Basic Communicative Proficiency

• practical challenges that might be faced by the learner when operating in the target language community for example
• meeting and getting to know people and maintaining social relations
• coping with travel and transport
• buying goods and services
• dealing with emergencies
• activities and discussion that are likely to take place through the target
• language in the classroom for example
• understanding, seeking and giving information about climate and weather
• understanding, expressing feelings and emotions
• engaging in discussion on messages

• raising the learner's awareness about the workings of the target language
• raising awareness abut the learner's own encounter with the language
• fostering effective use of the language
• developing awareness of relevant aspects of the mother tongue and other languages known to the learner

• learning in the target language about the present-day culture associated with the target language
• reading modern literary texts in the target language
• describing and discussing everyday life in the target language community
• understanding, describing and discussing aspects of the relations between the target language community and Ireland
• understanding, describing and discussing in general terms issues that transcend cultural divisions