- Appropriately participate in basic social conversations by employing more basic social courtesies and types of greetings.
- Use a brief repertoire of learned formulas to initiate, maintain and conclude a conversation and to identify a topic of conversation if the other person speaks slowly and with clarity.
- Get the attention of the speakers and —in spite of pauses, initial doubts, reformulation and foreign accent— be able to make themselves understood with the help of others.
- Relate texts to the genre to which they belong in order to predict the structure and the type of information that it could contain.
- Select and to extract the relevant information offered explicitly.
- Transfer information that is brief, specific, simple and related to their context.
- Make simple interactions with the purpose of satisfying daily necessities in stores, restaurants, post offices or public transportation, by means of a basic set of linguistic resources.
- Take part in simple social exchanges about common subjects relative to the student's current or previous work, studies, leisure activities, preferences and interests, using habitual formulas of greeting, address, invitation or pardon.
- Understand and produce brief texts like notes, personal messages and letters, with simple resources.
- Appropriately use an ample repertoire of vocabulary and phrases.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the Hispanic world, cultural references, norms, and necessary socio-cultural conventions for proper interaction in a variety of social exchanges in which they participate.
- Communicate appropriately in a neutral register, although with sufficient flexibility to be able to adapt to different situations
- Express themselves correctly, though having to take pauses in order to think of what to say and to avoid potential mistakes, even making slight errors in pronunciation mainly in unexpected situations with some tension.
- Recount the steps that are required to take a trip or vacation.
- Make complaints and to relate details of certain situations.
- Participate in communicative interactions with a degree of fluidity, precision and naturalness, with enough command of the linguistic and nonlinguistic resources so that the interlocutor does not have to make an effort to understand what is being said.
- Avoid mistakes that can lead to misunderstandings and, given the level of understanding of the language, use sufficient resources to save situations of ambiguity.
- Use an ample linguistic repertoire to sufficiently express oneself with arguments and nuance without usage errors and with clear pronunciation.
- Consider the effects created by one's own comments and to consider the social situation and adapt the register and level of formality in different circumstances.
- Have the linguistic capacity to adequately propose a problem, present arguments, and solve conflicting situations by employing persuasive language.