30 hour beginner language course
Recommended format:
- Twenty 1.5-hour sessions
- 2 sessions a week for 10 weeks (recommended but flexible)
Aim:
A beginner language course aims to provide you with the tools necessary for dealing with everyday situations - on holiday for example - and interacting with other people.
Content:
- Your course content will be adapted to your objectives but here are some examples of what you could learn in a 30 hour beginner course.
- Presentations/Greetings: various forms of greetings and personal information (name, age, address, marital status, etc.)
- Alphabet, colours and numbers
- Countries and nationalities (regions, countries and capitals)
- Jobs and places of work
- Hobbies: sport and leisure activities
- Descriptions: parts of the body and description adjectives
- Family: presentations and descriptions
- Basic questions: finding out about other people’s personal information, family, etc.
- Time: asking for and giving the time
- Calendar: days, months, years and seasons
- Weather: describing and asking about the weather, colloquial expressions
- Habits: asking about and explaining daily activities and schedules
- Home: description and location
- Directions: maps and towns – asking and giving directions
- Towns: buildings, shops and transport systems
- Hotels: rooms and services
- Food
- Likes and dislikes: asking about and communicating likes and dislikes, congratulations and complaints
- Agreeing and disagreeing: personal preferences
- Comparisons: more or less and superlatives
- Eating out: restaurants, menus, recipes
- Telephone conversations: answering, greeting, enquiring, booking and leaving a message
Grammar content is tailored to the need of the course.
