A1/A1+ Beginner

Business skills

• Introducing yourself at work
• Greeting colleagues and visitors
• Identifying common office objects
• Exchanging basic personal information
• Using numbers for simple workplace information

Grammar

• Verb be: am / is / are
• Possessive adjectives: my / your
• Demonstrative: this / This is…
• Articles: a / an
• Singular and plural nouns

Business skills

• Countries and nationalities in international business
• Introducing colleagues from different countries
• Talking about office locations
• Giving basic personal and company information
• Using numbers in contact details and simple data

Grammar

• Subject pronouns: he / she / they
• Possessive adjectives: his / her
• Verb be with people and places
• Wh- questions with where / what / how old
• Questions with be

Business skills

• Talking about jobs and occupations
• Describing your role in a company
• Asking about a colleague’s job
• Introducing team members
• Using basic social expressions at work

Grammar

• Negative forms of be: am not / isn’t / aren’t
• Questions and answers with be
• Subject pronouns: we / they
• Short answers with be
• Question forms for name, origin and job

Business skills

• Talking about colleagues and teams
• Describing professional relationships
• Spelling names and email details
• Making and receiving simple phone calls
• Talking about workplaces and responsibilities

Grammar

• Possessive adjectives
• Possessive ’s
• Have / has
• Present Simple with like / love / work
• Third-person singular verb forms

Business skills

• Expressing product and service preferences
• Talking about languages in international workplaces
• Discussing customer likes and dislikes
• Reading and saying prices
• Describing products with adjective + noun combinations

Grammar

• Present Simple: I / you / we / they
• Present Simple affirmative
• Present Simple negative with don’t
• Present Simple questions with do
• Short answers: Yes, I do / No, I don’t

Business skills

• Describing a typical working day
• Talking about schedules and working hours
• Discussing workplace routines
• Talking about frequency of work activities
• Arranging activities by day and time

Grammar

• Present Simple: I / you / he / she
• Third-person singular -s
• Present Simple negatives with don’t / doesn’t
• Present Simple questions with do / does
• Frequency adverbs: always / sometimes / never

Business skills

• Asking workplace information questions
• Making polite requests with Can I…?
• Buying tickets and paying by card
• Handling simple shop, post-office and café transactions
• Talking about preferences and reasons

Grammar

• Question words: what / where / when / why / how
• Object pronouns: me / him / her / us / them / it
• Demonstratives: this / that
• Present Simple questions with question words
• Because in simple answers

Business skills

• Describing an office or workplace
• Talking about rooms, furniture and facilities
• Giving directions to visitors
• Describing what a workplace has or doesn’t have
• Talking about locations in a town or business district

Grammar

• There is / There are
• There isn’t / There aren’t
• Some / any
• Prepositions of place
• Is there…? / Are there…? questions

Business skills

• Talking about company history
• Giving dates and years
• Describing past work experiences
• Talking about previous events and activities
• Using common business-related verbs in the past

Grammar

• Past Simple of be: was / were
• Past Simple irregular verbs
• Past forms: had / did / went
• Past time expressions and dates
• Past Simple affirmative statements

Business skills

• Talking about a recent business trip
• Describing past meetings and activities
• Making conversation about previous experiences
• Asking for information while travelling
• Discussing sightseeing and free time on a trip

Grammar

• Past Simple regular verbs
• Past Simple irregular verbs
• Past Simple questions with did
• Past Simple negatives with didn’t
• Time expression: ago

Business skills

• Talking about professional skills and abilities
• Describing what team members can and can’t do
• Explaining how well someone performs a task
• Handling everyday workplace problems
• Talking about technology and simple technical issues

Grammar

• Can / can’t for ability
• Questions with can
• Short answers with can
• Adverbs of manner
• Adjective-to-adverb forms, including irregular adverbs

Business skills

• Ordering food and drinks with clients
• Making polite requests in service situations
• Discussing business lunches and café meetings
• Understanding signs in public and workplace spaces
• Expressing thanks and responding politely

Grammar

• I’d like + noun
• I’d like to + verb
• Would you like…? / What would you like?
• Some / any in requests and questions
• Polite request structures

Business skills

• Describing what people are doing now
• Talking about current workplace activities
• Comparing routines with temporary activities
• Describing work clothes and appearance
• Explaining simple problems and what is happening

Grammar

• Present Continuous affirmative
• Present Continuous negative
• Present Continuous questions and short answers
• Present Simple vs Present Continuous
• Verb + -ing forms

Business skills

• Talking about future business travel
• Making plans and arrangements
• Discussing transport and itineraries
• Using social expressions for departures and good wishes
• Reviewing key language for work and travel

Grammar

• Present Continuous for future arrangements
• Be going to for future plans
• Future questions with what / where / when / who
• Negative future forms
• Tense revision: present, past and future