Essential standards DLI 6th-7th

Listening

Understands most sentence-level speech in new contexts at a normal rate of speech although slow-downs may be necessary for unfamiliar topics.

speaking

Sustained but minimal ability to create with language to convey personal meaning by adapting learned material in single sentences and strings of sentences

  ask and answer questions

  handle a simple survival situation (daily needs) in the language

Reading

Can understand some information from the simplest connected texts dealing with a limited number of personal and social needs.

Writing

Creates statements, mostly as recombinations of learned vocabulary and structures, and formulates questions based on familiar material