Listening comprehension skills

    1. Goodwill expressions
    2. Expressions of clarification
    3. Instructions and requests
    4. Numbers, letters, key words, and short expressions

 

Speaking skills

    1. Courtesy expressions in short conversations
    2. Expressions to indicate communication problems
    3. Instructions, directions, commands
    4. Expressions to get help and to ask for and state time
    5. Questions about basic personal information
    6. Expressions to indicate ability or inability to do something

 

 

Reading and critical thinking skills

.

    1. Follow written instructions and match a set of instructions with a set of pictures
    2. Short, common forms
      1. Applications
      2. Maps
      3. Diagrams
      4. Traffic signs
    3. Short stories and descriptions

 

 

Writing and composing skills

    1. Short writing tasks
      1. Greeting cards and envelopes
      2. Identification documents
      3. Checks

 

Grammar Skills

    1. Parts of speech
      1. Identify
        1. Nouns
        2. Verbs
        3. Adjectives
        4. Prepositions
    2. Syntax
      1. Identify
        1.  Subject
        2. Object
    3. Verbs, verb tenses, verb aspects
      1. Identify
        1. Imperatives
        2. Verb BE
        3. Verb BE (There + BE + noun)
        4. Simple present tense
        5. Present progressive/continuous
        6. Simple past tense (regular verbs)
        7. Future: will
    4. Grammatical forms, appropriate word order, context
      1. Identify
        1. Nouns
          1. Singular and plural
          2. Count and non-count
          3. Possessive
        2. Pronouns
          1. Subject
          2. Object
          3. Possessive
        3. Adjectives
          1. Descriptive
          2. Possessive
        4. Adverbs of frequency                 
        5. Prepositions
          1. Place/ location
          2. Time
        6. Modals
          1. Can/Can’t
          2. May for permission