Speaking

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• 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

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• Can write simple isolated phrases and sentences.

• Can write sentences which answer the question clearly.

• Can write using simple connectors like and/but.

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

• Can express basic communication needs using sufficient vocabulary (basic) with correct form and meaning.

• Can copy familiar words and short phrases. Can put a period at the end of each sentence.

 

Listening

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• 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.

• Can write basic words during dictation type listenings from the textbook at this level.

 

Reading

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

• Can summarize a simple text based on gist and key details in a few sentences.

• Can activate schema, preview text, and make basic predictions .

• Can use familiar context to understand commonly used vocabulary.