Here is a quick summary of common tasks a speaker learns to do in a beginning level class.

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Below are the things that we will learn to say in this class:

• Name the countries that speak the target languages.
• Name the capitals of the countries that speak the target language.
• Greet people in the morning.
• Greet someone in the afternoon.
• Greet someone in the evening.
• Ask someone what their name is.
• Say what your name is.
• Say the word for you formal.
• Say the word for you informal.
• Ask someone how they are (formal).
• Ask someone how they are (informal).
• Say how you are.
• Take leave.
• Tell someone that they are pleased to meet them.
• Have a conversation in which you meet someone for the first time.
• Say basic classroom commands.
• Count to ten.
• Count to twenty.
• Say your phone number.
• Say at least five body parts.
• Say the names for at least five things you use at school.
• Ask how something is said in the TL.
• Say the alphabet in the TL.
• Spell your name in the TL.
• Spell the names of your family members in the TL.
• Say the days of the week.
• Say the months of the year.
• Ask what day it is.
• Ask what the date is.
• Say today and tomorrow.
• Ask what the weather is like.
• Say what the weather is like.
• Say the seasons.
• Say the verbs for basic activities in the infinitive form.
• Say what you like to ask.
• Ask someone what they like to do.
• Say who you are.
• Say what you don’t like.
• Agree with what you like.
• Agree with what you don’t like.
• Describe your personality. Use adjectives that agree with their noun.
• Say the four ways to say the in the TL.
• Say the names of your classes.
• Describe your classes.
• Say I.
• Say you formal.
• Say you informal.
• Say you formal (plural).
• Say you informal (plural).
• Say the names for at least ten items in your classroom.
• Say a and an in the TL.
• Say what your possessions are.
• Ask what.
• Ask who and/or which.
• Ask when.
• Ask what something is.
• Ask what there is or there are.
• Ask how many.
• Ask where is..
• Ask from where…
• Ask why..
• Say what you love.
• Say basic foods.
• Say the names of meals.
• Say the names of basic drinks.
• Say what other people do using the present tense.
• Say basic physical exercises.
• Express hunger.
• Express thirst.
• Express being tired.
• Say the time.
• Express what you eat in the morning.
• Express what you eat in the afternoon.
• Express what you eat in the evening.
• Express your opinions on food.
• State the things that you have.
• State the things that other people have.
• Say where different people go.
• Say when activities are done.
• Say at what your classes are.
• Say the names of sports.
• Express to someone that you are sorry.
• Describe how you are feeling.

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