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I. Course description.

This course focuses on important aspects of completing all English skills for students who need to
enhance basic knowledge of English again after a break and desire to achieve the A1 level after
finishing the course. On the one hand, students will acquire strategies and methods to learn English
effectively through the topics as well as teachers lecture during the course. On the other hand, the
diversity of exercises in terms of speaking, listening, grammar, writing and reading aims at creating
a good chance for students to revise vocabulary, structures and to add new vocabulary, structures
through all topics near real society. Particularly, Student will work with a foreign teacher in 8 days of
course in a friendly and active environment with aiming at helping students improve speaking skill
as well as accurately learn the way to pronounce words or intonation in a sentence
The activities in class enable student to improve both their ability to communicate and their
linguistic competence in English. In addition to this, the course gives an insight into the culture and
society of spoken English countries.
II. Goal
The purpose of the course is to consolidate and revise basic structures and language functions.
Therefore, after finishing the course, student needs to be able to:
- Gain fundamental knowledge of four English skills
- Deal with simple, straightforward information and begin to express yourself in familiar
contexts.
- Achieve the A1 certificate.
- Know how to apply structures, vocabulary to real-life situations.
- Make short conservations and write short, simple letters and passages
- Enhance some strategies, methods of learning English.

- Communicate and exchange information effectively in a simple way and develop collaboration
skill through group activities.
III. Objective
The course divides into two stages with different levels for each stage.
Stage 1: (16 day per course from..to .)- Student need to be able to
+Listening:
- Be familiar with simple topics such as numbers, times, dates, locations and so on
- Acquire your understanding of listening skill for detail or specific information
- Approach the forms of listening such as gap filling, multiple choice, transformation, matching,
true/false, open question.
+Reading:
- Read short passages , story, conservations to gain vocabulary, structures and real information
through the topics
- Learn the way to scan or skim information through passages
- Answer simple questions under the forms of reading skill such as multiple choice, matching,
true or false, gap-filling, transformation, error correction
Writing:
- Learn how to make a sentence and practice grammatical structures through exercises such as
using suggested words to write a complete sentence, rewrite these sentences with the same
meanings and so on
- Write a passage of three or four sentences about topics such as family, city, hometown, culture
and so on.
Speaking:
- Use grammatical structures taught in the others skill to make a complete sentence

- Form a short conversation to ask and answer the simple questions involving the topics such as
family, friend, city, hometown and so on
- Improve pronunciation with vowel sounds, consonant sounds and intonation, linking of a
sentence.
Grammar:
- Revise all grammatical systems in English such as parts of speech, tenses, voices, phrases,
conjunctions, clauses, prepositions and so on
Stage 2: (8days per course- from to ). Make an acquaintance with the forms of Key test with
specific purposes below.
+Listening:
- Practice the five forms of listening for Key examination such as multiple choice, filling gap
through the topics such as prices, numbers, times, dates, locations, directions, shapes, sizes,
weather, descriptions etc.
- Listen for a longer conservation related to topics such as daily life, travel, work or free time
- Identify simple information in the conversation and match together two lists of words (e.g.
names of people and the food they like to eat).
- Listen and write down information from the conversation to complete a message or notes.
+Reading:
- Read and understand simple written information such as signs, brochures, newspapers and
magazines

- Be familiar with tasks such as supplying missing words, completing gapped sentences,
selecting the right sentence for each gap in a given text, and
completing multiple-choice
questions about a given text.
+Writing:
- Write short letters and a short message of 50 words.
Provide a word to match a definition, supply words to complete spaces in a text, using
information in a text to complete a document
Speaking
- Demonstrate conversation skills by answering and asking simple questions relating to personal
information about yourself, e.g. about their daily life, interests, etc.
- Describe the pictures and make a short conservation with partners.
Grammar: do exercises in grammatical items
IV. Requirements
Students who taking part in the course need to be responsible for:
- Having positive attitudes to attend all lessons
- Attending full of lessons
- Completing all exercises which the teacher asks
- Coming to class on time
- Following the teachers directions immediately

V Course syllabus
1.Listening and speaking skills
Uni Topic
t

Listening
(40p)

Speaking
(30)

Pronunciati Grammar ( structures)


on

(15)

