• ESOL F01 Beginning Conversation
• ESOL F02 Beginning Reading
• ESOL F03 Beginning Writing
• ESOL F04 Beginning Grammer

• Introducing students to the essential elements of grammar.
• Strengthening students' abilities to produce the new grammatical structures in a variety of communicative contexts.

After finishing this module, the student should:

• Use BE to form affirmative and negative statements, yes/no and WH-questions in the simple present, past and future tenses.
• Use high frequency action verbs to form statements and questions in the simple present, present continuous, simple past , future and with models.
• Use nouns (singular and plural count and non-count and possessive) as subjects and objects.
• Use personal pronouns (subjective, objective, and possessive) and indefinite pronouns as subjects and objects.
• Use certain high-frequency verbs such as NEED, WANT, WOULD LIKE + noun or infinitive.
• Use THERE + BE in the simple present and past tenses.
• Use common prepositions of time and place.
• Use the imperative to make commands and LET'S to make suggestions.
  

ESOL F02 Beginning Reading

• Introducing reading skills including word forms, synonyms and antonyms, and finding the main idea.
• Building vocabulary including acquisition of estimated vocabulary of 500-1,000 words.
• Increasing awareness of spelling, dictionary usage, and interpreting the author's purpose.
• Carrying out an extensive reading program through the use of graded readers.
• Developing elementary critical reading skills: learning to recognize support for a thesis in a text.
  

• Read and understand a passage of about 150-200 words.
• Demonstrate familiarity with a target vocabulary of 500-1,000 words.
• Use pre-reading activities to anticipate the meaning of a reading passage.
• Be able to identify synonyms and antonyms of target vocabulary.
• Be able to select the main idea of a passage.
  

• Slice of Life by Joe Starr and Christine Tierney

• Introducing students to basic English rules of capitalization, punctuation, and paragraph format.
• Introducing students to various common sentence patterns, from simple sentences to the basics of coordination and subordination.
• Most importantly, building basic knowledge of paragraph organization with emphasis on developing topic sentences, support, concluding sentences and the use of basic transitions.
  

• Use capital letters at the beginning of sentences, correct end and internal (as germane level) punctuation.
• Correctly spell vocabulary germane to the level.
• Have mastery of correct verb forms for simple present and present progressive tenses and familiarity with simple past, past progressive, and simple models.
• Write with mastery of simple sentences and basic compound sentences with AND, BUT and SO.
• Write with familiarity of basic complex sentences with WHEN,WHILE, BEFORE, AFTER and BECAUSE.
• Generate ideas through prewriting.
• Organize and write a correctly formatted simple paragraph of 8-10 sentences, which would be 80-125 words, with a topic sentence, supporting sentences and a concluding sentence.
• Revise a paragraph whose errors have been indicated.
  

• Write on Target, Joe Starr (McGraw-Hill)

ESOL F04 Beginning Grammar

• Introducing students to the essential elements of grammar.
• Strengthening students' abilities to produce the new grammatical structures in a variety of communicative contexts.
  

• Use BE to form affirmative and negative statements, yes/no and WH-questions in the simple present, past and future tenses.
• Use high frequency action verbs to form statements and questions in the simple present, present continuous, simple past , future and with models.
• Use nouns (singular and plural count and non-count and possessive) as subjects and objects.
• Use personal pronouns (subjective, objective, and possessive) and indefinite pronouns as subjects and objects.
• Use certain high-frequency verbs such as NEED, WANT, WOULD LIKE + noun or infinitive.
• Use THERE + BE in the simple present and past tenses.
• Use common prepositions of time and place.
• Use the imperative to make commands and LET'S to make suggestions.