A2 – Waystage/Elementary

Listening Skills

  1. Extended Comprehension
    • Short conversations
    • Simple announcements
    • Basic telephone messages
    • Simple instructions
    • Weather reports
    • Basic news items
    • Simple stories
    • Short descriptions
  2. Contextual Understanding
    • Shopping conversations
    • Restaurant dialogues
    • Simple travel information
    • Basic workplace communication
    • Simple social interactions
    • Short narratives
    • Simple advertisements
    • Basic announcements

Reading Skills

  1. Text Types
    • Simple articles
    • Short stories
    • Basic instructions
    • Simple brochures
    • Basic emails
    • Simple letters
    • Short descriptions
    • Simple advertisements
  2. Reading Strategies
    • Scanning for information
    • Finding main ideas
    • Basic prediction
    • Simple inference
    • Understanding context
    • Following sequences
    • Basic reference
    • Simple summarizing

Speaking Skills

  1. Interactive Communication
    • Making arrangements
    • Simple negotiations
    • Basic problem-solving
    • Making suggestions
    • Expressing preferences
    • Simple opinions
    • Basic agreements/disagreements
    • Social invitations
  2. Extended Production
    • Past experiences
    • Future plans
    • Simple stories
    • Basic descriptions
    • Personal opinions
    • Simple comparisons
    • Basic presentations
    • Short explanations
  3. Pronunciation Development
    • Word stress patterns
    • Sentence rhythm
    • Intonation in questions
    • Connected speech
    • Strong/weak forms
    • Basic reduction
    • Common contractions
    • Emotional expression

Grammar Focus

  1. Tense Development
    • Past simple (regular/irregular)
    • Present continuous
    • Present perfect introduction
    • Future with ‘going to’
    • Future with present continuous
    • Present simple for schedules
    • Past continuous introduction
    • Time expressions with tenses
  2. Modal Verbs
    • Can/could for ability/permission
    • Should for advice
    • Have to for obligation
    • Would like for wants/offers
    • Must for necessity
    • May/might for possibility
    • Shall for suggestions
    • Need to for requirements
  3. Complex Structures
    • Comparative adjectives
    • Superlative adjectives
    • First conditional
    • Zero conditional
    • Relative clauses (who/which/that)
    • Reported speech introduction
    • Purpose clauses with to/for
    • Because/so for reasons