Course description
Course aims
Learners will be able to use a limited range of simple words and sentences to form statements and questions in familiar situations. They will be able to give a short talk on a familiar topic and take part in short dialogues in familiar situations.
Who is this course for?
Module 1:
- For those who completed Beginners Plus
- For those who previously studied the language for up to 60 hours (pre-GCSE level).
Module 2:
- For those who completed Improvers Module 1
- For those who previously studied the language for up to 80 hours.
Module 3:
- For those who completed Improvers Module 2
- For those who previously studied the language for up to 100 hours.
Course content
A wide range of topic areas will be covered, including:
- Personal information, home and surroundings
- Studying/working and health
- Free time and entertainment, holidays and travelling
- Using the new alphabet (for non-Roman script languages)
- Cultural aspect
- Distinction between formal and informal language if appropriate
- Positive / negative structures
- Basic connectors (e.g. therefore), prepositions
- Adjectives / adverbs to create simple descriptions
- Modal verbs (e.g. can, must, would like), requests for information
- Permission to act (e.g. may I, can I)
- Basic knowledge of simple structures to express past, present and future tenses/timeframes where appropriate
- Simple numerical data
This is not an exhaustive list. Other topics and language functions may be added/replaced according to the needs of the language and the learners.
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