This 30 hour low-beginning level course offers students the basic vocabulary and language they need to communicate in essential life-skill and workplace situations. The course builds language and vocabulary foundations through interactive exercises, guided conversations and activities that develop a student’s basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Simple grammatical structures and writing skills are introduced to prepare and gateway the student into the higher-level Course: English as a Second Language – Foundations Tier Level 2
The Foundations Tier Level 1 course teaches essential listening, reading, and writing skills – as well as speaking and computational skills- required by the workplace environment. Emphasis will be on pronunciation and comprehension of basic work-related vocabulary; fundamental sentence structures related to the following: giving and asking for important information; expressing needs, preferences, and emotional states; dealing with numbers, unit of measurement, and basic computation; describing people and things through the use of common adjective; conjugating in the simple present and past tenses.