Number

People

-Identifying
the
numbers in speech
-Distinguishing
similar-sounding
telephone numbers
or addresses
-Recognizing
the
correct addresses,
street
number,
dates and time

-Recognizing
surname
-Spelling
first
names
-Pair work-spelling
names
-Checking
for
correct spelling
-Listening
to

-Pronouncing
Numbers
through
the topics: telephone
numbers
-Pronouncing
telephone numbers
-Class
workremembering
and
writing
telephone
numbers
-Using
Directory
Enquires
-Pronouncing
surnames
-Spelling first names
and
surnames,
peoples titles
-Responding
to
greetings
-Distinguishing
countries of Great

Distinguishin
g
vowel
sounds
/i/ and /i:/

Distinguishin
g
vowel
sounds
/u/ and /u:/

-Whats your address?


My address is..
-What is address of
American Express?
It is..
-Could/ may I have your
address/ the address of
Black and Decker?
My /the address is 623
Holly road
-Could you give me your
address?
Yes, it is Grant Street, A
hundred and nine Grant
Street
-May I/ could I know your
name/
surname/
first
name, please?
My name/ surname/ first
name is Kelly
- May I/ could I have your
name, please?
-What is your name,
please?

greetings
and
choosing the best
response.
Britain
-Recognizing states -Describing a person
of the USA, time
references, areas of
the world
3

Times
and
Dates

My names is Kelly
-How do you spell that?
It is K-E-L-LY
-Did I spell your name
correctly, Miss Kate
Thats K A-T-E

-What time is it in
Bolivia?/ what is the time
Distinguishin in Bolivia?
g
vowel It is 5 oclock
- Recognizing flight
sounds
-Could I/ May I know / I
times
-Pronouncing times, // and /:/ would like to know / could
- Peoples dates of years, dates
you tell me what time is
birth
-Pair
workit in England, please?
-Date of arrival and distinguishing time
Yes, They are four hours
departure
-Calculating the time
behind us/ Their time
-Period of time
differences
is.
-Telling the time
-Could I speak to Mr Day,
Please?
I am afraid he is out of
the office at the moment,
he will be back for an
hour
-Could you give me the

-Classifying
foods
and
recognizing
word stress
-Distinguishing
between a and
Food and the
drink
-Recognizing
intentions
-Quantities (grams,
kilogrammes, litres,
etc)
-Orders
Furniture
and
rooms

-Classifying
furniture
-Recognizing words
and word stress

-Talking about food


and drink
-Explaining
the
menu to a business
partner
-Express someones
favorite food
-Recognizing
opinions on food
-Choosing the best
response

Distinguishin
g
vowel
sounds
/e/ and //

-Talking about things


insides a house
-Showing location of
objects in a room

Distinguishin
g
vowel
sounds

date of your birth/ could I


have your date of birth,
please?
It is April the 21st 1956.
-How long have you been
here?
Ive been here for about
six and a half week now
-Would you like anything
to drink?
Yes, Id love to
-What would you like to
have/drink?
I think Ill try to the fish
-Can I take your order?
I think I will try the fish
-Will you have vegetable?
Yes, please
-How many eggs do I
need?
About half a dozen
-Whats the bedroom got
in it?
A double bed and a
dressing table

Prices

-Identifying
the
correct room
-Recognizing
location of objects
in a room
-Identifying
the
correct
house/
block of flats.

-Recognizing
who
does what?
-Inferring meaningWhat is she going to // and /:/
ask?
-Recognizing
who
are they?

-Prices and paying


- price in different
currencies
-Changing
travelers chequesquantities of notes
-Listening for gist in
announcements
-Listening
for
detail,
grouping
work
-Putting sentences

- Pronouncing prices
Distinguishing
similar
sounding
prices
-Recognizing price in
different currencies
-Comparing prices of
things in different
cities
-Choosing the best
response
to
questions
about

Distinguishin
g
vowel
sounds
// and /:/
Distinguishin
g
vowel
sounds
/i/, /ei/ and
/ i/

-Could you tell me about


the kitchen?
Well, its got a new
cooker and a small fridge
-Whats
the
small
bedroom got in it?
Just a bed and a small
chest of drawers
-What is the living room
like?
Quite big. Its got a sofa
and two chairs as well as
a dinning table
-What does it cost/ what
is its price?
It is five pound
-How much did you pay
for the watch?
That was a hundred and
forty Hong Kong dollars
-How would you like to
pay for it?
Id like to pay credit card
-How much money do
you want to spend?

