Wednesday Night ESOL

Start of a new term

ESOL — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:42:33 +0000

We have started a new school year for the class and we welcome lots of new students to the class.

This is going to be the last post on this blog. We hope you have had fun reading about what we have studied over the last year in an ESOL class in Edinburgh. This blog will be a record of a year in a life of an ESOL class.

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Thanks for reading and good luck in the future with all your studies!!

Best wishes

Gareth

ESOL end of year party

ESOL — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:19:14 +0000

Tonight was the day of the term so to celebrate we had a small party for all the ESOL students at our community learning centre. We gave out certificates, people shared international food and we took some pictures… Thanks everyone for a great party and another great year of classes. See you all after the summer holidays, back ready to continue the studies from Wednesday 18th August onwards… Have a lovely summer.

Wednesday 23rd June 2010 – Class Review

ESOL — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:16:11 +0000

Tonight is the last class of the term, and the year! So tonight we worked on finishing off the SQA assessments. We had some more listening to do so we completed that and followed it up with a discussion about moving to Scotland and the differences between living here and the countries the students lived in before. It was all very interesting as some students had similar experiences about some things and very different ones for others.

Thanks for all your hard work this year and see you all tomorrow for the end of term party!!

Wednesday 16th June 2010 – Class Review

ESOL — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:07:25 +0000

Tonight we worked on some more SQA assessments – mainly reading and listening.

Well done everyone! Nearly there.

Last lesson of the term next week before the summer holidays! See you there…

Wednesday 9th June 2010 – Class Review

ESOL — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:23:31 +0000

Tonight we continued with the SQA assessments… Tonight it was speaking! Well done everyone for the hard work!!

See you next week!

Wednesday 2nd June 2010 – Class Review

ESOL — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:32:34 +0000

Tonight we started to work on the SQA assessments for Intermediate 1 – the first section we looked at was writing… good work everyone! More assessments next time!!

Wednesday 26th May 2010 – Class Review

ESOL — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:20:35 +0000

Tonight we followed on from last week by taking an example UK citizenship test online … you can try it here.

Unfortunately we all failed – so we must study more – but it was interest to see how complex the knowledge you need to have to pass the test. It was only our first attempt and we hadn’t prepared for the test though… Keep studying everyone!

Wednesday 19th May 2010 – Class Review

ESOL — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:14:27 +0000

The class had lots of questions tonight. First we looked at the differences between maybe / possibly / perhaps. Very useful words! Then we had a long discussion about citizenship and all the issues surrounding passports and the UK citizenship test. Very complicated issues so anyone interested in finding out more should look on the internet.

We continued our studies into modal verbs by looking at must and can’t be for deduction. He’s not in today. He must be on holiday / She said she was right. She can’t be wrong! etc. Some homework looked into this a bit more…

Wednesday 12th May 2010 – Class Review

ESOL — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:12:59 +0000

Well now the election has happened, we talked about the events of the last week. Was interesting to hear about how things work in other countries…

We continued our studies into modal verbs, and looked at some more examples: should, must, have to, can, can’t, ought to etc.

We looked at some examples where we might see and use such language.

Wednesday 5th May 2010 – Class Review

ESOL — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:11:02 +0000

We continued the subject of what we can do in our free time by looking at the example of Aberdeen.

We read all about what we can do in the city and the surrounding area in the north of Scotland. Maybe we should take a class trip up there sometime! The class then moved onto looking at some modal verbs – must and have to – and the differences between them. Homework was to write a similar profile of Edinburgh or a town they know well. Looking forward to hearing all about what people can do there!