Teaching absolute beginners requires the teacher to pay special attention to the order in which new language is introduced. This 20 point program provides a syllabus to take students from speaking no English at all to being able to fulfill basic communication needs including; giving person information describing their daily routines and the world around them.

This series of four lessons is designed to help students become familiar with writing an essay in English. The first lesson is designed to give students an overview of basic essay writing style. The final three lessons focus on developing skills that are used when analyzing texts as the basis of their essays.

Basic Essay Writing Style
Developing a Character Analysis
Using Themes to Relate to a Story
Getting Ideas Organized

These reading comprehension selections are all by the Brothers Grimm and include bold vocabulary highlights for defined words, as well as follow-up comprehension quizzes.

The Old Man and the Grandson
Doctor Knowall
Clever Gretel
Old Sultan
The Queen Bee

This adverb clause quiz tests a number of adverb types including time, cause and effect, opposition and conditions. For example:
"_____ I find mathematics difficult, music is easy." Because / Whereas / Until - In this case 'Whereas' is correct. You may also want to review the different types of adverb clauses.