Reading Writing Grammar
EAP 0241/2: Level 2 (A1 Higher Beginner)
Goal #1: Develop students’ abilities to read and understand texts at the high-beginner level.
Goal #2: Develop students’ abilities to produce writing level on familiar topics such as daily life, interests and hobbies, families, and food at the high-beginner level.
Goal #3: Develop students’ abilities to apply knowledge of grammar to verbal and written communication at the high-beginner level.
Student Learning Outcomes
Reading
- Read and comprehend short texts on familiar, everyday topics at the A1 high-beginner level, demonstrating understanding of key vocabulary in context.
- Identify main ideas and details in readings at the A1 high-beginner level.
- Identify basic antecedents/referents within sentences and paragraphs at the A1 high-beginner level.
- Identify vocabulary from context.
- Interpret simple charts, maps, and forms in A1 high-beginner level readings.
- Predict content using visuals, headings, and subheadings at the A1 high-beginner level.
Writing
- Use level-appropriate vocabulary related to writing topics on home, work, culture, food, transport, and people.
- Produce simple and compound sentences on familiar topics of daily life, interests, hobbies, and on everyday actions, and events using Simple Present and Simple Past.
- Use coordinating conjunctions in compound sentences and connectives such as because in emerging complex sentence structure.
- Demonstrate level-appropriate use of punctuation such as capital letters, periods, commas, and question marks in A1 high-beginner writing.
- Produce unified narrative and descriptive paragraphs at the A1 high-beginner level.
- Produce paragraph writing under timed, exam conditions.
- Write for a clear purpose and audience, producing simple texts such as personal messages, notes, and descriptions for familiar readers.
Grammar
- Use the Simple Present tense in affirmative, negative, and question forms (Yes/No and WH questions).
- Use subject, object, and possessive nouns and pronouns correctly.
- Use common prepositions of time and place (at, in, on) accurately.
- Use adverbs and adverbial phrases of frequency (e.g., sometimes, never, often, every day) in sentences.
- Use the Present Progressive in affirmative, negative, and question forms (Yes/No and WH questions).
- Use the Simple Past with regular verbs and high-frequency irregular verbs (be, do, have, go) in affirmative, negative, and question forms.
- Use count and non-count nouns accurately, with correct subject-verb agreement.
- Use indefinite articles (a/an) and the definite article (the) correctly, and apply basic quantifiers (some, how much, how many).
Listening Speaking Pronunciation
EAP 0210/0211/0212: Level 2 (A1 Higher Beginner)
Goal #1: Familiarize students with common phrases, requests, responses, and frequently used expressions related to daily interaction.
Goal #2: Develop students’ ability to communicate information about familiar topics, simple and routine tasks, participate in classroom conversations and mini presentations.
Goal #3: Increase students’ overall comprehensibility and intelligibility.
Student Learning Outcomes
Listening and Speaking
- Listen to and respond to spoken language on familiar, everyday topics such as people, places, daily routines, and personal interests at the A1 high-beginner level.
- Participate in short conversations in routine contexts, asking and answering questions on familiar topics with guidance.
- Give a 2-3-minute informal presentation on a familiar biographical topic using level-appropriate vocabulary and practiced language.
- Identify the main ideas and key details of brief, informal listening passages on topics discussed in class.
- Select and note key words, phrases, or short sentences from a short listening passage.
- Retell the main points of a simple conversation or short listening passage.
- Use simple phrases to ask for clarification or repetition (e.g., Could you repeat that? What does... mean?).
- Apply basic turn-taking conventions in short, structured exchanges, recognizing when to speak, listen, and yield the floor.
Pronunciation
- Pronounce high-frequency consonant and vowel sounds clearly, including /p/ /b/ /d/ /t/ /s/ /z/ /m/ /n/.
- Identify and produce correct word stress, syllable stress, and sentence stress in common words and short phrases.
- Identify and produce peak vowel sounds in focus words to aid intelligibility.
- Use rising intonation for yes/no questions and falling intonation for wh- questions and statements; use pitch to distinguish questions from statements.
- Produce basic thought groups by pausing appropriately between meaningful phrases in prepared and guided speech.
- Recognize and produce the schwa /ə/ in unstressed syllables and the weak forms of common function words (e.g., a, an, the, and, to).
- Produce the three phonological variants of the regular past tense ending — /d/, /t/, and /ɪd/ — accurately according to the preceding sound (e.g., played /d/, walked /t/, wanted /ɪd/).
- Adjust volume appropriately in classroom interactions, avoiding both inaudibility and unnecessary loudness.