in
the
orders

Health

Describin
g objects
and
people

correct money and prices

-Listening for detail


and matching info
with pictures
-Taking notes
-Checking the order
of sentences in a
dialogue
-Matching exercise
-Medicines
and
tablets-quantity
and frequency

-Recognizing parts of
body, area of pain
-Interfering meaning
what is wrong with
people?
-Choosing the best
response to question
about keeping fit
-Recognizing forms
of exercise
-Giving
advance,
ways of keeping fit

-Matching objects
with
their
descriptions
Recognizing
objects
form
descriptions
- Recognizing faults

-Distinguishing
between
singular
and plural
-Distinguishing
similar items at lost
property office
-Describing

Distinguishin
g
vowel
sounds
/u/, /au/

and/ e/

Distinguishin
g
vowel
sounds
/p/ and /b/

-Three hundred and fifty,


please
-How do you often do
exercise?
Three times a week
-Whats the matter/How
are you feeling?
Im not feeling well/ I feel
sick/ I have got flu/ have
got a pain in my neck/
pack..
-You should see the
doctor
-Are you feeling alright/
any better?
I hope you feel better
soon
Get well on.
-What is it like?
Its bid
-How big is it?
Its twice as old one
-What size is it?
It is
-What shape is it?

in items
-Recognizing
people
from
description, family
photographs
-Distinguishing
sentence
and
question intonation
9

Shopping

-Classifying items
on a shopping list
and
recognizing
word stress
-Items for sale and
their
age
from
descriptions
-Recognizing items
for sale and their
age
from
descriptions
-Recognizing
locations-sections
in a department

It
is
round/square/
triangle
-How heavy is it?
It is light
appearance
of
-What colour is it?
people or shape of
It is yellow
objects
-What is it made of?
It made of leather
-What is she like/What
does she look like?
She is tall and thin
-Inferring intentions -How much is the most
about shopping
Distinguishin you have ever spent
-Recognizing
g
vowel shopping?
quantities
sounds
-How many brand names
-Distinguishing
/p/ and /b/
can you think of for
between shops on
shoes?
the
basis
of
-Did you buy anything
comparison
new last week?
-Interring intentions
Yes I bought a new T-shirt
to buy
-What did you buy?
I bought a new computer
game

store

10

11

-Personal choice of
holiday activities
-Holiday activities
Going on -Items to be packed
holiday
for a holiday
-Choosing the best
response
to
questions on travel

Transport -Identifying
s
different kinds of
transport
-Distinguishing
similarsounding
kinds of transport
-Recognizing kinds

-Which country do you


want to travel?
I would like to go to
Singapore
-Have you ever here
-Interfering
long?
intentionsholiday
-Where did you go for
activities
Distinguishin your holiday?
-Recognizing
g
vowel I went to Japanese.
countries and cities
sounds
-When did you get back
-Opinions
about
/t/ and /d/
from Japan?
holidays
Have you ever been to
Australia?
No, I havent
How long were you
away?
-Recognizing
numbers
and
frequency-buses
-Recognizing
destinations, finding
locations
and
following directions

Distinguishin
g
vowel
sounds
/s/ and /z/

-What bus can I take to


get to the zoo, please?
Either 17 or a 24
-Can I take a bus to the
hospital from here?
Yes, I want a number 65
-Do you know how to get

of transport
descriptions

12

Jobs

-Personal
presentences
jobs
recognizing
stress
-Sequencing
activities
-Recognizing
locations of
in
an
cupboard

to the post office?


