English levels for children at Premier Skills Sundays are not simply the same course taught at different speeds. Each level has its own vocabulary targets, grammar focus, reading expectations and communication outcomes. Children begin by developing the essential vocabulary and sentence structures needed at Beginner level before progressing to Elementary, where they build confidence using comparative language, expressing opinions and extending conversations. Intermediate learners then use these foundations to communicate with greater accuracy, fluency and independence. The English levels for children are carefully structured to provide a logical learning journey rather than a collection of unrelated courses.
Understanding these English levels for children helps parents appreciate how real progress is achieved. When a child successfully completes the Beginner level and moves to Elementary, they are not repeating familiar content at a higher difficulty. Instead, they are building on knowledge and skills already mastered, making the next stage both accessible and meaningful. This step-by-step progression ensures that every child develops the confidence and language ability needed before advancing to more demanding English.
Beginner: Building The Foundation
At Beginner level, the English levels for children encounter introduce core football vocabulary in the context of the Locomotive London story, simple present and past tense structures, basic descriptive language and introductory opinion phrases. The reading passages are short and scaffolded with illustrations. The speaking tasks use sentence frames that give children a structure to work within before producing language freely.
The specific outcomes at Beginner level are: describing a player using a range of adjectives, retelling a short match story in the past tense, stating a preference with a reason, and responding to a classmate’s opinion with a simple agreement or disagreement. These are not aspirations. They are the observable benchmarks that the HATRIQA Football English Elementary textbook is designed to produce, and they are the vocabulary and grammar foundation that Elementary builds directly on. Full details of the Beginner level are on the Premier Skills Sundays page at ILC Hua Hin.
Elementary: Adding Grammar Range And Communicative Depth
At Elementary level, the english levels for children move into introduce comparative and superlative language, more complex past tense narrative, extended reading texts and the multi-turn opinion structures that allow children to argue a position and respond to challenges. The Locomotive London story develops into more complex narrative territory, with character motivations, conflicts and resolutions that require children to follow and interpret events rather than simply identify them.
The Elementary level is where most children begin to sound genuinely communicative in English rather than simply accurate. The grammar range they have developed allows them to express nuanced positions, the vocabulary accumulated across Beginner and Elementary levels gives them the specific language for football discussions, and the speaking habits formed across two courses give them the confidence to attempt language they are not entirely certain about. Cambridge’s research on CLIL vocabulary development identifies this as the stage where vocabulary moves from recognition to active use, a transition that the english levels children progress through at Premier Skills Sundays are specifically designed to produce.
Intermediate: Towards Academic Communication
At Intermediate level, the english levels for children reach require inference-level reading, extended speaking responses and the ability to structure a multi-part argument that acknowledges and responds to counter-arguments. The vocabulary is less predictable from context, requiring children to use reading strategies rather than relying on football knowledge to decode unfamiliar words. The Locomotive London story addresses abstract themes: ambition, fairness, leadership under pressure and the ethics of competition.
Krashen’s research on comprehensible input identifies the Intermediate stage as the level at which acquisition begins to accelerate, because the learner has enough language to make input comprehensible at a wider range of difficulty levels. A child who has worked through the Beginner and Elementary levels of Premier Skills Sundays arrives at Intermediate with the vocabulary, grammar and communicative habits that make the Intermediate challenges accessible rather than overwhelming.
A child who completes the full three-level progression at Premier Skills Sundays has developed the academic communication skills that secondary school English demands: reading complex texts independently, giving extended verbal responses, structuring an argument and maintaining a position under challenge. Take the free English level test and book a consultation before the intake begins. For school groups, the Premier Skills Camp and ILC residential English tours are available. Contact ILC directly.
