Beginner 1 – Duration: 30hrs

Greetings, message-taking at work and other expressions of courtesy.

General Objective

Beginner 1 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
• Interrogative forms
• Negative forms
• Definite and indefinite articles
• Basic prepositions