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ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
—SAHORI M., SPEAKING PRACTICE FOR FLUENT ENGLISH
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CCAE offers classes throughout the summer at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels taught by highly-trained and experienced instructors. Communicative, learner-oriented teaching methods and the multicultural atmosphere facilitate not only language learning, but also friendships with people from all over the world . Our online classes can be joined from everywhere and this allows us to welcome back students who left the Boston area and meet at different time zones. We use the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) to assess students and establish learning goals. To find the right level, attend our free online personal assessment days (p .12) or contact Francesca Ferraris at languages@ccae .org . Please see p .17 for level descriptions and visit ccae .org/classes/esl for our most up-to-date language classes .
This summer, we offer 2 cycles of classes that meet multiple times a week to immerse students in English, and allow students to advance through different levels and topics .
CYCLE 1: 5 WEEKS, BEGINS JUNE 21 | CYCLE 2: 5 WEEKS, BEGINS AUGUST 2 | WEEKENDS & WORKSHOPS IN JULY & AUGUST
ENGLISH INTEGRATED SKILLS CLASSES
ESL BEGINNER LEVELS 1 & 2
John O’Donnell | ESL Instructor This class is for beginner students who would like to work in a systematic way on their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills . Focus will be on grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling, and simple conversation . Students at this level will learn to identify common words concerning their immediate concrete surroundings, read very simple texts, converse on very familiar topics and master everyday situations, and write a short, simple note .
COURSE CODE: EBEG Sec. 01: 5 Weeks, Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, 9:15-11:15am. Begins Jun. 21 | $300 No class Jul. 5
ESL BEGINNER LEVELS 3 & 4
John O’Donnell | ESL Instructor This is an integrated skills class for students who speak a little English . Focus will be on grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling, and simple conversation . We will review the grammar points covered in Beginner Level 1 and 2, as well as articles, nouns and pronouns, the past tense, and the future tense . We will study the entire textbook . It includes some modal auxiliaries, prepositions, comparatives, superlatives, and an introduction to the perfect tenses . This class is equivalent to CEFR A2 .
COURSE CODE: ENBE Sec. 01: 5 Weeks, Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, 9:15-11:15am. Begins Aug. 2 | $300
ESL INTERMEDIATE
Liz Ging, John O’Donnell | ESL Instructors This class is for intermediate students who would like to improve their reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills . Students will learn to understand complex texts, to interact with native speakers with more fluency, and to participate in group discussions. Students will also practice writing on a range of subjects . We will review basic grammar and more advanced structures of the English language will be introduced and practiced .
COURSE CODE: EINT Sec. 01: 5 Weeks, Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, 9:30-11:30am. Begins Jun. 21 | $300 | Liz Ging No class Jul. 5 Sec. 02: 5 Weeks, Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, 6-8pm. Begins Jun. 21 | $300 | John O’Donnell No class Jul. 5
Free Personal Online Assessment Days
Need help with finding the right class for you? Register for one of our free online assessments on Zoom .
Tuesday, June 8, 6-8pm Monday, June 14, 9-11am Tuesday, July 27, 6-8pm Wednesday, July 28, 9-11am
Contact Francesca Ferraris at languages@ccae .org or 617-547-6789 ext . 112 for any questions .
ESL HIGH INTERMEDIATE
Liz Ging | ESL Instructor This class is for high intermediate students who would like to focus on their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills . Students will work with complex readings, advanced structures of English, challenging listenings, and will have lots of opportunities to practice speaking on a high level . Students will also practice writing on a range of topics .
COURSE CODE: EHIN Sec. 01: 5 Weeks, Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, 9:30-11:30am. Begins Aug. 2 | $300
PREPARATION FOR THE TOEFL (THE TEST OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
John O’Donnell | ESL Instructor The TOEFL is the most widely used test to measure English fluency in the world . Thousands of academic institutions, government agencies and professional associations require a good TOEFL score for admission or membership . In this class, students practice the four skill areas evaluated on the TOEFL (reading, listening, speaking and writing) using authentic test materials . Tips and strategies are shared to help students get the score they need for admission to their top universities . This course is also perfect for advanced-level students who may not be planning to take the TOEFL but wish to further develop their general English skills . We highly recommend to come to one of our free personal assessment days before enrolling in this class .
