ESL Summer School

In the seven-week program in the summer the students will be focusing on getting accustomed to the Canadian classroom, while having language intensive, content based courses. Students will take four, 80-minute academic curriculum based courses each day and 1 hour 55 minute, test prep class, for a total of just over 31 hours of in-class instruction per week, and just under 217 hours of in-class instruction over the 7-week period. In the academic curriculum classes, the students can expect to cover:
 
Science: Essential, grade specific classroom vocabulary, basic lab skills (researching, completing and presenting lab findings), oral presentation skills, critical thinking skills.

Math: Essential, grade specific classroom vocabulary, focuses on word-based problems (dissecting the problem and extracting the needed information).

Social Studies (History and Geography): Essential, grade specific classroom vocabulary, basic understanding of Canada (how we came to be, provinces and territories), academic writing skills, research and oral presentation skills

English: Reading comprehension, decoding for meaning, making inferences and estimating conclusions based on what has been read, either short story, or poetry work, academic writing skills.

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Test prep: focus on classroom and study skills, pronunciation work and practice, grammar work, standardized test practice (OSSLT, TOEFL, SSAT) subject specific help where needed.