Important Announcement
19 June, 2020 at 1:39 PM
ELC is excited to announce that we will be offering our three summer Junior campus programs (at UCLA, UCSB, and Boston) as well as our Adult Campus program (at UCLA) for summer of 2022. Please contact Jennifer McEleney at [email protected] for more information or to book a course.
Important Announcement
19 June, 2020 at 1:39 PM
ELC is excited to announce that we will be offering our three summer Junior campus programs (at UCLA, UCSB, and Boston) as well as our Adult Campus program (at UCLA) for summer of 2022. Please contact Jennifer McEleney at [email protected] for more information or to book a course.
One of the best ways to practice your English outside of the classroom is to read for pleasure. Reading novels, poems and essays can expose you to new vocabulary, and also gives you a chance to see words in a new context. It can also be a relaxing way to ‘think’ in English! But choosing novels that are both interesting and easy-to-read can be difficult!
Our Director of Courses, Alyssa, has some tips for students choosing novels:
Looking for suggestions? ELC staff recommend reading The Hunger Games, Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men or the Harry Potter series.
You can also find curated lists like this on websites such as GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/75400.Great_Books_for_Cambridge_ESL_Students
To hear American poetry read aloud, you can also check out this website: http://www.favoritepoem.org/