Welcome to Tim's Class

Who am I? I am an English Language Professor with over 25 years college teaching experience.  

What I offer:
  • self-paced online courses for English Language Learners
  • Instruction is focused on preparing students for academic studies. 
  • live group lessons with conversation practice
  • live one-on-one instruction
Instruction in:
  • Reading skills
  • Writing skills
  • Speaking skills
  • Listening skills
  • Grammar
  • Pronunciation

My Courses

All courses are organized in "modules". Each module is estimated to take 1-2 hours to complete. I award points for each module you complete, and "badges" when you have completed all the modules in each skill. For example my Intermediate Course is structured like this:​​
Reading skills Modules
  • R1 Finding the main idea (try for free)
  • R2 Comprehension
  • R3 Supporting Details
  • R4 Paraphrasing
  • R5 Summarizing
Writing Skills Modules - Paragraphs and Essays
  • W1 Paragraph Structure  (try for free)
  • W2 Paragraph unity
  • W3 Supporting your topic with evidence
Essays
  • W4 Introduction and thesis
  • W5 developing body paragraphs
  • W6 Writing Good Conclusions
Respondng to Readings
  • W7 Summary Response paper
Listening Modules
  • L1 Listening and note-taking (try for free)
  • L2 Listening for main ideas
  • L3 Listening for details
  • L4 Note-taking 1
  • L5 Note-taking 2