By the end of year 6, learners should be able to listen, understand and respond to a variety of topics to begin standard intermediate level.

Students should be able to:

Understand spoken instructions or requests in order to complete a task. Follow a discussion inside or outside the classroom and when called upon participate in appropriate reciprocal interaction.

Listen for specific information. Listen for and explain the main idea; discriminate between the main idea and the supporting text Listen to summarize a narrative text.

Take basic notes. Understand the main idea of an English language children's TV program.

Reading

By the end of year 6, learners should be able to read a variety of texts, including native children's fiction, and give a response that demonstrates a good general understanding of the text.

Students should be able to:

Read and understand intermediate level texts and original children's novels. Read an entry in a children's encyclopedias and magazines. Read for specific information. Read for the main idea. Discriminate between main ideas and supporting information. Use prediction skills, contextual clues and draw on prior knowledge and experience to deduce the meaning of vocabulary and/or content. Demonstrate an understanding of character, plot, setting and theme. Summarize a narrative text. Read outside the classroom (wider reading) and give a personal response.

Speaking

By the end of year 6, learners should be able to communicate and express their ideas and opinions in different contexts.

They should be able to:

Speak with comprehensible pronunciation that does not impede communication.
Speak with a command of grammatical structures that does not impede comprehension.
Incorporate into speech newly-acquired vocabulary and grammar structures.
Describe a picture/character. Narrate events. Complete oral tasks in pair, group or whole class activities. Present an individual project. Use gesture, intonation and basic visual aids in presentations. Adapt what they say to different situations and people (formal/ informal).

Writing

By the end of year 6, learners should be able to write for a range of purposes with a reasonable level of grammatical accuracy, demonstrating an understanding of organization, content and presentation.

Students should be able to:

Take basic notes from a written or spoken text. Brainstorm and develop ideas. Organize and order ideas and information Support ideas Link ideas within and between paragraphs Develop and rewrite a draft Write with a command of grammatical structure using newly-learnt vocabulary that does not impede comprehension Use correct spelling and punctuation. Submit a portfolio of work.

Learners should be able to produce examples of 200-300 words in the following genres: An informal letter A description

A diary entry A poem

A narrative A book report A summary

Grammar

By the end of year 6, learners should be able to use a range of grammatical structures at intermediate level with reasonable accuracy.