Information on a course for speakers of English as a second language
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Live Well in Harrow – My Community - for speakers of English as a second language
The course will run over 8 weeks and will meet once per week for 2 hours. This is a non accredited course but learners will receive a certificate of achievement.
Aims:
- To embed good study skills and improve learners’ understanding of attendance, timekeeping and preparedness for learning
- To help parents develop their communication skills in spoken English in everyday life with a focus on community matters and life in Harrow
- To develop learners skills and confidence with a range of reading and writing tasks for everyday life in the community, e.g. transport, travel, accessing civic services, health & medical care, schools and education, volunteering, recreation and leisure, shopping.
- To signpost learners who are speakers of other languages to further opportunities for learning English
NOTE: This course can be adapted to meet specific requirements in discussion with the delivery team.
This course is particularly useful for adults who have a basic level of spoken and written English already and can understand and make themselves understood most of the time (approximate level E1-2).