COURSE CODE: TOFL Sec. 01: 5 Weeks, Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, 12-2pm. Begins Jun. 21 | $300 No class Jul. 5
ENGLISH SPECIFIC SKILLS CLASSES
BEGINNER – CEFR A2 CONVERSATION
Liz Ging | ESL Instructor Gain confidence and develop your English speaking skills in this conversation class for high beginning and low intermediate level students . Reinforce your basic knowledge of English, develop fluency with the past tenses, acquire new vocabulary, and practice correct pronunciation . This class will provide a friendly, safe classroom environment where you can practice with lively activities how to speak comfortably and confidently in everyday English.
COURSE CODE: ENCB Sec. 01: 5 Weeks, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:15-11:15am. Begins Jun. 22 | $220 Sec. 02: 5 Weeks, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:15-11:15am. Begins Aug. 3 | $220
VOCABULARY TRAINING
John O’Donnell | ESL Instructor In this class for high beginner or low intermediate level students, we will work on acquiring, memorizing and using new vocabulary . Fun activities will introduce and reinforce the new vocabulary . Students will have a lot of opportunities to broaden their vocabulary by practicing with reading, writing exercises, conversations, and small presentations .
ALL ABOUT THE VERB
John O’Donnell | ESL Instructor Present Tense, Past, Present Perfect, Present Continuous and Future—the English verb is challenging with its different tenses and forms . In this class for high beginner and low intermediate students, we will revise all the verb tenses, practice the forms and the correct use with a lot of written and oral exercises .
COURSE CODE: ENVE Sec. 01: 5 Weeks, Mondays & Wednesdays, 6-8pm. Begins Aug. 2 | $220
INTERMEDIATE – CEFR B1 CONVERSATION
Liz Ging | ESL Instructor This class is for intermediate-level students who want to improve their pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar while developing their conversational skills . Activities will include open discussions, debates, and presentations .
COURSE CODE: ENCI Sec. 01: 5 Weeks, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12-2pm. Begins Jun. 22 | $220 Sec. 02: 5 Weeks, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12-2pm. Begins Aug. 3 | $220
INTENSIVE VOCABULARY TRAINING
Andrea Aptecker | Actor, Public Speaking Expert, Playwright In this fun class, we will learn new vocabulary and improve speaking and comprehension skills with reading, writing exercises, and discussions . There will be tests and class activities each week to enforce the new vocabulary . For intermediate and advanced students .
COURSE CODE: EIVA Sec. 01: 5 Weeks, Mondays & Wednesdays, 9:15-11:15am. Begins Jun. 21 | $220 No class Jul. 5
SPEAKING PRACTICE FOR FLUENT ENGLISH
Andrea Aptecker | Actor, Public Speaking Expert, Playwright In this high intermediate class, students will learn to present speeches, tell stories, and have conversations using fluent English. Class activities include formal and informal speech and story presentations, as well as practice writing and speaking conversational dialogues using new pronunciation and vocabulary skills .
COURSE CODE: EFLU Sec. 01: 5 Weeks, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30-11:30am. Begins Jun. 22 | $220
ACCENT IMPROVEMENT WORKSHOP
Elaine Crowder | Ph.D., Applied Linguistics Improve your accent and acquire a communication edge in business that enhances professional relationships . Learn to hear and correct accented speech sounds that contribute to misunderstood speech . After reviewing why certain sounds are so troublesome, we will practice universally difficult sounds, using a technique that builds new habits of speech . Please bring a recording device to class, and a willingness to practice! Digital script and shipping of practice CD are included in tuition .
COURSE CODE: ABET Sec. 01: Saturday & Sunday, 9:30am-12:30pm. Jul. 17 & 18 | $147
LISTENING AND PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE
Andrea Aptecker | Actor, Public Speaking Expert, Playwright This class is for intermediate level English students (CEFR Levels B1 and up) who want to improve their pronunciation, gain confidence in understanding native speakers and be more easily understood. We’ll cover intonation, primary stress in words, and the correct sounds of letters. Andrea will provide you with practice materials. We’ll use online resources and original materials such as television and movie scripts to practice our listening skills and to observe how native speakers produce sounds in General American English .
