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Skills Institute Australia

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Comprehensive English course syllabus

Elementary

Learning areaLearning outcomes
SpeakingCommunicate in simple and routine tasks on familiar topics and activities.
Simply describe
  • family and other people
  • living conditions
  • educational background
  • present job
ListeningUnderstand phrases and common vocabulary on common areas
  • very basic personal and family information
  • shopping
  • the local area, and employment
Understand the main point in short, clear, simple messages and announcements
ReadingRead very short, simple texts.
Find specific, predictable information in
  • advertisements
  • prospectuses
  • menus and timetables
Understand short simple personal letters
WritingWrite short, simple notes and messages
  • Write a simple personal letter
  • write thank you notes
GrammarDemonstrate elementary comprehension and use of
  • Present Simple for habits
  • Articles
  • Pronouns
  • Countable / uncountable nouns
  • Adverbs of frequency and manner
  • Can / could for requests
  • Adjectives and modifiers
  • Past Simple for simple recounts
  • Present Continuous for things happening now
  • Comparative and superlative
  • Present Perfect for life events
  • Imperatives for instructions
  • Should for advice
  • Have to / need to for obligation
  • Be like for descriptions
  • Present Simple for future facts
  • Future Simple for future facts
VocabularyDemonstrate elementary comprehension and use of vocabulary to describe:
  • Families
  • Food and meals
  • Clothing and shopping
  • Prices
  • Daily routines
  • Personality, appearance, abilities
  • Work and jobs
  • Transport and travel
  • Machines and inventions
  • Festivals and celebrations
  • Weather and climate
FunctionUse elementary constructions to
  • Give opinions
  • Talk about routines and habits
  • Talk about intentions
  • Describe experiences
  • Talk about feelings
  • Make comparisons
  • Invite
  • Make decisions
  • Buy things
  • Talk about possibility and hopes
  • Talk about rules and obligations
  • Give instructions
  • Make offers
  • Give advice and suggestions
  • Apologise

Pre-Intermediate

Learning areaLearning outcomes
SpeakingDemonstrate pre-intermediate spoken comprehension.
Deal with most situations when travelling in an area where people speak English
  • Talk about family, hobbies, work, travel and current events
  • Talk about experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions
  • Give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans
  • Tell the story of a book or film and describe your reactions
ListeningDemonstrate pre-intermediate listening comprehension.
  • Understand the main points of clear speech on work, school and leisure
  • Understand the main point on many radio or TV programmes on current affairs or familiar topics, when the speaker speaks slowly and clearly
ReadingDemonstrate pre-intermediate reading comprehension
  • Understand common, basic or job-related language
  • Understand the description of events, feelings and wishes in personal letters
WritingWrite at a pre-intermediate level
  • Write simply about familiar topics
  • Write personal letters describing experiences and impressions
GrammarDemonstrate pre-intermediate comprehension and use of:
  • Present Simple
  • Present Continuous
  • Comparative and superlative
  • Past Simple
  • Past Continuous
  • Present Perfect
  • Going to and will for predictions and future events and spontaneous decisions
  • Adverbs of frequency and manner
  • Reflexive pronouns
  • So / such
  • Have to/ need to for obligation
  • Present Simple Passive
  • When / while / as soon as
  • Must / might for deductions
  • Be able to / good at
  • Although / however
  • First Conditional
  • Used to + verb
  • Relative clauses
VocabularyDemonstrate pre-intermediate comprehension and use of vocabulary to describe:
  • Families
  • Restaurants and leisure venues
  • Personality and biographical information
  • Buildings and monuments
  • Weather Clothes and accessories
  • Large numbers
  • Travel and tourism
  • Work and careers
  • Hobbies, sports and interests
  • Education
  • Life changes and events
  • Political systems and change
  • Animals
  • Descriptions of people, health, fitness and illnesses
  • Types of music and concerts
  • Household equipment
FunctionUse familiar English functions at a pre-intermediate level
  • Ask personal questions
  • Talk about personal experiences
  • Ask directions
  • Describe personality
  • Make travel arrangements
  • Order in a restaurant
  • Talk about preferences
  • Express preferences
  • Make deductions
  • Make predictions
  • Offer and suggesting
  • Talk about obligation
  • Request

