ENGLISH FOR SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES (ESOL)
Inglés para personas que hablan otro lenguaje (ESOL)

No cost classes are supported by grant funding from Maryland Literacy Works and the U.S Department of Education.

Beginning ESOL- Lifeskills*Grant Funded-No Cost ( ESOL Básico)
This course will help beginning students learn basic English for workplace and community settings. Topics to be covered include: simple questions and answers, filling out forms, understanding time and numbers, and following directions. New students must take a placement test at registration. 10 weeks/60 hours. Returning students please bring the Returning Student Referral Form to avoid being retested. No registration fee, materials included. To register, see the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Program Placement Registration Chart.

Intermediated ESOL - Lifeskills *Grant Funded-No Cost ( ESOL Intermedio)
This course will help intermediate students improve English for workplace and community settings. Topics to be covered include: simple conversations, requesting information, writing notes or short letters, understanding instructions, and interpreting schedules. New intermediate students must take a placement test at registration. 10 weeks/60 hours. Returning students please bring the Returning Student Referral Form to avoid being retested. No registration fee, materials included. To register, see the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Program Placement Testing and Registration Chart.

Beginning and Intermediate classes start the second week of FEBRUARY and end the third and fourth week of April.  Complete class schedules will be given at registration.

BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE ESOL FEBRUARY START CLASSES

Lifeskills ESOL-Beginning Literacy (ESOL Básico para principiantes)
Cost: No Fee (*Grant Funded)
***Eastern Family Resource Center only - Monday/Tuesday class starts February 2, 2009.
This course is for foreign born adults with little or no previous schooling. Topics to be covered included the alphabet, numbers, sounds, letters, signs and symbols. No registration fee, materials included.
Register first day of class Monday February 2, 2009 at 1:00pm at Eastern Family Resource Center, Room 328

ESOL ADVANCED TUITION CLASSES
TO REGISTER FOR OUR ADVANCED TUITION CLASSES, PLEASE CALL 443-840-4700 OR SEE

ESOL Advanced Conversation II (ESOL Conversación Avanzada II)
Cost: $ 75 (Tuition: $35 Fees: $40)
This course is designed to help advanced foreign born adults improve their level of comprehension, fluency, and accuracy in oral conversations. Topics to be covered include: speaking and listening skills, and appropriate conversation for the workplace and academic settings. 10 weeks/60 hours. Materials included.

ESOL Advanced Reading, Writing & Editing II
(ESOL Avanzado en Lectura, Escritura y Revisión II)
Cost: $ 75 (Tuition: $35 Fees: $40)
This course is designed to help advanced foreign born adult develop a firm basis in specific reading, writing, and editing skills. Topics to be covered include: identifying discourses markers, compound and complex sentence structure, paragraph organization, drafting and revising, and self and peer editing. 10 weeks/60 hours. Materials included.

Grammar for ESL Online 
Cost: $99 (Tuition: $20 Fees: $ 79)
This 6-week online course includes in-depth analysis of English grammar for intermediate to advanced English as Second Language college students. Structure of Standard English is explored in order to prepare the learner for regular mainstream English classes. Topics include a review of all tenses, the use of modals, the adjective clause, the noun clause, the adverb clause, phrases, count and non-count nouns, and some English terms. To obtain additional information, visit http://wwwccbcmd.edu/ceed/online/online.html or send an email to Don Elliott.

ESOL Family Literacy for Parents and Children  *Grant Funded – No Fee
This class is designed for parents and their elementary school aged or younger children. Helps improve reading, speaking, writing and listening skills focusing on materials used in everyday, family, school, and job-related situations. Class includes training for parents on how to be full partners in their children's education. Pre-school and/or childcare provided, with educational activities that focus on the preparation of the children for success in school and other life experiences. Parenting groups and home visits offered. Call the site you want to attend to make an appointment to be assessed.

For more information email Diane Dailey or call her at 443-840-3452