Students begin to learn to communicate orally and in written form.
They learn to understand and produce simple expressions. The emphasis is on vocabulary development, although simple grammatical structures are taught as a means to understanding and producing meaningful utterances. Throughout the course, students apply language skills to real-life communication. Students in this course learn to exchange information in simple terms about family members, leisure activities, personal identification, school rooms and schedules, classroom expressions, clothing, weather, months, and seasons. Students are introduced to the culture of the people whose language they are studying in relation to each of the contexts, or situations, in which students might find themselves expected to communicate.