COURSE CODE: PRON Sec. 01: 5 Weeks, Mondays & Wednesdays, 9:15-11:15am. Begins Aug. 2 | $220
ADVANCED – CEFR B2-C1 PRIMARY STRESS FOR BIG WORDS
Steven Bloomberg | Communications Skills Developer Learn to pronounce English words correctly and better . Practice, build confidence, and speak more clearly by making sure you pronounce longer and bigger words correctly . The key to doing this is knowing the primary stress syllable . The primary stress syllable is the most prominent, loudest syllable or vowel sound in a word . It is the highest intonation point . Find out what the patterns are for primary stress syllables in English words .
COURSE CODE: ENPS Sec. 01: 5 Mondays, 7:30-9:30pm. Begins Jun. 21 | $160 No class Jul. 5
EARLY BIRD ENGLISH PRACTICE
Andrea Aptecker | Actor, Public Speaking Expert, Playwright Start your day off right with some English exercises before you go to work, or, if you join us from another time zone, finish your day with this refreshing and fun class. You will practice conversation, listening, pronunciation, and reading with new activities .
COURSE CODE: ENEB Sec. 01: 5 Weeks, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 8:15-9:15am. Begins Jun. 22 | $125 Sec. 02: 5 Weeks, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 8:15-9:15am. Begins Aug. 3 | $125
PROFESSIONAL LEVEL GRAMMAR AND FLUENCY POLISH
Steven Bloomberg | Communications Skills Developer Increase your confidence and polish your English. Learn to use less common grammar and review grammar topics . This is a great opportunity to ask questions about grammar and vocabulary usage and clear up any uncertainties you could have . Discover ways to improve through conversational speaking activities so that you can speak English even better than you do already. We’ll cover grammar points and questions that are often overlooked . Polish your skills and fluency with a refreshing approach to English grammar and usage . Grammar topics will include: Hypothetical language and modal verb review, present and past time advanced review, prepositions and adverbs, and much more .
COURSE CODE: ENGR Sec. 01: 5 Weeks, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:30-8:30pm. Begins Jun. 22 | $220
WRITING & GRAMMAR
John O’Donnell | ESL Instructor If you have a good command of English, but find that your writing needs help, this is the class for you . We focus on vocabulary and word forms, grammar, punctuation and practice . Verb tenses, sentence structure, paragraph building and essay development are all part of the curriculum . Students will have a lot of opportunities to practice expressing themselves in written English . In this class, all major forms of writing will be covered, including letters (business and personal), journals, essays and other forms that students find helpful. This class is great for any high intermediate or advanced student who wants to improve their written English and is especially recommended for students preparing for the TOEFL .
COURSE CODE: ENWA Sec. 01: 8 Saturdays, 10am-12pm. Begins Jul. 10 | $190
READ, DISCUSS, DEBATE!
Andrea Aptecker | Actor, Public Speaking Expert, Playwright This class is for advanced ESL students who want to improve their vocabulary, comprehension, cultural understanding, and speaking confidence in a fun class based on reading and discussion. Students will read poems, newspaper and magazine articles, cartoons, blog entries, excerpts from stories, and more . The readings will be followed by questions, discussions, and individual or group presentations and debates . Presentations and debates will be followed by constructive critiques .
COURSE CODE: ERDD Sec. 01: 5 Weeks, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30-11:30am. Begins Aug. 3 | $220
CONVERSATION: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE NEWS
John O’Donnell | ESL Instructor The news is filled with very important events, from American politics to the world health crisis and the worsening environmental disaster . And there is good news too, including the way people are getting involved to face these major events . And then there are entertaining news from the world of sport, but also the arts and, of course, celebrities . Discussing the news is a great way to improve your English and get to understand the events better . In this class, we will talk about news events, the trends that they are part of and their historic context . We will cover grammar, vocabulary, idioms and pronunciation, and also develop your fluency in spoken English. We’ll make international friends and understand the situation in the US better!
COURSE CODE: ENCA Sec. 01: 5 Weeks, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6-8pm. Begins Aug. 3 | $220
PICK UP THE PACE: SMOOTH ENGLISH TALKING
Steven Bloomberg | Communications Skills Developer Learn how you can practice English pronunciation and speech to sound more natural, fluent, and faster. With step-by-step guided practice activities, you’ll find out how you can increase your natural speech quality and pick up the pace of your speaking . This course centers around conversational contractions, standard contractions, connected speech, and the all-important schwa neutral vowel .
