A1 Curriculum

  • I / my and you / your (My name’s…, I’m…, What’s your name?)
  • he / she and his / her (What’s his job?, Her name’s…, He’s a…)
  • Sentence stress
  • Word stress
  • Jobs and a/an
  • Numbers 0–20
  • The alphabet
  • How do you spell…?
  • Personal information (names)
  • Be with I and you (affirmative, questions, negative)
  • Be with he / she / it (affirmative, questions, negative)
  • Countries and nationalities
  • Numbers 21–100
  • Listening for personal information
  • Be – plural forms
  • Our and their
  • Plural nouns
  • This / that / these / those
  • Plural noun pronunciation
  • Contracted verb forms
  • Places
  • Food and drink
  • Common adjectives
  • Reading: email and postcard
  • There is / there are (affirmative, questions, negative)
  • A, some and any
  • /o/ and /θ/ pronunciation
  • Places in a town
  • Prepositions of place
  • Descriptions of a place
  • Present Simple with I and you (affirmative, questions, negative)
  • Possessive ‘s
  • Family members
  • Personal possessions
  • Rooms in the house
  • Listening to complete a form
  • Present Simple with he / she / it (affirmative, questions, negative)
  • Object pronouns
  • Present Simple verb form pronunciation
  • Likes and dislikes
  • Free time activities
  • Sports vocabulary
  • Listening for lifestyle facts
  • Talking about likes and dislikes
  • Greetings: saying hello and goodbye
  • Classroom language
  • Writing full stops and question marks
  • Capital letters (1)
  • Talking about friends
  • Asking questions about someone’s friends
  • Writing: filling in a form
  • Writing about yourself
  • Phone numbers
  • Filling in a form (review)
  • Sentence stress in questions
  • Reading and listening about cafés and food
  • Writing a café conversation
  • Acting out a café dialogue
  • Ordering and paying for food and drink in a café
  • Prices
  • Describing a picture
  • Writing questions about where someone lives
  • Spot-the-difference speaking task
  • Interviewing someone about where they live
  • Writing about where you live
  • Capital letters (revision)
  • Real life: in the street
  • Writing about family
  • Talking about family
  • Writing: prepositions and articles
  • Buying things in shops
  • Asking about likes and dislikes
  • Talking about class likes and dislikes
  • Using pronouns in writing
  • Telling the time (1)
  • Can / can’t (for ability)
  • Adverbs of manner
  • Verb + verb (want to…, like + -ing)
  • Sentence stress: can and can’t
  • Everyday activities
  • Adverbs (well, badly, etc.)
  • Words with similar sounds
  • Talking about abilities
  • Writing a personal profile
  • Talking about routines and free time
  • Talking about what you like and don’t like doing
  • Present Simple: questions and short answers
  • Frequency expressions (always, usually, etc.)
  • Questions with like + noun
  • Word stress and intonation in questions
  • Days of the week
  • Months and dates
  • Everyday verbs and activities
  • Talking about routines
  • Writing about your daily life
  • Talking about your weekly schedule
  • Making and replying to suggestions
  • Past Simple: be (was / were)
  • Past Simple: regular verbs
  • Regular verb pronunciation (-ed endings)
  • Life events
  • Time expressions (last year, ago, etc.)
  • Talking about your past
  • Listening to life stories
  • Writing a biography
  • Describing past events
  • Past Simple: irregular verbs
  • Question formation in the past
  • Sentence stress in past questions
  • Holiday activities
  • Verbs and prepositions
  • Talking about past holidays
  • Writing a postcard
  • Asking and answering questions about the past
  • Comparatives and superlatives
  • Than / the most / the -est
  • Word stress in longer adjectives
  • Adjectives: opposites
  • Weather vocabulary
  • Talking about places and weather
  • Describing people and places
  • Talking about likes and preferences
  • Describing your hometown
  • Going to (for future plans)
  • Present Continuous (for future arrangements)
  • Future time expressions (next week, tomorrow, etc.)
  • Sentence stress in future expressions
  • Holiday plans
  • Activities and places to go
  • Making and accepting invitations
  • Talking about future plans
  • Writing a note or short message
  • Present continuous (affirmative, negative, questions, short answers)
  • Have got (for possession)
  • Will / won’t (for future predictions and decisions)
  • Shall (for suggestions and offers)
  • Imperatives (e.g. Sit down!, Don’t talk!)
  • Would you like…? / I’d like… (for polite offers and requests)
  • Much / many / a lot of / a few / a little (quantifiers)
  • Whose and possessive ’s (ownership and relationships)
  • Conjunctions: and, but, or, so, because
  • Colours
  • Parts of the body
  • Clothes
  • Seasons
  • Weather vocabulary (e.g. sunny, cold, cloudy)
  • Use of “it” to talk about weather and time
  • Transport (e.g. bus, train, taxi)
  • Giving and asking for directions
  • Describing people physically (e.g. tall, short, hair, eyes)
  • Accepting and refusing invitations or offers
  • Understanding simple notices, signs, posters, catalogues
  • Writing short informal emails, notes, or postcards