Limelight a2 Achievers Programme
This programme aims to teach students up to the A2 standard of the CEFR, including reading, writing, listening and speaking areas. Students who take this course will be able to take the Trinity GESE / ISE, Cambridge YLE Flyers, KET exam, PTE General & Academic.
Areas of study
READING
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Able to understand the main message & some details
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Able to understand short factual reading texts (ex: signs, notices, instructions, brochures, guides, informative articles from newspapers & magazines)
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Have strategies for dealing with unfamiliar structures & vocabulary
lISTENING
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Able to understand and respond to dialogues and monologues (ex: telephone conversations & recorded messages in both casual and neutral settings)
WRITING
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Able to bring up vocabulary from a short definition
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Able to complete one-word gaps in a simple text
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Able to transfer information from a text to a form
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Able to complete a short everyday writing task
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Show a reasonable control of sentence structure, vocabulary, spelling & punctuation
SPEAKING
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Able to interact both with an examiner and another candidate
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Able to answer and ask questions about themselves and about factual information on a prompt card
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Able to demonstrate strategies for dealing with communication difficulties (ex: paraphrasing, asking for clarification)
Some of the Topics covered...
House & home
Language
Hobbies & leisure
School & study
Services
The natural world
Travel & holidays
Social interaction
Clothes
Daily life
Entertainment & media
Food & drink
Some grammatical Areas Covered...
Nouns
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Singular and plural (regular and irregular forms)
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Countable and uncountable nouns with some and any Abstract nouns
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Compound nouns
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Complex noun phrases
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Genitive: ‘s & s’
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Double genitive: a friend of theirs
Tenses
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Present simple: states, habits, systems and processes (and verbs not used in the continuous form)
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Present continuous: present actions
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Present perfect simple: recent past with just, indefinite past with yet, already, never, ever; unfinished past with for and since
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Past simple: past events
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Past continuous: parallel past actions, continuous actions interrupted by the past simple tense
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Future with going to
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Future with will and shall: offers, promises, predictions, etc
Verb Forms
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Affirmative, interrogative, negative
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Imperatives
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Infinitives (with and without to) after verbs and adjectives Gerunds (-ing form) after verbs and prepositions
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Gerunds as subjects and objects
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Passive forms: present and past simple
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Short questions (Can you?) and answers (No, he doesn’t)
Modals
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can (ability; requests; permission)
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could (ability; polite requests)
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would (polite requests)
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will (future; offer)
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shall (suggestion; offer)
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should (advice)
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may (possibility)
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might (possibility)
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have (got) to (obligation)
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must (obligation)
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mustn’t (prohibition)
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need (necessity)
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needn’t (lack of necessity)
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used to + infinitive (past habits)