In this appendix you will find sets of activities for the four macroskills, which are graded into seven levels of difficulty. These may be useful in the development of your own learning tasks.

Listening

Level 1

1. – distinguish between English and other languages

2. – listen to short aural texts and indicate (e.g. by putting up hand) when core vocabulary items are heard

3. – identify the number and gender of interlocutors

4. – comprehend and carry out the following instructions: point to, touch, stand up, sit down, go to ——, pick up, put down

5. – comprehend requests for personal details (name, age, address)

6. – comprehend requests for the identification of people and things

7. – listen to simple descriptions of common objects (e.g. those found in the classroom and/or immediate environment) and identify these non-verbally (e.g. by drawing a picture)

8. – identify letters of the alphabet and numbers to fifty including ten/teen contrasts

9. – listen to and identify the time

Level 2

1. – identify core vocabulary items when encountered in a variety of aural texts

2. – comprehend and carry out a sequence of two to three instructions

3. – comprehend requests for details about family and friends

4. – comprehend requests for identification of people and things

5. – listen to simple descriptions of actions and scenes and identify these nonverbally (e.g. by finding a picture, numbering pictures in the order in which they described)

6. – given contextual/pictorial support, can comprehend simple descriptions

7. – identify ordinal numbers 1–10

8. – listen to and identify days of the week, months and dates