English school training courses in Baltimore, MD (public, in-house or online)

If English is not your native language, CCBC’s English for Speakers of Other Language classes are just what you need. You will progress through the ESOL classes at a pace that will improve your writing and reading skills and progress toward proficiency in listening and speaking. Improving your English skills will help you gain confidence and increase your ability to communicate in the classroom and workplace.

This course prepares non-native speakers to understand and respond to college-level material across academic disciplines. The course offers development of critical and inferential reading skills, and practice producing well-developed, logical, and cohesive essays. Students build familiarity with the format and organizational elements of fiction and nonfiction text encountered in academic settings. They synthesize reading and research material and incorporate ideas in their own writing by paraphr...

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This course offers non-native speakers the opportunity to continue to develop grammatical skills to communicate ideas effectively orally and in writing. Students practice correct use of all verb tenses, modal auxiliaries, gerunds and infinitives, and prepositions. They learn to construct and use adjective, noun, and adverb clauses, and to edit their written work.

In this course non-native speakers will develop listening comprehension and presentation skills. Emphasis will be placed on understanding oral presentations and utilizing appropriate phrases for expressing agreement and disagreement, making suggestions, and stating and supporting personal opinions. Students will deliver brief impromptu talks as well as prepared speeches. They will also learn to take notes from oral presentations.

In this course students develop their reading comprehension skills with pre-reading strategies, skimming, scanning, identifying main ideas and supporting details, separating fact from opinion, and understanding point of view and tone. Students learn to summarize written material and use context clues to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. They learn to use an English-only dictionary and to expand vocabulary knowledge through the study of word families, roots, and affixes. An introduction...

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