English Level One

English 1 - ELP:

Currently Taught by:

• Elena Zhuravleva
• Rodolfo Barbosa Ribeiro
• Tanya Ebrahimpoor

Goals and Objectives

Can ask someone for their name.
Can write their name, address and nationality.
Can understand the letters of the alphabet.
Can recognize cardinal numbers up to 10.
Can recognize a few familiar everyday words, if delivered slowly and clearly.
Can understand cardinal numbers from 1 to 20.
Can write the letters of the alphabet in upper and lower case.
Can say their name.
Can relay (in Language B) very basic information (e.g. numbers and prices) from short, simple, illustrated texts (in Language A).
Can recognize simple informal greetings.
Can recognize the letters of the alphabet.
Can list (in Language B) names, numbers, prices and very simple information from texts (in Language A) that are of immediate interest, that are composed in very simple language and contain illustrations.
Can say the letters of the alphabet.
Can recognize the letters of the English alphabet when pronounced.
Can make simple purchases by pointing or other gestures.
Can name a few very common everyday objects.
Can recognize and say the name of their own country, nationality and language.
Can read and understand simple prices.
Can greet people using a few basic fixed expressions.
Can write cardinal numbers from 1 to 20 as words.
Can use a few basic words and phrases to show politeness (e.g. 'please', 'thank you').
Can introduce themselves using a basic phrase (e.g. 'My name's ...').
Can post online short simple statements about himself/herself (e.g. relationship status, nationality, occupation), provided he/she can select them from a menu and/or refer to an online translation tool.
Can recognize simple formal greetings.
Can ask someone what their nationality is.
Can read out phone numbers.
Can spell out their own name and address.
Can recognize basic plural forms of nouns (e.g. cars, books).
Can identify very common food and drink on a menu.
Can recognize familiar names, words and very basic phrases on simple notices.
Can say other people's nationalities.
Can give very limited personal information using basic fixed expressions.
Can post simple online greetings, using basic formulaic expressions and emoticons.
Can ask and answer basic requests for information with 'What’s this/that?'
Can name a few common jobs.
Can tell the time of day in full hours.
Can understand very basic common classroom instructions.
Can use some very basic words to ask for food and drink.
Can name very common forms of transport.
Can ask for and give a phone number.
Can understand basic sentences introducing someone (e.g. name, age).
Can relay (in Language B) simple instructions about places and times (given in Language A), provided these are repeated very slowly and clearly.
Can copy familiar words and short phrases about everyday objects and set phrases.
Can understand the time of day when expressed in full hours.
Can use a few simple words to describe objects (e.g. colour, number), if supported by pictures.
Can say their own age and ask someone about their age.
Can ask someone what their job is.
Can ask for and give the day and date.
Can establish basic social contacts with simple, polite greetings and farewells.
Can understand cardinal numbers from 21 to 100.
Can say what they do (e.g. name of their job, student).
Can make selections (e.g. choosing a product, size, colour) in a simple online purchase or application form, provided there is visual support.
Can ask about the price of something.
Can recognize familiar words in short phrases and sentences spoken slowly and clearly, if supported by pictures.
Can recognize basic time words (e.g. days, months) in simple phrases or sentences.
Can write consistently with joined-up letters.
Can say a range of basic numbers, quantities and prices.
Can ask for and give a date of birth.
Can understand ordinal numbers from 1 to 100.
Can understand simple language related to prices and quantities.
Can ask where other people are in a limited way.
Can understand basic questions about personal details if addressed slowly and clearly.
Can understand basic personal details if given carefully and slowly.
Can ask very simply for repetition when they don’t understand.
Can ask and answer simple questions about things they have in a limited way.
Can say where they and other people are in a limited way.
Can ask and answer basic questions about family and friends in a limited way.
Can answer simple questions about objects (e.g. colour, size).
Can complete a very simple online purchase or application, providing basic personal information (e.g. name, e-mail or telephone number).
Can list (in Language B) names, numbers, prices and very simple information of immediate interest in oral texts (in Language A), provided the articulation is very slow and clear, with repetition.
Can tell the time of day to within five minutes.
Can understand the main information when people introduce themselves (e.g. name, age, where they are from).
Can recognize cardinal numbers from 11-100.
Can introduce themselves in a basic way, giving some information about where they live, their family etc.
Can ask for the spelling of a word, or for a word to be written down.

Students at this level should be able to understand, use familiar everyday expressions as well, very basic phrases of needs of a concrete type. It is also possible for the student to introduce herself/himself, others, ask and answer questions about personal details such as the place where the individual lives, friends, family, and things she/he has. This student can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to understand simple commands, situations, and help.

These are suggested topics to be taught at this level:
1. Getting to know people
Can greet people using a few basic fixed expressions.
Can recognise simple informal greetings.
Can recognise simple formal greetings.
Can ask someone for their name.
Can write their name, address and nationality.
Can say their name.
Can introduce themselves using a basic phrase (e.g. 'My name's ...').