COURSE CODE: ENPP Sec. 01: 5 Thursdays, 6:30-8:30pm. Begins Aug. 5 | $160
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
EFFECTIVE BUSINESS EMAILS
Steven Bloomberg | Communications Skills Developer Improve your business professional emails and become more confident and competent writers. Present your emails for corrections, improvements, and editing . Make your writing more concise, clear, direct, and to the point, all of which are necessary for good business emails. Working as a group, we’ll break down, analyze, and discuss your real-life email writing in order to bring it to the next level. We’ll get better at punctuation, too. This course includes Steve’s punctuation guides. Requirements for this class: - Provide email that is 80 to 150 or 200 words before each class or have a complete email ready to work with at the start of each class . If possible, include the email that you replied to if you were not the person who initiated the communication . - Come prepared with an idea to write one email during the class .
COURSE CODE: ENBU Sec. 01: 5 Mondays, 5-7pm. Begins Jun. 21 | $160 No class Jul. 5
THE POWER OF YOUR BUSINESS VOICE:
PROMOTE YOURSELF AT WORK
Steven Bloomberg | Communications Skills Developer Develop your vocal expression and vocal strength so that you are able to be a more convincing communicator at work and in business . Unlock your power and project your real self at work when you speak with leadership, team members, cross-functional teams, and clients . Learn to use the power of your voice to promote yourself at work . Participate in speaking practice activities and exercises to move beyond the limitations of your current voice . Receive coaching and guidance to increase your vocal expression and vocal strength. We’ll also introduce and explore rhetoric as a way to create stronger and more convincing messages . For advanced ESL students .
COURSE CODE: ENPV Sec. 01: 5 Wednesdays, 6-9pm. Begins Jun. 23 | $240
MEETINGS AND PRESENTATIONS
Steven Bloomberg | Communications Skills Developer Increase communication confidence and competence. Learn from experience . Practice a variety of short presentations . We’ll practice speaking so that you can find the right words to more effectively communicate your ideas at meetings. We’ll focus on content, organization, confident language, personal expression, and communication strength. As necessary, we’ll focus on grammar and vocabulary, as well . Students receive coaching, guidance, and critique so that they can convey messages more successfully .
COURSE CODE: ENMP Sec. 01: 4 Saturdays, 9:30am-12:30pm. Begins Jul. 10 | $200
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RÉSUMÉ AND COVER LETTER WORKSHOP
Steven Bloomberg | Communications Skills Developer Learn how to make your résumé, Linkedin profile, and cover letter more effective. Résumés and cover letters are marketing documents that you use to get interviews with hiring managers . We will work as a group and learn from each other . We’ll review your résumé and cover letter content, and you’ll find out how to create better documents that effectively highlight your accomplishments and skills . Workshop participants who do not have a complete résumé and cover letter to work with will receive guidance on how to write a résumé and a cover letter . The objective is to learn how to do this yourself .
COURSE CODE: ENRE Sec. 01: 5 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30pm. Begins Aug. 3 | $160
KEYS TO AMERICAN COMMUNICATION CULTURE
Steven Bloomberg | Communications Skills Developer Optimize your professional communication in the States by developing a greater understanding of American culture . Participate in short presentations and dialogs and find out how to communicate more effectively with American work colleagues in the States or wherever you are located . Share experiences, observations, problems, and how you believe you would like to adapt so that you can maximize your professional success in the States or internationally as an English language speaker . Topics include getting to the point, directness, tactful language, agreeing and disagreeing, information presentation, assertiveness, expressiveness, and more .
COURSE CODE: ENCC Sec. 01: 5 Wednesdays, 6-9pm. Begins Aug. 4 | $240
FOUND IN TRANSLATION:
WRITING ACROSS DIFFERENCES
Marika Preziuso | Associate Professor of World Literature at MassArt I have crossed an ocean I have lost my tongue From the root of the old one A new one has strung (Grace Nichols)
In Found in Translation, we will read poetry and short stories by contemporary writers who move swiftly and unapologetically across languages, translate themselves, and intentionally code-switch . We will then respond creatively to these readings by stretching the contours of our writing practice, and experiment with English and every other language we feel drawn to . We will take seriously the original meaning of the prefix “trans” as “across”, and create new writing at the intersections of ethnic and cultural identities (we all have these!), personal and world histories, native and adopted languages, rooted and grafted homes .
COURSE CODE: ACRO Sec. 01: Thursday, 5:30-8:30pm. Aug. 12 | $60
