Senior 1
Senior 1
Senior 1
CAN understand familiar names words and very simple sentences for example
on notices and posters or in catalogues.
READING
CAN understand some words and phrases in short texts such as signs and
labels, a dialogue about personal information, a form.
CAN understand gist and find specific information in short descriptions, in
dialogues, short explanations, magazine articles, poems, song lyrics.
CAN use background information to understand texts such as a catalogue.
CAN recognize familiar words and very basic phrases concerning self, family
and immediate concrete surroundings when people speak slowly and clearly.
LISTENING
CAN understand gist and key words in a short text such as a conversation,
descriptions or an interview about personal information.
CAN understand detail in texts and contexts such as short phrases, quiz game
questions, interviews, descriptions, shopping and restaurant situations.
CAN understand main points in short texts like the ones mentioned above.
CAN interact in a simple way provided the other person is prepared to repeat
or rephrase things in a slower rate of speech and help them formulate what
they are trying to say.
CAN ask and answer simple questions in areas of immediate need or on very
familiar topics.
CAN use simple phrases and sentences to describe where they live and to
describe and introduce people they know.
SPEAKING
1
CAN fill in forms with personal details, for example entering name, nationality
and address on a hotel registration form
CAN write a short text using basic cohesive devices in the following genres:
WRITING
GRAMMATICAL CONTENT
By the end of the course the students should be able to understand and
produce the following contents.
2
Expressing existence There is/are
3
Offering Would
Would you like …?
Yes, please
No, thanks
The list below does not provide an exhaustive register of all the areas which can be taught
at the level and it is simply meant as a guide of the most likely semantic fields the students
may encounter. It is strongly recommendable that all the listed Topics and Vocabulary
Areas should be addressed.
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WRITING
The candidates will be asked to produce a text of about 40 words about very
familiar topics such as themselves, their families, a famous person, their town or
city/bedrooms/animals, a typical day, their school and friends, sports, an event,
holidays, eating habits, etc, using any of the following formats:
paragraph
email/letter