Listening comprehension skills

A. Understand social exchanges in greetings, leave takings, and introductions

1. Contrast formal and informal expressions

2. Use context and situation details to infer meaning

B. Follow two to four-step directions

C. Identify expressions that ask for permission, give warnings, and offer assistance

D. Identify key words, expressions, main points, and details in a listening text

Speaking skills

A. Use introductory expressions

B. Use expressions to indicate lack of understanding and to ask for an explanation

C. Give short directions

D. Tell a personal experience story

1. Describe family, occupation, activities, friends, and health

2. Express current and future needs and wants

Reading and critical thinking skills

A. Get key information and factual and important details from a short written text

1. Personal notes and letters

2. One to two paragraph texts

B. Follow one to five-step common everyday written instructions

C. Find information in a variety of textual formats

1. Tables, forms, schedules, and directories

2. Brochures, notices, form letters, and flyers

3. Dictionaries, maps, and diagrams

Writing and composing skills

A. Write personal messages and notes

B. Copy information

1. Words, numbers, letters, and sentences

2. Capitalization, lower case, and punctuation

C. Fill out forms

1. Spelling

2. Legible handwriting

3. Completeness

D. Write short descriptions of current or past situations and events

Parts of speech

Identify and use accurately
1. Nouns
2. Pronouns
3. Verbs
4. Adjectives
5. Prepositions
6. Subjects

Identify
1. Adverbs
2. Objects

Verbs and verb tenses/aspects in sentence and question format, affirmative and negative

Identify and use accurately
1. Imperatives
2. Verb BE
a. Present
b. Past

3. Present progressive/continuous
4. Simple present tense

5. Simple past tense (irregular and regular verbs)

6. Future: Will

Identify:
1. Past tense
a. used to
b. past continuous

2. Future: Be going to

Word Order

Identify and use accurately

1.. Nouns
a. Singular/Plural
b. Count and Non-count
c. Possessive
2. Pronouns
a. Subject and Object
b. Direct and Indirect
c. Possessive
3. Adjectives
a. Descriptive
b. Possessive

Adverbs of frequency
5. Prepositions
a. Location/Place
b. Time

6. Modal verbs
a. Can/Could

b. May for permission

Identify

1. Pronouns: Reflexive and reciprocal
2. Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative
3. Adverbs of manner

4. Modal verbs

a. must/have to

b. should
c. may/might