Personal environment

Expressing thoughts, feelings and attitudes

Making things happen

• responding to a request
• requesting something, or requesting someone to do something
• inviting someone to do something
• accepting or declining an offer or invitation
• giving instructions or orders
• giving and asking for advice
• responding to or rejecting advice, with reasons
• warning others to be careful or to stop doing something
• offering and requesting assistance
• insisting politely
• persuading someone to do something
• suggesting a course of action
• asking for, responding to, agreeing to or rejecting suggestions with reason/alternative
• making and agreeing plans and arrangements
• encouraging someone to do something

• reaching a compromise
• prohibiting someone from doing something
• making a complaint
• refusing to do something, expressing defiance
• pleading with someone to do something

LISTENING

The candidate will be able to (Il candidato sarà in grado di:)

• understand speech which is clearly and slowly articulated
• follow short conversations both formal and informal connected with education, work and social life understanding gist, context, feelings, opinions and relationships
• understand simple questions, statements, narratives, directions, explanations and instructions
• identify the function of short utterances (see Grammar and Functions sections)
• extract and reproduce key information from simple spoken messages and announcements.
• recognise stress and intonation in simple and compound sentences
• understand key grammatical forms used in common everyday contexts and situations
• understand high frequency vocabulary and basic phrases relating to areas of immediate personal relevance in straightforward familiar formal and informal exchanges.

READING

• understand short simple narratives and descriptions, straightforward instructions, directions and explanations on familiar and work related topics
• recognise the different purposes of text when purpose and intended audience is clear
• locate specific predictable information in everyday short texts on familiar matters
• understand a simple line of argument simply expressed
• understand the main ideas and gist of simple personal letters
• understand routine letters on familiar topics
• understand everyday signs and notices found in public places.
• recognise high frequency words and words with common spelling patterns in everyday texts
• understand punctuation and capitalisation used in simple and compound sentences.
• understand simple social courtesies.
• understand the organisational, lexical and grammatical features of short simple texts
• understand a very limited range of cohesive devices
• identify the different purposes of short straightforward texts through layout conventions, common signs, symbols.

WRITING

The candidate will be able to:  (Il candidato sarà in grado di:)

• compose simple texts using the appropriate format with some awareness of the intended audience
• follow instructions to write a letter, message or note
• write informally about family, living conditions, schooling and job, plans and arrangements, likes and dislikes and past activities
• write short descriptions or tell a simple story using simple and compound sentences
• write a short sequence of simple explanations, instructions or directions
• express simple opinions clearly
• spell correctly the majority of words used for personal detail and familiar common words
• write with reasonable accuracy short words appropriate to the level
• usepunctuation and capital letters correctly to show questions, commas in lists and proper nouns
• construct simple and compound sentences using basic structures
• use a limited range of vocabulary to deal with simple and familiar topics and tasks
• link a short sequence of simple sentences using basic linking words.