Conversation: The student will interact in a simple way:
- Will ask and answer simple questions about themselves, where they live, people they know, and things they have.
- Will initiate and respond to simple statements in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics.
Little by little, he /she will increase his /her repertoire of specific situations:
- Use simple everyday polite forms of greeting and address;
- Greet people, ask how they are and react to news;
- Handle very short social exchanges; ask and answer questions about what they do at work and in free time;
- Make and respond to invitations;
- Discuss what to do, where to go and make arrangements to meet;
- Make and accept offers make simple transactions in shops, post offices or banks;
- Get simple information about travel;
- Use public transport: buses, trains, and taxis, ask for basic information, ask and give directions, and buy tickets;
- Ask for and provide everyday goods and services.
At the end of the course, the student will be practice:
- Initiate, maintain and close simple, restricted face-to-face conversation;
- Understand enough to manage simple, routine exchanges without undue effort;
- Make him/herself understood and exchange ideas and information on familiar topics in predictable everyday situations, provided the other person helps if necessary;
- Communicate successfully on basic themes if he/she can ask for help to express what he wants to;
- Deal with everyday situations with predictable content, though he/she will generally have to compromise the message and search for words;
- Interact with reasonable ease in structured situations, given some help.
- Sustain monologues such as express how he/she feels in simple terms; give an extended description of everyday aspects of his/her environment e.g. people, places, a job or study experience; describe past activities and personal experiences; describe habits and routines; describe plans and arrangements; explain what he/she likes or dislikes about