Speaking

• Can produce simple, mainly isolated phrases about himself/herself, people, and places.

• Can ask and answer simple questions.

• Can employ a few simple grammatical structures and sentence patterns that are replicated.

• Can pronounce a very limited repertoire  of learned words and phrases which can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his or her language group.

 

Writing

• Can write sentences about themselves and familiar objects (family, school, job, hobbies, and daily activities).

• Can write using simple connectors like and, but, and because.

• Can use grammar introduced at this level with some accuracy.

• Can express basic communication needs using sufficient vocabulary (basic).

 

Listening

• Can follow/recognize speech that is very slow and carefully articulated with long pauses for him/her to assimilate meaning to identify topic and main ideas.

• Can preview listening topic by using visual cues to activate background knowledge.

• Can make predictions about the topic.

• Can get clarification from the speaker as needed.

 

Reading

• Can understand short, simple texts including informational material, identifying basic purpose, main ideas and supporting details.

• Can activate schema and preview text.

• Can use a bottom-up and top-down approach in order to aid in comprehension of a selected text.