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English Foundation Course

This document outlines the course content and structure for a Foundation English course at the American University of Cyprus. The course will focus on expanding vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening, and writing skills from A2 to B1 level. Key grammar topics include verbs, questions, tenses, quantifiers, pronouns, and conditionals. Writing tasks include letters, emails, descriptions, and an opinion essay. Reading activities aim to improve comprehension, vocabulary, and structure recognition. Students will be assessed through a final exam in September testing all units covered.

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English Foundation Course

This document outlines the course content and structure for a Foundation English course at the American University of Cyprus. The course will focus on expanding vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening, and writing skills from A2 to B1 level. Key grammar topics include verbs, questions, tenses, quantifiers, pronouns, and conditionals. Writing tasks include letters, emails, descriptions, and an opinion essay. Reading activities aim to improve comprehension, vocabulary, and structure recognition. Students will be assessed through a final exam in September testing all units covered.

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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF

CYPRUS- AUCY

Foundation Course - English

Tutor: Vasilia Evangelou


Course Outline
Vocabulary / Grammar/ Reading / Listening
⚫ VOCABULARY Enrich/expand vocabulary (B1 level)
Topics:
communication and technology ,
documents and text ,
education , entertainment and media ,
family and friends ,
food and drink ,
health/medicine and exercise ,
hobbies and leisure,
measurements ,
personal feelings / opinions and experiences ,
buildings , places , services ,
Business Management terminology
Hospitality & management (tourism)
⚫ GRAMMAR (A2-B1 level):
⚫ Articles
⚫ Verb ‘to be’
⚫ Short questions
⚫ Present simple
⚫ WH words –questions
⚫ Future
⚫ Past simple
⚫ Present Continuous
⚫ Quantifiers: Some/any/ much /many /little / a lot
⚫ Past Continuous
⚫ Imperative
⚫ Comparative – Superlative
⚫ Have got
⚫ Pronouns
⚫ Prepositions
⚫ Present Perfect
⚫ Modals
⚫ Adjectives & Adverbs
⚫ Conditionals (if…)
⚫ Gerunds
⚫ Present Perfect Continuous
⚫ Relative Clauses
⚫ Past Perfect
⚫ Passive Voice
⚫ Reported Speech
⚫ WRITING
⚫ Letter (Invitation , asking/ giving advice , informing)
⚫ E-mail (Invitation , asking/ giving advice , informing)
⚫ Description of a person (appearance / personality)
⚫ Description of a place/room
⚫ Curriculum Vitae

⚫ Opinion essay
READING
Purpose: -to understand the main message of a text
and the effect it may have on the target reader
-strategies for dealing with unfamiliar words
and structures.

Tasks include:
reading multiple texts for specific information (matching task);
processing a factual text for specific information
(true/false or true / false /not given task);
reading for detailed comprehension, gist and global meaning
(multiple-choice questions)
reading for understanding of lexico-structural patterns in a text
(multiple choice cloze).
Fill in the gap using information from the text
EXAMINATION
⚫ Final Exam: End of September

The final exam will contain ALL the units covered within the
lessons from July and September.

Exam – Sections: Grammar / Vocabulary /Reading / writing

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