Evaluation

The [|CEFR] facilitates a clear definition of teaching and learning objectives and methods and provides the necessary tools for assessment of proficiency. In the last "Indicazioni Nazionali" the Italian Minister of Education Giuseppe Fioroni recommends that all the of the Italian //scuole primarie// statali have to use the European Framework level A1 as a reference for planning their foreign languages curricula. So these are the competences the students will have at the end of the fifth grade:
 * RANGE > Has a very basic repertoir of words and simple phrases related to personal details and particular concrete situations.
 * ACCURACY>Shows only limited control of few simple grammatical structures and sentence patterns in a memorised repertoire
 * FLUENCY> Can manage very short, isulated, mainly prepackaged utterances, with much pausing to search for expressions, to articulate less familiar words, and to repair communication
 * INTERACTION> Can ask and answer questions about pesonal details. Can interact in a simple way but communication is totally dependent on repetition, rephrasing and repair.
 * COHERENCE> Can Link words or groups of words with very basic linear connectors like "and" or "then"

Personal details Numbers Colours Shapes Days of the week Months of the year Parts of the body House Meal Times Food Mythical creatures Monsters Famous people School subjects Simple Math in English School supplies Classroom language My family Around town Animals Christmas Time Halloween Easter
 * Language topics (year 1, 2, 3, 4) :**