Course Content
Level 1
Listening & Speaking
- Discerning main ideas
- Understanding sequences
- Noticing specific details
- Sound Discrimination
- Picture Matching
- Using correct pronunciation
- Attempting correct stress and intonation
- Questioning, Speaking coherently
- Consonants, vowels and diphthongs
- Contractions (it's, won't)
Reading & Writing
- Skimming and scanning
- Looking for supporting details
- Observing the mechanics of writing (spelling, punctuation)
- Writing grammatically correct sentences in response to pictorial stimuli
Grammar & Vocabulary
- Content words
- Functional words
- Verbs and verb forms
- Prepositions
- Nouns and pronouns
- Articles and determiners
- Questions with tags and responses
Level 2
Listening & Speaking
- Inferring,
- Comparing,
- Predicting,
- Completing tasks,
- Using correct pronunciation,
- Paraphrasing,
- Supporting and clarifying,
- Interacting in a group,
- Sentence stress and intonation,
- Pluralisation (-s/es/ies, men, children)
Reading & Writing
- Comparing,
- Clarifying,
- Using contextual clues,
- Determining relevance,
- Understanding and using study skills,
- Practising dictionary skills,
- Transferring information from linear to non-linear forms and vice versa,
- Writing sentences in correct sequence to form paragraphs,
- Writing different types of sentences,
- Writing paragraphs,
- Using spelling and grammar checker in word processor
Grammar & Vocabulary
- Accuracy practice,
- Understanding of words through contextual and grammar clues,
- Content words,
- Functional words,
- Tenses,
- Future and perfect aspect,
- Adverbs,
- Adjectives and intensifiers,
- Conjunctions and connectors,
- Positive and negative sentences,
- Positive and negative questions,
- WH questions and responses
- Concordance
Level 3
Listening & Speaking
- Classifying,
- Note- taking,
- Understanding varieties of English (e.g. British / American),
- Summarizing,
- Oral Presentations Sentence stress and intonation,
- Sentence stress in questions
Reading & Writing
- Inferring, Summarizing,
- Note-taking,
- Differentiating between fact and opinion,
- Using critical and creative thinking skills,
- Writing sentences in correct sequence to form paragraphs,
- Understanding unity (topic sentence and supporting details),
- Developing coherence and cohesion,
- Writing summaries,
- Writing essays,
- Writing full texts on specific topics
Grammar & Vocabulary
- Use of specialist dictionaries and the thesaurus,
- Accuracy practice,
- Understanding of words through contextual and grammar clues,
- Exposure to synonyms, antonyms and words generally confused in English,
- Content words,
- Functional words, Gerunds, Infinitives,
- Phrases, clauses and sentences,
- WH questions and responses,
- Idiomatic expressions
Resource - Based Activities
- Newspaper in Education
- Video-based Learning
- Computer-aided Language Learning
