OPIE D100 - Foundations in English CORE Skills

• Student asks someone to repeat what s/he has said, to speak more slowly, or to write something down to facilitate comprehension.
• Student understands English words, phrases, and expressions related to health and safety, food, numbers, money, weather, clothing, directions, university residence halls and off-campus housing, campus facilities and services, and relevant policies.
• Student understands and can produce words, phrases, and expressions related to basic life skills: e.g. greeting and leave-taking, asking/giving directions, interrupting, making/declining requests or invitations.
• Student uses learned target structures and vocabulary orally and in simple writing tasks to create sentences which express own ideas about familiar topics (e.g. personal experience), and to ask and answer information questions.
• Student uses learned target structures and vocabulary to comprehend slow but natural speech by a native speaker. Student can make himself/herself understood in a simple way, can ask for and give clarification.
• Student will demonstrate recognition, comprehension, and production of target structures, including sentence patterns, time, tense, and verb patterns, noun, pronoun, article, and determiner patterns.