Lessons

Giving Facts lessons enhance learners' ability to communicate accurately and effectively. Learning opportunities in giving facts and expressing/seeking factual information involve identifying objects, persons, processes, stating facts, asking for information, expressing capabilities or possibilities, discussing regular activities, stating past events, confirming known facts, stating hypotheses, making generalizations, reporting, asking/receiving information, summarizing, and explaining processes.

Socializing lessons enhance social interactions and create meaningful relationships. Learning Opportunities include greeting, introducing oneself, sharing likes, dislikes, ideas, hobbies, opinions, and personal experiences. It also involves terminating conversations, participating in dinner table discussions, asking for/offering help, telling jokes, expressing gratitude, giving compliments, showing concern, and fostering interpersonal connections.

Life and Living lessons enhance learners' ability to navigate and thrive in daily life. Learning opportunities in managing life and living include making work requests, interviewing, inquiring about items, asking about prices, recognizing numbers, expressing shopping and food preferences, identifying names of foods, clothing, shapes, and colors. It also involves addressing complaints, discussing weather, engaging in regular activities, expressing wants and needs, and sharing free time activities and hobbies.

Home and Community lessons empower learners to navigate and engage actively in their home and community environments, fostering independence and meaningful connections. Learning opportunities in managing home and community encompass naming rooms in a home, identifying places in a neighborhood, giving directions and locations, understanding transportation options, accessing services, and identifying family members.

Opinions and Ideas lessons foster effective communication and interpersonal interactions. Learning opportunities focus on expressing agreement/disagreement, beliefs and opinions, inquiring about others' viewpoints, stating intentions, comparing, giving reasons, expressing importance/unimportance, describing, narrating, classifying, proposing solutions, justifying, predicting, expressing needs, inquiring about needs, expressing certainty/uncertainty, obligations/non-obligations, affirming, denying, extending invitations/offers, stating preferences, accepting/declining invitations/offers, offering assistance, and issuing warnings.

Getting Things done lessons foster effective collaboration and achievement of goals. Learning Opportunities include engaging in discussions about getting things done. These include making suggestions, requests, and giving advice. Learners also practice offering invitations, instructions, or commands, as well as suggesting, persuading, making or changing plans, negotiating, and describing work experiences and needs.

Expressing Feelings lessons enable effective emotional expression and communication. Learning Opportunities include expressing and determining feelings through several skills. These include inquiring about remembering/forgetting, granting or requesting permission, expressing confirmation, rejecting, promising, declaring, protesting, expressing pleasure, displeasure, satisfaction, dissatisfaction, disappointment, fear, worry, surprise, hope, gratitude, sympathy. Learn to state wants, desires, hopes and wishes.

Managing Communication lessons empower you to effectively navigate and engage in meaningful conversations. Learning opportunities in managing communication encompass various skills. These include interrupting, focusing on a topic, requesting repetition, questioning, changing the topic, using openers, acknowledging, reporting information, negotiating, debating, and expressing understanding or failure to understand.

Health and Safety lessons empower individuals to handle critical situations, prioritize their well-being, and offer support to others in promoting a safe and healthy environment. Learning Opportunities in managing health and safety provide important skills in describing emergencies, seeking medical care, and providing health and wellness advice.