Basic English for Everyday Life

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Course Outline

  1. Personal life and home
  2. Leisure, travel and interaction
  3. Daily needs and communication
  4. Core grammar: tenses and auxiliaries
  5. Core grammar: pronouns and determiners

1. Personal life and home

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Personal characteristics: Category of information about yourself, your family, and your friends that you can describe orally and in writing.
  • Family composition: Set of details that describe who is in your family.
  • Domestic animals: Type of pets you can name and describe in your everyday life.
  • Home rooms: Parts of a house you can identify, describe, and locate using simple language.

Essential Points

  • You must be able to state your name, age, birthplace date, address, phone number, and nationality.
  • You must be able to list languages you speak and languages you are learning.
  • You must be able to describe physical appearance and clothing.
  • You must be able to describe your family composition and your profession/occupations.
  • You must be able to name domestic animals you have.
  • You must be able to identify the dwelling, its environment, and the rooms with their main furniture locations.

Memory Hook

Home = people + pets + rooms; build sentences in that order.

2. Leisure, travel and interaction

Key Concepts & Definitions

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Practice quiz preview

1. Which skill best fits the topic of personal life and home?

2. Which piece of information is specifically included in this topic?

3. Which activity belongs to leisure, travel, and interaction?

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Personal characteristics — definition?

Descriptive info about yourself, family, friends.

Family composition — role?

Details describing family members and relationships.

Domestic animals — examples?

Pets like dogs, cats, birds, etc.

Home rooms — function?

Identify and describe parts of a house.

Leisure activities — during holidays?

Sports, hobbies, and tech activities.

Travel modes — examples?

Bus, train, plane, car, etc.

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