Let's Go Starters

Introduction

Let’s Go, Starters is an online course, consisting of 30 units of English, and providing approximately 60 hours of study for students.

Course aims

To give students at Beginner, CEFR A0 level practice in exam-style questions from the Cambridge Starters examination.
The course tests students’ knowledge of different linguistic devices and lexis required for the exam.

Grammar

Understand simple sentences about things around them, like ‘This is a chair’, ‘I like my school’, ‘That’s my pen’.
Respond to personal questions on topics such as age, family, and their home.
Recognise the letters of the English alphabet.
Write the letters of the English alphabet and spell their name and simple words.
Understand simple expressions of communication, such as ‘Hello’, ‘How are you?’, ‘Thank you’.
Respond to simple expressions of communication with ‘Yes, please’, ‘Sorry’, ‘I don’t understand’.
Read short, simple words and the names of some objects, such as animals, toys, and clothes.
Write simple sentences about themselves and their family.
Understand and follow simple classroom instructions given by the teacher, such as ‘Open your book’, ‘Read the question’, ‘Listen to me’.
Listen to and repeat words and phrases appropriate to the level after their teacher.
Understand simple written instructions, for example how they should do an exercise in their coursebook.
Recognise and copy words, phrases, and short sentences from a text, a book, or the board in the classroom.

Vocabulary

By the end of the course students will have learnt lexical items connected with the following topic areas:

Animals
Body and face
Clothes
Colours
Family and friends
Food and drink
The home
Numbers 1–20
Places and directions
School
Sports and leisure
Time
Toys
Transport
Weather
Work
The world around us

Skills

By the end of the course students will have had exposure to and practice in reading and hearing English from a variety of contexts.

Unit summary

Module 1

Reading and writing: Animals
Listening: Animals

Module 2

Reading and writing: Family and friends
Listening: Family and friends

Module 3

Reading and writing: Home
Listening: Home

Module 4

Reading and writing: Numbers 1 – 20
Listening: Numbers 1 – 20

Module 5

Reading and writing: Time
Listening: Time

Module 6

Reading and writing: Food and drink
Listening: Food and drink

Module 7

Reading and writing: Colours
Listening: Colours

Module 8

Reading and writing: School
Listening: School

Module 9

Reading and writing: Toys
Listening: Toys

Module 10

Reading and writing: Clothes
Listening: Clothes

Module 11

Reading and writing: Body and Face
Listening: Body and Face

Module 12

Reading and writing: Places and directions
Listening: Places and directions

Module 13

Reading and writing: Transport
Listening: Transport

Module 14

Reading and writing: Sports and hobbies
Listening: Sports and hobbies

Module 15

Reading and writing: The world around us
Listening: The world around us

Follow-up

Students completing the Let’s Go, Starters course should feel confident in tackling any elementary course, including our Let’s Go, Movers course.

Let’s Go Starters