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Matching Resources to Achievement Objectices

Level 1

Emergent Communication

1.1

Greet, farewell, and thank people and respond to greetings and thanks

1.2

Introduce themselves and others and respond to introductions

1.3

Communicate using days of the week, months, and dates

1.4

Communicate about personal information, such as name, age, nationality, and home

1.5

Communicate about location

1.6

Understand and use a range of politeness conventions (for example, ways of thanking people, apologising, excusing themselves, complimenting people)

1.7

Use and respond to simple classroom language (including asking for the word to express something in German)

 

 

Level 2

Emergent Communication

2.1

Communicate about relationships between people

2.2

Communicate about ownership

2.3

Communicate about likes and dislikes, giving reasons where appropriate

2.4

Communicate about time, weather, and seasons

2.5

Communicate about physical characteristics, personality, and feelings

 

 

Level 3

Survival Skills

3.1

Communicate, including comparing and contrasting, about habits and routines

3.2

Communicate about events and where they take place

3.3

Give and follow directions

3.4

Communicate, including comparing and contrasting, about how people travel

 

 

Level 4

Survival Skills

4.1

Offer, ask for, accept, and decline things, invitations, and suggestions

4.2

Communicate about plans for the immediate future

4.3

Communicate about obligations and responsibilities

4.4

Give and seek permission

4.5

Communicate about the quality, quantity, and cost of things

 

 

Level 5

Social Competence

5.1

Communicate about past activities and events

5.2

Communicate about present and past states, feelings, and opinions

5.3

Communicate about past habits and routines

5.4

Describe, compare, and contrast people, places, and things

 

 

Level 6

Social Competence

6.1

Give and follow instructions

6.2

Communicate about problems and solutions

6.3

Communicate about immediate plans, hopes, wishes, and intentions

6.4

Communicate in formal situations

 

 

Level 7

Personal Independence

7.1

Communicate about future plans

7.2

Give and respond to advice, warnings, and suggestions

7.3

Express and respond to approval and disapproval, agreement and disagreement

7.4

Provide and respond to information and opinions, giving reasons

7.5

Read about and recount actual or imagined events in the past

 

 

Level 8

Personal Independence

8.1

Communicate about certainty and uncertainty, possibility and probability

8.2

Develop an argument or point of view, with reasons

8.3

Recount a series of events to inform, persuade, or entertain

8.4

Communicate the same information in different ways in different contexts

8.5

Respond to selected and adapted texts (for example, from literature, film, newspapers, magazines, television, radio) from German-speaking cultures