Low-Intermediate 1 Overview

Low-Intermediate 1 Goals

These are the main goals of Low-Intermediate 1. You can download the Low-Intermediate 1 Paths to Fluency Tracker to help track students' progress towards these goals.

Grammar: Present Simple & Present Continuous Tenses

Speaking: Basic Scripted Questions & Answers

Writing: Short Scripted Sentences & Paragraphs

Reading: Short Mixed-Phonics Texts

Basic Vocabulary & Spelling

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Low-Intermediate 1 Tips

1. Each unit at this level was designed for 1 week with about 3 hours of class time per week. If you have your students for less than 3 hours a week, you may want to consider doing a unit every two weeks. If students are picking up the material quickly and easily, you can try picking up the pace so that you make quicker progress through the level. Just remember the goal is fluency with the content. Learning the material well is better than getting through quickly and forgetting everything.

2. Review of Beginners 4: The first unit is review of Beginners 4. If you find that students are struggling a bit with be-verbs or demonstrative pronouns or anything else from Beginners 4, you can head back to the Beginners 4 materials and print off what you need to spend some more time reviewing before moving on with the Low-Intermediate 1 materials.

3. Present Simple Tense: Units 3-8 cover the present simple tense. Even though this is often one of the first tenses taught to English language learners, it is far from the easiest. Students will struggle with all of the little details like when to add an "s" on the verb and when not to add "s." Negatives and questions in the present simple tense can be particularly frustrating. The present continuous tense is covered in units 10-13. Then both tenses are mixed together in units 13-15. Switching between tenses is tough but it is one of the best ways to really become fluent with the different sentence structures.

4. Weak Readers: If your students need to work on reading and phonics, you will want to bring in some practice sheets from Beginners 1-3. Look for the word lists and reading passages for the phonics your students need work on.

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Look for These Pages in Beginners 1-3

Beginners 1 starts with the alphabet and moves to short-vowel words (hot, cat, run).
Beginners 2 reviews short vowels and moves on to consonant blends and digraphs (shot, that, drum).
Beginners 3 goes through the long vowels (bone, play, tune).

5. Extras: You can expand on the content in this level with Fluency Readers, Vocabulary Themes, Task & Flash Cards, Games and more. You can find these resources under Scaffolds and Tools in the top menu inside the membership.

6. If your students are older (Grades 5-12), they can handle (and probably require) a quicker pace. Just make sure you are checking in regularly that students are hitting the main goals. Better to skip some units and spend more time on the ones you teach than try to do them all and have the students forget everything.