Advanced Conversation Improvement

Are you an ESL speaker and need to improve your English conversational skills and increase your spoken English fluency and accuracy? Want to express yourself more precisely in conversation with native and non-native English speakers?

If so, this English conversation course is for you!

With daily conversation topics and constant practice, this course emphasizes improvement in overall conversational fluency in an active learning class environment.

Note: You will be assessed on your proficiency level on the first day of class. Participation in this course requires an advanced level of listening and speaking skills in English, as well as strong reading skills.

Course Number: COMM-80001
Credit: 0.00 unit(s)

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8/15/2019 - 9/12/2019

$225

In-class

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• SECTION ID:

  140932

• CLASS TYPE:

  In-class, Traditional Classroom instruction

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Valentino, Dominique, ESL instructor for over 13 yrs. in the USA & France, specializing in American culture & music, conversation and grammar.

  Dominique Valentino has spent over 13 years teaching ESL classes to international students from ages 3-76 in San Diego, Beverly Hills and Paris, France. Trained as a professional musician, she often incorporates music in her lesson plans and promotes live student music performances. She specializes in teaching American culture with emphasis on the history of American music and the history of Hollywood, as well as ESL conversation, idioms and slang, and grammar.

• TEXTBOOKS:

  REQUIRED

  Celebrate the American Way 1st
  by Sheila MacKechnie Murtha and Jane Airey O'Connor
  ISBN / ASIN: 9780738611945

  You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

• POLICIES:

  No refunds after: 8/19/2019.
  

• NOTE:

DATE	DAY	START	END	LOCATION
8/15/2019	Thu	6:00 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	Room 106, UCSD Extension Complex, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
8/22/2019	Thu	6:00 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	Room 106, UCSD Extension Complex, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
8/29/2019	Thu	6:00 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	Room 106, UCSD Extension Complex, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
9/5/2019	Thu	6:00 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	Room 106, UCSD Extension Complex, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
9/12/2019	Thu	6:00 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	Room 106, UCSD Extension Complex, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla

11/7/2019 - 12/12/2019

$225

In-class

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• SECTION ID:

  143088

• CLASS TYPE:

  In-class, Traditional Classroom instruction

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Valentino, Dominique, ESL instructor for over 13 yrs. in the USA & France, specializing in American culture & music, conversation and grammar.

  Dominique Valentino has spent over 13 years teaching ESL classes to international students from ages 3-76 in San Diego, Beverly Hills and Paris, France. Trained as a professional musician, she often incorporates music in her lesson plans and promotes live student music performances. She specializes in teaching American culture with emphasis on the history of American music and the history of Hollywood, as well as ESL conversation, idioms and slang, and grammar.

• TEXTBOOKS:

  No information available at this time.

• POLICIES:

  No refunds after: 11/11/2019.
  1st no meeting date: 11/28/2019.
  

• NOTE:

DATE	DAY	START	END	LOCATION
11/7/2019	Thu	6:00 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	Room 106, UCSD Extension Complex, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
11/14/2019	Thu	6:00 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	Room 106, UCSD Extension Complex, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
11/21/2019	Thu	6:00 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	Room 106, UCSD Extension Complex, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
12/5/2019	Thu	6:00 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	Room 106, UCSD Extension Complex, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
12/12/2019	Thu	6:00 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	Room 106, UCSD Extension Complex, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla