Confident English provided ESOL for previously unreached learners within the community, in partnership with the Refugee Council and the SMP. Leaners from Sudan, Ukraine, Hong Kong and other counties all benefitted from these informal courses that focused on developing confidence in communication.
Feedback from learners in St Albans can be found below.
Feedback – Higher Level Course
‘I learnt a lot of speaking English and vocabulary in the lessons. It makes me more confident to speak to local people in daily life. I would like to have more lessons.
C.W – from Hong Kong
‘I like the mode of learning in the class, the interaction between the teacher and students is very good. Especially the ‘idiom’, it is good for us to learn more ‘idiom’ and how to use it in our life. The pronunciation is also helpful for us to speak confident in future. Katie is very good in explaining and teaching us, making us understand the topics. If the course can last for at least 6 months or a year it definitely can help me to learn more and improve more in English for usual life.
D.M – from Hong Kong
‘Katie is a nice, excellent teacher. I can learn phonics, stress sound and pronunciation that are my weakness in the past. I love this course. I am really hope the course can be extended or go to higher level.’
G.C – from Hong Kong
‘I really appreciate Katie is hard work and enthusiasm. She found out our mistakes and correct it, make us keep on improvement. Thank you very much! The course is too short. It is good in building our speaking and pronunciation. If it includes grammar it will be perfect.’
J.C – from Hong Kong
‘Very good and helpful to my daily life in UK. At present we only have 8 lectures. I think it is not enough. It would be better to have more lectures.’
K.W – from Hong Kong
‘This course is very useful for me because I got more information about English. It would be very good if the course were extended.’
N.S – from Ukraine
‘I really liked the course because it helped me with my pronunciation. We learnt many new words, discussed many useful topics about real life. It would be very helpful if can continue this course and have additional lessons.’
N.A – from Ukraine
‘Katie is the kindest teacher. I’m looking forward to next class.’
S.L – from Hong Kong
‘Katie is a very good teacher. She is nice and engaging. She has a lot of interesting interaction with the class.’
S.Y.K – from Hong Kong
‘Teacher is helpful, nice and I found the course is useful to my daily life. Let the class move up to higher level – make it a year course instead of a two month course. I find it is difficult to progress further.’
W.S.S.L – from Hong Kong
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Feedback – Pre-intermediate Level Course
‘Thank you for making English fun and for all your patience and support. I’ve learned so much and really enjoyed your classes!’
K.Y.L.P – from Hong Kong
‘Super. Thank you Katie’s great effort in designing so many interesting games and exercises to increase our chance of communication. Katie is very, very helpful and optimistic and always appreciates our work, gives us recognition. With her clear explanations and facilitation, my speaking and listening skills improved much which help me a lot in my daily life and at workplace.’
Y.K.S – from Hong Kong
‘Katie taught very professionally and I benefited a lot. I hope can correspondence more class.’
W.M.Y – from Hong Kong
‘Katie is a very good teacher. She is very kind, patient and carful. I learn more English for her class. I hope that this class may be coming soon.’
T.C.K.Y – from Hong Kong
‘I’m very happy that I was on this course. I was learning a lot. My teacher was very helpful. Everything was good.’
T.I – from Ukraine
‘Lessons were very interesting and useful. I learnt a lot of new words and had a speaking practice. Course could be longer.’
S.T – from Ukraine
‘Thank you for the interesting, engaging and informative course.’
P.M – from Ukraine
‘The course only has eight sessions, which is a bit short. I hope there can be additional courses. The teacher is very best.’
K.C.D.Y – from Hong Kong
‘I like this course because it is very interesting and interacting. It help me a lot on pronunciation. My teacher Katie is nice and very helpful. The length of the course could be longer (12 weeks or 16 weeks).’
J.N – from Hong Kong
‘Miss Katie is a very good teacher. She is very kind and patient to students. I hope the new course is coming soon.’
J.S.W – from Hong Kong
‘The course just have 8 weeks should be too short to learn. I think the course should be longer or extend the period of terms. Extend the course and we can learn more English.’
E.Y– from Hong Kong
‘Very helpful. Katie very nice and patience. I learned a lot. The course is good for me.’
C.L – from Hong Kong
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Feedback – Beginner Level Course
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‘The English course was very relevant, interesting and accessible for someone of retirement age. A huge thank you to Katie. I want to continue learning English.’
E.A – from Ukraine
‘I hope continue this course. This course is very good and useful. My teacher is very generous and helpful. Thank you very much. I hope long English course.’
D.T – from Hong Kong
‘Thank you for the good teaching. More days 3 days in a week.’
E.A – from Ethiopia
‘Katie was kind. We learn more word and things. It is better if it continues.’
K.I – from Afghanistan
‘Course was very useful. We learnt lots of new words. We have learnt to ask questions and answer them. I’d like these sessions to continue.’
L.T – from Ukraine
‘The course was very useful. We learnt lots new words. We have learnt to ask questions and answer them. I’d like these sessions to continue.’
L.V – from Ukraine
‘Thank you for helping. It was useful and interesting. Katie was so kind. It is better if it continues.’
F.S – from Iran
‘The classes were very interesting. I would like the classes to continue, The teacher was kind and attentive. We learned new words and learned to ask and answer questions. Continue classes.’
N.K – from Ukraine
‘The English course was very interesting and useful. The teacher is very attentive to the material she teaches. I would like to continue my English courses.’
O.A – from Ukraine
‘The classes were interesting and productive. I learnt a lot of new things and new words. It was useful.’
S.S – from Russia
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