Can understand and use some basic, formulaic expressions (“Yes”, “no”, “please”, etc), can exchange likes and dislikes for sports, foods using limited repertoire of expressions, when addressed slowly and directly, can ask and tell day, time, tell people his/her name and ask for theirs, use and understand simple numbers, can ask for and give a date of birth, a phone number, their age, can ask and answer questions about themselves and other people, can indicate time