ESL
The Literacy Council offers ESL Community Classes, including Conversation Classes for English language learners to help adults gain listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. See class descriptions below and download our current class schedule for dates, times and locations.
Classes are being conducted in-person or remotely on Zoom. Check the current Class Schedule for details on each class, and location.
Download current Class Schedule here.
Registration is required. Please contact us for information about eligibility and registration procedures or contact us at info@frederickliteracy.org or (301) 600-2066.
ESL COMMUNITY CLASSES
Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Conversation Classes
Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Conversation Classes are for adults who want to improve their ability to speak and understand American English. Practice conversation skills and pronunciation while learning about holidays, food, travels, family, life skills, current events, American history, common idioms, and more.
This class will review sentence building and vocabulary, and students will work on a paragraph.
Writing 2
This class will focus on writing different kinds of paragraphs such as opinion and descriptive paragraphs.
Writing Workshop
This is an advanced course for high intermediate to advanced students who want to improve their writing. It will be loosely structured like a writing group and a book club. Students will be invited to bring in their work weekly for critiques. We will review the narrative structure and focus of nonfiction creative writing, but any work that the students wish to pursue will be encouraged.
Parent Literacy
In these classes we will learn basic English. The Parent Literacy Program centers on the four domains of English communication—listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Our goal is to improve the English skills of parents so they can lead their families to success and higher education opportunities. For parents of FCPS students in grades K-5. Learn more about this program here.