The goal of this course is to familiarize students with greetings, simple instructions and requests, and appropriate spoken responses or phrases. Students will be able to give short answers to simple questions and requests for information; name colors, body parts, numbers, items of clothing and objects in daily life. Grammar points: various tenses (e.g. present simple, present perfect and past simple) of the verb "to be" and other common action verbs. Other grammar points: singular and plural nouns, adjectives (including participles and superlatives), modals, pronouns (including possessives), demonstratives and clauses (e.g. adjective and conditional clauses). Vocabulary focus: personal information, surroundings, clothing, body parts, numbers and colors.