Improve Your Grammar Beginner Focus B

Course code ELSK 0447

Credit 0.0

Length 40.0 hours

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This course focuses on beginner grammatical structures to improve students' spoken and written English. Key components of the course are the presentation and the beginning of analysis of grammatical form, meaning and usage. Students are given opportunities for grammar practice and production.

Prerequisites

CLB 2 Listening, CLB 2 Speaking, CLB 2 Reading, CLB 2 Writing.

Course type

This is a standalone course that can be taken individually without enrolling in a VCC program.
International students: Contact [email protected] to confirm whether this course is available to international students.

  • 1. Strategies and techniques specific to improvements in spoken and written beginner level grammar 2. Expressing past time 3. Questions with what, who, where, when, why and what time 4. Regular and irregular verbs 5. Time clauses 6. The present, present progressive and the past progressive 7. Questions with present vs. present progressive 8. Simple past vs. past progressive 9. Expressing future time 10. Verb summary: present, past and future 11. Making comparisons

Course schedules

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Contact us

If you have any questions, please email at [email protected].

† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.

Indigenous Territory Acknowledgment

VCC is located on the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples who have been stewards of these lands since time immemorial.