Thursday Night ESOL

Start of a new term 27/08/2010

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. If you would like more information about the class or would like to join our classes in the future please look at the JOIN tab for more information…

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

Best wishes

Gareth

Thursday 24th June 2010 – Class Review 02/07/2010

Tonight was the last lesson 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 Thursday 19th August onwards… Have a lovely summer.

Thursday 17th June 2010 – Class Review 18/06/2010

Tonight we worked on the final sections of the SQA assessment – speaking and finishing off some writing too.

So that’s it for this year in terms of work. Well done everyone.

Next week – we will have an end of term party to celebrate – before summer holidays. See you there!

Thursday 10th June 2010 – Class Review 11/06/2010

Tonight we continued with the SQA assessments… tonight we tackled the reading and listening!! Well done everyone. Nearly there…

Thursday 3rd June 2010 – Class Review 04/06/2010

Tonight we started work on the assessments for SQA Intermediate 1 – Transactional Contexts. The first task we looked at was the writing – good work everbody! More assessments next week!!

Thursday 27th May 2010 – Class Review 26/05/2010

Tonight we looked at few things – some grammar points and questions…

We also read and discussed an interesting article about the rising power of Brazil – how it is becoming more important on the world stage and how other countries are becoming superpowers over time…

More studies next time!

Thursday 20th May 2010 – Class Review 26/05/2010

We completed studying the grammar around ‘even’ and moved on to how to use ‘even though’ and ‘despite’. We also completed our studies about phrasal verbs – tonight we looked at some travel and holiday scenarios that use phrasal verbs. For example, to get away / to take off somewhere / to check in etc. Today was very hot in Edinburgh so we were thinking about our summer holidays so these phrasal verbs could prove useful!!

Thursday 13th May 2010 – Class Review 26/05/2010

Tonight was a class trip for all the students at our centre to Jewel & Esk College to pick up our student cards for this year. Back to normal next week!

Thursday 6th May 2010 – Class Review 26/05/2010

Today was the day of the General Election so we just spoke about again briefly and what would happen next…

Then we went on to studying some phrasal verbs – tonight we looked at a couple of scenarios which used them – dating and going to a party.

We then looked at some grammar – using the word ‘even’ to express surprise or something unusual.

Thursday 29th April 2010 – Class Review 26/05/2010

With the election coming we spoke as a class about politics and the UK political system. We also compared it to systems in other countries. We also had a quick look at some election leaflets and spoke about the differences in the main parties. We finished off with some reading that helped explained the UK political system.