The minimum content of each of the five components can be described as follows:

Pedagogy Theory  (26 hours of workshop sessions and private study)   - Teaching and learning a foreign language - Language teaching methodologies - The syllabus - The effective teacher - Classroom management skills - Language teaching materials - Lesson planning - Teaching receptive skills - Teaching productive skills (speaking) - Teaching vocabulary - Teaching pronunciation - Teaching grammar - Responding to mistakes and errors - Language games - The assessment of language learners		Language Awareness (26 hours) (26 hours of workshop sessions and private study)   - The purpose and nature of communication  - Word classes  - Verb types and verb forms - The tense system  - The present simple tense and the present continuous tense - The past simple tense, the past continuous tense, the past perfect tense (simple and continuous) - The present perfect tense (simple and continuous  - Expressing the future  - Conditional sentences - The passive voice - Gerunds and infinitives - Modal auxiliary verbs  - Multi-word verbs - Phonology
Teaching Skills (38 hours)   - Six hours of observing experienced teachers - Eight hours of assessed teaching practice (*groups and or individual students) - Sixteen hours of supported lesson preparation time - Eight hours of post-lesson discussions		Cultural Awareness (14 hours)   - The cross-cultural dimension of language teaching - The Group Project

The hours allocated to the Life Skills and Cultural Awareness components represent the minimum number of hours delivered through discrete workshop sessions and meetings with the mentor. The skills, qualities and awareness contained in these components are, in addition, further developed within all other aspects of the program e.g. a language awareness session may include collaborative learning experiences and the requirement to make a presentation.