What language to teach?
Topics and Vocabulary areas
Around town (directions, travel information, places and buildings)
Clothes
Daily life (routines and habits, everyday activities)
Describing objects (shape, size, weight, colour, purpose or use, etc.),
Entertainment and media
Food and drink, eating out
Health, medicine and exercise
Hobbies and leisure
House and home
Language
People
Personal feelings, opinions and experiences
Personal identification
personal possessions
Shopping
Social interaction
Sport
The natural world
Transport
Travel and holidays
Weather
Functional language
greeting people and introductions, exchanging personal details
asking for repetition and clarification, checking meaning
helping others to express their ideas
interrupting a conversation
understanding and producing simple narratives
making and responding to offers and suggestions
giving and responding to invitations
giving advice
making and responding to apologies and excuses, thanks, requests, compliments
expressing agreement and disagreement
preferences, likes and dislikes
opinions and making choices
needs and wants
Grammar
basic reporting (say/tell/ask)
imperative and rules, simple instructions
linkers for purpose, cause and result, and reasons
making comparisons
making predictions – might and adverbs, 1st conditional
modal verbs – advice, prohibitions, obligation and permission
past simple and continuous
present continuous
probability and possibility, certainty and doubt
will & going to
irregular past