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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

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		 2. Verbs:
identifying regular and irregular verbs 		2. Contractions: using pronouns

3. Nouns and Proper Nouns: recognition and use

3. Basic Sentence Structure:
finding the subject and verb

3. Abbreviations: recognised in the business world

3. Colons and Semi-colons

4. Pronouns: recognition and use

4. Abbreviations:
in measurements

4. Basic Sentence Structure:
subject and verb agreement

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:
case

6. Verbs:
of action and being

6. Pronouns:
whom or what they refer to 		6. Pronouns: possessive

6. The Apostrophe: belonging

7. Direct speech: how to punctuate it

7. Review Test 7. Contractions: using verbs

7. Review Test

8. Review Test

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

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