Level 2: A2 CEFR 

AUDIENCE: This course is intended for learners with basic overall language ability in English.

GOALS: The course works to further develop basic language skills and strategies to understand and use English in everyday routines (e.g. exercise routines), simple exchanges on topics of immediate relevance (e.g. health, shopping), or more formal ones (e.g. work space, fitness programs). 

OBJECTIVES: Students are introduced to basic listening, communication strategies, and presentation skills to manage interaction and exchange of information on common daily practices (e.g. where you shop, how you exercise), as well as brief descriptions of past events. Through controlled pronunciation practice and speaking tasks (e.g. presentations) students review how to perceive and produce basic vowel sounds and consonant combinations, and learn to recognize contractions, word stress, and question intonation patterns. Individually or in groups, they are also given the opportunity to develop reading and writing competencies through exposure to and interaction with non-authentic and authentic text types, and high frequency vocabulary (e.g. food, everyday items). They engage in paragraph-level work with attention to sentence structure variation, review core verb tenses, and practice degrees of adjectives. 

ASSESSMENT: Students’ progress in this course is assessed through graded homework assignments, quizzes, unit tests, midterm and final level exams.  

Student Learning Outcomes

After the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Use simple sentence structures and high-frequency vocabulary to exchange information, describe experiences, order food, give advice, and express and respond to opinions.

2. Use basic communication strategies to start, maintain, and end conversations appropriately.

3. Demonstrate understanding of main ideas, supporting details, and high-frequency vocabulary in non-authentic and authentic written and listening texts.

4. Write simple, paragraph-length text types, such as a work email, a brief summary, an online comment or post using pre-writing strategies and accurate and varied sentence structure and everyday vocabulary.

5. Identify and practice high-frequency vocabulary and verbs such as ‘do’, ‘have’, and ‘make’ in daily communication.

6. Identify and practice ‘if’ and ‘when’ sentence structures, core verb tense uses, and degrees of adjectives.

7. Review how to perceive and produce basic vowel sounds and consonant combinations; learn how to recognize contractions, word stress, and question intonation patterns in controlled pronunciation practice and assessed speaking tasks (e.g. role plays).