2. The alphabet, numbers, and days of the week
3. Countries and Nationalities
4. Personal Information
5. Demonstrate and describe things
6. Talking about Family and relationships
7. Describing clothes, people or/ and personalities
8. Talking about abilities and interests
9. Taking notes about other people
10. Describing common habits and routines
11. Giving orders with imperatives
12. Talking about daily routines and time phrases
13. Talking about big numbers and time
14. Describing singular & plural things
15. Describing feelings
16. Talking about jobs
17. Describing houses, towns, and neighbourhoods
18. Describing the weather and seasons

Can understand the letters of the alphabet.
Can recognise cardinal numbers up to 10.
Can recognise a few familiar everyday words, if delivered slowly and clearly.
Can understand cardinal numbers from 1 to 20.
Can write the letters of the alphabet in upper and lower case.

Can relay (in Language B) very basic information (e.g. numbers and prices) from short, simple, illustrated texts (in Language A).

Can recognise the letters of the alphabet.
Can list (in Language B) names, numbers, prices and very simple information from texts (in Language A) that are of immediate interest, that are composed in very simple language and contain illustrations.
Can say the letters of the alphabet.
Can recognise the letters of the English alphabet when pronounced.
Can make simple purchases by pointing or other gestures.
Can name a few very common everyday objects.
Can recognise and say the name of their own country, nationality and language.
Can read and understand simple prices.

Can write cardinal numbers from 1 to 20 as words.
Can use a few basic words and phrases to show politeness (e.g. 'please', 'thank you').

Can post online short simple statements about himself/herself (e.g. relationship status, nationality, occupation), provided he/she can select them from a menu and/or refer to an online translation tool.

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Can read out phone numbers.
Can spell out their own name and address.
Can recognise basic plural forms of nouns (e.g. cars, books).
Can identify very common food and drink on a menu.
Can recognise familiar names, words and very basic phrases on simple notices.
Can say other people's nationalities.
Can give very limited personal information using basic fixed expressions.
Can post simple online greetings, using basic formulaic expressions and emoticons.
Can ask and answer basic requests for information with 'What’s this/that?'
Can name a few common jobs.
Can tell the time of day in full hours.
Can understand very basic common classroom instructions.
Can use some very basic words to ask for food and drink.
Can name very common forms of transport.
Can ask for and give a phone number.
Can understand basic sentences introducing someone (e.g. name, age).
Can relay (in Language B) simple instructions about places and times (given in Language A), provided these are repeated very slowly and clearly.
Can copy familiar words and short phrases about everyday objects and set phrases.
Can understand the time of day when expressed in full hours.
Can use a few simple words to describe objects (e.g. colour, number), if supported by pictures.
Can say their own age and ask someone about their age.
Can ask someone what their job is.
Can ask for and give the day and date.
Can establish basic social contacts with simple, polite greetings and farewells.
Can understand cardinal numbers from 21 to 100.
Can say what they do (e.g. name of their job, student).
Can make selections (e.g. choosing a product, size, colour) in a simple online purchase or application form, provided there is visual support.
Can ask about the price of something.
Can recognise familiar words in short phrases and sentences spoken slowly and clearly, if supported by pictures.
Can recognise basic time words (e.g. days, months) in simple phrases or sentences.
Can write their name, address and nationality.
Can understand the letters of the alphabet.
Can recognise cardinal numbers up to 10.
Can recognise a few familiar everyday words, if delivered slowly and clearly.
Can understand cardinal numbers from 1 to 20.
Can write the letters of the alphabet in upper and lower case.
Can say their name.
Can relay (in Language B) very basic information (e.g. numbers and prices) from short, simple, illustrated texts (in Language A).
Can recognise simple informal greetings.
Can recognise the letters of the alphabet.
Can list (in Language B) names, numbers, prices and very simple information from texts (in Language A) that are of immediate interest, that are composed in very simple language and contain illustrations.
Can say the letters of the alphabet.
Can recognise the letters of the English alphabet when pronounced.
Can make simple purchases by pointing or other gestures.
Can name a few very common everyday objects.
Can recognise and say the name of their own country, nationality and language.
Can read and understand simple prices.
Can greet people using a few basic fixed expressions.
Can write cardinal numbers from 1 to 20 as words.
Can use a few basic words and phrases to show politeness (e.g. 'please', 'thank you').
Can introduce themselves using a basic phrase (e.g. 'My name's ...').
Can post online short simple statements about himself/herself (e.g. relationship status, nationality, occupation), provided he/she can select them from a menu and/or refer to an online translation tool.
Can recognise simple formal greetings.
Can ask someone what their nationality is.
Can read out phone numbers.
Can spell out their own name and address.
Can recognise basic plural forms of nouns (e.g. cars, books).
Can identify very common food and drink on a menu.
Can recognise familiar names, words and very basic phrases on simple notices.
Can say other people's nationalities.
Can give very limited personal information using basic fixed expressions.
Can post simple online greetings, using basic formulaic expressions and emoticons.
Can ask and answer basic requests for information with 'What’s this/that?'
Can name a few common jobs.
Can tell the time of day in full hours.
Can understand very basic common classroom instructions.
Can use some very basic words to ask for food and drink.
Can name very common forms of transport.
Can ask for and give a phone number.
Can understand basic sentences introducing someone (e.g. name, age).
Can relay (in Language B) simple instructions about places and times (given in Language A), provided these are repeated very slowly and clearly.
Can copy familiar words and short phrases about everyday objects and set phrases.
Can understand the time of day when expressed in full hours.
Can use a few simple words to describe objects (e.g. colour, number), if supported by pictures.
Can say their own age and ask someone about their age.
Can ask someone what their job is.
Can ask for and give the day and date.
Can establish basic social contacts with simple, polite greetings and farewells.
Can understand cardinal numbers from 21 to 100.
Can say what they do (e.g. name of their job, student).
Can make selections (e.g. choosing a product, size, colour) in a simple online purchase or application form, provided there is visual support.
Can ask about the price of something.
Can recognise familiar words in short phrases and sentences spoken slowly and clearly, if supported by pictures.
Can recognise basic time words (e.g. days, months) in simple phrases or sentences.

