The general English courses are balanced curriculums that take into consideration the needs of the students. Our aims are to help students develop key skills in the correct use of English for reading, writing, speaking and listening.
As the classes are taught exclusively in English and the teachers encourage oral communication skills significant progress should also be evident in the speaking and listening skills.
Students must take a Placement Test before undertaking this program so students are placed in their true English level.
Course Duration:
Six weeks for each level giving a total of 36 hours (Two times per week)
Beginning level:
ESL Beginning “1”
- General Nature:
The course is intended for learners with limited or no English language background. It aims at developing the learners' ability to recognize and form letters of the alphabet and to interpret and write words with the context of listening and understanding messages in the new language. At this level there is no focus on grammar.
- Course Content:
The course is relevant to the learners’ daily lives with emphasis on:
• Personal information
• Alphabet
• Family
• Numbers
• Time
• Calendar
• Forms of address (Mr., Mrs• Miss)
- Learning Outcome:
By the end of the course participants will be able to:
• Understand simple words, phrases, and questions such as personal information or the physical setting.
• Understand high-frequency commands and expressions of courtesy.
• Express basic needs with simple words or phrases learned
• during the course.
• Answer simple questions with "yes," "no," or one-word responses.
• Discriminate among numerals.
• Recognize signs with one word or symbol--- cafeteria, pharmacy….etc.
• Write letters of the alphabet and numerals.
• Write basic information: name, phone number, address.
• Greet, show gratitude, express state of being.
• Respond to simple commands: “Come, Stand, Sit, and Open your book.”
ESL Beginning “2”
- General Nature:
This course is designed for learners who have completed ESL Beginning 1 or equivalent. The emphasis is on developing participates ability to listen, speak and understand. There is little emphasis on grammar.
- Course Content:
The course content integrates language functions and language forms, skills and topics. Topics are chosen in accordance with students' goals: general or vocational, with special emphasis on:
• Personal identification
• Weather
• Money
• Ads
• Home appliances ….etc.
Additional topics based on participants’ need will be added.
However nonverbal behavior such as gestures, body language and eye contact are taught in context through demonstration and class interaction.
- Learning Outcome:
By the end of the course participants will be able to:
• Understand simple words in context of common everyday situations.
• Comprehend basic commands through physical action.
• Understand simple face-to-face conversations using previously learned material.
• Respond and react appropriately to short emergency warnings "Stop"; "Get back!"; "Slow down.".
• Use previously learned words and phrases to make statements related to basic needs.
• Respond to simple questions with: "yes," "no,”, or short-phrase.
• Ask simple questions
• Relate sounds to letters and clusters of letters.
• Understand sentences using previously learned vocabulary and forms.
• Write legibly the letters of the alphabet.
• Write numerals
• Copy familiar words or phrases from leaned material.
• Complete simple forms with personal information
• Write simple sentences.
• Use simple forms of English for command, agree or disagree.
ESL Beginning “3”
- General Nature:
This course is designed for learners who have completed ESL Beginning 2 or equivalent. By the beginning of this course fluency and oral communication begin to be emphasized along with the instructor’s guidance for all learners to correct their errors.
- Course Content:
The course integrates language functions and forms with informational skills through topics chosen according to the participate objectives: general or vocational with special emphasis on:
• Social customs
• Expressing politeness in different situations
• Classified ads
• Job safety
• Emergencies
• Transportation
• Health issues
- Learning Outcome:
By the end of the course participants will be able to:
• Understand simple words and phrases drawn from learned topics.
• Identify the main topic of conversation in everyday situations.
• Understand simple telephone conversation in familiar situations.
• React appropriately to short emergency warnings ("Be careful!” "Slow down”
• Answer simple questions related to basic needs using previously learned phrases or simple sentences.
• Form statements about basic needs and common activities in the past, present, and future tenses.
• Ask questions related to basic needs using previously learned material.
• Communicate simple personal information on the telephone.