Intermediate

Learning areaLearning outcomes
SpeakingDemonstrate Intermediate speaking proficiency
  • Speak regularly with native speakers
  • Discuss familiar topics in detail
  • Give opinions and explain advantages and disadvantages
ListeningDemonstrate Intermediate listening proficiency
  • Understand long speech and lectures and follow complex arguments if the topic is reasonably familiar
  • Understand most TV news and current affairs programmes
  • Understand the majority of films in common accents
ReadingRead at an intermediate level
  • Read articles and reports about common topics
  • Understand modern novels
WritingDemonstrate intermediate writing skills
  • Write clearly and in detail about a wide range of subjects
  • Write an essay or report
  • Write letters about events and personal experiences
GrammarDemonstrate Intermediate comprehension and use of:
  • Used to + infinitive
  • Past Simple and Present Perfect
  • Neither / so do I
  • Modal verbs
  • Reported speech
  • First, second conditional
  • Adverbs of manner and modifiers
  • Relative clauses
  • Adjectives and their connotations
  • Present Perfect Continuous
  • Look + adjective, look like + noun
  • Be able to / can/ manage to
  • Passives Past Perfect
  • Simple Have and have got
  • Be allowed to and be supposed to
  • A / few and a / little
  • Although / in spite of / despite
  • Question tags
VocabularyDemonstrate intermediate comprehension and use of vocabulary to describe:
  • Education
  • Appearances
  • Clothes
  • Character
  • Housework
  • Holidays and travel brochures
  • Illness
  • Cooking
  • Weather
  • Furniture and appliances
  • Types of books, films, and TV programmes
  • Crime and punishment
  • Political systems
  • Family relationships
  • Pets and animals
  • Consumer services
  • Hotel facilities
FunctionUse intermediate English in common and important functional ways
  • Describe location, people and things
  • State preferences and opinions
  • Talk about obligation
  • Report requests and orders
  • Give advice
  • Make deductions
  • Guess
  • Talk about possibility / probability and certainty
  • Refuse
  • Describe faulty goods

Upper-Intermediate

Learning areaLearning outcomes
SpeakingDemonstrate advanced levels of spoken English
  • Speak fluently without searching for language
  • Communicate effectively in social and professional situations
  • Give ideas and opinions and relate ideas to those of other speakers
  • Talk about of complex subjects and develop arguments
ListeningDemonstrate advanced comprehension of English listening skills
  • Understand long complex speech
  • Understand most TV news and current affairs programmes
  • Understand most television programmes and films
ReadingDemonstrate advanced English reading skills
  • Understand long and complex factual and literary texts, with different styles
  • Understand specialised articles and long technical instructions
WritingWrite using advanced English skills
  • Write long, clear, well-structured text to express your points of view
  • Write about complex subjects in a letter, an essay or a report
  • Write in an appropriate style
GrammarDemonstrate upper-intermediate comprehension and use of:
  • Habit in the Present and the Past
  • Present Perfect
  • Simple and Present Perfect
  • Continuous Past Simple and Past Continuous and Past Perfect
  • Question tags
  • Will, going to, Present Simple, Present Continuous for the future
  • Future Perfect
  • Phrasal verbs Zero, first, second and third conditionals
  • Wish and if only
  • Passive Compounds of some, any, no, every
  • Reported speech
  • Relative clauses
  • Conjunctions: although, despite, in spite of , otherwise, unless
  • Modals: present and perfect
  • Always for frequency / + present continuous
VocabularyDemonstrate upper-intermediate comprehension and use of vocabulary to describe:
  • Collocations
  • Work, working conditions
  • Approximations with -ish
  • Transport and exploration
  • Phrasal verbs
  • Crime and punishment
  • Relationships
  • Festivals and celebrations
  • Connotation
  • Homonyms
  • Idiomatic expressions
  • Sport and leisure
  • Euphemisms
  • Adverbs of manner and modifiers
  • Geography and climate
  • Participle adjectives
  • Banks / money
  • Colloquial expressions and slang
FunctionDemonstrate familiarity with advanced and specialised English functions
  • Give opinions
  • Summarise
  • Express regret
  • Draw conclusions
  • Make offers
  • Describe cause and effect
  • State purpose
  • Emphasise
  • State contrast
  • Add information
  • Congratulate
  • Commiserate
  • Clarify
  • Guess
  • Order arguments
  • Give examples

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