
Beginner English Course
Start speaking, reading, and writing English from day one with a course built for true beginners. You will learn the alphabet, essential vocabulary, basic grammar, and real-life conversation skills. Every lesson moves you closer to handling everyday situations in English with confidence.
What you will learn:
In this course, you will build every core English skill a beginner needs. You will learn how letters and sounds work, then grow a vocabulary of over 200 everyday words. You will form correct sentences, ask and answer questions, and talk about your daily routine. You will also practise reading signs, menus, and short paragraphs, and write your own sentences and simple paragraphs. By the end, you will handle real situations like shopping, ordering food, and visiting a doctor entirely in English.
How you study in practice Beginner English Course
How you practise Beginner English Course
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Course content
8 Chapters • 38 LessonsDuration between 4 and 360 hours (you decide)
Chapter 1HideHide detailsSee detailsSounds and Letters of English
Sounds and Letters of English
Lesson 1 • Basic Phonics Rules
Teaches letter-sound correspondences and simple decoding rules. Students apply these rules to sound out unfamiliar words independently.
Lesson 2 • Pronunciation and Mouth Position
Covers correct mouth, tongue, and lip placement for English sounds. Reduces accent interference and improves listener comprehension.
Lesson 3 • The English Alphabet
Introduces all 26 letters, their names, and printed forms. Builds the visual foundation needed for reading and writing every subsequent lesson.
Lesson 4 • Vowels and Consonants
Distinguishes the five vowels from consonants and explains their roles in forming syllables. Directly supports word-building skills in later sections.
Chapter 2HideHide detailsSee detailsEssential Vocabulary and Word Families
Essential Vocabulary and Word Families
Lesson 1 • Vocabulary Learning Strategies
Teaches flashcard use, context clues, and spaced repetition for independent vocabulary growth. Students build habits that extend learning beyond the classroom.
Lesson 2 • Word Families and Spelling Patterns
Groups words by shared roots and spelling patterns to accelerate vocabulary retention. Students use pattern recognition to decode new words.
Lesson 3 • People, Places, and Things
Covers nouns for family members, everyday locations, and common objects. Provides the naming vocabulary required for simple sentence construction.
Lesson 4 • Action Words and Descriptors
Introduces high-frequency verbs and adjectives used in daily life. Students pair these words with nouns to form meaningful phrases.
Lesson 5 • Numbers, Colours, and Shapes
Introduces cardinal numbers, basic colours, and common shapes as first vocabulary sets. These concrete categories give beginners immediate, practical language.
Chapter 3HideHide detailsSee detailsBasic Sentence Structure
Basic Sentence Structure
Lesson 1 • Punctuation and Capitalisation
Covers sentence-ending punctuation, commas, and capitalisation rules for proper nouns and sentence starts. Students write readable, correctly formatted sentences.
Lesson 2 • Articles and Basic Nouns
Explains the use of a, an, and the with singular and plural nouns. Correct article use is essential for natural-sounding English sentences.
Lesson 3 • The Verb To Be
Covers all present-tense forms of 'to be' and their use in descriptions and identifications. This verb appears in nearly every beginner conversation.
Lesson 4 • Simple Present Tense
Teaches the simple present for habits, facts, and routines using regular and common irregular verbs. Students describe daily life accurately.
Lesson 5 • The Subject-Verb-Object Pattern
Explains the core word order of English sentences using familiar vocabulary. Students identify and produce SVO sentences before moving to complex structures.
Chapter 4HideHide detailsSee detailsEveryday Conversations and Greetings
Everyday Conversations and Greetings
Lesson 1 • Greetings and Introductions
Teaches formal and informal greetings, farewells, and self-introduction phrases. Students practise the exchanges most likely to occur on their first day in an English environment.
Lesson 2 • Asking and Answering Questions
Covers wh- question words and yes/no question forms for personal information. Students exchange basic facts about name, age, nationality, and occupation.
Lesson 3 • Expressing Needs and Requests
Introduces polite request forms using can, could, and would like. Students ask for help, directions, and items in everyday settings.
Lesson 4 • Phone and Digital Communication
Covers basic phrases for phone calls, text messages, and simple emails. Students communicate essential information in common digital formats.
