ESOL for beginners: entry 1 - Writing

Speaking and Listening:

• Practice speaking skills in different scenarios using a communicative approach.
• Engage in group discussions and pair work to develop conversational skills and questioning strategies.
• Watch and listen to conversations to identify features of non-verbal communication and pronunciation, including stress and intonation.
• Develop vocabulary and knowledge of words to support speaking and listening skills.
• Obtain information from verbal communication, follow instructions, and pick out key words and phrases.
• Use correct pronunciation, stress, and intonation to convey meaning and context.
• Express and respond to greetings, ask and answer questions, and make statements of fact in everyday contexts.

Reading:

• Develop skills to read and understand short texts such as public signs, notices, maps, lists, forms, letters, emails, adverts, and posters.
• Follow short texts and recognize different types and purposes of text through layout and presentational features.
• Use context or key word recognition to infer meaning from texts.
• Recognize common words, signs, symbols, and letters in both upper and lower case.
• Identify the main events in straightforward texts using textual clues.
• Use graphics to help identify meaning and obtain relevant information from texts.
• Recognize common symbols and signs and their meanings.

Writing:

• Produce simple sentences to record and present basic information and ideas.
• Use correct punctuation for the end of sentences and capitalization for the beginning of sentences, names, places, and the personal pronoun ‘I’.
• Complete simple forms correctly using upper and lower case letters.
• Spell personal key words and familiar words correctly.
• Engage in various writing activities such as lists, messages, notes, and short responses.
• Learn the difference between a line of words and a sentence, and how to use word order and verb forms to construct sentences.
• Practice writing digits, dates, telephone numbers, and postcodes.
• Understand the conventions of forms, such as personal details, use of upper and lower case letters, and printing information in block letters.