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Expected Tasks and Outcomes in Level 6 at Khalsa Schools

Domain Class Level 6 - World Language Standards: Stage III
Range and Phase of Proficiency: Intermediate High

Listening 1. Students can understand sentences and strings of sentences
2. Students can comprehend key information in slow, clear speech and texts
3. Students can use intonation and tone of voice effectively to convey meaning
4. Students can follow instructions to complete a task and respond to questions
5. Students can seek clarification of meaning using common statements and questions

Speaking 6. Students can describe a familiar object using adjectives in a few sentences,
exchange ideas and information, and narrate stories
Vocabulary 7. Students know words related to adjectives, adverbs, cause and effect relationships,
prepositions, opinions, feelings, antonyms, synonyms, homonyms, word pairs, and 1-200

number words in Punjabi
Language 8. Students can modify root words using prefixes
Structures 9. Students can use suffixes to differentiate gender specific nouns, verbs and adjectives
10. Students can identify simple, compound and complex sentences
11. Students can identify antonyms, synonyms and homonyms

12. Students can identify the nouns that do not change in plural form
13. Students can identify similarities and differences in the sentence-level elements
(morphology or syntax or both) of the languages the students know.

Language/ 14. Students can express opinions and preferences/Ask for permission, justify answers.
Speech 15. Students can initiate, participate in and close a conversation; ask and answer questions.
Functions 16. Students can produce and present a simple written or oral product
17. Students can tell/retell stories
18. Students can describe ideas, phenomena (e.g., erosion), and text elements (e.g.,
central message, character traits) using key details based on understanding of texts.

Reading 19. Students can read short passages/poems and answer comprehension questions.
20. Students can identify a chronological sequence in a story/article
21. Students can demonstrate understanding of the general meaning and details in texts.

Writing 22. Students can translate English sentences to Punjabi and vice-versa with few errors.
23. Students can speak, read and write simple, compound and complex sentences
describing people, comparing things/people and stating opinion
24. Students can respond orally/ in writing to who, what, when, where & how questions.
25. Students can write sentences with correct subject-verb agreement

26. Students can give two – three step oral and written directions.
Cultural 27. Demonstrate understanding of the roles that products & practices play in the culture
Awareness 28. Read and follow/write a recipe to make a product (Choori & Kachi Lassi-Chhabeel)

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