Overview
Duration
12 weeks
Group Size
4-10 students
Tuition
$430.00
Level
Beginner
Class Time
2.5 hours/week
Location
ILC, Carmel
Prerequisites
None
What You’ll Learn
Everyday Introductions: Confidently greet others, share personal information, and ask basic questions.
Describing People & Life: Talk about appearance, personality, and daily routines using the simple present.
Time & Schedules: Tell time, discuss weekly plans, and ask about others ’ schedules.
Home & Living Spaces: Describe rooms, furniture, and locations using “there is/there are” and prepositions.
Getting Around Town: Ask for and give directions, name common city places, and make simple suggestions.
Shopping & Dining Out: Ask about prices, make polite requests, order food, and express preferences.
Health & Well-Being: Describe common symptoms and understand simple advice in everyday situations.
Past Events & Social Plans: Talk about past activities, invite others, and participate in short real-life conversations with growing fluency.
Details
Dates:
8/5/26-10/21/26
Time:
Wednesdays, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Cost:
$430.00
(Does not include text books and optional tuition insurance)
Itinerary
Each week includes speaking practice, games, cultural context, and real-world role-plays. You’ll use everything you learn — right away.
Week 1: Introductions & personal info — greetings, names, countries, nationalities, exchanging basics.
Week 2: Describing people — physical appearance, personality words, simple present “be” statements.
Week 3: Daily routines — simple present, adverbs of frequency, asking/answering “Do you…?”
Week 4: Telling time & schedules — clock time, days, weekly routines, conversational questions.
Week 5: At home — rooms, furniture, describing living spaces, “there is/there are,” prepositions.
Week 6: Around town — directions, places in the city, giving suggestions for getting around.
Week 7: Shopping & prices — numbers, money, polite requests, “How much is…?”
Week 8: Food & restaurants — menus, ordering, polite expressions, likes/dislikes with “I’d like/ I prefer.”
Week 9: Health & feelings — describing symptoms, simple advice, common doctor’s-office language.
Week 10: Past weekend — simple past of “be” + regular verbs for conversational storytelling.
Week 11: Social plans — inviting people, accepting/declining invitations, making simple arrangements.
Week 12: Review & conversation circles — integrated speaking tasks, role-plays, and final dialogue.
Alyssa Barnes
Languages: English
Alyssa is a dedicated English instructor from Indiana who is passionate about learning and inspiring others to grow. She brings several years of professional classroom experience, including teaching in Japan through the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET Program), where she worked with students of all ages through engaging and interactive lessons.
Patient and enthusiastic, Alyssa incorporates real-world English and practical scenarios into her teaching to help students build confidence and use the language naturally. As a fluent Japanese speaker with some knowledge of French, she understands firsthand what it takes to learn a new language and how to make the process both effective and memorable.
Outside the classroom, Alyssa enjoys playing games, exploring new cuisines, and reading mystery novels.