Grade 1

Examination format

Total examination time: 5 minutes

The examination consists of one assessed phase:

Conversation with the examiner (up to 5 minutes).

Candidate performance

The candidate is expected to demonstrate the following communicative skills and meet the language

requirements listed below during the examination.

Communicative skills

xchange greetings with the examiner

Show understanding of simple instructions through appropriate actions

Give very short answers to simple questions and requests for information

Grade 1

Language requirements

Language functions

Exchanging greetings

Giving personal information, e.g. name, age

Identifying and naming items given in the lexical list below

Leave-taking

Grammar

The candidate is expected to demonstrate the ability to understand:

Imperatives for common actions, e.g. go, come, show, point, give, touch, stand up

Question words what? how many? how old?

Demonstratives this, that, these, those

The candidate is expected to demonstrate the ability to understand and use:

The present simple tense of the verb to be

Common nouns in singular and plural (regular and irregular), e.g. shoe/shoes, foot/feet

Simple adjectives, e.g. small, tall, green

Determiners a, the, my, your, his, her

Pronouns I, you, he, she, it, they

Lexis

The candidate is expected to demonstrate the ability to understand and use vocabulary related to:

Personal information

Immediate surroundings including classroom objects

Basic parts of the face and body

Common animals (domestic, farm and wild)

Cardinal numbers up to 20

Colours

Everyday items of clothing

The language functions listed above

Phonology

The correct pronunciation of common words relevant to the lexical areas listed above