Istituto Comprensivo Albavilla

23 alunni di classe quarta

docente tutor: Frigerio Tiziana

30 ore di lezione

23 alunni di classe quinta

docente tutor: Trombetta Francesca

30 ore di lezione

A1 CEFR

Total exam time: 5 minutes

Total exam time: 6 minutes

Conversation with the examiner (up to 5 minutes).

Conversation with the examiner (up to 6 minutes).

The candidate is expected to demonstrate the following communicative skills and meet the language requirements listed below during the exam.

Communicative skills :

• Exchange greetings with the examiner
• Show understanding of simple instructions through appropriate actions
• Give very short answers to simple questions and requests for information

• Understand short, simple questions, requests and statements
• Respond with appropriate actions and positive and negative short form answers
• Contribute to the conversation using memorised phrases and short statements
• Use a basic range of words and simple phrases related to personal details and situations
• Ask for very basic personal information, e.g. about possessions

• Exchanging greetings
• Giving personal information, eg name, age
• Identifying and naming items given in the lexical list below
•  Leave-taking
  

Grammar
The candidate is expected to demonstrate the ability to understand:

•  Imperatives for common actions, eg go, come, show, point, give, touch, stand up
• Question words what? how many? how old?
• Demonstratives this, that, these, those

The candidate is expected to demonstrate the ability to understand and use:

• The present simple tense of the verb to be
• Common nouns in singular and plural (regular and irregular), eg shoe/shoes, foot/feet
• Simple adjectives, eg small, tall, green
• Determiners a, the, my, your, his, her
• Pronouns I, you, he, she, it, they

Lexis
The candidate is expected to demonstrate the ability to understand and use vocabulary related to:

• Personal information
•  Immediate surroundings including classroom objects
•  Basic parts of the face and body
•  Common animals (domestic, farm and wild
•  Cardinal numbers up to 20
•  Colours
•  Everyday items of clothing
•  Words relating to the language functions listed above
  

Phonology

 The correct pronunciation of common words relevant to the lexical areas listed above

• Indicating the position of people and objects
• Describing people, animals, objects and places very simply
•  Stating simple facts
• Informing about possessions
• Asking very simple questions about personal details

Grammar
The candidate is expected to demonstrate the ability to understand:

• Present simple tense questions
• Question words who? when?
• Present continuous tense questions
• Determiners some, any

The candidate is expected to demonstrate the ability to understand and use:

• Present simple tense
• There is/are and has/have got/have you got? Do you have?
• Question words where? how?
• Prepositions of place in, on, under, between, next to
• Determiners their, its
• Possessive pronouns mine, yours, his, hers
• Yes/no answers to present continuous tense questions
  

Lexis
The candidate is expected to demonstrate the ability to understand and use vocabulary related to:

• Rooms in the home
• Household objects
• Family and friends
• Pets
• Possessions
• Days of the week and months of the year
• Cardinal numbers up to 50
• Words and phrases relating to the language functions listed above

Phonology

The correct pronunciation of words relevant to the lexical areas listed above

• Basic intonation patterns for simple questions
• Contractions, eg I’ve, I’m, he’s

Grade 2 communicative skills and language requirements have been mapped to CEFR level A1