English

• Plurals: -s, -es and -ies: One and more than one: cats, boxes, babies, and when to use each ending.
• Irregular plurals: Plurals that break the rules: children, mice, teeth, sheep, knives.
• Homophones: Words that sound the same but are spelt differently: there/their/they're, to/too/two.
• Nouns: Common, proper, collective and abstract nouns.
• Countable and uncountable nouns: much/many, a few/a little, some/any, how much/how many.
• Articles: a, an and the: When to use a, an, the, or no article at all.
• Determiners: this/that/these/those, my/your, some/any/every/each and other words before nouns.
• Pronouns: Subject, object and possessive pronouns: I/me/my/mine, she/her/hers.
• Adjectives: Describing words, their order (a big old red bus) and -ed/-ing adjectives.
• Comparatives and superlatives: bigger, the biggest, more careful, the most careful, better, worst.
• Subject–verb agreement: The cat runs, the cats run: making the verb fit its subject.
• Prepositions of place and time: in, on, at, under, between, before, during, since, for.
• Conjunctions: Joining words: and, but, or, so (coordinating); because, although, when, if (subordinating).
• Making questions: Questions with do/does/did, be and can; wh- questions; word order in questions.
• Negative sentences: don't, doesn't, didn't, isn't, aren't, can't: making sentences negative.
• There is and there are: There is a book, there are two books; is there…? / are there…?
• Word classes: Telling nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions and determiners apart.
• The verbs be and have: I am, you are, she is; I have, he has: the two most important verbs.
• Present simple: I play, she plays: habits, facts and routines; do/does in questions and negatives.
• Present continuous: I am playing: actions happening now, and how it differs from the present simple.
• Past simple: played, went, saw: regular and irregular past forms; did in questions and negatives.
• Irregular verbs: go/went/gone, see/saw/seen: the common irregular verbs and their forms.
• Capital letters and full stops: Starting and ending sentences; capitals for names, places, days, months and I.
• Apostrophes for missing letters: do not → don't, it is → it's, I will → I'll.
• Synonyms and antonyms: Words with the same or opposite meaning: big/large, hot/cold; choosing the best word.
• Tricky English for Arabic speakers: p/b and f/v, word order, a/an/the, is/are and other things Arabic speakers find hard.
• Greetings and introductions: Hello, my name is…, nice to meet you, how are you?
• Numbers, dates and time: Numbers to a million, days, months, dates and telling the time in English.
• Finding information (retrieval): Finding facts and details in a text, in the words of the text.
• Listening for detail: Listening to a short original passage (read aloud) and answering questions.
• Everyday conversations: Asking for things, making plans, on the phone, at the shop: useful phrases.