Beginners 1 – Level 1

This 80 hour course is designed for learners who are new to English, or who only know
very little English and need much more practice at this level. It takes students from the
very basics of letter recognition and formation through to laying the foundations of
essential reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.

Areas Covered

Grammar Vocabulary
Students will be introduced to the Students will cover vocabulary in the
following grammatical structures: following areas:

 Subject pronouns  Numbers 0 – 1000/Ordinals 1st-

 Verb ‘to be’ 10th
 - positive  Meeting people
 - negative  Greetings
 - questions and short answers  Family and friends
 Question words  Countries and nationalities
 Possessive adjectives  Common adjectives
 Possessive pronouns  Jobs
 Demonstrative pronouns  Feelings
 Plural of nouns  Buildings
 Have + noun  Vehicles and roads
 Have/has got  Fruit
 There is/are  Currencies
 ‘Can’ for requests  Colours
 Imperatives  Possessions
 Prepositions  Travel
 Definite article – ‘the’  Rooms in a house
 Adjectives  Offices
 Classrooms
 Locations
 Telephone language
 Days of the week
 Functions Reading
 Greeting people (formally and Reading develops from letter and word
informally) recognition to comprehension of sentences
 Introducing self and others and paragraphs. By the end of the course
 Talking about members of the students are asked to read sentences and
family paragraphs for comprehension and also to
 Asking about/explaining extract information from texts in order to
city/country of origin transfer it to forms, simple maps, etc.
 Asking about job
 Offering something to someone
(informally) Pronunciation
 Describing/asking about
feelings Pronunciation exercises focus mainly on
 Identifying places certain sounds and word stress. Features of
 Describing buildings, objects connected speech (weak forms and
 Asking for/giving directions contraction) and intonation and sentence
stress are practiced throughout the course
 Describing location
in the context of dialogues and pairs
 Buying and selling products
practice.
 Describing people
 Asking for descriptions
 Telling the time
 Asking to speak to someone
 Requesting/offering help
Writing Listening
The writing component of the course Students listen to a variety of conversations
progresses from letter and word recognition which introduce the main vocabulary and
and formation to sentence and paragraph language of the unit. While listening,
construction. students are asked to perform a variety of
tasks – for example matching with pictures,
Particular emphasis is given to the completing a form and answering simple
mechanics of writing: the formation of questions
upper and lower case letters, the use of
capital letters, punctuation and spelling. At
later stages students are asked to write
sentences and paragraphs.

Duration: 80 hours

Course Materials: English Please Book 1

Student Book & Workbook
Units 1-6