I can…

• talk about important historical events
• talk about dangerous situations people have been in
• talk about crime and gossip
• use the past simple to make positive and negative statements without mistakes
• understand and use the past simple to ask questions without mistakes
• use basic time phrases, eg three weeks ago, last night, in the 1990’s
• understand and use past continuous
• understand and make wh- questions in the past including subject and object questions
• use prepositions of time (on / in / at) without mistakes
• notice and record prepositions
• show a basic understanding of when to use a / an / the

I can…

• talk about and describe my country and culture
• talk about cooking and health
• use and understand imperatives to give instructions without mistakes
• identify and understand the difference between countable and uncountable nouns
• use descriptive language to describe cultures and lifestyles
• use quite, so, very and too to modify adjectives
• use enough, too many and too much to modify nouns
• ask and answer different types of questions
• give and understand advice and make suggestions including should, shouldn’t andought to
• recognise and pronounce different plural noun endings correctly
• use a dictionary

I can…

• talk about communities and relationships
• talk about nature and social problems
• use the second conditional
• speculate about what might be true or possible using might and must
• talk about things I have to do in the present and had to do in the past
• understand when to use say and tell
• give my opinions and talk about how I am similar to others, using me neither, me too, so do I
• guess the meaning of new words by looking at all of the text
• notice and record collocations

I can…

• talk about study and work
• talk about holidays and festivals
• use and understand present perfect including for and since
• use and understand used to for past habits
• talk about my likes and dislikes using the ‘ing’ form
• understand and use common phrasal verbs
• recognise silent letters in some words
• listen for specific detail

I can…

• talk about money and my ambitions
• talk about technology and different ways of communicating
• use will and going to without mistakes
• use present continuous to describe future plans
• use and understand zero and first conditional
• show that I know when to use the possessive ‘s’
• make predictions
• make requests
• write an informal email
• assess my own written work
• understand and use adverbs and adjectives correctly