EQF/MQF Level 1 Award in English Language for Foreigners

Course Description

This course is targeted towards individuals who would like to learn basic communication in English for work, personal development and academic purposes.

In 2025, the pass rate for the course was 86%.

The accreditation category of the Programme is Further Education.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course programme, students will be able to:

    • Understand the very basics of English grammar and basic English expressions.
    • Build one’s vocabulary of simple English words and manage the correct use of simple English phrases that frequently appear in everyday social conversation.
    • Use very basic vocabulary and phrases in English related to everyday life and representative of the home, work, social and public settings. 
    • Use appropriately the frequently used phrases used to communicate in English.
    • Speak with a basic level fluency and accuracy within specific situations.
    • Learn the sentence structure and the gist of elementary written texts.
    • Use basic knowledge of the language to carry out simple exchanges of information.

Target Candidates

This course is aimed at students who have never studied English before or have limited knowledge in the language. There are no entry requirements for this course.

Course Code Duration Credit Value Next Intake FT/PT
LW/L/001 2 months 5 ECTS June 2026 PT
Contact Hours Placement Hours Self Study Hours Assessment Hours Total Learning Hours
30 0 90 5 125

Mode of Training

This Award is delivered through a series of interactive teaching sessions with an emphasis on group activities. Case studies and work examples will be discussed throughout the course.

Modules are delivered in the evening, twice a week.

Language of instruction is English.

Assessment

Formative assessment

Performance-based assessments are based on classroom or online instruction and everyday tasks.

Summative Assessment

Candidates take a test in pairs or groups of three, throughout the test they are assessed on their individual performance and not in relation to each other. 

Refer to Policy LWP21 – Assessment

 

Awarding Body

Learning Works

Lecturers

Course Structure

Module 1: Greetings and your world (1 ECTS)

This unit aims to let the students get to know each other. The context of greetings and introductions in different settings allows students to do this in English in a meaningful way even with quite basic language.

  • Use the alphabet 
  • Introduce themselves
  • Provide and seek information
  • Pronounce the individual sounds of the language
  • The alphabet, numbers and colours
  • Vocabulary and fixed phrases related to personal information including: 
    1. Age
    2. Jobs
    3. Everyday objects
    4. Countries and nationalities
  • Positive and negative verb forms 
  • Personal and demonstrative pronouns
  • Talk about people and everyday items
  • Use the numbers from ‘one’ to ‘thirty’
  • Use the plural ‘s’
  • Distinguish between countable and uncountable nouns
  • State the days of the week and the colour of a given object in English in an appropriate context
  • Ask basic questions
  • Describe everyday items 
  • Listen for specific information
  • Talk about themselves
  • Request information
  • Total Contact Hours: 6
  • Supervised Placement & Practice Hours: 0
  • Self-Study Hours: 18
  • Assessment Hours: 1
  • Total Learning Hours of this Module: 25

Module 2: My life, family and friends  (1 ECTS)

This unit aims to extend the range of personal information that students can give. The unit introduces expressing the possessive with family vocabulary. Students practice with talking about the present within the context of hobbies, likes and dislikes. Food and drink also introduced to serve as a context for further insight into the construction of the plural forms.

  • Use possessive adjectives and the possessive ‘s’
  • Use ‘have’ for possession
  • Construct basic questions, positive and negative sentences.
  • The imperative
  • Vocabulary and fixed phrases related to:
    1. Family members
    2. Food and drink
    3. Possessions
  • Plural forms
  • Question forms
  • Possessives
  • Talk about family and friends
  • Exchange basic information
  • Express possession
  • Ask basic questions
  • Describe people
  • Agree and disagree
  • Give orders or commands
  • Describe present states and actions
  • Total Contact Hours: 6
  • Supervised Placement & Practice Hours: 0
  • Self-Study Hours: 18
  • Assessment Hours: 1
  • Total Learning Hours of this Module: 25

Module 3: Out and About (1 ECTS)

This unit aims to introducing and giving practice in describing places within the context of being out and about during one’s free time. This unit extends upon question formation and the demonstratives, the introduction of vocabulary related to directions and distance. Useful adjectives and their opposites are also introduced. 

  • Use appropriate time expressions
  • Make requests 
  • Make plans
  • Vocabulary and fixed phrases related to:
    1. Geography
    2. Transport
    3. Landmarks
    4. Cities, towns and villages
    5. Weekend plans and activities
  • Time expressions including days of the week and months of the year
  • Prepositions of time, place and movement
  • Ask for directions
  • Give directions
  • Describe places and structures
  • Arrange an appointment
  • Distinguish between prepositions of time, place and movement particularly for those that look or sound the same across uses (e.g. in, at and on)
  • Ask questions
  • Explain directions
  • Ask for clarification
  • Back channeling
  • Listen for gist 
  • Listen for specific information
  • Total Contact Hours: 6
  • Supervised Placement & Practice Hours: 0
  • Self-Study Hours: 18
  • Assessment Hours: 1
  • Total Learning Hours of this Module: 25

Module 4: At Work and at Home (1 ECTS)

The theme of this unit takes a look at life at work and life at home. The differences between formal and informal language are presented within the contexts of work and at home with family and friends. Students will reflect on the differences and compare to their own languages allowing a focus on comparatives.

  • Analyse short passages to be able to extract essential information from the text
  • Create and construct appropriate formal and informal structured sentences.
  • Use the definite and indefinite article ‘the‘ and ‘a/an’
  • The article
  • Vocabulary related to:
    1. Work
    2. Jobs 
    3. Houses
    4. Rooms 
    5. Furniture 
    6. Everyday items
  • Comparative language
  • The past simple: regular and irregular
  • Use language to compare and distinguish 
  • Use specific formal and informal language
  • Recognise the use of formal and informal language
  • Apply the appropriate suffix for the past simple for regular verbs etc.
  • Distinguish between a fixed set of regular and irregular verbs
  • Distinguish between a formal and informal situation and select the appropriate utterance
  • Distinguish between a fixed set of regular and irregular adjectives when using the comparative
  • Read for gist
  • Scan for specific information
  • Express preferences

  • Talk about the past etc.

  • Total Contact Hours: 6
  • Supervised Placement & Practice Hours: 0
  • Self-Study Hours: 18
  • Assessment Hours: 1
  • Total Learning Hours of this Module: 25

Module 5: It's Time to Go (recap) (1 ECTS)

This unit serves as an overview of the previous four units focusing mainly on recycling and recalling the language presented and practised throughout the course. The content presented is intended to facilitate basic communication and interaction within the student’s current real-life context to further increase confidence in the basic use of the language once the learner leaves the classroom. Reflection will be carried out with focus being placed on the way forward in order to further their learning after the course.

  •  Express future plans
  • Self-correct 
  • Compare and contrast
  • Vocabulary related to:
    1. Home vs Abroad
    2. Travel
    3. Plans
  • Interjections
  • Apologies and thanks
  • Apply the correct 
    1. Past, 
    2. Present or,
    3.  Future tense of various basic verbs to both regular and irregular verbs where applicable
  • Compose simple phrases and sentences related to a particular theme
  • Distinguish between past, present and future forms
  • Notice errors in their own speech and written text.
  • Talk about intentions
  • Ask for information
  • Use and recognise gestures for circumlocution vocabulary when necessary
  • Total Contact Hours: 6
  • Supervised Placement & Practice Hours: 0
  • Self-Study Hours: 18
  • Assessment Hours: 1
  • Total Learning Hours of this Module: 25

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  • Police Conduct (not older than 2 months) when the course requires it
  • Recent Photo or selfie
  • Certificates as per eligibility criteria

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