Speaking

Socially

• Form and understand question and answers expressed in simple English.
• Ask for goods in shops
• Order meals in a restaurant if dishes are displayed or illustrated on the menu
• Book hotel rooms and check-in at a hotel
• Ask for basic services in post offices and banks
• Indicate the nature of a medical problem to a doctor.

At Work

• Understand and pass on simple messages.
• State simple requirements within your own job area.

Writing

Socially

• Compose simple faxes, notes and letters of a factual nature
• Fill in simple forms eg for to register at a hotel or open a bank account.
• Note down instructions and requests such as client orders and delivery dates.

At School

• Note down times, dates and places from various sources
• Reading
• Socially
• Understand simple directions for example in airports, hotels and on road signs
• Understand shop guides, product labels
• Recognize commons names of food on menus
• Understand adverts for accommodation, signs in banks and post offices
• Understand notices.

Reading

At Work

• Identify standard letters like order forms and enquiries
• Derive basic information from factual texts.
• Understand short, standard notices.

At School

• Make basic use of sources of information, eg bilingual dictionaries and computers.
• Understand basic information from notices such as class times.

Listening

Socially

• Be able to take down and understand simple messages
• Understand simple factual information such as meal-times and room locations
• Understand prices in shops, rent costs
• Understand simple questions and instructions from a doctor
• Understand simple directions

At work

• Understand simple instructions
• Receive and understand simple messages

At School

• Can follow simple presentations and demonstrations
• Understand factual information about class times and dates and details for assignments.

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Grammar Functions and Descriptions

A1 – Beginners (Beginners Classes this week)

• Subject pronouns
• The verb 'to be'
• This/that – objects in the City – English City Tour Class
• Negative statements with 'to be'
• Possessive adjectives
• Alphabet and spelling
• Jobs vocabulary – Smart Temps Job Agency
• Question words – 'What, Who, When, Where, How''
• Greetings
• Nationalities
• Numbers 1-100
• Giving personal information – At the airport
• Everyday objects - Millie's House
• There is/there are
• Basic adjectives
• Some/any – Millie's cafe
• How much and how many? - Periwinkles clothing
• Telling the time
• Present simple
• Basic verbs – go/come/work/eat/drive
• Adverbs of frequency
• Talking about daily routine and habits
• Social Expressions
• Prepositions
• Sport and leisure vocabulary
• Want and would like
• Clothes, basic shopping vocabulary
• Going sightseeing
• The weather

A2 - Pre-Intermediate ( Pre-Intermediate Classes this week)

• Tenses – review of present tense
• Questions and question words
• Present simple
• Present continuous
• Have/have got
• Past simple
• Past continuous
• Quantity – much and many, some and any, something, anyone, nobody, everywhere, a few a little, a lot of
• Articles
• Future intentions – going to and will
• Describing something – What's it like?
• Comparatives and superlatives
• Present perfect and past simple
• For and since
• Modal verbs – have got to, should and must
• Time and conditional clauses - as soon as, when, while, until
• What if ?
• Infinitives
• Passives
• Second Conditional
• Present perfect continuous
• Present perfect simple
• Past perfect
• Reported statements
• The Weather