Topic 1: Basic Guidelines

Listening and Communicating

• greet people confidently
• understand contractions mean the same as non-contractions
• maintain a short spoken transaction
• read, understand and say time in 12 and 24-hour clock
• talk about the weather
• understand simple ‘why’..?’ questions

Reading

• recognise upper and lower case letters
• use apostrophes to contract
• read, understand and say time in 12 (and 24-hour clock)
• read and write days of the week

Writing

• Key vocabulary – times of the day 12 (and 24-hour clock if students can manage this), am / pm, days of the week, transport vocabulary (i.e. bus, train, metro, tube, underground), transport verbs (i.e. leave, arrive)
• Structures – basic ‘why..? questions – what time, which, when
• Functions – greetings and taking leave, asking for information, understanding information