English Language Course, Elementary level I - CL

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Based on the communicative approach, it integrates the learning of new language skills and places equal emphasis on vocabulary and grammar. The course uses a guided discovery approach to learning, first allowing students to check what they know, then guiding them to work out the rules through carefully structured examples and concept questions.

Learning Outcomes

This is a general language course for adults who need to speak and write English in a variety of situations. Students have the opportunity to discover how the language works for them by studying carefully selected examples with the guidance of their teacher. The syllabus combines the learning of new language with the development of functional skills and an equal importance is given to vocabulary and grammar, which are incorporated in the listening and speaking activities.

 

At the end of the 120 hour course students will have the confidence and skills necessary to deal with day-to-day situations in English on an elementary level. Part I of the course reviews CEFR A1 and Part II takes students to the end of A2.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Grammar is an important element to the syllabus and includes areas such as: possessives, Present Simple, Past Simple, and Present Continuous and be going to future, comparatives, frequency expressions, adverbs and adjectives and their comparative forms. Given the importance of vocabulary to successful communication, the lexical fields of this course include; free time activities, eating out, going shopping, talking about the news, renting a flat and asking for and giving directions.

Head Lecturer(s)

Stephen David Thomas

Assessment Methods

Assessement
The courses assessment is guided by a set of rules, available in http://www.uc.pt/fluc/cl/regulamentos/fluc/cl/ficheiros/regulamento_aval: 100.0%

Bibliography

Todos os cursos de Inglês do Quotidiano utilizam o manual Face2face, 2nd Edition (Cambridge University Press) correspondente ao respectivo nível: Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate.