Primary English as a Second Language (2020): Stage 2

Listening

Speaking

Writing

Reading

Use of English

Listening for global meaning

Listening for detail

Communication

Express opinion

Organisation

Communicative achievement

Organisation

Content

Reading for global meaning

Reading for detail

Grammatical forms

Vocabulary

Sentence structure

Understand, with little or no support, the main point of short talk.

Understand, with little or no support, a short sequence of familiar instructions.

Understand, with support, a limited range of short questions which ask for simple information.

Deduce meaning from context, with support, of an increasing range of simple words.

Understand, with little or no support, some specific information and detail of short talk.

Give basic information about themselves using phrases and short sentences.

Describe people, places and objects, and routine actions and events, using phrases and short sentences.

Ask questions to find out an increasing range of personal information and respond accordingly.

Pronounce familiar words and phrases so that these can be understood by others with some effort.

Produce simple phrases, pausing to search for expressions and to repair communication.

Use some simple grammatical structures, allowing for frequent, basic mistakes.

Express, with support, basic feelings.

Link, with little or no support, words and phrases using basic connectives.

Take turns when speaking with others in an increasing range of short, basic exchanges.

Write letters and words of consistent size and spacing.

Use upper and lower case letters accurately when writing names, places and short sentences during guided writing activities.

Spell an increasing number of simple, high-frequency words accurately during guided writing activities.

Plan and write phrases and short sentences, with support.

Use some simple grammatical structures, allowing for frequent, basic mistakes.

Use basic punctuation (e.g. full stop and question mark) during guided writing of short sentences and questions.

Link, with support, words, phrases and short sentences using basic connectives

Write, with support, simple phrases to give personal and factual information.

Express, with support, basic feelings.

Understand, with support, the main point of short, simple texts.

Begin to read, with support, short, simple fiction and non-fiction texts with confidence and enjoyment.

Recognise, identify and sound, with support, a limited range of words and phrases in short, simple texts.

Understand, with support, some specific information and detail in short, simple, illustrated texts.

Read and follow, with support, a limited range of short, familiar instructions.

Deduce the meaning of an increasing range of simple, familiar words, with support, by linking them to pictures.

Use question words and structures to ask basic questions.

Use common present simple forms, including short answer forms and contractions, to give personal and factual information.

Use common past simple forms [regular and irregular] to describe actions and narrate simple events, including short answer forms and contractions.

Use common present continuous forms, including short answers and contractions, to talk about present activities.

Use future simple form will to talk about future intention.

Use can to make requests and ask permission and use appropriate responses (e.g. here you are, OK).

Use common adjectives on personal and familiar topics to give personal information and describe things.

Use possessive adjectives to give personal information and describe familiar things.

Use cardinal numbers 1–100.

Use ordinal numbers 1st–50th.

Use with to indicate accompaniment and instrument and for to indicate recipient.

Use prepositions of location, position and direction (e.g. behind, between, in, in front of, to).

Use prepositions of time (e.g. at) to talk about days and time.

Use adverbs of definite time (e.g. now, today, yesterday, last week).

Use common -ly adverbs to describe actions.

Use the adverb too to add information.

Use countable and some common uncountable nouns, including some common irregular plural forms, and possessive 's to name and label things.

Use there is/are to make short statements and descriptions.

Use impersonal you in questions (e.g. How do you spell that?).

Use demonstratives this, that, these, those to refer to familiar objects.

Use demonstrative pronouns this, these, that, those and object pronoun one in short statements and responses.

Use common personal subject and object pronouns, including possessive pronouns (e.g. mine, yours), to give simple personal information and describe things.

Use connectives (e.g. but, or, then) to link words and phrases.