MAGICAL Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 196
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Can describe someone9s physical appearance in a basic way
Can say what the weather is like
Can draw simple conclusions about people in pictures, using a limited range of formulaic expressions
Can say what someone9s job is, using familiar common job names
Can give a simple description of an object or picture while showing it to others using basic words, phrases,
and formulaic expressions, especially when he/she can prepare in advance
Can describe the position of objects or people using pictures or gestures
Addressing audiences
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Can read a very short, rehearsed statement
Playing with spoken language
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Can say simple tongue-twisters and other types of playful language
Can take part in age-appropriate, level-appropriate games that use formulaic expressions or rhymes
Can re-tell parts of a story (with or without pictures) read by the teacher or from previous knowledge
Written production
Overall written production
Can write simple isolated phrases and sentences using level-appropriate language (vocabulary and grammar) and
spelling that approximates accurate conventions based on a developmental continuum
Creative writing
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Can write about themselves and fictitious people, where they live
Can describe certain everyday objects
PRODUCTION STRATAGIES
Compensating
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Can use gesture instead of or to support simple words in expressing a need
INTERACTION ACTIVITIES
Spoken interaction
Overall spoken interaction
Can engage in limited interactions (restricted in the number of turn-takings and scope) where communication may
involve repetition, at a slower rate of speech and rephrasing
Understanding the interlocutor
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Can understand everyday expressions aimed at the satisfaction of simple needs of a concrete type, delivered
directly to him/her in clear, slow, and repeated speech by a sympathetic speaker
Can understand questions and instructions addressed carefully and slowly to him/her and follow short,
simple directions
Conversation
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Can take part in a simple conversation of a basic factual nature on a predictable topic
Can introduce people and use basic greetings and leave-taking expressions
Can ask how people are
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