Listening comprehension skills

1. Engage in dialogues and discussions
1. Specific details
2. Inferred meanings
3. Relationship of intonation to speaker’s emotions
4. Following oral instructions
2. Understand descriptive and narrative oral texts
1. Main ideas
2. Factual details
3. Inferred meanings
4. Key words and phrases

Speaking skills

1. Engage in casual conversation
1. Small talk
2. Invitations and compliments
1. Extend
2. Receive
3. Turn-taking expressions
4. Expressions to show interest
5. Expressions to solve communication problems
2. Engage in appropriate discourse in a variety of speaking situations
1. Common phone expressions to place and receive calls
2. Spoken directions
3. Request and permission expressions
4. Simple advice
5. Sequence of events
6. Detailed story
7. Scenes or pictures
8. Opinions in small group discussions
9. Expressions of necessity, reason, worry, and concern

Reading and critical thinking skills

1. Comprehend moderately complex notes, e-mails, and letters
1. Factual details
2. Inferred meanings
3. Writer’s attitude
4. Ten-step written instructions
5. Key information in directories, charts, and schedules
2. Comprehend intermediate-level descriptive or narrative texts
1. Factual details
2. Inferred meanings
3. Main idea and key details
4. Organization and inter-paragraph links
5. Predicting meanings of words, expressions, and outcomes from contextual clues

Writing and composing skills

1. Write personal messages
1. Appropriate language, structure, and content appropriate for the occasion
2. Organization
3. Control of grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and punctuation
2. Take notes
1. Summarizing oral information using important points and details
2. Recording detailed information
1. Names, addresses
2. Numbers, dates, times
3. Spelling
3. Fill out forms
1. Recognizing required information
2. Spelling & punctuation
4. Write one- to two-paragraph narratives
1. Main idea
2. Supporting details
3. Appropriate paragraph organization
4. Appropriate logical connectors
5. Accurate spelling and punctuation
6. Control of simple grammatical structures

Grammar skills

1. Parts of speech
1. Identify and use accurately
1. Nouns
2. Pronouns
3. Verbs
4. Adjectives
5. Adverbs
6. Prepositions
2. Identify
1. Adjectives
1. Participles used as adjectives
2. Syntax
1. Identify and use accurately
1. Subject
2. Object
3. Verbs, verb tenses, verb aspects, and verbals
1. Identify and use accurately
1. Present
1. Present progressive
2. Simple present
2. Past
1. Simple past
1. Regular
2. Irregular
2. Used to
3. Past progressive
3. Future
1. Going to
2. Will
4. Perfect aspect
1. Simple present perfect
2. Present perfect progressive
5. Gerunds and infinitives
2.  Identify
1. Perfect aspect
1. Past perfect
2. Past perfect progressive
3. Future perfect
4. Future perfect progressive
2. Passive voice
3. Conditionals
4. Specific grammatical forms, word order, context
1. Identify and use accurately
1. Nouns
1. Singular & plural
2. Count vs. non-count
3. Possessive
2. Pronouns
1. Subject & object
2. Direct & indirect
3. Possessive
4. Reflexive & reciprocal
3. Adjectives
1. Descriptive
2. Possessive
3. Comparative
4. Superlative
4. Adverbs
1. Frequency
2. Manner
5. Prepositions
1. Location
2. Time
6. Modals and modal-like expressions
1. Ability (can /could / be able to)
2. Obligation (must / must not / have to / not have to / should / ought to / be supposed to)
3. Advisability (must / must not / should / ought to / had better)
4. Possibility (can / could / may / might)
5. Preference (would rather / would prefer)
6. Request (would / may / could / can)
7. Permission (may / can / be permitted to / be allowed to)
7. Sentence types and clauses
1. Independent
2. Dependent
2. Identify
1. Sentence types and clauses
1. Adverbial
2. Adjective
3. Noun