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Functions	Subject areas	Grammar	Lexis
	(A) understand
Exchanging greetings	Personal information	Imperatives for common actions e.g. go, come, show, point, give touch, stand up	Personal information
Giving personal information (name, age)	Immediate surroundings including classroom objects	Question words - what? How many? How old?	Immediate surroundings including classroom objects
Identifying and naming items given in the lexical list	Parts of the face and body	Demonstratives - this, that	Parts of the face and body
	(B) understand and use
Leave-taking	Animals - common domestic, farm and wild	The present simple tense of to be	Animals - common domestic, farm and wild
	Cardinal numbers up to 20	Common nouns in singular and plural (regular) e.g. ear/ears shoe/shoes	Cardinal numbers up to 20
	Colours	Simple adjectives, e.g. small, big, green	Colours
	Items of clothing	Determiners a, the my, your, his, her	Items of clothing
		Pronouns I, you, he, she, it, they

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Functions	Subject areas	Grammar	Lexis
	(A) understand
Indicating the position of people and objects	Rooms in the home	Present simple tense questions	Rooms in the home
Describing people, animals, objects and places very simply	Household objects	Question words - who? when?	Household objects
Stating simple facts	Family and friends	Present continuous tense questions	Family and friends
Informing about possessions	Pets	Determiners - some, any	Pets
	(B) understand and use
Asking very simple questions about personal details	Possessions	Present simple tense	Possessions
	Days of the week and months of the year	There is/are and has/have got/have you got?	Days of the week and months of the year
	Cardinal numbers up to 50	Question words e.g. where, what	Cardinal numbers up to 50
		Prepositions of place - in, on, under, between, next toy
		Determiners - our, their, its
		Possessive pronouns - mine, yours, his, hers
		Yes/no answers to present continuous tense questions

Functions	Subject areas	Grammar	Lexis
Describing daily routines, events and weather	Jobs	Present continuous tense	Jobs
Telling the time and giving dates	Places in the local area	Can and can't	Places in the local area
Expressing ability and inability	Home life	Prepositions of time - on, in, at	Home life
Giving very simple directions and locations	Pets	Determiners - some, any	Pets
Describing current activities of real people or those in pictures	Weather	Prepositions of place - near, in front of, behind, opposite	Weather
Describing states in the past	Free time	Past tense of verb to be	Free time
	Times and dates	Ordinal numbers up to 31st (for dates)	Times and dates
		Link words - and, then