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Language Center
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Registration is open for the Fall Program
New classes start on November 24,24
In 2024 -We are looking to offer 10 levels of English Classes
Each Level is done in 7 weeks
Our program can be accomplished in 21 months
We offer classes at nighttime
Four Days a week-
Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday & Thursday from 5:30 to 7:00 PM
Two days a week
Monday & Wednesday or Tuesday & Thursday
7:00 to 10:00 PM
Once a week
Sundays
8:00 to 2:00 PM
Call us for more information
516-408-3232
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Registraciones abiertas para Clases de Otoño
Las nuevas clases inician en Noviembre 24,24
En el 2024 ofreceremos 10 niveles Ingles
Cada nivel tiene una duracion de 7 semanas
Nuestro programa dura 21 meses en su totalidad
Ofrecemos clases en las noches
Cuatro dias a la semana
Lunes, Martes, Miércoles y Jueves de 5:30 a 7 :00 PM
Dos dias a la semana
Lunes y Miercoles o Martes y Jueves
7:00 a 10:00 PM
Una vez a la semana
Los Domingos
8:00 AM a 2:00 PM
Llamenos para mas informacion
516-408-3232
Our Students
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We teach English as a Second Language to adults who spea​k other languages
Please call us for more info
154 Post Ave, Westbury NY 11590
516-408-3232
Our Program
With the Support of the Westbury Public Schools, we offer 10 levels of classes
BEGINNERS CYCLE
LEVELS 1, 2 & 3
The Survival Language
Goal: to communicate, to give and request, personal basic information.
Achievements: to speak about oneself at the present moment and the immediate past; to talk about time, weather, and common things and activities; to address people in a courteous way, using appropriate expressions for social interaction; to speak properly about spatial and temporal conditions; to compare and contrast; to express likes or preferences; to share experiences, current or distant activities.
Contents:
Level 1
Greetings, introduction
Spelling, to use numbers
Talking about time: hour, day, month, year, holidays
Sharing impressions about weather
Describing people, current things and situations
Level 2
Expressing ability, obligation, advice, recommendation, necessity
Being polite: to ask for and to give permission, help
Speaking about actual things and situations
Stating situations and facts that are happening or happened in the past
Talking about count and non count things and quantities
Expressing property and quantities
Level 3
Locating in time and space
Expressing basic temporal and spatial relations
Comparing and contrasting people and things
Talking about duties, responsibilities, and suggestions
Expressing likes, dislikes, and preferences
Using regular and irregular plurals
Addressing other people using different degrees of courtesy.
INTERMEDIATE CYCLE
LEVELS 4, 5, 6 & 7
From Survival to Participation
Goal: to communicate with more elaborated structures: actual, past, future, possible or dependant.
Achievements: to speak appropriately about the spatial and temporal environment; to compare and differentiate, to express taste and preference, to discuss immediate, remote, and possible future activities, and to speak and locate activities from immediate and distant past.
Contents:
Level 4
· Asking about identity, cause, way, option, time, etc.
· Expressing past events adequately (verbal regularities and irregularities)
· Referring to simultaneous activities
· Making comparisons between countable and non-countable things
· Commenting and distinguishing future events
Level 5
· Expressing possibility, potentiality, or duty in relation to different temporal frames
· Referring to option or alternative
· Expressing continuity, frequency, or alternation of activities
· Using adequately perfect tenses
Level 6
· Expressing temporal coordination: precedence, posteriority
· Using properly diverse word functions
· Referring to other’s speech
· Using infinitives and gerunds
· Expressing conditions
Level 7
· Talking about future or adverse conditionality
· Expressing adversity or opposition
· Using gerunds as subjects, objects, or objects of preposition
· Constructing compound sentences, integrated adequately to relative pronouns
· Including adjective modifiers in the speech.
ADVANCED CYCLE
LEVELS 8, 9 & 10
Integration to a new language
Goal: to speak using all type of structures in different verbal times with fluidity and property.
Achievements: to use different adverbs and adverbial forms, to integrate different gerunds into their speech, to express motivation and intention, to speak about real and unreal conditions in present, past and future tenses, to use reflective forms, and to express causality and logical order.
Contents:
Level 8
Using all kinds of verbs adequately.
Speaking about indefinite things, using different kinds of indefinite pronouns.
Expressing reflective, infinitive, active and passive forms.
Referring to affirmative, negative or multiple options
Expressing cause and effect, alternative, adversity.
Level 9
Reinforcing reading and writing strategies.
Paraphrasing written texts and speeches.
Sharing current cultural and social issues.
Arranging papers or speeches properly.
Reporting written texts or speeches.
Level 10
Familiarizing with college-level texts.
Using adequately logical relationships in written texts or speeches.
Reading graphic or statistical reports.
Making inferences or conclusions in relation to written texts or speeches.
Using academic jargon.
CONVERSATION CLASS FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS
Beyond the Basic ESL program
Goals: to improve articulation, intonation and fluency; to enrich vocabulary and develop basic skills for academic text writing.
Achievements: to articulate adequately English phonemes; to keep a proper intonation of the language; to produce oral and written speeches about North American culture subjects; to write clear and coherent texts.
Structure:
· Enriching vocabulary.
· Reading and writing about specific subjects.
· Drawing conclusions.
Activities:
· Talking about selected topics.
· Practicing prepared dialogues.
· Reviewing vocabulary and pronunciation.
· Presenting parts of the personal project (from the final project).
Model:
Goals in English
Eating, ordering, and working in a restaurant, commercial center.
To give and to receive directions.
Hospitals/Emergencies/Medical appointment.
Entertainment/Music/Cinema.
Their own country/Other countries/ Immigration/ Citizenship.
Current science and technology
Legal issues
EVALUATION
General Criteria
· Attendance: it is obligatory and below 70% implies the repetition of the level.
· Goal accomplishments of the level: it is confirmed through:
o Written tests in class: intermediate and final
o Oral test at the end of the level
o In both tests it is necessary to reach a minimum of 70%, on the contrary implies to repeat the level or, according to teacher’s criteria, to go to the next level repeating at the same time the previous one.
· Project of class: each level has a project that the student must present at the end of the course. In the case of the Eighth Level, the project is the graduation.
· Best Plus: WLC oral test that all the students must take when entering the program and, every 50 class hours.
· Best Literacy or TABE: WLC written evaluations that all the students must take after obtaining a score over 541 points on the Best Plus. These evaluations are given every 50 class hours.
· Graduation: finalizing the tenth level and after accomplishing all the evaluative requirements.
We're a team of dedicated individuals who love what we do. Contact us to learn more!
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