Lesson 5 • Talking About Daily Routines
Applies simple present tense to describe morning, afternoon, and evening activities. Students narrate their own schedules using time expressions.
Chapter 5HideHide detailsSee detailsReading Simple Texts
Reading Simple Texts
Lesson 1 • Reading Short Paragraphs
Introduces topic sentences, supporting details, and paragraph structure in short texts. Students identify the main idea and two or three key details.
Lesson 2 • Vocabulary in Context
Teaches strategies for guessing unknown words using surrounding text clues. Students reduce dictionary dependence and read more fluently.
Lesson 3 • Reading Environmental Print
Focuses on signs, labels, and notices found in public spaces. Students decode real-world text they encounter daily before tackling longer passages.
Lesson 4 • Reading Functional Documents
Covers forms, receipts, short instructions, and simple charts. Students extract and use information from documents they encounter in daily life.
Chapter 6HideHide detailsSee detailsWriting Sentences and Short Paragraphs
Writing Sentences and Short Paragraphs
Lesson 1 • Writing Complete Sentences
Reviews sentence components and common errors such as fragments and run-ons. Students write grammatically complete sentences before combining them into paragraphs.
Lesson 2 • Editing and Proofreading
Teaches a simple checklist approach to reviewing spelling, grammar, and punctuation in written work. Students improve accuracy through self-correction habits.
Lesson 3 • Paragraph Structure Basics
Introduces the topic sentence, body sentences, and concluding sentence as a three-part structure. Students organise ideas before writing to improve coherence.
Lesson 4 • Filling Out Forms and Notes
Covers writing personal information on forms and composing brief informal notes. Students practise the most common real-world writing tasks for beginners.
Lesson 5 • Describing People and Places
Applies adjectives, prepositions of place, and present tense to written descriptions. Students write three to five sentences describing a person or location.
Chapter 7HideHide detailsSee detailsPast and Future Tenses
Past and Future Tenses
Lesson 1 • Telling Stories and Recounting Events
Combines past tense skills with sequencing words to produce a short narrative. Students tell a personal story of three to five sentences in spoken and written form.
Lesson 2 • Future Plans with Going To
Introduces going to for planned future actions and intentions. Students distinguish going to from will and use both correctly in context.
Lesson 3 • Simple Past Tense: Irregular Verbs
Covers the 40 most common irregular past forms through pattern grouping and repetition. Students use irregular verbs accurately in spoken and written narratives.
Lesson 4 • Simple Future with Will
Teaches will for predictions, promises, and spontaneous decisions. Students make statements and questions about future events using will and won't.
Lesson 5 • Simple Past Tense: Regular Verbs
Introduces the -ed ending for regular past tense verbs and related time expressions. Students narrate completed events using yesterday, last week, and ago.
Chapter 8HideHide detailsSee detailsPractical English in Real-Life Situations
Practical English in Real-Life Situations
Lesson 1 • Health and Medical Situations
Introduces body part vocabulary, symptom descriptions, and phrases for medical appointments. Students communicate health needs clearly to a provider.
Lesson 2 • Shopping and Money
Covers price vocabulary, asking about products, and completing a purchase transaction. Students use numbers, polite requests, and basic negotiation phrases.
Lesson 3 • Eating Out and Ordering Food
Covers restaurant vocabulary, ordering from a menu, and handling dietary preferences. Students complete a full restaurant interaction from arrival to payment.
Lesson 4 • Getting Around: Directions and Transport
Teaches direction vocabulary, prepositions of movement, and phrases for using public transport. Students ask for and follow directions in an unfamiliar area.
Lesson 5 • Work and School Interactions
Applies learned language to workplace and classroom communication including schedules, tasks, and polite requests. Students navigate common professional and academic exchanges.
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This course is for you:
New immigrant: needs English to settle into daily life and community quickly.
Factory or warehouse worker: wants English skills to communicate with supervisors confidently.
Stay-at-home parent: seeks English ability to support children's schooling and teacher meetings.
Restaurant or hospitality worker: needs basic English to serve customers and follow workplace instructions.
Older adult learner: wants to connect with English-speaking family members and neighbours meaningfully.
Aspiring job seeker: requires foundational English to qualify for broader local employment opportunities.
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