This introductory English course is 30 hours over 8 units and focuses on basic conversational skills. The units cover topics like food, sports, health, shopping, free time activities. Grammar topics include verbs, questions, prepositions. Reading and writing activities involve comprehending and composing questions and short texts on the unit topics. Listening and pronunciation practice includes conversations about the topics, with a focus on stress, intonation, contractions and reductions.

1. English: Level Intro
Beginner
Intro B - 30 hours
8 Units
Topics Speaking
Unit 1
Talking about food likes and dislikes,
giving opinions about healthy and
Basic foods, meals, desserts; Food unhealthy foods; food needs and haves;
pyramid describing eating habits
Unit 2
Talking about sports you watch or pla;.
asking about and giving info about
Sports; abilities and talents abilities and talents
Unit 3
Months and dates; birthdays,
holidays, festivals and special Asking about birthdays; giving dates;
ocassions talking about plans
Unit 4
Describing health problems and giving
Parts of the body; health problems advice; talking about common treatments
and advice; medications and medications
Review. Stop and check.
Unit 5
Stores and things you can buy Talking about stores and other places;
there; tourist attractions asking for and giving directions
Unit 6
Asking for and giving info about weekend
and vacation/seasonal activities;
Weekends; vacations; chores and comparing your childhood with the
fun activities; seasonal activities present
Unit 7
Asking for and giving info about
Biographical information; biographical info, date and place of birth;
memories; time line of your life describing memories

2. Unit 8
Describing people`s locations; making
phone calls, leaving phone messages;
Location phrases; phone calls, making, accepting and declining
invitations, going out with friends invitations, making excuses
Final Review

3. Grammar Reading / Writing / Vocabulary
Quantifiers some and any; count and Reading mealtime conversations/food
noncount nouns; general noun sentences related customs in different countries:
e.g. Eggs are good for you; specific noun Writing questions about mealtime habits
sentences e.g. I`m eating an egg; adverbs e.g. How often do you eat meat?:
of frequency and their placement Vocabulary related to topic
Simple present Wh- questions e.g. What
sports do you play? Where do you run? Reading about races/championships:
Can and can`t; Yes/No and Wh- questions Writing questions about sports:
for ability Vocabulary related to topic
Vocabulary - special event related verb
The future with be going to; Yes/No and phrases: Writing about weekend
Wh- questions with this grammar; future plans/birthday plans: Reading about
time expressions birthday customs in different countries
have+noun, feel+adjective; negative and Reading about ways to improve your
positive adjectives; imperatives health: Writing advice for health problems
Prepositions of place e.g. on the corner of, Reading about popular tourist attractions
across from etc.; giving directions with in NY (Google Maps): Writing down
imperatives directions
Reading about people`s past
Simple past statements with regular and vacations/weekends; Verb phrases about
irregular verbs; Yes/No questions and seasonal activities e.g. go skiing, play
short answers basketball: Writing about last weekend.
Reading about a famous person`s life:
Statements and questions with the past of Writing questions about someone`s life
be i.e. was, were; Wh- questions with did, you are interested in: Memory related
was, were vocab (school years, etc.)

4. Prepositional phrases e.g. at home, on
vacation; subject and object pronouns;
invitations with Do you want to...? and
Would you like to.....?; making excuses
with verb+to e.g. I need to clean, I have to Writing messages: Reading about events
do laundry on a webpage: Inviting your friends

5. Listening / Pronunciation
Sentence stress: Listening for and
practicing pronunciation of vocabulary
items
Word stress in can and can`t sentences:
Listening for and practicing pronunciation
of vocabulary items
Reduction of going to: Listening to topic
related conversations about events and
plans
Intonation of imperative sentences:
Listening for and practicing pronunciation
of vocab items; listening to questions and
sentences about health
Stress in compound nouns e.g. rest room,
department store; Linking words:
Listening to tourist/direction related
conversations
Different pronunciations of -ed endings:
Listening to conversations about people's
plans for vacations
Negative contractions e.g. can`t, didn`t,
wasn`t: Listening to places and dates of
birth

6. Reduction of have to and want to:
Listening to phone conversations and
answering machine messages