Starting From Scratch: An English Language Foundation Course for Beginners (Online / Remote)
1Summary
Ask any employer today what the single most requested skill is on a CV, and English will almost always be near the top. It has become the working language of business, travel, and the internet itself — which means that not speaking it, even at a basic level, quietly closes doors that never even seem to open in the first place.
This foundation course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy is built for exactly that starting point: zero prior knowledge. Participants build their grammar from the ground up — nouns, verbs, tenses, and sentence structure — in a simple, alphabet-based language that is genuinely faster to pick up than many others once the basics click into place.
By the end, participants leave with the practical building blocks needed to form correct sentences, hold a basic conversation, and keep progressing with confidence rather than confusion.
2Objectives and target group
Who Is This For?
- Anyone who wants to learn English and start truly from zero.
- Learners who tried before but never built a solid grammar foundation.
- Professionals who need basic English to open doors in a global workplace.
What You Will Walk Away With:
- A working understanding of English grammar and how sentences are actually built.
- The ability to use past, present, and future tenses correctly and confidently.
- Command of core vocabulary and everyday phrasing for real conversations.
- A clear method for continuing to learn and improve after the course ends.
3Course Content
Module 1: Naming the World — Nouns and Pronouns
- Singular and plural forms, and telling countable from uncountable nouns.
- Possessive nouns: showing who owns what.
- Pronouns and how they replace nouns in a sentence.
Module 2: Verbs in Action
- Auxiliary (helping) verbs and how they support the main verb.
- Action verbs and building a basic sentence around them.
- Irregular verbs — practical tricks for memorizing the common ones.
Module 3: Describing People, Things, and Ideas
- Adjectives and where they sit in a sentence.
- Comparative adjectives for comparing two things.
Module 4: Mastering Time — The Tense System
- Past simple and past continuous, and when to use each.
- Perfect tenses and how they connect past actions to the present.
- Building present, past, and future sentences with confidence.
Module 5: Connecting Your Ideas
- Prepositions of time, place, and movement.
- Linking words for cause and effect.
- Linking words for addition, organizing, and summarizing — and for contrasting ideas.
Module 6: Putting It All Together — Reading and Writing
- Reading practice to reinforce vocabulary and structure.
- Writing practice to apply grammar rules in real sentences.