The ESL program is academically divided into 3 levels:

Level 1 Multi-level Beginning
Basic survival English emphasizing oral communication and vocabulary development.
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be familiar and comfortable with English grammar. The student should be able to make dialogs, questions and answers, sentences, and polite requests in English for introductory level. This course also contains aspects of English reading and vocabulary; writing; listening and speaking.

Level 2 Multi-level Intermediate
Intermediate Gives further instruction in the basic English Language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. Emphasizes comprehension of phrases and expressions used in everyday American English.

Level 3 Advanced
This class is designed for intermediate/advanced ESL students. Students will practice English conversation with native English speakers.

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be familiar and comfortable with English grammar. The student should be able to make dialogs, questions and answers, sentences, and polite requests in English for advanced level. This course also contains aspects of English reading and vocabulary; writing; listening and speaking.

TOEFL Courses

Class Structure:
1) Students must memorize vocabulary about various topics in literature, history, and biology.  Dictation and shadowing exercises are included as part of the curriculum to reiterate fundamental concepts.
2) In preparation for the Conversation section, students are trained to comprehend the intentions of the questions and to capture every sentence in the dialogue.
3) For the Lecture section, students are taught to understand the structure of the lecture passage in order to predict potential questions.
4) Our classes train our students to be effective note takers.  NYGC also teaches our students our special “summary skill”.
5)  Supplemental material and background information is provided in each class to enhance the learning experience.  The subject matter in these materials is often presented in the actual TOEFL exam.

Listening I
This course is designed for those who first begin to study the TOEFL IBT, or have a difficult time in achieving higher scores on the test. This course focuses on various strategies according to the different question types on the listening section of the TOEFL IBT test. Moreover, the course will also deal with how to analyze the conversation and lecture before the questions appear so that students can predict questions in advance and take notes while listening. 
For the first two weeks of the month, students will practice how to answer the questions based on those strategies, even in case they don’t hear the whole conversation and lecture from the section. For the rest of the month, students will practice one set of the section, which consists of one conversation type question and two lectures in order to prepare for the real test.      

Reading I 
This course is designed for those who first begin to prepare for the TOEFL IBT, or have a difficult time in achieving higher scores on the test.  This course enables students to be familiar with the long reading passage of the test by providing deep background knowledge, useful vocabulary and grammatical points before they read the reading passage. Students will also learn how to distinguish important information from the passage related to each question so that they don’t have to waste their time. Each week, students will deal with the questions for each paragraph of the whole reading passage from various areas such as science, history and psychology. During the class, students also learn how to achieve correct answers and why some answers are wrong, based on the reading passage.   

Writing I
This course provides a systematic approach to the integrated writing tasks. It is designed for both intermediate and advanced ESL students, who begin to prepare for the iBT TOEFL writing. The course includes:
(1) essential tasks and skills for writing a successful integrated writing,
(2) main techniques to improve the style of written English. Students will be trained in terms of summarizing a lecture based on their note-taking. Each week, students will be given a writing assignment, which is reviewed and edited by the instructor. This course is taught in Korean with occasional comments in English.

Writing II
This course prepares students for the independent writing task in the iBT TOEFL exam. It is designed for advanced ESL students, who are planning to enter a university or college in the United States. Students will learn:
(1) how to organize an academic essay,
(2) how to make their essay coherent with a good logic,
(3) how to outline and proofread the essay,
(4) how to improve the style of written English. Each week, students write one essay, which is reviewed and edited by the instructor. During class, at least one essay is publicly reviewed and critiqued.

Speaking II
Don’t mind reading and writing, but dread speaking English? Do you avoid TOEFL speaking classes because you don’t think you can ever improve your speaking score? Then this is the class for you! Come and join our action-filled TOEFL Speaking class at NYGC! In this class, you will not only gain helpful tips and background information for those dreadful speaking questions, but also get to drill related skills and practice with other students. So, let’s practice together. And remember: practice makes perfect!

Reading II 
This course is designed for those who have studied for the TOEFL IBT for a while but need to practice more in order to achieve higher scores on the test.
 This course enables students to fully understand the reading passage similar to the test by expanding students’ background knowledge and vocabulary for the passage. Students will also learn how to distinguish important information from the passage related to each question so that they can save some time.   
Each week, students will practice some question types such as inference or sentence simplification questions they still have difficulty in dealing with. Then, they will be equipped with the necessary knowledge for the reading passages for the day before reading the passage. After answering all the questions for each paragraph of the whole reading passage, students will practice to analyze the passage in order to choose the right answers.         

Note 
NYGC’s goal is to assist our students in attaining a high TOEFL score required by colleges and universities.  However in addition, NYGC attempts to train and equip our students with those skills needed to perform well in future undergraduate or graduate classes.