Speaking skills

• English accent pronunciation training
• Pronunciation
• Use of phonetics to aid in identifying speech sounds (as child progresses start to use less “ah bihkih” and use “abc”).
• Voice modulation and tone
• Speaking at an even pace

Reading skills

• Pronunciation
• Reading at an even pace
• Comprehension of assigned texts
• Reading fiction, non-fiction, academic texts, newspapers, journals
• Interpreting and understanding passages and pictures
• Vocabulary building

Writing skills:

• Correct usage of vocabulary in a sentence
• Proper grammatical constructions
• Spellings and their rules- 24 new words each week
• Appropriate usage of punctuation- commas, semi-colon, hyphen, apostrophe, etc.
• Letters- Formal vs Informal
• Essays- Academic vs Imaginative
• Cursive writing (if required)
• Using a thesaurus/ dictionary

Listening skills

• Understanding spoken speech
• Interpreting information over spoken language
• Understanding tone and intention in spoken language
• Listening to understand information and responding to questions asked
• The level of difficulty for each skill will be assigned according to the age and current linguistic capabilities of each child

Grammar

• Parts of Speech
• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Adjectives
• Adverbs
• Prepositions
• Conjunctions
• Interjections
• Determiners
• Modals and Auxiliaries
• Phrases, Idioms, and Figures of Speech
• Clauses and Conditionals
• Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
• Clauses and Conditionals
• Active and Passive voice/ Direct and Reported Speech

Tenses

• Present Simple, Present Progressive, Present Perfect
• Past Simple, Past Progressive, Past Perfect
• Future Simple, Future Progressive, Future Perfect
• Homophones, Homonyms, Homographs
• Prefixes and Suffixes
• Antonyms and Synonyms
• Rhyming words
• Compound words