– Show understanding by responding appropriately to simple questions and requests
– Use basic sentence patterns and phrases to communicate limited information related to simple everyday situations
– Exchange basic information about everyday life and activities by asking and answering simple questions
– Link groups of words in a very simple way using and and then
Language Functions |
– Describing daily routines and times – Giving dates – Expressing ability and inability – Giving very simple direction and locations – Describing current activities of real people or those in pictures – Describing states in the past – Asking simple questions about everyday life |
Grammar |
– Present continuos tense – Can and can’t – Prepositions of movement from, to, up, down, along, across – Prepositions of time on, in, at – Prepositions of place near, in front of, behind, opposite – Past tense of the verb to be – Link words and, and then |
Lexis |
– Jobs – Places in the local area – Place of study – Home life – Weather – Free time – Times and dates – Ordinals numbers up to 31st for dates – Words and phrases relating to the language functions listed above. |
Phonology |
– The correct pronunciation of words relevant to the lexical areas listed above. – The use of contractions where appropriate – Basic stress and intonation patterns for words, short sentences and simple questions |