Explanatory note

Sociocultural competence
Teaching: cultural characteristics of native speakers, their habits, traditions, norms of behaviour and etiquette and their appropriate use in communication while remaining to be the representative of own culture; integration of a person into global and national cultures and orientation in sociocultural aspects of people’s life in target community; ways of dealing with communicative failures because of sociocultural interruptions in communication related to various communicative settings based on the content areas defined for each grade of primary education.
Social competence		Developing desire and ability to engage with people of other cultures – potential partners of communication as well as self-assessment and ability to cope with social situations and managing them in the framework of various communicative settings based on the content areas defined for each grade of primary education.

Requirements for the level of primary school-leavers (A-1)

Competences			Knowing/being able to
LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE	LANGUAGE SKILLS	Listening		Understand certain familiar words and very basic phrases when people speak slowly and clearly in communicative settings based on the content of beginner level of learning.
		Reading		understand familiar names, words and very simple sentences on notices, posters and in catalogues.