Elementary CEFR A2 skills and language systems covered

·         Talk about countries, nationalities, and languages

·         Describe people using the verb to be

·         Talk about your family

·         Use possessive’s and possessive determiners

·         Understand positive and negative contractions

·         Use regular and irregular plural nouns

·         Ask for personal information and check you understand

1.1 Multicultural cities

Speaking asking for personal information and checking you understand

Writing a personal profile

 1.5 Video Brighton language exchange

·         Talk about everyday actions

·         Use the present simple positive to talk about your day

·         Tell the time

·         Use the present simple negative

·         Understand conjunctions in reading

·         Use verb + preposition phrases

·         Make suggestions and arrangements

·         Describe where you live

Present simple positive

Adverbs of frequency

Speaking making suggestions and arrangements

Writing describe where you live

2.5 Video the Menna family

·           Talk about jobs

·         Ask yes/no questions

·         alk about work

·         Ask Wh-questions

·         Recognize the schawa sound

·         Use the suffix – er

·         Make requests

·         Use opening and closing phrases in an email

Do and does

Work

·         Talk about places in towns and cities

·         Use there is/there are

·         Talk about rooms and furniture

·         Use the suffix – er

·         Make requests

·         Use the Imperative to give instructions

Speaking in a shop

Writing a product review

·         Talk about shopping

·         Use can and could to talk about possibility and ability

·         Talk about clothes

·         Use the present continuous to talk about actions at the moment

·         Understand similar vowel sounds

·         Use adjectives and adverbs

·         Buy things in a shop

·         Write an online product review

Present continuous

Present continuous or present simple

Clothes and accessories

Speaking in a shop

Writing a product review

·         Use was/were to talk about the past

·         Use past time expressions

·         Use regular verbs to talk about what happened in the past

·         Use common collocations

·         Understand present and past simple verbs

·         Use adverbs of degree

·         Tell story

·         Show interest

·         Write a tweet or text message

6.1 Don’t give up!

Speaking showing interest as a listener

Writing write a tweet or text message

·         Use collocations for a healthy lifestyle

·         Use past simple irregular verbs

·         Talk about sports and fitness

·         Use the past simple negative

·         Understand easily confused words

·         Ask for and give opinions

·         Agree and disagree

·         Post a website comment

Speaking opinions, agreeing and disagreeing

Writing post a website comment

·         Talk about holidays

·         Ask questions using the past simple

·         Talk about transport

·         Use should, shouldn’t, have to, don’t have to

·         Use expressions with get, take and have

·         Understand present and past questions

·         Ask for information at the train station

·         Write an email about your perfect holiday

·         Talk about food and drink

·         Use countable/Uncountable nouns with some/any

·         Use quantifiers

·         Talk about cooking

·         Understand numbers

·         Say numbers

·         Ask about and recommend a place to eat

·         Order food in a restaurant

Writing asking about and recommending a place

Speaking in a restaurant

·         Describe the weather

·         Use comparative adjectives

·         Describe nature and geography

·         Use superlative adjectives

·         Understand comparison

·         Use adjective + noun collocations

·         Give preferences and reasons

·         Write a description of a place

·         Use verb+ noun phrases

·         Use going to for plans and intentions

·         Talk about technology

·         Say why do you things

·         Use the infinitive of purpose

·         Deal with unknown words

·          Make adjectives stronger

·         Write a formal/informal notice

·         Offer to do something

Verb + noun phrases

Writing a notice

Speaking offering to do something

·          Talk about past experience and events using the present perfect

·         Use verb + noun phrases

·         Talk about films

·         Use the present perfect and past simple

·         Form past participles

·         Understand past simple and present perfect verb forms

·         Speak on the phone

·         Write a review

·         Use pronouns in writing

Speaking on the phone

Writing a review