Entry Level ESOL (Entry 2)

The ESOL Skills in Action course offers an interactive and practical way of learners to use the skills they learned in their previous ESOL course and practise using them with their peers before embarking into the community. The course is offered as one session and will be for around 2 hours. Learners will gain confidence in using their speaking and listening skills as they will be comfortable to make mistakes in a familiar environment with peers and a tutor they know.

The course is designed for ESOL learners who have just completed either an unaccredited or accredited course with the WEA and is a unique approach to ensuring that the learners are confident in using their learned skills, whatever level of ESOL they have just participated in.

Tutors will engage their cohorts in whatever activities they believe to be most beneficial for their learners and at the correct level for them. These activities will give them the opportunity to use their speaking and listening skills in the safe classroom environment but in a more casual and informal manner, enhancing their confidence to hold conversations in social situations and giving them transferrable skills for being out in the community or in the workplace.

Ideas for activities include;

• Sharing traditional food (encourages conversation around differences in cultural food and recipe sharing, this also encourages learners to express their opinions and listen to others, fostering confidence in their conversational skills.)

• Wea