
English 1
A1 Beginner
The English beginner’s course prepares the student to interact in a limited number of day-to-day situations and is aimed at students who have never studied English or have a very limited knowledge of the language.
Course Length: 15 hours
Objective
• a chance to communicate in English
• practise your English in real life tasks and situations
• speak and listen, read and write simple texts
• get an approach to a practical working knowledge of grammar and vocabulary
• a sense of progress, with occasional assessments and regular personalised feedback
Topics
Family life
Hobbies and pastimes
Holidays
Leisure activities
Shopping
Work and jobs
Vocabulary
Food and drink
Nationalities and countries
Personal information
Places in the town, shops and shopping
Verbs – basic
Functions
Giving and asking directions
Describing habits and routines
Giving personal information Greetings
Telling the time
Understanding and using numbers
Understanding and using prices
Grammar
Adjectives: common and demonstrative
Adverbs of frequency
Comparatives and superlatives
Going to
How much/how many and very common uncountable nouns
I’d like
Imperatives (+/-)
Intensifiers - very basic
Modals: can/can’t/could/couldn’t
Present simple
Present continuous
Past simple of “to be”
Past Simple
Possessive adjectives
Possessives
Prepositions, common
Prepositions of place
Prepositions of time, including in/on/at
Pronouns: simple, personal
Questions
There is/are
To be, including question+negatives
Verb + ing: like/hate/love
Discourse Markers
Connecting words, and, but, because
Phonetics
The alphabet
The individual sounds in English
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The vowel differences