OPIE D201 - Elementary Listening/Speaking

• Given a pre-listening activity, student can discern specific information needed to respond to follow-up questions or tasks.
• Student asks someone to repeat what he or she has said or asks him/her to speak more slowly (or write something down) to facilitate comprehension.
• Student associates appropriate meaning with grammatical features, e.g. tense, number, question form, and basic stress and intonation patterns in carefully produced sentences.
• Student can initiate and sustain short, general conversations about familiar topics and can respond to questions based upon discourse which contains little or no unfamiliar language.
• Student can produce in isolated words and carefully spoken sentences: phonemes and grammatical features tense, number, question forms, and basic stress and intonation patterns that are usually comprehensible to the general public.
• Student comprehends short conversations about familiar topics and the gist of a short narration, description or dialogue, which contains some (a modest amount of) unfamiliar language.
• Student produces spontaneous speech in which articulation is usually comprehensible to native English speakers accustomed to speaking with English language learners.
• Student recognizes and comprehends in isolated words and carefully spoken sentences: phonemes, inflectional markers for tense and number, question forms, basic stress and intonation patterns, contractions, reductions, and word linking.