Criteria for Completion of Level

To enter level-two classes students must achieve a score of 80% or higher on the level-one test and have a teacher recommend that they level up after successfully completing one of the following tasks:

Introduce yourself talking about where you are from, what you do, and talking about your family

Ask for the price of items in a store

Ask for the hours a store is open.

Describe an item

Fill in personal information on an application form for a job/swimming lessons/etc

Ask to borrow something

Tell/Ask someone about your family

Tell/Ask for the price of items
Tell/Ask where something is

Order something at a restaurant

Tell/Ask someone about the weather

Vocabulary Profile

Students at this level should focus on the 500 most frequent words in English:

VERBS

be
have
do
say
go
get
can
know
will
would
make
think
see
come
take
want
could
look
use
tell
find
give
need
should
work
try
let
call
may
mean
feel
ask
talk
keep
leave
put
like
help
start
become
happen
show
seem
might
hear
believe
play
turn
run
live
write
bring
move
must
begin
love
hold
read
stop
pay
provide
lose
understand
wait
meet
thank
change
watch
sit
create
learn
kill
include
stand
follow
remember
speak
set
allow
win
lead
continue
spend
stay
add
die
buy
send
walk
grow
open
consider
hope
offer
build
expect
fall
appear
serve
break
end
require
listen
agree
cut
decide
pass
eat
report
suggest
sell
support
receive
base
pick
drive
reach
remain

NEGATIVE
not
n't

NOUNS

time
people
year
way
thing
man
day
life
woman
world
child
school
state
family
president
house
student
part
place
problem
country
week
point
hand
group
guy
case
question
work
night
game
number
money
lot
book
system
government
city
company
story
job
friend
word
fact
right
month
program
business
home
kind
study
issue
name
idea
room
percent
law
power
kid
war
head
mother
team
eye
side
water
service
area
person
end
hour
line
girl
father
information
car
minute
party
back
health
reason
member
community
news
body
level
boy
university
change
center
face
food
history
result
morning
parent
office
research
door
court
moment
street
policy
table
care
process
teacher
data
death
experience
plan
education
age
sense
show
college
music
mind
class
police
use
effect
season
tax
heart
son
art
market
air
force
foot
baby
love
republican
interest
security
control
rate
report
nation
action
wife
decision
value
phone
thanks
event

ADJECTIVES
other
good
new
great
big
high
old
bad
different
American
little
sure
small
right
large
real
best
long
young
important
only
national
black
social
able
political
public
white
better
late
free
sorry
low
human
true
whole
easy
hard
early
possible
wrong
full
local
strong

ADVERBS

so
just
up
out
how
now
here
then
more
well
also
very
back
there
even
only
really
why
right
down
on
too
still
never
in
when
as
where
all
most
over
again
always
off
about
today
ever
maybe
far
away
actually
long
okay
yet
much
however
around
least
already
together
often
ago
once
enough
almost
later
probably
else
course
home
both
little
better
please
sometimes

CONJUNCTIONS

and
that
but
or
as
if
when
than
because
while
so
where
since
though
after
until
whether
before
although
even

ARTICLES
the
a
his
my
your
their
her
our
no
every
its

PRONOUNS

I
you
it
he
we
they
she
me
who
him
them
one
us
her
something
anything
nothing
someone
everything
everyone
himself
anyone

DETERMINERS

this
that
what
all
some
which
these
more
any
those
many
much
same
own
another
few
such
most
each
both
several

PREPOSITIONS

of
in
to
for
with
on
at
from
by
about
as
like
into
through
after
over
out
between
against
without
during
before
under
around
among
off
including
such
within
across
up
according
behind