Communicative Aims
– Understand short, simple questions, requests and statements
– Respond with appropriate actions and positive and negative short form answers
– Contribute to the conversation using memorised phrases and short statements
– Use a basic range of words and simple phrases related to personal details and situations
– Ask for very basic personal information, e.g. about possessions
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Language functions |
– Informing about possessions – Asking very simple questions about personal details – Stating simple facts – Indicating the position of people and objects – Describing people, animals, objects and places very simply |
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Grammar |
– Present simple tense questions – Question words who? when? – Determiners their, its – Possessive pronouns mine, yours, his, hers – Present simple tense – There is/are and has/have got/have you got? Do you have? – Question words where? how? – Present continuous tense questions – Determiners some, any – Prepositions of place in, on, under, between, next to – Yes/no answers to present continuous tense questions |
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Lexis |
– Family and friends – Possessions – Days of the week and months of the year – Cardinal numbers up to 50 – Pets – Vocabulary and structures relating to the functions listed above – Rooms in the home – Household objects |
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Phonology |
– The correct pronunciation of words relevant to the lexical areas listed above – Basic intonation patterns for simple questions – Contractions, e.g. I’ve, I’m, he’s |
