These are my memories of learning English in school as a foreign language. French courses that my wife took recently also had past and future tenses in A1.

Even if it's not the tenses, still schools typically put a lot of focus on grammar and order of words but not even nearly enough into speaking. I have an suspicion that these corses are modelled after native-language programs which rightfully focus on grammar because everyone knows how to speak already. But starting from it is madness.