This course continues the development of oral, aural, reading and writing skills. The students’ competency in the language is near proficiency. They answer and provide information on the phone and use some colloquial expressions. They use polite expressions for making requests, asking pardon, asking for permission and thanking people. They use polite gestures and appropriate language related to social status, age and contexts. They identify the main points of messages, dialogues, stories and news with supporting details. They learn to describe feelings and express opinions with reasons. They participate actively in learning activities and class discussions. They provide detailed descriptions and give instructions in a logical manner. They read and understand a variety of short written instructions, public signs, basic information on product labels, short paragraphs and simple stories. They write simple sentences and short paragraphs about familiar topics. They produce extended responses and narrate experiences coherently, and use information from various sources to write a paragraph.

They learn parts of speech, including nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, classifiers, prepositions, conjunctions, transitions, and compound and complex sentences..