The Teisht Undinagh (Foundation Certificate) covers the following areas:
- Basic pronunciation
- Basic counting (1 – 100)
- First meetings
- Identifying objects
- Identifying the location of objects
- Describing people
- Colours
- Feminine nouns
- Likes and dislikes
- Nouns as adjectives
- Possession
- The Calendar (seasons, months, days, dates, years)
- Question words/sentences
- Polite sentences and orders ("imperatives")
- Counting things
- Making plans / intentions)
- Starting, finishing, and telling the time
- Using "ta" and "ayn" to say "there is"
- Near, next to, in front of, behind
- Regular plurals
- Coming and going
- Seeing and hearing
- Finding and losing
- Giving and taking
- Connecting sentences with "that", "who", "which" (practice of past tense irregular verbs)
- The 10 irregular imperatives
- The magic of "jannoo"
- "It will be" and "it won’t be"
- "It was" and "I won’t be"
- Explaining what has just happened
- Connecting sentences with "when", "and", "because" and "but"
- Inexact time references
- Counting time spans
- Seeking clarification
- Adjectives
- Frequency
- "Inside", "outside", "on the other side", "on all sides"
- Opinions
- Preference
- Habitual behaviour
- Directions
- Tongue twisters and Songs
- "Too"
- Wanting
- Describing feelings
- Shopping and other activities
- Successive actions
- "I can", "I could", "I would"
- Having enough
- Using passive verb forms to describe
- Have you ever?
- How do you do that?
- Is okay if I . . . ?
- Making plans and suggestions
- Recipe Instructions
- Size
- Successive actions / cause and effect
- "If" in the future
- Inexact amounts
- If using dependent forms
- More or less
- It seems that . . .
- How did you do that
- I imagine . . .
- Comparing things