able to write short sentences or individual paragraphs on familiar topics but the main idea is loosely defined or developed with occasional irrelevance, redundancy, or inconsistency; the sentences are occasionally incoherent and not unified; able to convey message but frequently inadequate, commit frequent mechanical errors and there is overall lack of proper sentence structure, and use inappropriate or vague expressions
Grammar
able to understand simple classroom commands, short statements and questions; able to understand speech spoken clearly, face-to-face or from a good-quality recording with no background noise or interference, but need a lot of help such as repetition, gesture, pictures and object of the topic
Read/Voc
able to identify nouns and pronouns; able to connect simple subject and predicate; able to construct simple sentences using basic sentence pattern SVO; usually less successful
Writing
able to understand short phrases presented in a recognizable context; able to answer exact (who, what and where) questions; able to retell familiar story with the book as a referencemay need visual indication; able to concede and ascertain pair of words in analogical statements and determine their meaning based on the given context; able to identify the beginning, final and medial sounds in one syllable words and can read words derived from common word families; able to use common spelling patterns to form new words
Speaking
able to communicate through gestures or with single word; able to speak with few isolated words, such as name and other personal information
