Students address concrete and factual topics related to the immediate and external environment, including:<ol type="a"><li>Social norms</li><li>Historical and cultural figures, stereotypes</li><li>Animals and their habitats</li><li>Community issues, current events</li><li>Origins of rites of passage, social and regional customs</li><li>Environmental concerns</li><li>Media, Internet, television, radio, film</li><li>Cultural, historical, and geographic aspects of travel</li><li>Curricular and extracurricular subjects</li><li>Significant historical events</li><li>Careers and future plans</li><li>Nutrition, fitness, and health</li><li>Geographically and culturally appropriate clothing</li><li>Cultural differences in health care</li><li>Effects of technology on the modern world</li></ol>

Students address discrete elements of daily life, including: <ol type="a"><li>Greetings and introductions</li> <li>Family and friends</li> <li>Pets</li> <li>Home and neighborhood</li> <li>Celebrations, holidays, and rites of passage</li> <li>Calendar, seasons, and weather</li> <li>Leisure, hobbies and activities, songs, toys and games, sports</li> <li>Vacations and travel, maps, destinations, and geography</li> <li>School, classroom, schedules, subjects, numbers, time, directions</li> <li>Important dates in the target culture</li> <li>Jobs</li> <li>Food, meals, restaurants</li> <li>Shopping, clothes, colors, and sizes</li> <li>Parts of the body, illness</li> <li>Technology</li> </ol>