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Erasmus+ Course: Elementary English for Educators (A1)
A professional course for school leaders, teachers, staff in educational institutions, project coordinators, educators active in Erasmus+ programmes
Course Objectives & Learning Outcomes
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For Educators at Every Starting Point
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Especially designed for teachers, school leaders, project coordinators and school staff at A1 (Elementary) level
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You Belong Here: No prior English needed – just the willingness to start
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Practical Vocabulary: Learn words for daily life, travel, and professional settings – always in context
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Real English, Real Contexts
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Develop all four language skills: reading, listening, writing and speaking – in guided, supportive activities
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Speaking Confidence: Practise greetings, introductions and everyday school language through gamified activities and creative tasks
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Cultural Awareness: Use the heritage of Split as a real-life learning environment to discover English in the world around you
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Small Words, Big Steps
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Build the foundation for independent communication, one sentence at a time
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Step Toward A2: Strengthen the vocabulary and grammar structures needed for more independent communication
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Your Classroom, Your Gain: Take home practical skills, simple structures, and the confidence to use English in your own personal and professional development
The course programme outline
Day 1 Hello and Welcome
Focus: Greetings, introducing yourself, classroom language
- the course introduction:
- course programme overview and guidance, practical arrangements, course aims, objectives, expectations
- participants’ presentations of their schools
Activities:
- “A Postcard From Home” – introduction to the basic English and classroom language
- “Common Ground” – game-based activity to acquire basic vocabulary
- Workshop “My English Passport” – engaging basic speaking and writing activities
- Individual and pair work assessment
- Round-up of completed activities and hands-on experience
Day 2 My World
Focus: Family, home, daily routine, present tense, key adjectives
Activities:
- Picture It – acquiring vocabulary on home, family, school objects
- Listening exercises– acquiring vocabulary and expressions on daily routine, listening skills reinforcement
- Nice to Meet You– speaking skills
- A Teacher’s Day– improving writing skills
- My Day in Words – improving writing skills
- In the Hot Seat– game-based activity to acquire basic vocabulary
- Round-up and feedback
Day 3 Split and Its Stories
Focus: Places, colours, adjectives, simple descriptions, “there is / there are”
Activities:
- City in Pictures – vocabulary input acquirement: places in a city (square, palace, tower, market, church, sea, wall) with pictures of Split
- Discover Diocletian’s Palace – listening skills
- My Talking Postcard – speaking activity
- Wish You Were Here – improving writing skills
- Gallery Walk – peer feedback
- Game Describe and Draw – vocabulary acquirement and reinforcement – pair work
- Individual and pair work assessment & feedback
- Round-up
Day 4 Field Class: Split in Colour
Focus: Using English outside the classroom, promotional language, group collaboration
Activities:
- Field class in Split at cultural heritage sites of a great value
- Creating a promotional poster in Canva
- Speaking practice: improving presenting skills
- Writing exercise: concise expression
- Group peer assessment
- Civic Education connection: brief discussion
- Round-up
Day 5 Our Story in Split
Focus: Talking about the past – video narration
Activities:
- Vocabulary & grammar reinforcement: simple past time expressions
- Creating a video story using a recommendable video editor
- Writing exercise – writing a video script – peer correction in pairs
- Speaking practice
- Game True or False – peer feedback
- Peer assessment of group work
- Round-up
Day 6 Final Day
- round-up of learning outcomes: reflection, discussion and self-assessment
- review of the course: evaluation and feedback
- certification ceremony
- goodbye final activity
Course Syllabus
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Gain a deeper understanding of our course structure by downloading our detailed syllabus. This document provides an in-depth look at the topics covered, learning activities planned, and the assessment methods employed throughout the course. It’s an essential resource for prospective participants to assess the course’s relevance and alignment with their professional development goals.
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Course Details & General Information
Teaching occupation, among other academic qualifications and standards, implies a knowledgeable, skilful and competent teacher. English language competence is considered as one of the standard ones, because of the ability to communicate, understand, and consequently broaden personal and professional horizons.
This course is designed to motivate participants to use English in guided, engaging, and gamified activities centred on everyday life and cultural heritage — a topic of high priority within Erasmus+ standards and personal and professional development. Participants will use targeted A1 vocabulary and grammar to express their thoughts across a variety of tasks, while also discovering how digital tools can make language learning more dynamic and immediately applicable in their own teaching practice.
Throughout the course, teachers will be guided step by step to peer assess each other’s work, fostering awareness of the importance of assessment, self-reflection, and self-evaluation — skills they can carry directly into their own classrooms.
All working approaches are included: individual, pair, and group work, alongside a field class that brings meaningful cultural heritage implementation into the learning experience and supports cross-curricular goals.
Guidance and tutoring during the course imply step-by step approach, professional and motivating assistance, monitoring of participants’ progress and valid continuous feedback.
Erasmus+ Teacher Training in Split Croatia
How Your Days in Split Are Structured
Our Erasmus+ course spans a total of 6 days, carefully balanced between structured learning and free time in Split and the local area.
According to Erasmus+ Quality standards for courses under Key Action 1 (learning mobility of individuals), a working day lasts for 5 hours, i.e. from at 9:00 AM – 14:00 PM with a possibility to extend working hours one day due to cultural heritage visits and field classes.
The day concludes with free time after the classes for personal cultural exploration or relaxation in the picturesque city of Split.
Learning outcomes
Participants will be guided and tutored to:
- use A1 grammar and vocabulary accurately in guided contexts
- develop basic receptive skills through listening and reading activities
- express themselves in speaking and writing in a creative and structured way
- speak publicly using prepared sentence frames and visual support
- use digital tools, including Canva, to produce materials that support speaking practice
- implement cultural heritage as a cross-curricular theme in collaborative tasks
- apply basic concepts of Civic Education in speaking activities
- practise formative peer and self-assessment across individual, pair, and group work
All courses’ designs, educational and teaching material, and professional articles are original, made by well-experienced educators, and as their authors, our educators guarantee the educational and teaching quality of the Lina Edu content.
Note:
The course programme and schedule can be changed, because minor changes are possible due to the organizational requirements and trainers’ disposal.
Classes are organized in the morning or in the afternoon depending on the organizational requirements and trainers’ disposal.
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