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GE Beginner/Intermediate Module A

duration: 4 weeks

price: free

by Ruth Verona

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About this Course

General English will provide students with an opportunity to develop listening and speaking skills, enhance structural accuracy, and foster an expansion of everyday English communication skills. The beginning level of this program will help students to listen for details in conversations, organize oral information, distinguish between fact and opinion, take notes on a variety of sources, respond to both personal questions and questions about overheard discussions, use the simple present and simple past tense accurately, and work with various parts of speech in context. General English will provide students with an opportunity to develop listening and speaking skills, enhance structural accuracy, and foster an expansion of everyday English communication skills. The intermediate level of this program will help students to evaluate, integrate, and paraphrase information from a variety of oral sources, deliver summaries on information obtained, argue a stance on a particular topic, and utilize all of the simple tenses as well as the present progressive, past progressive, present perfect and present perfect progressive tenses in context.

For the course syllabus, student forms, and policies, please refer to Student Resources on the TLC website.

Beginner Course Objectives:

Students will be able to:

• discuss family, food, and daily activities

• participate in group discussions

• use and respond to common greetings

• practice cell phone etiquette

• practice email etiquette

Intermediate Course Objectives:

Students will be able to:

• paraphrase information

• use English to compare and contrast a variety of items

Learning modules

Week 1
- Classwork 1 Wk 1
- Homework 1 Wk 1
- Eval1 Wk 1
Week 2
- Classwork1 Wk2
- Classwork2 Wk2
- Eval1 Wk2
Week 3
- Classwork1 Wk3
- HW1 Wk3
- Presentation
Week 4
- Homework Wk4
- Classwork Wk4
- Assignment
- FINALS

About the Instructor

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Ruth Verona

Greetings from TLC of Fort Worth!

Hello everyone. Ruth here. First I would like to mention, I love my job as an English teacher to students from different parts of the world (speakers of other languages). For many years, I used to work for International Companies (e.g. Honda Corporation) where part of my job was to train other employees including those from other countries. This is when I realized that I would love to focus on just teaching. So, I went back to school for my MA in Ed with focus on TESOL (adult). I realized this is where I belong to serve people. I am grateful for The Language Company to have given me the opportunity for the position.

Before TLC, I spent 2 years volunteering to teach English in Texas and abroad. I found that I have so much empathy for language learners. As a person who speaks different languages, fluent in 3, intermediate in 2, 3 of which I had to go to school to learn before immersion in the country of the language, I have learned to put myself in the position of my students. This has taught me to be more patient, to be more understanding, and to find strategies that could better help a learner with more difficulty than others. I found that learning languages is not just for self development, rather it is a way to expand our understanding for those who are learning other languages as well. Once again, I am forever grateful to have this experience and to be able to help other people from all over the world learn a language, just as I was helped by those who had taught me.

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