Speaking and Listening - To be prepared for the examination, candidates must possess basic conversational skills, displaying comprehension of high-frequency commands, courtesy formulae and simple statements and questions, demonstrating an ability to formulate basic responses to them, in addition to answering questions in Hebrew based on elementary-level listening comprehension passages. Reading and Writing - candidates must be able to: comprehend simple reading passages, extracting meaning from a string of connected sentences when context or background knowledge are supportive; read vocalized and unvocalized texts; understand the Hebrew consonant and vowel systems; analyze Hebrew words as to their roots, prefixes and suffixes; identify parts of speech; demonstrate knowledge of the basic rules of Hebrew pronunciation; recognize basic grammatical structures when vocabulary is known or supplied and identify basic words for foods, articles and places. Candidates must be able to: write all of the Hebrew letters; supply in writing a few phrases, fixed expressions, names, numbers, dates, own nationality and other simple autobiographical information and translate English sentences into Hebrew; translate a 100-word elementary level Hebrew text into English; translate an elementary level English text into Hebrew; and answer short questions in Hebrew with appropriate Hebrew responses.