Stage 1 – Life Skills Through English

Stage 1 – Life Skills Through English

Levels A2 to B1

Stage 1 helps learners to make a life in Ireland through English and to deal successfully with all the situations that will arise at home, socially and while working in a part-time job. Students develop communication skills appropriate for dealing with the cultural and linguistic challenges of living in an English speaking environment.

Learner Outcomes

By the end of the course, participants will have improved their communication, collaboration, creative problem solving, and critical thinking skills. This will enable them to do the following in English and through technology in a personal context:

1. Understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, and day to day life
2. Deal with most situations likely to arise whilst living in an area where the language is spoken
3. Describe personal experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
4. Produce simple connected text on topics that are familiar or of personal interest