• Understand isolated words and phrases in familiar online casinos with no deposit bonus contexts such as in traffic sign, ads, and fast food varieties.
• Read and understand short paragraphs on familiar topics based on previously learned vocab. and phrases.
• Write lists of possible shopping items from supermarkets.
• Write simple sentences based on personal experiences.
• Write simple telephone messages.
• Ask for permission and information, describe ,agree or disagree , express wants, desires and preferences, direct and invite others.
• Use compound sentences, future tense and the modals as well as verbs followed by infinitives.
Intermediate level:
ESL Intermediate “1”
- General Nature:
This course is designed for candidates who have finished with ESL Beginning 3 or its equivalent. Here the emphasis is on fluency and communication as well as encouraging learners to check their use of basic grammatical structures.
- Course Content:
It integrates language functions and language forms with informational sources, skills, and topics. The topics are chosen according to the candidates objectives whether general, vocational or academic with special emphasis on: or academic. Samples of informational sources, skills, and topics at this level are as follows:
• Job titles : government …private sector
• Banking procedures
• Working schedules
• Job search
• Famous people
• Shopping
• Nutrition
• Food recipes
• Social rules of etiquette
- Learning Outcome:
By the end of the course participant will be able to:
• Understand simple questions and answers, statements, and face-to-face conversations in standard dialect containing some unfamiliar vocabulary.
• Identify certain basic sentence structures such as subject-verb agreement "He read" versus "He reads" .
• Understand telephone conversations in familiar context.
• Participate in simple conversations dealing with basic courtesy requirements (thanking, meeting, and apologizing).
• Ask and answer questions in simple present, past, and future tenses on familiar topics.
• Make simple telephone conversations.
• Relate past personal experience according to the sequence of events.
• Read short narrative and descriptive passages on familiar topics.
• Guess meanings of unfamiliar vocabulary in material rich in contextual clues.
• Understand newspaper headlines and abbreviations on familiar topics.
• Take notes on familiar topics and write sentences to form paragraphs on these topics.
• Take down telephone messages.
• Write short” thank-you notes.”
• Complete simple familiar forms: medical history, job application or banking.
• Make excuses, apologise, make offers and give, get permission, advice and suggest.
• Use complex sentences, adverbial clauses of time: before, after and when, as well as adverbial clauses of reason: because.
• Use exclamatory sentences: “what a beautiful weather.”
• Use the past continuous, present perfect simple and continuous tenses, as well as the future conditional and the verbs to be followed by gerunds.
ESL Intermediate “2”
- General Nature:
The emphasis is on fluency and communication. The course is geared towards learners who have passed ESL Intermediate 1 or its equivalent .Participants will learn the skills of self – monitoring in the context of situations which will call for the use of English for communication purposes.
- Course Content:
The topics are chosen in accordance with participants goals: general, vocational, or academic with special emphasis on:
• Map reading
• Health
• Community problems
• Leisure activities
• Cultural differences
• Govrnment and Political entities
- Learning Outcome:
By the end of the course participants will be able Recognize main ideas and supporting details in factual material relating to everyday topics:
• Determine the mood of a message as the attitudes and feelings of the speaker or the urgency of the message.
• Understand stories and other passages based on familiar vocabulary and structures
• Understand everyday dialogues with some repetition or slower speech.
• Participate in conversations on some topics such as personal histories and descriptions of people or places.
• Show creativity in producing language patterns not previously learned or memorized; however, with some errors.
• Respond to telephone calls on familiar subjects with clarification.
• Read and understand familiar topics (newspaper articles on current events, social letters, and public information notices).
• Identify the main idea of a paragraph on a familiar topic.
• Guess the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary and phrases from context.
• Understand the meaning of a passage by using context clues such as pronouns, therefore, for example .
• Produce short paragraphs describing daily activities or past events, based on Chronological order.
• Write personal messages
• Fill out original job applications and any health history forms.