-Could you know how to
go to the church?
-How can I get to the
Natural History Museum?
-Where is the nearest
-Asking
and
from
chemist, please?
answering
the
It is on the correct of
direction of road
West Street and Cross
Street
-Is there a post office
near here?
Yes, In Newman street,
next to the art gallery
-Distinguishing
-What is your job?
for activities in a job
Distinguishin I am a student
and -Recognizing
time g
vowel -What do you do?
word references
and sounds
She is a teacher
locations in an office /s/ and /z/
-What do you do for a
block
living/ what sort of work
-Recognizing
a
do you do?
candidates
-What line of work are
items background
and
you in?
office education
I work as a journalist
-Choosing the best

response
to
questions
at
an
an
interview
-Talking about future
jobs
-Personal
leisure
activities and how
much
time
you -Talking about leisure
spend on them
activities
and
-Distinguishing
opinions
acceptance
and -Inferring intentions
refusal
-Choosing the best
-Recognizing detail response
leisure
of arrangements
activities
and
-Recognizing
arrangements
opinion on events
-Recognizing
intentions in
office

13

14

Leisure
activities

Instructio -Giving instructions


ns
-Distinguishing how
to look after things
-Distinguishing
a
customers
requests
-Distinguishing
time
references-

-Recognizing
and
sequencing
the
methods for a recipe
-Recognizing
machines
from
operating
instructions
-Recognizing objects

-What do you often do in


your free time?
Distinguishin I often listen to music
g
vowel -What activities do you
sounds
often play in your free
/m/, /n/, // time?

Distinguishin
g
vowel
sounds
/f/ and /v/

-Would you like me to


shampoo it first?
It is all right. I will do it
myself at home.
-Why dont we move that
rug back to smaller
bedroom?
-You go into.Put in

from descriptions of
how to look after
them
-Recognizing
changes in location

household jobs

15

-Matching
airport
activities with the
correct location
-Recognizing
locations
at
an
airport
and
Air sports
recognizing
word
stress
-Matching names to
announcements
-Recognizing
departure

16

Sport
activities

17

Key Tests

-Choosing the best


response to question
at immigration
-Recognizing
messages left on
answering machines
-Asking
and
answering
the
questions about air
sports

-Naming of sport
activities
-Expressing
-Matching pictures favorite sports
with
suitable
information
-Practicing
tests

two Press the button at


the side..

Distinguishin
g
vowel
sounds
/w/
/r/
and /l/

your Distinguishin
g
vowel
sounds
// and //

-Could you show/tell me


the way to go to bus
station?
-May you instruct me to
go to post office

What favorite sports do


you like? What are your
hobbies?
-I
like/love
playing
football

Key -Practicing speaking -Reviewing


-Review all topics
skills following the all
vowels

18

Key Tests

- Practicing
tests

Key

20

Key Tests

- Practicing
tests

Key

21

Key Tests

- Practicing
tests

Key

22

Key Tests

- Practicing
tests

Key

form of Key test


and
such as interviews,
consonant
describing pictures,
sounds
make a conservation
-Reviewing
-Practicing speaking all
vowels
skills following the and
form of Key test
consonant
sounds
-Reviewing
-Practicing speaking all
vowels
skills following the and
form of Key test
consonant
sounds
-Reviewing
-Practicing speaking all
vowels
skills following the and
form of Key test
consonant
sounds
-Reviewing
-Practicing speaking all
vowels
skills following the and
form of Key test,
consonant
sounds

-Review all topics

-Review all topics

-Review all topics

-Review all topics

2. Reading and writing skills


Unit Topic
s

Family
matters

Work
jobs

Reading
(20)
-Answering
short
questions;
-Completing
sentences/summar
ies;
-Selecting from a
list

-Completing
sentences/summar
ies;
-Selecting from a
and
list
-Make
acquaintances
with
Scanning
skills

Writing(20)
-Making acquaintances
with
sentence
patterns:
-Introducing
about
family
-Putting random words
in order
-Using the suggested
word
to
write
a
complete sentence
-Making acquaintances
with
sentence
patterns:
-Putting random words
in order
-Using the suggested
word
to
write
a
complete sentence
-Writing four or five
sentences about future
jobs

Grammar (45p)

+Personal pronounce
-Subject pronounce
-Object pronounce

-Simple tense
+Revision of question forms ( whquestions)
- Question with how much: What
is the price of your coast/ How
much is your coat/ How much
does it cost?
- Question with how many:

Daily life

Friends

- Be familiar with
the exercise of
filling- gap
-Improving
the
ability to guessing
the meaning of
words

-Developing
skimming
skill
throughout
the
topic
-Going
on
practicing types of
filling-gap, true /
false

-Making acquaintances
with sentence patterns
-Putting random words
in order
-Using the suggested
word
to
write
a
complete sentence
-Writing about
daily
routines

