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COMPLETE COURSE:
The content and activities for this course are divided into four stages, each of which builds on the knowledge of the previous one.

The activities are in three parts:

1. a lesson
2. practice exercises
3. a short test on what you have just learnt

Personal Record: From the programme, you have the option to print off a course booklet to record your progress.

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 4

1. Using Capitals: for names of people, pets, I, the first word in a sentence, and the first word in direct speech.

1. Using Capitals: for days, months, holidays, historical events, and in the greeting and closing of letters.

1. Using Capitals:
for geographic places, nationalities, titles of books/movies/songs and so on.

1. Using Capitals: for businesses, organisations, schools, special products, airlines, and so on.

2. Full Stops, Question and Exclamation Marks 2. Verbs:
simple tenses - past, present, future. 		2. Verbs:
identifying regular and irregular verbs. 		2. Contractions: abbreviating pronouns.

3. Nouns and Proper Nouns: recognition and use.

3. Basic Sentence Structure:
finding the subject and verb.

3. Abbreviations: generally recognised in the business world.

3. Colons and Semi-colons

4. Pronouns: recognition and use.

 4. Abbreviations:
in measurements.

4. Basic Sentence Structure:
matching the verb with the subject.

4. Abbreviations:
in common use.

5. Basic Sentence Structure:
the difference between complete sentences and fragments.

 5. Commas:
after an introductory
word/phrase and
around names.		 5. Commas:
in a series/as brackets.

5. Pronouns:
when to use I or me, he or him, she or her, we or us, they or them.

6. Verbs:
of action and being.

 6. Pronouns:
whom or what they refer to.		 6. Possessive Pronouns:
where NOT to put the apostrophe.

6. The Apostrophe:
showing belonging to.

7. Direct Speech: how to punctuate it

7. Review Test 7. Contractions: abbreviating verbs.

7. Review Test

8. Review Test

   8. Review Test 8. Graduation Test
      9.  Certificate of Course Completion

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