After completing the communication skills (beginners) course the student will be able to:

• Have a basic conversation and understand simple sentences.

• Understand and use basic phrases and expressions.

• Understand simple written English.

• Introduce himself/herself and answer basic questions about themselves.

• Interact with English speakers at a basic level.

• Understand general vocabulary used in daily life.

Topics covered in the course:

• Introducing yourself and friends.

• Saying hello and good-bye.

• Asking for names and phone numbers.

• Naming objects.

• Asking for and giving location of objects.

• Talking about various cities and countries.

• Asking for and giving information about place of origin, nationality, first language and age.

• Describing people.

• Asking about and describing clothing and colors.

• Talking about the weather and seasons.

• Finding the owner of objects.

• Asking for and telling time.

• Asking about and describing current activities.

• Asking for and giving information about how people go to work or school.

• Talking about family members.

• Describing daily and weekly routines.

• Asking about and describing houses and apartments

• Talking about furniture in a room.

• Asking for and giving information about work.

• Giving opinions about jobs.

• Describing workday routines.

• Talking about food likes and dislikes.

• Giving opinions about healthy and unhealthy foods.

• Talking about food items you have and need.

• Describing eating habits.

• Asking about free time activities.

• Asking for and giving information about abilities and talents.

• Asking about birthdays.

• Talking about plans for the evening, weekend and other occasions.

• Describing health problems.

• Talking about common medications.

• Giving advice about health problems.

• Talking about stores and other places.

• Asking for and giving directions.

• Asking for and giving information about weekend and vacation activities.

• Asking for and giving information about date and place of birth.

• Describing school experiences and memories.

• Describing people’s locations.

• Making, accepting, and declining invitations.

• Making excuses.

Grammar Topics Covered:

• Possessive adjectives ‘my, your, his, her’.

• The verb ‘be’.

• Affirmative statements and contractions.

• Usage articles ‘a, an and the’.

• Usage of .this/these; it/they; plurals’.

• Asking yes/no and where questions with ‘be’.

• Prepositions of place: in, in front of, behind, on, next to and under.

• The verb ‘be’: affirmative and negative statements.

• Asking yes/no questions, short answers and Wh-questions.

• Possessives: adjectives our and their, pronouns, names and whose.

• Present continuous statements and yes/no questions.

• Conjunctions and, but, and so.

• Placement of adjectives before nouns.

• Time expressions: o’clock, A.M., P.M., noon, midnight, in the morning/afternoon/evening, at 7:00/night/midnight.

• Present continuous with Wh-questions.

• Simple present statements with regular and irregular verbs.

• Simple present yes/no and Wh-questions.

• Time expressions: early, late, every day, on Sundays/weekend/weekdays.

• Simple present short answers.

• Usage of ‘there is, there are; there’s no, there isn’t a, there are no, there aren’t any’.

• Simple present - Wh-questions with do and does.

• Placement of adjectives after ‘be’ and before nouns.

• Count and noncount nouns.

• Usage of some and any.

• Adverbs of frequency: always, usually, often, sometimes, hardly, ever, never.

• Simple present Wh-questions.

• Usage of can for ability. Yes/no and Wh-questions with can.

• The future with ‘be going to’. Yes/no and Wh-questions with be going to.

• Future time expressions.

• Have + noun; feel + adjective.

• Negative and positive adjectives; imperatives.

• Prepositions of place: on, on the corner of, across from, next to, between. Giving directions with imperatives.

• Simple past statements with regular and irregular verbs.

• Simple past yes/no questions and short answers.

• Statements and questions with the past of ‘be’.

• Wh-questions with did, was and were.

• Prepositional phrases.

• Usage pf subject and object pronouns.

• Invitations with ‘Do you want to…?’ and ‘Would you like to…?’; ‘verb + to’.