-Making acquaintances
with sentence patterns
relating to the topic
-Putting random words
in order
-Using the suggested
word
to
write
a
complete sentence
-Completing sentences
with
the
same
meaning
with
the
original sentences
-Describing a friend

+Parts of speech:
-Noun/
phrasal
noun
:
uncountable nouns and plural
nouns: Information (U), trousers
(pl)
- Article (a, an, the)
+Parts of speech:
-Verb/ phrasal verbs:
-Verb patterns: advise him to go/
suggest (that) we leave.
-Verbs + -ing form or infinitive:
enjoy+-ing, refuse+ infinitive
+Parts of speech:
-Adjective/ phrasal adjective :
boring or bored, big or enormous
-Adjective preposition:
-Adverbs: Frequency and degree I
rarely go, I quite often drive,
rather good.
-Comparative and superlative
adjectives

-Practicing
scanning
and
skimming
skill
through the topics
-Going
on
practicing types of
filling-gap, true /
false

Travel

Countries in -Improving
the
the world
ability to guessing
the meaning of
words
-Finding out similar
words
-Practicing
scanning
and
skimming
skill
through the topics

-Making acquaintances
with sentence patterns
-Putting random words
in order
-Use the suggested
word
to
write
a
complete sentence
-Complete sentences
with
the
same
meaning
with
the
original sentences
-Writing about your
interesting travel
-Making acquaintances
with sentence patterns
relating to the topic
-Putting random words
in order
-Using the suggested
word
to
write
a
complete sentence
-Completing sentences
with
the
same
meaning
with
the
original sentences

+Revision of tenses
-Present simple (I do)

-Present continuous ( I am doing)


-Revision of present simple and
present continuous

Sport
activities

Special
occasions

-Completing
sentences/summar
ies;
-Selecting from a
list
-Practicing
scanning
and
skimming
skill
through the topics

-Answering
multiple - choice
questions;
- Labeling maps
and plans;
-Selecting from a
list
-Finding out similar
words

-Making acquaintances
with sentence patterns
relating to the topic
-Putting random words
in order
-Using the suggested
word
to
write
a
complete sentence
-Completing sentences
with
the
same
meaning
with
the
original sentences
-Writing about your
favorite
Hobbies
-Making acquaintances
with sentence patterns
relating to the topic
-Putting random words
in order
-Using the suggested
word
to
write
a
complete sentence
-Completing sentences

+Revision of tenses
Past continuous/ past simple ( I
was watching/ I did)

-Present perfect and past perfect


(I have done/ I had done)
How long have you been/When/
since or for
-Revision of
past simple and
present perfect

10

with
the
same
-Practicing
meaning
with
the
scanning
and
original sentences
skimming
skill
-Writing a memorable
through the topics
event in your life
-Making acquaintances
with sentence patterns
Completing forms;
relating to the topic
Matching;
-Putting random words
Answering
in order
multiple-choice
-Using the suggested
questions
word
to
write
a
-Finding out similar
Cultures
complete sentence
words
-Completing sentences
-Practicing
with
the
same
scanning
and
meaning
with
the
skimming
skill
original sentences
through the topics
-Introduce about
a
interesting festival in
your hometown
-Complete table;
-Making acquaintances
Food
and -Labeling maps or with sentence patterns
drink
plans:
relating to the topic
-Completing notes: -Putting random words
Classifying;
in order

-Present perfect continuous ( I


have been doing)
-Past perfect continuous

-Future present tenses (I am


doing/ I do) for the future
-Distinction of (Be going to/
will..)

Matching
sentence
fragments;
-Answering
multiple
choice
questions;
-Choosing answer
from the a list

11

12

Labeling maps or
plans:
Fit
and -Completing forms
Healthy
-Completing notes
- Scanning and
skimming

Film
and -Completing
cinema
charts;

flow

-Using the suggested


word
to
write
a
complete sentence
-Completing sentences
with
the
same
meaning
with
the
original sentences
-Introducing a cuisine
in your hometown
-Making acquaintances -Revision of all tenses
with sentence patterns
relating to the topic
-Putting random words
in order
-Using the suggested
word
to
write
a
complete sentence
-Completing sentences
with
the
same
meaning
with
the
original sentences
-Showing causes and
effects of obesity
-Making acquaintances -Subject- agreement
with sentence patterns -Determiners and pronouns: This/

