Our Level Zero B is for beginner students who already possess a working understanding of English. It is designed to strengthen their core language competencies across fundamental aspects. These include grammar, vocabulary, reading with clear understanding, writing at an increasingly formalised level, and speaking purposefully. The learning approach towards L0 centres around the belief that active participation breeds true learning. Our curriculum therefore aims to be dynamic, interactive, and evaluative.
Components
Vocabulary
Endow students with increasingly formal vocabulary to enable them to read and understand texts. Enable students to construct purposeful texts and narratives.
Vocabulary Cloze
Strengthening the students’ vocabulary range and precision by identifying the correct word to complete a sentence or passage.
Word Bank
Providing a list of potential vocabulary words for practice exercises.
Synonym-Definition Matching
Associating words with their meanings or similar words.
Real-life Application
Encouraging usage of new vocabulary in conversations and story writing.
Grammar
Introduce formal grammatical elements and their usage, including parts of speech, sentence syntax, conjunctions and prepositions.
Subject-Verb Agreement
Activities that ensure the alignment between the subject and its verb.
Rule-based Learning
Teaching foundational rules for subject-verb agreement.
Subject Identification
Identifying subjects in complex sentences to match with the correct word form.
Grammar Cloze
Tailored exercises to enhance students’ grammatical accuracy by filling in missing words in sentences.
Contextual clues
Teaching students to use surrounding text to infer the missing grammatical element.
Pattern Recognition
Encouraging identification of recurring grammatical patterns.
Reading Comprehension
Introduce students to scaffolded texts at a beginner level.
Interactive Reading
Engaging students by reading passages aloud, followed by discussions to gauge understanding.
Question Techniques
Varying question formats (MCQ, open-ended, fact-based, inferential, true-false).
Multimodal Texts
Read multimodal texts with graphics and other visual media with understanding and accurate insight.
Visualisation
Encouraging students to create mental images based on the text to enhance understanding.
Orals
Boosting spoken English proficiency through interactive sessions that test articulation, clarity, and confidence.
Structured guide
Providing a structure to students as a guide on how to answer oral stimulus-based questions — the PEEL structure.
Modelling
Demonstrating the appropriate volume, clear articulation, and effective pacing for students to emulate.
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Scaffolded Writing
Construct grammatical and meaningful texts of varying lengths that accurately express the student’s authentic and desired connotations.
Word Order & Synthesis
Activities aimed at arranging words to form coherent and grammatically correct sentences.
Error Spotting
Identifying and correcting jumbled word orders in given sentences.
Joining Practice
Merging two shorter sentences into a coherent longer one using appropriate connectors.
Open-ended Discussions
These serve to encourage students to articulate thoughts, fostering confidence in expressing themselves.
Multimodal Stimuli
We develop a wide range of multimodal texts to engage all aspects of language and build true literacy.
Activity-Based Pedagogy
Each lesson is designed as a highly productive workshop.
Immersive Environment
Lessons create an immersive and constantly responsive language environment that accelerates the development of literacy in English.
Structured, Quantifiable Activities
Integral to gauge progress, reinforce concepts, and ensure consistent growth.
Rapid Formalisation
Pedagogy is engineered to ensure that formalisation of skills takes place rapidly, so students can progress to the next level.
Composition Writing
Guided exercises that help students express their thoughts, stories, and ideas in structured written formats.
Brainstorming Sessions
Encouraging students to generate ideas before writing.
Structured Outlines
Providing frameworks to guide the flow of writing.