LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS!!!!!
ESOL CLASSES
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We are looking for people who like working with others to teach English!
Co-teach/assist with ESOL classes this fall on Tuesday and/or Thursday evenings, starting September 8, 2009.
10 week course---$20.00---7:00-9:00pm!
If interested call or come by our office at
Emmanuel United Methodist Church
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301 937-7114
11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville, Md.
(you do not need to be a member of the church to help with this program!)
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
Outreach program at Emmanuel United Methodist Church,
Beltsville Maryland
Brief description of the ESOL project at Emmanuel United Methodist Church (EUMC) and the need it addresses:
The EUMC ESOL Program began in the fall of 2007, and intends to serve our current and coming neighbors. According to the 2000 Census and a 2006 update, Beltsville’s population is expected to grow only 11 percent by 2011, but a dramatic shift in our population is occurring. It is projected that there will be a 40-percent increase in the number of Latinos and Hispanics who live here. The number of Asians will increase by 7 percent.
Project objectives:
Our primary objective is to serve our immigrant neighbors by teaching English as a second language; create a safe and friendly environment in which to teach and learn; exhibit patience and tolerance for cultural diversity; provide social services as the need arises and as our resources can support; and willingly seek understanding and unity through the language of faith.
Staff who will implement the project:
We are using a grassroots approach with teacher volunteers from EUMC and the surrounding community who have received training from the Prince George’s County Literacy Council, and who are using a curriculum based on the LifePrints series, Pre-Literacy, Literacy, Intermediate and Advanced Levels.
However, because of our expanding number of classes, and current scarcity of teachers, we are seeking other interested volunteers who may be qualified through their college education or work experience to help us with this project. Our first session enrolled 50 students. The current session consists of 45 students. Approximately half of these are tested to be at the pre-literacy and literacy levels. In the near future we anticipate that as many as 80 students could be enrolled per session.
Interested persons are encouraged to contact
Emmanuel United Methodist Church, Beltsville, MD: phone, 301-937-7114; email, eumcbeltsville@earthlink.net; FAX 301-937-6121. or program coordinators Pat Allen:, email, oldhen6@verizon.net or Jody Hammond: email, joHamm@gis.net.
ESOL Program Description
The goal of our ESOL program at Emmanuel is to build students’ English skills so that they can meet their needs and aspirations in the wide variety of life circumstances that they may encounter. In building up basic skills in listening, speaking, writing, reading, and using correct pronunciation and grammar, we will also be working towards helping students meet standards set up by the Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS). We will have three levels of instruction: beginning, intermediate, and advanced.
Lessons on all levels will be centered around subject matter that is associated with every day life experiences such as those listed below:
- Identifying ourselves, writing addresses , meeting people, filling out forms.
- Learning names of common objects in the class room and house, names of cities and nations, giving and following directions.
- Describing where we live, neighborhoods, houses, apartments, reading simple maps and ads.
- Asking questions, expressing feelings
- Learning colors, numbers, days of the week, months of the year.
- Describing every day activities, describing the family, calling for help, using directories.
- Health care and going to see a doctor, describing body parts.
- Talking about the weather.
- Shopping for food and clothing.
- Looking for and applying for jobs.
- Following directions on how to do tasks.
Beginning level instruction will stress developing vocabulary used to describe people, places, things, and actions, and the use of the present verb tenses and the verb to be.
Intermediate and advanced level instruction will also stress vocabulary development, and place more emphasis on use of different verb tenses, correct grammar usage, conversation, and reading comprehension.
