Helping Canadians get back to work.
ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES – A2
IELTS Equivalent
4.5
CEFR Level
Intermediate level (CEFR level : A2)
Prerequisites
Placement test online ( site) or L1
Benchmarks / Learning objectives (SWBAT)
- Distinguish and correctly conjugate past, present and future tenses
- Mastering simple questions with modals (can, may)& auxiliary verbs (do, does, is, are, did, will) and tag questions (Do you..? Isn’t it...?) and question words (who, what, where, when , how and why)
- Simple idiomatic expressions (to have, to be)
- Greetings (informal)
- Frequency adverbs (never, always, sometimes, often)
- Tell a story or describe something in a simple list of points, every day aspects of environment
- Personal pronouns
- Simple Present tense (regular & irregular verbs)
- Simple Past tense (regular verbs)
- Future Simple tense (regular verbs)
- Future with going to, will, present progressive (daily routine verbs)
- Mastering simple questions with modals (can, may) & auxiliary verbs(do, does, is, are, did, will) and tag questions (Do you..? Isn’t it...?) and question words (who, what, where, when , how and why)
- Simple idiomatic expressions (to have, to be)
- Greetings (informal)
- Frequency adverbs (never, always, sometimes, often)
- Frequent verbs
- Too much / too many, too + adjective
- I’m used to
- Enjoy doing, stop doing
- Space prepositions
- Friends and families
- Business
- Sports
- Adventure
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