Verbal Communication Objectives
- Spoken Interaction
- Can use basic repertoire of conversation strategies to maintain a discussion
- Can attempt new formulations and expressions, and check their appropriateness.
- Can describe basic symptoms to a doctor, but with limited precision.
- Listening
- Can understand the majority of a radio program on a familiar topic.
Vocabulary Objectives
- Politics, History, Law, and Society
- Can use general language related to a military conflict. (soldiers/troops; battle; conflict/ fighting in; agree to a ceasefire; peacekeeping force, etc.)
- Can use general language related to immigration. (refugees; immigrant workers; passport/visa; cross the border into; border controls; customs, etc.)
- Can use general language related to the crime/security situation in their city or country. (high/low crime rate; (un)safe on the streets/at night; scared; security; organized crime, etc.)
- Health and Body
- Can use common language related to personal comfort and hygiene. (hungry; thirsty; tired; sleepy; look/feel well/good; shave; brush/comb; soap; toothpaste, etc.)
- Can use some detailed language related to someone’s medical history. (childhood; sickness; operation; serious illness; operate on; suffer from; problems with, etc.)
Grammar Objectives
- Adjectives and Adverbs
- Can say something is possible or not using too + adverb/not + adverb + enough + infinitive. (They don’t speak clearly enough to understand; I got up too late to catch the bus, etc.)
- Future Forms
- Can use the present to refer to the future after words (e.g. when, as soon as, before). (I’ll tell her when I see her; I’ll call as soon as I get there; I’ll do it before I leave, etc.)
- -ing Forms and Infinitives
- Can use infinitives after stative verbs (e.g. seem, suppose, look, appear). (He’s supposed to send it to us; He seems to drive fast; She appears to work hard, etc.)
- Nouns and Articles
- Can use the definite article appropriately with common geographical names. (the Amazon; the Atlantic; the UAE; the UK; the Alps; the Seychelles; the Caribbean, etc.)
- Passive Forms
- Can give an instruction without specifying who needs to do it. (The report needs to be completed this week; Homework needs to be handed in today, etc.)
- Possessives, Pronouns, and Quantifiers
- Can use reflexive pronouns to refer to themselves. (Did you enjoy yourself ?; I hurt myself; I told myself; I enjoyed myself; He blames himself, etc.)
- Present Perfect
- Can ask or talk about something that should have happened by now using yet/still. (Have you done it yet?; Have they arrived yet?; They still haven’t called back, etc.)
- Present Tenses
- Can express irritation at a reoccurring action using always + present continuous.( She’s always complaining; He’s always going on about that; He’s always losing things, etc.)
Written Communication Objectives
- Writing
- Can clearly signal chronological sequence in narrative text.
- Can write a formal email/letter accepting or declining an invitation.
- Reading
- Can follow chronological sequence in formal structured text.