• Compare and contrast, offer to do something, express possibility, sympathy, hopes and regret.
• Recommend solutions to normal problems.
• Use specific structures such as the relative pronouns, embedded questions, past perfect, one or two forms of the passive and the structure of the hypothetical cases.
Advanced level:
ESL Advanced “1”
- General Nature:
This course is designed for those who have passed ESL Intermediate 2 or its equivalent. Again the emphasis of this level is on fluency and communication. Candidates will demonstrate the skills they have already learned in previous levels such as self- monitoring while using complex grammar as given in previous course.
- Course Content:
The topics are chosen according to the candidates needs with special emphasis on:
• Social
• Problems
• Cultural values
• Idioms and expressions
• The language of business
• Charts
• Speeches
• World organizations
• Journals
• Reports
- Learning Outcome:
By the end of the course participant will be able to:
• Understand most oral speeches in standard dialect and at a normal speed.
• Understand most of the language used in movies or broadcasts of a nontechnical or very general nature.
• Understand new vocabulary in written materials through the use of context clues.
• Ask and answer questions fluently with minimal errors in different tenses.
• Get involved with increasing fluency in most social conversations and telephone conversations, including those about work and current events.
• Use paraphrasing when misunderstanding occurs.
• Spot main ideas and details or examples from familiar texts.
• Make inferences.
• Summarize parts of common reading passages.
• Join simple sentences together by adding modifying words.
• Write and punctuate complete sentences to form paragraphs.
• Write descriptive and narrative paragraphs, using correct punctuation.
• Complete genuine forms for insurance purposes or applications for drivers' licenses or bank loans.
• Use transitions within and between paragraphs.
• Take notes from public announcements, short lectures, or real interviews.
• Approve or disapprove certain actions or activities.
• Predict consequences and persuade others to do certain actions. ,
• Practice the use of certain conjunctions such as: therefore, however, unless, moreover,
• Practice with understanding the forms of the past modals such as: Should, could, would have, must have as well as other kinds of the passive forms.
ESL Advanced “2”
- General Nature:
This course is tailored to meet the needs of participants who want to learn specific kind of English for specific purpose. Consequently, the learners should have passed ESL Advanced 1 or its equivalent with specific purpose for learning the language.
- Course Content:
As mentioned, the content of the course will depend upon the participants needs with specific emphasis on :
• Computers , e-mails
• Legal issues
• Politics
• Report writing
• Jobs
• Business communication
• Application letters
• Job description
• C.V
• Complaints
• Job Ads
• Questionnaires
• Job Interviews
- Learning Outcome:
By the end of the course participants will be able Recognize main ideas and supporting details in factual material relating to everyday topics.
• Understand all the terms used with computers and e-mails
• Get ideas about some legal issues such as: contracts, money laundry, kinds of violations and their legal procedures.
• Understand different kinds of sentences, cases and courtroom procedures.
• Understand conversations with native speakers without rewording or repetition
• Understand narrations of factual events and technical written materials.
• Speak fluently in formal or informal oral communications.
• Speak with some fluency about technical issues.
• Use grammatical patterns-including perfect Tenses, passive constructions, complex sentences, and the conditionals.
• Read original printed material on familiar topics.
• Read short stories, journals and magazines.
• Apply appropriate reading strategies for understanding content on unfamiliar topics or technical information.
• Use context clues to interpret the meanings of difficult sentences or new vocabulary.
• Demonstrate an understanding of an author's point of view by making inferences.
• Punctuate paragraphs, making only minor errors.
• Use comparison and contrast, exposition and cause and effect techniques to write paragraphs on familiar topics.
• Take notes from lectures.
• Write summaries of reading passages.
• Write job applications, C.V., letters of complaint, and questionnaires.
• Negotiate and bargain.
• Demonstrate ability to give short presentations on familiar topics.
• Use tag questions, future perfect, all passive forms, and different types of questions.
