While the emphasis on basic language skills and vocabulary development is

continued, the students’ competency in the language is further developed. They engage in

short dialogues, using “Wh” and “Y/N” questions, and respond with short statements/negative statements, and make oral presentations using polite ending particles. They express themselves using pronouns and vocabulary that are appropriate for social status, age and contexts. They use polite expressions for making requests, asking pardon, asking for permission and thanking people. They orally describe people, places and objects with short phrases, expressing feelings and opinions. They read sight words and public signs and write simple words, short phrases and Thai numbers.

In addition, students learn parts of speech, including nouns, pronouns, verbs adjectives, adverbs, simple classifiers, prepositions and conjunctions, including and/but/or/because. They also learn to recognize three different tones