Listening comprehension skills

A. Taped, casual dialogues on a variety of speech acts

1. Identify specific factual details and inferred meanings

2. Identify the mood or attitude of the participants

3. Recall details and purpose of a significant portion of dialogue

B. Oral instructions

1. Follow sequence markers and other linguistic clues

2. Complete a task as outlined in instructions

C. Descriptive or narrative presentations

1. Identify factual details and inferred meanings

2. Get main ideas, supporting details, statements and examples as required

3. Formulate predictions of what will happen next

Speaking skills

A. Formal conversations

1. Open, maintain, and close a short formal conversation

2. Introduce guests or speakers in a group setting

3. Make or cancel an appointment

4. Express apologies, regrets, and excuses

5. Request clarification; request an item

6. Interrupt politely

7. Use appropriate expressions for taking phone messages

8. Give a set of directions

9. Make suggestions

B. Storytelling, descriptions, and sequencing of events from the past

1. Present information in coherent, connected discourse

2. Organize story into an introduction, development, and conclusion

3. Ask relevant questions

4. Summarize and repeat back

5. Use explicit connectors

6. Use appropriate grammar, vocabulary, and non-verbal communication

7. Describe and compare people, places, etc.

8. Describe a simple process

9. Provide accurate details

10. Use explicit connectors

11. Use appropriate grammar, vocabulary, and non-verbal communication

C. Group discussion

1. Participate actively in group discussions and meetings

2. Express opinions and feelings

3. Express obligations, ability, and certainty

Reading and critical thinking skills

D. Notes, E-mail messages, letters, announcements

1. Identify specific factual details

2. Identify purpose of text

3. Identify attitude of the writer and context

4. Follow instructions of up to 10 steps

E. Moderately complex texts containing advice, requests, and specifications

1. Identify main intent and main idea

2. Identify factual details and inferred meanings

3. Identify writer’s purpose, intent, and attitude

C. Moderately complex formatted texts such as directories, forms, charts, and time lines

1. Scan for information

2. Relate a sequence of steps in a cycle

3. Interpret chart information

D. Moderately complex descriptive/narrative texts

1. Identify specific factual details and inferred meanings

2. State main idea and key details

3. Summarize the story in own words

4. Predict what will happen next in the text

F. Moderately complex expository texts

1. Identify specific factual details and inferred meaning

2. Identify writer’s purpose, intent, and attitude

3. State main idea and key details.

4. Summarize the text in own words.

Writing and composing skills

A. Personal and business messages and letters

1. Use appropriate language, structure, and content appropriate for the occasion

2. Convey main ideas and supporting details using basic paragraph structure

3. Demonstrate control of grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and punctuation

B. Note-taking from oral presentations and written page instructions

1. Reduce written or oral information to important points with accurate details

2. Record information with correct spelling

3. Copy information off of a board or screen

C. Forms

1. Fill out forms with required information

2. Spelling & punctuation

D. Narrative and descriptive paragraphs

1. Write one to two paragraphs on an assigned topic

2. Express main idea with supporting details

3. Demonstrate good control of simple grammatical structures

4. Demonstrate adequate vocabulary for the topic

5. Use appropriate paragraph organization with logical connectors

6. Demonstrate accurate spelling and punctuation with only minor errors

7. Present text in legible handwriting or print

Grammar

A. Parts of speech

1. Identify and use accurately

a. nouns

b. pronouns

c. verbs

d. adjectives

e. adverbs

f. prepositions

2. Identify only

a. adjectives

1. present participles

2. past participles

B. Syntax

1. Identify and use accurately

a. subject

b. object

C. Verbs, verb tenses, verb aspects, and verbals

1. Identify only

a. perfect aspect

1. past perfect

2. past perfect progressive

3. future perfect

4. future perfect progressive

2. Identify and use accurately

a. present

1. simple present

2. present progressive

b. past

1. simple past, regular and irregular

2. used to

3. past progressive

c. future

1. be going to

2. will

d. perfect aspect

1. present perfect

2. present perfect progressive

D. Other grammatical forms, word order, context

1. Identify and use accurately

a. nouns

1. singular and plural

2. count vs. non-count

3. possessive

b. phrasal verbs

1. transitive

2. intransitive

c. pronouns

1. subject and object

2. direct and indirect

3. possessive

4. reflexive and reciprocal

d. adjectives

1. descriptive

2. possessive

3. comparative

4. superlative

e. adverbs

1. frequency

2. manner

f. prepositions

1. location/place

2. time

g. modals

1. can/could

2. should

3. have to

4. must/have to/be supposed to

5. may/might/could

6. be able to/be permitted to/be allowed to

7. had better/ought to

8. would rather

9. would/will/won’t

h. clauses

1. sentence types

2. independent

3. dependent

4. adverbial

2. identify only

a. clauses

1. adjective

2. noun