Course overview
By studying Bengali Level 1, you will be able to communicate in very basic everyday-life situations, including greetings, daily activities, finding your way, telling the time and date, making simple purchases and ordering a meal. You will be able to understand very simple oral and written texts and ascertain specific information on simple topics and have developed an insight into Bengali-speaking life, culture and society.
What does this course cover?
Topics may include:
- Likes and dislikes
- Directions - 2
- Currency
- At a shop
- Home
- Dates and Months
- Parts of the body
- Fruits and vegetables
- Numbers
Functions may include:
- Expressing likes and dislikes
- Talking about daily life
- Buying things
- Describing a house
- Asking for and telling time, dates and months
- Planning a schedule
Grammar may include:
- Present tense- progressive aspect
- Oblique pronouns
- To have
- Adjectives
- Need
- Interrogative sentences 3
- Postposition –adverbial
- Common verbs 3
- Sentence structure- word order 3
- Script- Writing words
What will I achieve?
When Bengali Level 1 is complete, you will achieve the equivalent of A1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), entry level of the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF).
*The above is an indication of content that may be covered over the duration of the course but it could vary depending on the level and progress of students in the class.