Beginner 1

# hours: 30

General objective

Participants will be able to establish first contact and give some personal work related information. They will handle greetings, message-taking at work and other expressions of courtesy.

Training objectives

• recognize basic sounds, rhythms and intonation
• greet others
• introduce oneself and others
• become aware of communication strategies
• ask and give for personal information
• give one’s position, title and name of company
• talk about family members
• identify workplace objects
• locate objects and people in space
• talk about one’s activities
• understand and fill out simple forms

Grammatical objectives

• subject pronouns
• present tense
• interrogative forms
• negative forms
• definite and indefinite articles
• basic prepositions

Vocabulary

• greetings / salutations
• professions
• nationalities
• positions, titles and activities at work
• family
• numbers 1 to 1,000,000
• colours, days, moment, months