Listening comprehension skills

A. Identify main idea, details, key words, and inferred meanings

1. casual small talk conversations

2. spoken discourse

3. persuasive oral texts

4. reports or stories

B. Follow four- to five-step verbal instructions

Speaking skills

A. Use short, casual small talk

1. Openings, closings, and responses

2. Introductions

3. Phone situations

a. common expressions for telephone usage

b. telephone messages

B. Give directions, requests, responses

C. Tell stories

1. Connected discourse on everyday activities

2. Expressions of need, preference, satisfaction, or dissatisfaction

Reading and critical thinking skills

A. Comprehend key information, main ideas, important details and specific information

1. Authentic personal texts

2. Instructions and instructional texts

B. Find information and specific details in formatted texts

1. Forms, tables, schedules, directories

2. Brochures, notices, form letters, flyers

C. Comprehend text types and purposes, main ideas and details, and facts and opinions in two- to three-paragraph texts

1. news articles

2. educational/content materials

3. stories

D. Use reference texts to find information

1. Dictionaries

2. Maps

3. Diagrams and graphs

Writing and composing skills

A. Write short texts

1.Informal or formal personal messages

a. Appropriate language and content

b. Main ideas and details in a paragraph structure

c. Simple grammar, punctuation, and spelling with few errors

2.Business messages

3.Description of a situation, event, experience, or future plans

a. Basic paragraph structure

b. Main ideas and supporting details

c. Adequate vocabulary

d. Correct spelling and punctuation

B. Copy information

1.Accurate and complete information

2.Legible writing

C. Fill out simple forms

Grammar

A. Parts of speech

Identify and use accurately

1.Nouns and pronouns

2.Verbs

3.Adjectives and adverbs

4.Prepositions

5.Subject and object

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

Identify and use accurately

6.Present progressive/continuous

7.Simple present tense

8.Past tense

a. Simple regular

b. Simple irregular

c. Used to

d. Past continuous

9.Future

a. Be going to

b. Will

Identify

10. Present perfect / present perfect continuous

11. Past participles

12. Gerunds and infinitives

C. Specific grammatical forms, word order and context

Identify and use accurately

13. Nouns

a. Singular/plural

b. Count/non-count

c. Possessive

14. Pronouns

a. Subject / object

b. Direct / indirect

c. Possessive

d. Reflexive / reciprocal

15. Adjectives

a. Descriptive

b. Possessive

c. Comparative

d. Superlative

16. Adverbs

a. Frequency

b. Manner

17. Prepositions

a. Location / Place

b. Time

18. Modals and modal-like expressions

a. Can / could

b. Should

c. Have to

d. Must / have to / be supposed to

e. May / might

19. Sentence types and clauses

a. Independent

b. Dependent