-Answering
questions;
-Completing
sentences
/summaries

13
Global
warming

short

-Finding out similar


words
-Practicing
scanning
and
skimming
skill
through the topics

relating to the topic


-Putting random words
in order
-Using the suggested
word
to
write
a
complete sentence
-Completing sentences
with
the
same
meaning
with
the
original sentences
-Writing about your
favorite film
-Making acquaintances
with sentence patterns
relating to the topic
-Putting random words
in order
-Using the suggested
word
to
write
a
complete sentence
-Completing sentences
with
the
same
meaning
with
the
original sentences
-Discussing the causes

that/
these/
those/
some/
any/anything/ anybody/ nobody/
no one

-Modals: Can, could, would you


(Requests, offers, permission and
invitations)
may, might, must, have to/
should/ had better
-Conjunction

14

15

-Answering
multiple - choice
questions
-Complete table;
-Labeling maps or
plans:
-Completing notes:
Air
Classifying;
pollution
Matching
sentence
fragments
-Continuing
practicing
scanning
and
skimming skill
Traffic jams -Answering
multiple
choice
questions
-Complete table;
-Labeling maps or
plans:
-Completing notes:
Classifying;

of effects of global
warming to our life
-Making acquaintances
with sentence patterns
relating to the topic
-Putting random words
in order
-Using the suggested
word
to
write
a
complete sentence
-Completing sentences
with
the
same
meaning
with
the
original sentences
-Looking
for
the
solutions of limiting air
pollution.
-Making acquaintances
with sentence patterns
relating to the topic
-Putting random words
in order
-Using the suggested
word
to
write
a
complete sentence

-Gerund
-Relative clause

-Prepositions
(At/on/in, on time and in time, at
the end and in the end)
-Noun preposition (reason for,
cause of.)
-Adjective + Preposition
-Verb + Preposition

Matching
sentence
fragments

16

17

Wildlife

Key tests

-Practicing
all
forms of reading
skills
-Answering
multiple
choice
questions

Practicing types of
reading skills in

-Completing sentences
with
the
same
meaning
with
the
original sentences
-Discussing the way to
limiting the situation of
traffic jams in Viet
Nam
-Making acquaintances
with sentence patterns
relating to the topic
-Putting random words
in order
-Using the suggested
word
to
write
a
complete sentence
-Completing sentences
with
the
same
meaning
with
the
original sentence
-Looking out
the
solutions to protect
wild animals
-Writing letters and
essays on the basic of

-Wishes: I wish I were/ had been/


would/ could..
-Used to v/ be /get used to V-ing /

-Types of conditional sentences


-Revision of all grammatical

18

Key tests

19

Key tests

20

Key tests

21

22

Key tests

Key tests

Key examination
Practicing
types
reading skill in Key
examination
Practicing
types
reading skill in Key
examination
Practicing types of
reading skill in Key
examination
Practicing types of
reading skill in Key
examination
Practicing types of
reading skill in Key
examination

Key examinations
Writing
letters
and
essays on the basic of
Key examination
Writing
letters
and
essays on the basic of
Key examination
Writing
letters
and
essays on the basic of
Key examination
Writing
letters
and
essays on the basic of
Key examination
Writing
letters
and
essays on the basic of
Key examination

systems
-Passive voice

- Revision of all grammatical


systems
-Direct and indirect sentence
- Revision of all grammatical
systems
- Revision
systems

of all grammatical

- Revision
systems

of all grammatical

VI. ASSESSMENT
Mini test will be carried out every lesson while mini test will be done three days once times.
Teachers evaluates Students improvement relying on the standards below:

Attendance: 5%
Mini tests: 10%

Homework: 15%
Mid-term test: 20%
Final test: 50%
VII. Reference
1. Stuart Redman, (2006). English Vocabulary in Use, Cambridge University Press
2. Myriam Fisher Callus and Annie Roth (2013). English Elements, Hueber-Dai Hoc Hue
3. Raymond Murphy and William R. Smaller (2011).Basic Grammar in Use, Cambridge University
Press
4. Raymond Murphy (2008). English Grammar in Use, Cambridge University Press
5. Sarah Cunning , Peter moor and Jane Comyns Carr ( 2013). Cutting Edge, Nha xuat ban Van Hoa
Thong Tin

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