Earning Criteria

• Interpretive: Identify the main idea and key information in short straightforward informational and fictional texts.
• Interpretive: Identify the main idea and key information in short straightforward conversations.
• Written: Write about the main idea and key information in straightforward texts and short conversations.
• Interpersonal: Exchange information in conversations on familiar topics and some researched topics, creating sentences and series of sentences and asking a variety of follow-up questions.
• Interpersonal: Interact with others to meet my needs in a variety of familiar situations, creating sentences and series of sentences and asking a variety of follow-up questions.
• Interpersonal: Exchange preferences, feelings, or opinions and provide basic advice on a variety of familiar topics, creating sentences and series of sentences and asking a variety of follow-up questions.
• Writing/Reading: Exchange information with someone else through written correspondence on familiar topics and some researched topics, creating sentences and series of sentences and asking a variety of follow-up questions.
• Presentational: Tell a story about my life, activities, events and other social experiences, using sentences and series of connected sentences.
• Presentational: State my viewpoint about familiar topics and give some reasons to support it, using sentences and series of connected sentences.
• Presentational: Give straightforward presentations on a variety of familiar topics and some concrete topics I have researched, using sentences and series of connected sentences.
• Writing: Tell a story about my life, activities, events and other social experiences, in writing using sentences and series of connected sentences.
• Intercultural: Compare products and practices related to everyday life and personal interests or studies, in my own and other cultures.
• Intercultural: Converse with peers from the target culture in familiar situations at school, work, or play, and show interest in basic cultural similarities and differences.
• Intercultural: Model an understanding that significant differences in behaviors exist among cultures by using appropriate learned behaviors and avoiding major social blunders.