Evening & Weekend English-Courses and Curriculum

Class Dates

Fall Session (9-week; 3.6 CEUs per course)

• Classes begin September 16, 17, and 21
• Classes end November 14, 16, and 18

Spring Session (9-week; 3.6 CEUs per course)

• Classes begin February 3, 4, and 8
• Classes end April 2, 4, and 6

Summer Session (8-week; 3.2 CEUs per course)

• Classes begin May 16, 18, and 19
• Classes end July 9, 13, and 18

Monday & Wednesday Courses

• Class meets Mondays & Wednesdays from 7:00–9:00 p.m.

1. Integrated Communication Skills II

   Required language proficiency: Can speak and write in loosely connected sentences, can ask and respond to questions, and can understand short, predictable texts.

2. Integrated Communication Skills III

   Required language proficiency: Can speak and write in connected sentences in present, past, and future tense about everyday social situations and familiar topics and can understand familiar spoken and written texts with accuracy.

3. Integrated Communication Skills IV

   Required language proficiency: Can speak and write in connected sentences in present, past, and future tense about familiar topics that go beyond everyday life and can understand the main idea and some supporting details in spoken and written texts on a variety of topics of personal and general interest.

4. ESL Business Writing

   Required language proficiency: Can communicate in paragraphs and understand the main ideas and details in multi-paragraph spoken and written texts.

Tuesday & Thursday Courses

• Class meets Tuesdays & Thursdays from 7:00–9:00 p.m.

1. Communicative Grammar

   Required language proficiency: Can speak and write in sentences and understand short texts.

2. ESL Business Communication I

   Required language proficiency: Can communicate in basic situations; write short compositions in present, past, and future tenses; and understand familiar spoken and written texts.

3. ESL Business Communication II

   Required language proficiency: Can speak at length about a variety of topics, participate in group conversations with some ease, and write organized paragraphs; can understand clearly structured spoken and written texts.

4. ESL Business Communication III

   Required language proficiency: Can speak in paragraphs in informal and formal situations, use detailed examples to support opinions and preferences, write several paragraphs with clear connections between ideas, and understand the main idea and many details.

Saturday Courses

• Class meets Saturdays from 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

1. iBT-TOEFL Preparation I

   Required language proficiency: students should be able to speak in paragraph-length discourse in informal and some formal conversations, write basic academic paragraphs including descriptions, and understand clearly structured texts.

2. iBT-TOEFL Preparation II

   Required language proficiency: students should be able to speak in paragraphs and with detail about a variety of topics, write several paragraphs about academic topics with good control of grammar, and understand the main ideas and many details of straightforward spoken and written texts.

3. iBT-TOEFL Preparation III

   Required language proficiency: students should be able to easily speak in paragraphs about a variety of topics including some abstract topics, write multi-paragraph texts with clear connections between ideas, easily understand spoken and written texts including those that are complex or unfamiliar.

Mandatory Placement Test Requirement

All new and returning students are required to take a placement exam one week before classes begin to determine their correct placement into the course section. After completing registration, you will receive a payment confirmation email including your placement test appointment. If you are unable to attend at the appointed time, you must contact Regan Carver at 202-687-4592 or regan.carver@georgetown.edu immediately to make alternative arrangements.

Please note that your enrollment will not be complete until you take your placement test. All placement tests are held at the Georgetown Intercultural Center (ICC) building's English as a Foreign Language Computer Lab. Within one week after the placement test you will receive an email with your final course placement including building, classroom, and required textbooks.

The Evening & Weekend English program reserves the right to move students to a different level of a course if placement test results or first class diagnostic testing warrants it. All such moves will be completed in the first week of classes with no additional charge to the student.