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Learning Circles: Course Guide

This document provides a summary of a 12-session English learning course covering various everyday topics. Each session focuses on a different language area and vocabulary words related to its topic. Learners practice conversing about experiences like going to school, the dentist, or market. They learn how to take buses, use the post office, get medicine, shop, and more. The course aims to build English skills for real-life tasks and conversations through topics tied to an online learning site for additional practice.

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Learning Circles: Course Guide

This document provides a summary of a 12-session English learning course covering various everyday topics. Each session focuses on a different language area and vocabulary words related to its topic. Learners practice conversing about experiences like going to school, the dentist, or market. They learn how to take buses, use the post office, get medicine, shop, and more. The course aims to build English skills for real-life tasks and conversations through topics tied to an online learning site for additional practice.

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Learning Circles

from BBC Learning English

Course Guide
Session
1. School
Have you ever
met another
parent at school?

Language area

Words

Can you now

English My Way link

introducing
yourself, making
friends and
offering things

Son, daughter,
Use some new words to talk
school, playground, about yourself?
tea, coffee, cup,
Say hello and introduce
playing*
yourself?
Invite someone to your home?

2. Dentist
making
Have you ever appointments and
had to see the
giving advice
dentist?

Dentist, tooth,
teeth, sugar,
hurt, telephone,
telephone number,
appointment*

Use some new words to talk to


the dentist?
Make an appointment on the
phone?

A. All about
me (personal
identification,
describing self and
family, likes and
dislikes)
B. Daily life (days
of the week,
daily routines,
texting, making
appointments)

Check the time for an


appointment?
Bus, train, bus
station, bus stop,
get on, get off,
cross the road, the
number 9*

Use some new words to do with C. Out and about


transport?
(greetings, small
talk, e.g. weather,
Find the right bus or train?
transport, directions)
Check you have the right
information?

asking about
prices and
Have you ever
returning faulty
taken something
goods
back to the
market?

Market, market
stall, clock, watch,
money, five
pounds, broken,
different*

Use some new words to do with D. Shopping (money,


shopping?
food/ household
items, clothes)
Ask how much things cost?

5. Address
asking for and
Have you ever understanding
had to find an
directions
address?

Address, turn
left, turn right, go
straight on, go past
the school, next to,
opposite, lost*

Use some new words to do with E. Where I


directions?
live (homes,
neighbourhoods)
Ask for directions when you are
lost?

3. Bus
Have you ever
taken the
wrong bus?

taking buses and


trains, checking
information and
asking for advice

4. Market

Say whats wrong with


something you have bought?

Check directions that people


tell you?
6. Post Office
posting things
Have you ever and asking about
used the post
times and prices
office?

Post office, send,


package, a
week, scales,
international,
cheap,
guaranteed*

Use some new words to do with F. (Local) services


posting things?
(simple forms, e.g. at
the library)
Check how long it takes to
post something?
Check the cost of posting
something?
*Extra words not on vocabulary cards

Session
7. Ambulance
Have you ever
phoned for an
ambulance?

Language area

Words

Can you now

English My Way link

phoning for
help and asking
people to speak
slowly

Ambulance,
police, fire
brigade, stomach,
emergency, pain,
postcode, (keep)
calm*, emergency
services*

Use some new words to do


with posting things?

G. Healthcare
(chemist, doctor,
healthy eating, wellbeing, hospital)

Medicine, cold,
temperature, sore
throat, headache,
pills, meals, a high
temperature*,
instructions*

Use some new words to talk


about health problems?

Shopping centre,
dress, colours
(red*, blue*,
green*, yellow*),
birthday party, gift,
big, small, perfect*

Use some new words to do


with shopping and clothes?

8. Medicine
describing
Have you ever symptoms,
taken medicine? asking for help
and checking
instructions

9. Shopping
asking for
Have you ever different colours
been to a
and sizes in shops
shopping
centre?

Check how long it takes to


post something?
Check the cost of posting
something?

Tell the chemist your health


problem?

G. Healthcare
(chemist, doctor,
healthy eating, wellbeing, hospital)

Ask for explanation about


medicine instructions?

Ask for a different colour and


size?

D. Shopping (money,
food/ household
items, clothes)

Talk about your favourite


things and what you like?

10. Supermarket
Have you ever
been
shopping in a
supermarket?

asking for help,


asking what
things mean and
asking how to do
things

Supermarket, cash, Use some new words to do


card, bag, coins,
with shopping?
notes, screen,
Ask what new words mean?
press*, till*
Ask how to do something?

H. Technology in our
lives (the Internet/
computers/ laptops/
tablets)

11. Phone Call


Have you ever
had a difficult
phone call?

answering the
phone, finding
out what people
want and asking
them to slow
down

Phone, school, trip,


paper, teacher,
sign, museum,
science*

I. Me and my
childs school
(talking to teachers,
helping at school,
forms, important
information,
homework, etc.)

12. Cake
talking about
Have you ever food and sharing
baked a cake?
recipes

Use some new words to do


with schools?
Get basic information on the
phone?
Ask people to slow down and
say things again?

Bake, mix, beat,


flour, eggs,
chocolate,
butter, recipe*,
ingredients*

Use some new words to do


with cooking?
Listen to a recipe?
Tell someone how to cook?

J. Things I want to
do (enrolling on a
course, finding local
information, times,
dates)

*Extra words not on vocabulary cards

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