Pearson Global Scale of English - Learning Objectives
This scale appeared in May 2016.
It provides a valuable set of CAN DO statements for those teaching Entry Zero ESOL and for the Learners themselves.
1 LISTENING
2 SPEAKING
3 READING
4 WRITING
This scale appeared in May 2016.
It provides a valuable set of CAN DO statements for those teaching Entry Zero ESOL and for the Learners themselves.
1 LISTENING
- Can recognise simple informal greetings
- Can understand the letters of the alphabet
- Can understand cardinal numbers from 1 to 20
- Can recognise a few familiar everyday words, if delivered slowly and clearly
- Can recognise the letters of the English alphabet when pronounced
- Can recognise simple formal greetings
- Can understand very basic common classroom instructions
- Can understand the time of day when expressed in full hours
- Can understand cardinal numbers from 21 to 100
- Can understand ordinal numbers from 1 to 100
- Can understand simple language related to prices and quantities
- Can understand basic personal details if given carefully and slowly
- Can understand basic questions about personal details if addressed slowly and clearly.
2 SPEAKING
- Can ask someone for their name
- Can say their name
- Can make simple purchases by pointing or other gestures
- Can say the letters of the alphabet
- Can greet people using a few basic fixed expressions
- Can name a few very common everyday objects
- Can recognise and say the name of their own country, nationality and language
- Can ask someone what their nationality is
- Can read out phone numbers.
- Can spell out their own name and address
- Can say other people’s nationalities
- Can ask and answer basic requests for information with What’s this/that?
- Can tell the time of day in full hours
- Can name a few common jobs
- Can give very limited personal information using basic fixed expressions
- Can use some very basic words to ask for food and drink
- Can ask for and give a phone number
- Can name very common forms of transport
- Can ask for and give a phone number
- Can say their own age and ask someone about their age
- Can ask for and give the day and date
- Can say what they do (e.g. name of their job, student)
- Can ask about the price of something
- Can ask someone what their job is
- Can establish basic social contacts with simple, polite greetings and farewells
- Can say a range of basic numbers, quantities and prices
- Can ask for and give a date of birth
- Can ask where other people are in a limited way
- Can ask and answer simple questions about things they have in a limited way
- Can ask very simply for repetition when they don’t understand.
3 READING
- Can recognise cardinal numbers up to 10
- Can recognise the letters of the alphabet
- Can read and understand simple prices
- Can identify very common food and drink on a menu
- Can recognise basic plural forms of nouns (e.g. cars, books)
- Can recognise familiar names, words and very basic phrases on simple notices.
4 WRITING
- Can write the letters of the alphabet in upper and lower case
- Can write their name, address and nationality
- Can copy familiar words and short phrases about everyday objects and set phrases
- Can write consistently with joined-up letters.