PRE-INTERMEDIATE LEVEL - A2

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On completion of the course students will know how to do the following noted in “Course
content” in these different areas.
Audience Any person wishing to improve written and spoken English
PRE-INTERMEDIATE LEVEL - A2
// GENERAL ENGLISH

COURSE CONTENT
Listening Writing
• Comprehend standard everyday greetings • Write short and simple messages connected to
• Comprehend slow standard speech (personal areas of specific need
information, jobs, hobbies) • Write short and simple e mails or e mails
• Comprehend main points in clear, simple messages (acceptance, thanks, apology)
and announcements • Complete forms providing personal details (hotel
• Identify main, predictable points in TV news and check in, register on a course, order forms)
broadcasts • Write a short story in the past and describe personal
• Understand basic questions used in shops and experience.
services
• Understand simple instructions and directions. Grammar revision
• Present, past simple and continuous
Reading • Used to
• Comprehend simple, short texts and instructions • Future (will / going to)
with everyday lexis or international expressions • I would like
• Comprehend basic descriptions (brochure, leaflet) • Present perfect
• Comprehend specific details in a basic letter or • Gerund and infinitive forms
email • Conditional forms
• Comprehend information on menus and timetables • Phrasal verbs
• Find general information on leaflets, brochures or in • Phrasal verbs
simple advertisements • Modal verbs
• Comprehend simple and short newspaper articles • Countable and uncountable nouns with ‘much’ and
based on familiar topics. ‘many’
• Possessives ‘s and s’
Speaking • Prepositions
• Interact in social situations requiring simple and • Articles
direct exchange of information • Determiners (any, some, a lot of, none, few, a few)
• Use everyday greetings • Demonstrative adjectives
• Introduce themselves or others • Comparative and Superlative
• Ask and respond to questions about everyday life • Adverbs and adjectives.
and news
• Make and respond to invitations and offers, plans of
action and arrangements
• Make everyday transactions in shops, banks and
offices
• Request and give directions and basic instructions
• Narrate a simple story and describe personal
experience.