Module A2.2 – Pre-intermediate is perfect for reinforcing what you've learned in module A2.1. It covers all the topics from A2.1, including social interactions like short exchanges, discussing work and leisure activities, and making arrangements. Additionally, it focuses on enhancing conversational skills, allowing you to navigate simple face-to-face discussions more confidently. Moreover, it emphasizes improving your ability to sustain monologues, enabling you to express feelings, provide extended descriptions of familiar environments, recount past experiences, outline habits and routines, discuss plans and arrangements, express preferences, and give basic descriptions of events, activities, pets, and possessions using simple language.
Contents & abilities (for level A2.2)
A2.2 grammar & vocabulary:
- Brief everyday expressions in order to satisfy simple needs of a concrete type: personal details, daily routines, wants and needs, requests for information, basic sentence patterns and memorized phrases, groups of a few words and formulae about people, work, leisure, places, possessions, etc.
- More complex sentence structures, verb conjugation in present, past and future tense, modals, agreement, simple connectors (and, but, because, if), prepositions that require genitive, pronouns in accusative and dative, etc.
By the end of level A2.2, you’ll be able to:
- Tell a story, describe everyday aspects of your environment (people, living or working conditions, daily routines, past activities, personal experiences, likes/dislikes, etc.), give directions from one place to another, explain what you like/dislike about something, deliver short, rehearsed announcements and presentations on familiar topics.
- Write about daily surroundings, events, and personal experiences cohesively (in simple descriptions and narratives), and express opinions and impressions on familiar topics using basic vocabulary and connectors.
- Understand the general topic of a conversation, the main points of a radio interview about people's free time activities, straightforward announcements and commercials, recognize agreement and disagreement among speakers, follow a demonstration or presentation on a familiar topic, and instructions for everyday activities, provided speech is clearly and slowly articulated.
- Understand short, simple texts (simple personal letters, emails, or posts, standard routine letters, travel guidebooks or recipes written in simple language, short newspaper articles, regulations, stories, etc.) on familiar matters of a concrete type which consist of high frequency everyday or job-related language.
- Comfortably engage in structured situations and brief conversations, managing routine exchanges effortlessly, exchange information on familiar topics in predictable daily scenarios.
- Effectively handle everyday conversations and understand clear, normal speech on familiar subjects, asking for clarification if needed, establish social contact, agree/disagree, make suggestions and follow changes in formal discussions within familiar fields, give and follow simple directions and instructions, manage everyday tasks such as travel, lodging, eating, and shopping, interacting comfortably in predictable situations, express ideas and information in interviews, describe basic symptoms to a doctor, and use telecommunications for social purposes.
- Communicate via text message, email, or short letters on predictable everyday topics, make short descriptive online postings about everyday matters, comment on other people’s online postings, and use formulaic language to respond to routine problems arising in online transactions.
- Play a supportive role in interaction and contribute with suggestions and convey main information from clearly structured, short, simple, informational texts on familiar subjects.