FUNCTIONS

• greetings

• leave taking

• giving personal information

• basic identifying and describing

• responding to simple commands and requests

• describing people

• describing things

• identifying positions

• identifying size and number

• talking about activities

• telling the time and date

• giving directions

• sequencing

• describing the weathe

• describing places

• giving and asking information

• talking about ability and inability

 NOTIONS

• present simple tense of to be (including negative)

• other common verbs (sit, point, give, show, repeat, wear, tell, live, play, do, get up, watch, get, work, rain, like, wash, turn, sing etc.)

• imperatives  (to respond to commands)

• nouns in singular and plural

• adjectives

• articles

• pronouns (including possessives)

• demonstratives

• cardinal numbers

• calendar day and month

• present simple tense (in questions and statements)

• present simple tense of there (be)

• present tense of  have (got)

• present continuous tense (in questions and statements)

• question words

• determiners

• determiners with countable nouns

• further possessives (possessive pronouns)

• prepositions of place and time

• clock time and days of the week

• present simple in contrast with present continuous

• present tense of can

• past tense of  to be

• question forms with countable and uncountable nouns

• frequency adverbs

• sequencing words

• common modifiers and intensifiers

• quantifiers with uncountable nouns, prepositions denoting movement

 FUNCTIONS

• talking about the past

• talking about future plans

• expressing likes and dislikes

• expressing simple comparisons

• expressing frequency

• expressing preferences

• giving reasons

• quantifying

• talking about the recent and indefinite past

• giving further information

• expressing purpose, necessity, intentions and probabilities

• talking about impressions

 NOTIONS

• going to (future plans)

• comparatives and superlatives of adjectives-

• adverbs of manner

• simple past tense using regular and common irregular verbs

• further expressions related to past and future time

• the present perfect (used with adverbial forms for, since, ever, never)

• connecting clauses using but, and, because

• expressions of preference

• expressions of quantity

• further adverbials with present perfect

• first conditional

• past continuous tense

• infinitive (to express purpose)

• verbs not usually used in the continuous form

• could

• must/have to/need