Beginning IEP – ABC

This course is designed for adult learners. It integrates the English needed for daily life in the USA work, family, health, school, and other necessary topics. Students develop survival communication in English, obtain fundamental knowledge of English (alphabet, numbers, and basic sentences), and gain comprehensible pronunciation skills.

Course Learning Outcomes

The objectives of this class are not only for students to master the alphabet, numbers, basic tenses, basic parts of sentences, contractions, and basic reading comprehension, but also to begin developing communicative competence through the study and practice of vocabulary and communicative functions, dictionary use and specific rudimentary grammatical structures.

To this end, listening drills and oral practice are used to help students develop receptive skills, as well as to reinforce basic structures of expression.

By the end of this course, students will have developed survival communication in English, obtained fundamental knowledge of English, gained comprehensible pronunciation skills, and increased their motivation and interest in learning English.

After this class, students will demonstrate their ability by successfully completing the Level ABC final exam and by enrolling in RCE Beginning IEP Level 1 class.

Performance Objectives

After the successful completion of each unit, students will be able to:

• Properly introduce themselves to others, properly greet others, use different types of greetings, and talk about what they do; properly use the verb “be,” subject and object pronouns, articles, and singular and plural nouns;

• Properly introduce others, identify people and their occupations, correctly spell and pronounce different names, and politely begin a conversation; properly use the verb “have”;

• Briefly describe family members, describe people using adjectives, ask questions about someone they don’t know very well, and identify someone to others; talk about the present; use “it” to talk about time, properly use “would like” vs. “like.”

• Invite someone to an event, ask and state the time, read a calendar, understand the meaning of early, on time, and late and apply those terms, and identify different articles of clothing.

• Know different types of household chores, talk about how often they do things using correct terms (very often, sometimes, etc.), and know different types of weather.

• Name and describe different kinds of food and drink, read a menu and order food, write and ask for a recipe, and know when and how to use “how many” and “how much”.

• Know-how and when to use the verbs “want,” “have,” “need,” “like,” learn the colors, descriptive adjectives used to describe clothing, give descriptions about clothes, and give brief summary about home and work locations.

• Use the past time expressions, describe events using past tense, express feeling regarding a past event (happy, sad, etc.), and describe people and how they look.

• Use correct adjectives to describe the appearance, know different face/body parts, describe accidents and injuries, suggest remedies, know what to say at the hospital/doctor’s office, and ask for help if they are sick.

• Describe special abilities/skills/talents, use adverbs correctly, properly make a request, accept/decline invitations, and use “can,” “can’t,” and “too” correctly.

• Describe significant life events, give a personal biography, announce good and bad news, express wishes for the future using “be going to” and “would like + infinitive”.