How to place your students Part 1

Do you have private tutoring students? Or have you ever experienced that you don’t know which level should place your students. The following is the general guideline on how to place your students and what skills required.

The following separated into six levels and you can combine them into lesser levels or make more. In general, according to their ability, students can be placed into the following levels: Beginner, Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate, Advance.

Beginner

Beginner-level students aren’t necessarily children. They could also be adults who have the need to learn a new language. Students at beginner level can’t speak or write accurately in the present simple and present continuous tenses. There are students who might already learn English for years but are not ready for the next level; these students are called “False Beginners.”

Grammar to cover includes:

✓ The subject pronouns: I, you, he, she, we, they.

✓ Demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, those.

✓ Question words: what, who, where and how.

✓ Possessive adjectives: my, your, his, hers,theirs, ours .

✓ Singular and plural nouns (s/es/ies)

✓ The verb to be in positive, negative and question form: I am, I am not, am I?

Vocabulary to cover includes:

✓ A-Z.

✓ Numbers 1 to 100.

✓ Jobs: teacher, doctor, nurse, postman, police officer, fire fighter.

✓ Countries and nationalities: He is from the UK. He’s British.

✓ Basic food: fruit, vegetables, meat.

✓ Days of the week.

✓ Everyday objects: apple, bag, desk, chair, pen, eraser.

✓ Immediate family: mother,father, brother, sister, son, daughter.

✓ Rooms in the house: living room, bathroom, kitchen.

Elementary

At elementary level, students learn to use many more verbs instead of only to be (I am, you are, it is).  At this level students learn to talk and ask about matters related to daily routines. They also begin to refer to past and future time.

Grammar to cover includes:

✓ Basic verbs in the present simple positive, negative and question forms:

I live, I don’t live, do I live?

✓ Simple adverbs of frequency: usually, sometimes.

✓ Quantities: How much, how many? Some, any.

✓ Showing ability: using can/ can’t.

✓ The past simple tense with to be: was / were.

✓ Future simple tense: I will go.

✓ Past simple tense with regular verbs: I looked, I listened.

Vocabulary to cover includes:

✓ Simple adjectives: opposites, colors.

✓ Language for telling the time: What time is it? It’s half past three.

✓ Language for shopping: types of shops, asking for what you want.

✓ Asking for directions: straight ahead, turn left / right.

✓ Months and years.

✓ Weather: What’s the weather like? It’s raining.

✓ Comparative adjectives: bigger, nicer, and so on (superlatives wait until the next level).