Listening Proficiency Scales: Students can understand everyday expressions dealing with simple and concrete everyday needs, in clear, slow and repeated speech. They can follow speech which is very slow and carefully articulated, with long pauses for them to get the meaning and can understand questions and instructions and follow short, simple directions. They can understand numbers, prices and times.
Reading Proficiency Scales: At this level, students can understand the general idea of simple informational texts and short simple descriptions, especially if they contain pictures which help to explain the text. They can understand very short, simple texts, putting together familiar names, words and basic phrases, by, for example, rereading parts of the text. They can follow short, simple written instructions, especially if they contain pictures. They are able to recognize familiar names, words and very simple phrases on simple notices in the most common everyday situations. They can understand short, simple messages, e.g. on cell phones.
Speaking Proficiency Scales: Students at this level can ménage very short, isolated, mainly pre-packaged utterances, with much pausing to search for the expressions, to articulate less familiar words, and to repair communication. They have a very basic range of simple expressions about personal details and needs of a concrete type. They have a basic vocabulary repertoire of isolated words and phrases related to particular concrete situations. They show only limited control of a few simple grammatical structures and sentence patterns in a learnt repertoire. Pronunciation of a very limited repertoire of learnt words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of their language group. They can establish basic social contact by using the simplest everyday polite forms of: greetings and farewells; introductions; saying please, thank you, sorry, etc. They can link words or groups of words with very basic linear connectors like 'and' or 'then'.
Writing Proficiency Scales: They can write simple notes to friends, can describe where they live and can fill in forms with personal details. They are able to write simple isolated phrases and sentences and can write a short simple composition. They can write short letters and messages with the help of a dictionary.
Students will be able to use the following:
Functions: Directions; describing habits and routines; giving personal information; greetings; telling the time; understanding and using numbers; understanding and using prices.
Grammar: Adjectives: common and demonstrative; agreement nouns - adjectives; definite and indefinite articles; adverbs of frequency; present tense of regular and irregular verbs; how much/how many and very common uncountable nouns; intensifiers (basic); modals; (passato prossimo); possessive adjectives; prepositions (simple and combined); prepositions of time and space; direct pronouns (basic); I like it - I don't like it; I would like; there is / are; reflexive verbs and pronouns.
Discourse Markers: Connecting words, and, but, because.
Lexis: Food and drink; Nationalities and countries; personal information; things in town, shops and shopping; description of people, places and objects.
Topics: Family life; college life; hobbies and pastimes; holidays; leisure activities; shopping; work and jobs.