The students’ competency in the language is further strengthened by engaging in simple conversations, expressing feelings and opinions, asking for information using “5Wh” and “Y/N” questions, and responding with statements or negative statements using polite ending particles. They use polite expressions for making requests, asking pardon, asking for permission and thanking people. They explain and talk about their needs and wants. They use polite gestures and appropriate language related to social status, age and contexts. They handle basic phone situations. They orally describe objects, events, places and people using familiar vocabulary. They listen to the stories and identify the main points. They read and understand short texts, and write simple sentences about the texts.

They learn parts of speech, including nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, simple classifiers, prepositions and compound sentences using conjunctions: and/but/or/because. They distinguish four to five different tones.