Curriculum

Basic Bootcamp Season 1

This 5-lesson series gives you a brief introduction to the English language. You'll learn the very basics of grammar and vocabulary all in 5 compact lessons.

	Title	Topic	Function	Dialogue/Target Phrases	Vocabulary List	Cultural Insight
#1	Self Introduction - Basic Greetings in English	Self-introduction	Learning how to introduce yourself	Formal Mr. Anderson: Hello, nice to meet you. I'm Hugo Anderson. Ms. Smith: Hi, Mr. Anderson. I'm Kendra Smith, nice to meet you too. Mr. Anderson: Please call me Hugo. Informal Hugo: Hey, I'm Hugo. How's it going? Kendra: Hi there, I'm Kendra, Anthony's sister. Hugo: So you're his sister! I'm his roommate!	to meet to be please sister roommate	First Impressions
#2	Basic English Sentence Structure	Nationality	Learning how to say where you are from	A: Hello, I am Sonya. I am Korean. B: Hi, I'm Javier. I'm Panamanian.	Korean Panamanian Australian Chilean South African Sudanese Sudanese Greenlandic Polish Iraqi	Country and Ethnicity
#3	Useful Phrases for Learning English	Useful phrases	Learning how to function in English in a classroom	A: Excuse me./Pardon me. B: How do you say ______ in English? A: What does ______ mean? B: I'm not sure what you mean. A: Could you repeat that? B: Could you speak more slowly?	excuse me to say to mean sure could to repeat to speak slowly	Getting a Word in When Someone Else is Speaking
#4	Counting 1 to 10 and 10 to 100	Counting	Counting from 1-100 in English	A: One, two, three, four, five pencils; two, four, six, eight, ten erasers; and two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen rulers. B: The first, second, and third prize winners will be announced shortly. A: Numbers fifty-two, twenty-three, eighty-seven, and seventy-nine are the winning numbers!	cardinal number ordinal number religious gambling slot machine devil	How Do You Count?
#5	Counting from 100 to 10,000	Counting	Counting from 100-10,000 in English	A: How much is it in total? B: That comes to twelve hundred dollars in total. A: Twelve hundred? B: Twelve hundred. A: I'll pay by credit card.	how much total to pay credit card	Cashier Talk