4 - Fluent Competence in Basic Oral Communication

General description

Learner can communicate orally in predictable contexts and within everyday familiar topics of personal relevance.
Follows simple and slow formal and informal conversations with effort, identifies familiar topics by simple words and phrases.
Uses limited everyday vocabulary, very few idioms, if any, and short sentences with reduced/fragmented structures.
Recognizes and uses past, present and future indicators to basic needs and common everyday activities and asks "rehearsed" short questions related to common needs and activities.
Can follow simple routine tasks involving basic oral skills and demonstrations.
Can relate a simple story about an everyday experience.
Evidence of connected discourse; discourse follows a predictable, learned, "routine" path or situational dialogue scenarios.
Uses phone for simple, short and very predictable exchanges.