Elementary English
New Course starting 4th September
Our free 38-week Elementary English course is for students who have a little English knowledge. This course is ideal for those who can understand common everyday expressions and simple phrases, for example introducing yourself and asking for personal details. This course is designed to build upon the language you already know and to help you become more confident using English in everyday life.
This year The Living Language Project will be offering hybird learning for this course. This means that we will be running online as well as in-person lessons, and therefore able to offer:
1-hour in-person learning per week on a Tuesday morning
1-hour online learning per week on a Thursday morning (50% more supported learning)
Recordings of the lessons, alongside the lesson materials (meaning you can listen again to check your understanding, or catch up on a missed lesson)
Syllabus
Term 1
Week 1 - Meeting and Greeting
Learn phrases for meeting new people and introducing yourselves. Practise using the verb “to be”.
Week 2 - In the Classroom
Identify items you need for studying and practise the verb "have" in positive and negative sentences and questions.
Week 3 - My Family
Learn vocabulary related to family members and practise using "have got" to describe family relationships.
Week 4 - What time is it?
Work with numbers, with a focus on pronunciation, and learn expressions for telling the time.
Week 5 - I Can Do It!
Learn vocabulary for talking about skills different jobs. Learn about the use of "can/can’t" to describe abilities and skills.
Week 6 - The Working Day
Identify and compare some jobs. Practice using the present simple for daily routines, including negatives, yes/no questions and short answers.
Week 7 - My Free Time
Learn vocabulary relating to things you can do in your free-time. Learn how to ask present simple questions about habits and routines and how to use adverbs of frequency in your answers.
Week 8 - What I Like
Learn to extend phrases to describe leisure activities. Learn how to say which activities you love and which you hate.
Week 9 - Review 1
Check you understanding of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and social English we have covered so far. You will also have a chance to reflect on your learning using "I can".
Week 10 - A Sweet Tooth
Learn vocabulary related to sweet things and using object pronouns.
Week 11 - Is it yours?
Identify personal items that you carry with you every day. Learn how we use possessive adjectives and pronouns in English.
Week 12 - Green Places
Learn words and phrases for describing green places. Practise how to use the demonstrative pronouns, this, that, these and those.
Week 13 - At the coffee shop
Learn how to order coffee and snacks in a coffee shop.
Week 14 - Christmas
Learn vocabulary connected with Christmas, including typical Christmas things, presents, Christmas dinner and what people do on Christmas Day.
Term 2
Week 15 - Home Sweet Home
Identify furniture and rooms. You will be introduced to "There is/are" and preposition phrases which describe location.
Week 16 - Staying in a Hotel
Learn to identify hotel facilities and how to describe where things are in a hotel
Week 17 - Animals and habitats
Learn to identify animals and habitats. You will also be introduced to comparative forms of adjectives.
Week 18 - Where in the world
Learn vocabulary related to countries and languages, and study superlative adjectives.
Week 19 - Review 2
Check you understanding of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and social English we have covered since the last review. You will also have a chance to reflect on your learning using "I can".
Week 20 - How's the weather?
Learn vocabulary relating to weather conditions. You will be introduced to present continuous forms.
Week 21 - Our Holiday
Learn vocabulary relating to holiday activities and learn more about present continuous forms.
Week 22 - Where is it?
Learn to identify places in a town and learn how to ask for and follow simple directions.
Week 23 - Wheels
Learn to identify types of transport used to get around a town and compare and contrast various uses of present simple and present continuous.
Week 24 - 20th century lives
Learn vocabulary relating to the music industry. You will be introduced to the form, spelling and pronunciation of regular past simple verbs.
Week 25 - Easter
Learn vocabulary related the celebration of Easter.
Term 3
Week 26 - Hit Makers
Learn vocabulary relating to the music industry. You'll be introduced to the form, spelling and pronunciation of regular past simple verbs.
Week 27 - This is your life
Practise expressing dates, and using vocabulary relating to major life events. Learn about negatives and questions for regular past simple verbs.
Week 28 - Weekends
Learn vocabulary relating to weekend activities. You'll be introduced to the form, spelling and pronunciation of common irregular past simple verbs.
Week 29 - Review 3
Check you understanding of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and social English we have covered since the last review. You will also have a chance to reflect on your learning using "I can".
Week 30 - Questions, questions
Review question forms for present and past simple and are introduced to subject questions.
Week 31 -Shopping for clothes
Identify items of clothing and practise functional language related to shopping for clothes. You will also be introduced to "how much/how many".
Week 32 - Do we have any onions?
Learn vocabulary relating to grocery items. You will be introduced to countable and uncountable nouns, and basic uses of a, some, any and a lot of/lots of.
Week 33 - Eat the rainbow
Learn vocabulary relating to fruit and vegetables and revise countable and uncountable nouns. You'll review "how much/how many" and be introduced to "a few/a little" and other ways of expressing quantity.
Week 34 - On the calendar
Review vocabulary for diary events. Practice talking about future arrangements, plans and intentions using the present continuous and be going to + infinitive.
Week 35 - Robots
Learn to identify some tasks for robots. You will be learn how we use "will/won’t" for future predictions, and adverbs of certainty in English.
Week 36 - Money smart
Learn some common verb + preposition combinations. You will also identify imperatives and modal verbs for giving advice (should, could, can).
Week 37 - Safari park
Define rules, then explore how rules and permission are expressed using the modal verbs can, can’t, must and mustn’t.
Week 38 - Crazy Hotels
Review how to create sentences using "there is" and "there are" whist developing your reading and speaking skills.