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Listening | Demonstrate understanding of familiar words and phrases, spoken clearly and repeated. | Demonstrate understanding of a range of familiar phrases and opinions. | Demonstrate understanding of main points and opinions from short passages using familiar vocabulary. | Demonstrate understanding of main points/opinions and some details in short passages. | Demonstrate understanding of main points and opinions/justifications and specific details in longer passages, which include another tense. | Demonstrate understanding of a range of details/opinions/justifications in a longer passage, and deduce inferred meaning in a longer passage spoken at a near-normal speed, which includes a variety of tenses. |
Speaking | Say single words and short phrases with support, imitating correct pronunciation. | Ask and answer simple questions, giving basic information and simple opinions, using familiar vocabulary and showing awareness of sound patterns. | Take part in a simple dialogue, giving opinions using familiar vocabulary, including some time expressions. | Take part in a longer conversation using familiar vocabulary, and begin to speak spontaneously (e.g. by giving an unsolicited opinion). | Take part in a longer conversation on a range of topics, describing, informing, expressing opinions and giving reasons, which may include another tense and demonstrate spontaneity by asking some simple, unsolicited questions (e.g. “et toi?”) | Take part in longer conversations, expressing and justifying opinions, giving details, which may refer to the present, past or future and demonstrate spontaneity by asking unsolicited questions and expanding answers. |
Reading | Demonstrate understanding of familiar words and phrases/read familiar words and phrases aloud. | Demonstrate understanding of a range of familiar written phrases and opinions. | Demonstrate understanding of main points and opinions from short texts using familiar vocabulary. Translate familiar words and short phrases. | Demonstrate understanding of main points/opinions, overall message and some details in short passages. Translate simple sentences. | Demonstrate understanding of main points and opinions/justifications and specific details in longer passages, which include another tense, and deduce inferred meaning. Translate simple sentences showing good accuracy. | Demonstrate understanding of a range of details/opinions/justifications in a longer passage, and deduce inferred meaning in a longer passage, which includes a variety of tenses. Translate into English short passages, showing good accuracy. |
Writing | Write or copy simple words correctly and complete short phrases with aid. | Write a few short sentences with support, giving basic information using high-frequency verbs, and write some familiar words from memory. Spelling and accents may not be accurate but the meaning is clear. | Write several short sentences with support, to give information and express simple opinions. Translate familiar words and short phrases into the target language, showing general accuracy but there may be major errors with verbs. | Write short texts for different purposes using mainly memorised language, express opinions and simple reasons. Translate into the target language containing familiar words and structures, showing general accuracy but there may be errors with verbs. | Write short texts, giving and seeking information and opinions, may refer to another tense. Translate into the target language longer sentences, mostly accurately but with some minor errors. | Write short texts in a range of contexts, giving and seeking information and opinions, may refer to a variety of tenses. Translate into the target language longer sentences, mostly accurately but with some errors in more complex verbal structures. |
Grammar | Understand basic grammatical terms, understand the concept of singular/plural, gender, articles, understand and use high-frequency verb forms e.g. it is, I have, I am and numbers up to 30. | Understand and use regular adjectives and the concept of adjectival agreement with gender, subject pronouns in the singular form and the present tense of ER verbs (French) or AR verbs (Spanish) in the singular form, and use the simple negative form and simple connectives, intensifiers and qualifiers. | Understand the adjectival agreement (gender and number) and position of regular adjectives, possessive adjectives, key question words, the four key irregular verbs to go, to do, to be and to have, the partitive article, prepositions after familiar verbs, frequency expressions, adverbs of place and time, mode of address, simple prepositions of position. | Use infinitive forms after another conjugated verb, the present tense of regular verbs (singular and plural) and reflexive verbs (singular). | Use the past tense of regular ER (French) or AR (Spanish) verbs using avoir (French), the past tense of common irregular verbs, the present tense (in full ) of common irregular verbs, the prepositions followed by de (e.g. next to), time expressions to be used with the past, irregular adjectives, comparative adjectives, regular adverbs, indefinite/interrogative pronouns and adjectives, the imperfect tense of common verbs (French) e.g. c’était. | Use the perfect tense with être (French), reflexive verbs (full), use tenses together, the imperative, superlative adjectives, plural possessive adjectives, common adverbial phrases (e.g. cuando hace buen tiempo…), interrogative verb forms, the imperfect tense of other common verbs (French), the simple future tense, the conditional tense of vouloir/aimer (French). |