Bridge students must take a university course load equivalent to the number of their reduced intensive English hours. Television videos and transcripts are used extensively in listening classes. The purpose of these classes is to improve the student's writing skill. They begin with correct sentence and paragraph writing, and move toward expository writing for business, college, or university courses. At all levels, the student's work is analyzed for grammatical and syntactical errors.
Students do a great variety of writing which is carefully corrected and discussed.
These classes emphasize reading for comprehension, increasing reading speed, and increasing the passive vocabulary. Students learn the appropriate application of skills such as scanning, skimming, intensive and extensive reading. Selections range from simple stories, to academic readings across a variety of disciplines. Closed caption video is also used as a teaching tool in reading classes. Students are taught that reading is not translation and that reading skill is acquired with practice and effort.