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ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES – A1
IELTS Equivalent
3.5
CEFR Level
Beginner level (CEFR level : A1)
Prerequisites
Placement test online ( site)
Benchmarks / Learning objectives (SWBAT)
- Describe personal experiences with a very basic range of simple expressions and vocabulary (CEFR)
- Establish basic social contact by using the simplest everyday polite forms of: greeting and farewells, introductions, saying please/ thank you/ sorry (CEFR)
- Indicate time by such phrases as next week, last Friday in November, three o’clock (CEFR)
- Present/past of “to be”
- Questions using “be” and “have”
- Present Continuous Tense
- There + be in present/ past tense
- Comparative Adjectives
- Future tense with be going to
- Friends and families
- Business
- Sports
- Adventure
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