OPIE D200 - Elementary Core Skills

• 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 can make himself/herself understood in a simple way and understands the other person when that individual speaks slowly and clearly.
• Student expresses information and asks questions about health, food, numbers, money, university residence halls and off-campus housing, relevant university and community policies, procedures, forms, campus facilities, and services.
• Student recognizes, comprehends, and produces target structures, including sentence patterns, time, tense and verb patterns, noun, pronoun, article, determiner patterns, modification, and relationship patterns.
• Student shares information and asks questions appropriate for communication with staff in Chubb Hall, the Office of Campus Safety, Alden Library, and campus sports and recreational facilities, e.g. the Ping Center, the Aquatic Center, Baker Univ. Center
• Student understands and uses words and expressions about health, food, numbers, money, university residence halls and off-campus housing, relevant university and community policies, procedures, forms, campus facilities, and services.
• Student understands and uses words, phrases, and expressions related to greeting and leave-taking, asking/giving directions, interrupting, making/declining requests or invitations, using the telephone, etc.
• Student uses learned target structures orally and in writing to create sentences which express his/her own ideas about familiar topics and topics from personal experience, to ask and answer information questions, to request and give clarification.