Course Description
The course objectives cover teaching the skills under the following main categories:
- Reading foundations & Phonics
- Grammars
- Spelling
- Vocabulary
- Reading & Comprehension
To teach the skills under this subject, the course uses a variety of teaching methods to ensure mastery of intended skills, as well as the correct applications of said skills and gained knowledge. The various teaching methods include: engaging video explainers, video lectures, advanced graphics and animation, interactive exercises, gamification, interactive illustration, various assessment styles, and online exams.
The following are highlights of the curriculum content, curriculum chapters, and English language skills covered in the course.
| # | Chapter | Skills & Competencies |
| 1 | Chapter 1: Grammar – Part I | Identify the use various structures (past simple, past continuous, past perfect), Identify the use of conditionals (zero conditional, first conditional, second conditional, third conditional). |
| 2 | Chapter 2: Grammar – Part II | Make comparisons using as adjective as, Define and explain the difference between direct and indirect objects, Demonstrate an understanding of the meaning of several different phrasal verbs, Identify and use parts of speech, Identify pronouns and their antecedents, Define ‘indirect speech’, Convert direct speech to indirect speech in different tenses. |
| 3 | Chapter 3: Grammar – Part III | Identify and use question tags, Recognize the use and the structure of future simple passive, Identify the use of relative pronouns, Identify the use of reflexive pronouns, Replace nouns with pronouns in sentences. |
| 4 | Chapter 4: Vocabulary – Part I | Identify the meaning of some idioms and adages, Sort words into categories, Describe the difference between related words, Choose the synonym or the antonym of a given word, Replace a given word with a synonym or an antonym, Choose the Homophones of given words, Identify and use words with more than one meaning |
| 5 | Chapter 5: Reading – Part I | Read informational texts and answer questions, Compare and contrast ideas, events, people, or things, Match causes and effects in informational texts, Determine the theme of a short story, Determine the Main Idea of a Passage |
| 6 | Chapter 6: Listening – Part I | Listening and comprehension, listen different topics and answer questions. |
| 7 | Chapter 7: Writing – Part I | Order items from most general to most specific, Summarize stories and paragraphs, Editing and revising passages, Identify and correct plagiarism, Read and spell the words introduced in the no excuse words list |
