Listening
The candidate will be able to:
- understand virtually everything spoken even when delivery is fast
- follow short conversations both formal and informal in a comprehensive range of situations, understanding gist, context, purpose, function and recognising subtly expressed attitudes, feelings and opinions
- understand sophisticated narratives, sequences, explanations and subtle arguments
- recognise the function of short utterances which may contain idiomatic/colloquial English (see Grammar and Functions sections)
- follow a discussion which may be academic or professional to identify gist, detail, purposes and key ideas and distinguish between fact and opinion
- extract and reproduce key information from announcements, media broadcasts, presentations and lectures on abstract and concrete topics of general, academic and professional interest
- follow a complex argument even when it is not clearly structured.
Phonological features
The candidate will be able to:
- consistently recognise how subtle changes of intonation, pitch and/or stress affect meaning
- consistently recognise subtle expressions of feelings, moods, attitudes, important points and opinions expressed through stress, pitch and intonation
Range
The candidate will be able to:
- understand ideas, arguments and descriptions regardless of their structure and considerable complexity
- understand a very wide range of vocabulary including terms used in academic and professional discourse.
Register
The candidate will be able to:
- consistently recognise degrees of subtle distinction used by speakers in different types of utterances.
Understanding gist
The candidate will be able to:
- consistently understand the main ideas of complex extended discourse even when the topic is unfamiliar.
Understanding detail
The candidate will be able to:
- consistently extract most points of detail from extended discourse even when the topic is unfamiliar
Reading
The candidate will be able to:
- understand with ease virtually all types of authentic written texts of different purposes/style and those dense in complex structures
- understand the main ideas of all forms of written language, including lengthy abstract, structurally or linguistically complex texts or highly idiomatic, literary and non-literary writing on a wide range of professional, academic and social topics
- gather specific information from different parts of a text or from different texts
- understand descriptions and narratives in which language is used to create different sophisticated and subtle effects
- understand lengthy texts containing complex instructions or explanations on specialist subjects
- understand texts concerned with contemporary issues in which the writers adopt particular viewpoints, identifying finer points of attitude and implied opinions, and follow complex lines of reasoning.
Range
The candidate will be able to:
- understand a wide range of texts, hardly ever being impeded by any lexical features
- understands almost all grammatical structures and features.
Register
The candidate will be able to:
- understand subtleties in the use of register across a wide range of situations even those involving tact and diplomacy.
Text structure
The candidate will be able to:
- recognise how textual features are used to achieve purposes in texts including those containing images, graphical and tabular data
- understand the different ways in which meaning is built up in abstract, structurally or linguistically complex texts
- understand a full range of discourse markers adapted to context and register.
Writing
The candidate will be able to:
- write well-structured texts on complex or abstract subjects
- write clear, smoothly flowing, complex formal letters, reports or articles in styles fully appropriate to purpose and target readership
- describe or narrate in an assured natural manner consistently maintaining the style appropriate to purpose
- develop cogent and smoothly flowing arguments
- use all punctuation marks accurately and effectively
- spell correctly words used in more specialised contexts such as business, academic and international affairs
- maintain consistent control of complex grammatical structures
- use a very wide range of vocabulary demonstrating ability to distinguish between finer shades of meaning
- use idioms appropriately and naturally
- use a full range of structures to achieve different styles and purposes
Personal identification
- personal details
- occupation
- family
- likes and dislikes
- physical appearance
- first language
- character
- image
- personal learning style
House, home and local area
- types of accommodation
- interior design
- local & regional services and amenities
- regional geographical features
- national flora and fauna
- region-specific phenomena
- demographics
Daily Life
- at home
- at work
- income
- prospects
- stress
- money management
- life plans
Free time, entertainment
- leisure, hobbies and interests
- TV, radio, cinema, theatre
- computer, internet
- intellectual/artistic pursuits
- sports
- press
- music
- photography
- the written word (reading, letterwriting, diaries etc.)
- exhibitions, museums
- leisure/work ratio
- the social importance of leisure
Travel
- public & private transport
- traffic & traffic control
- ‘green’ travel
- holidays
- accommodation
- entering and leaving a country
- common currency e.g. the euro
- migration
- travel restrictions & border controls
Relations with other people
- family relationships
- friendship
- manners
- social conventions
- anti-social behaviour
- tolerance & respect
Shopping
- shopping facilities
- foodstuffs
- clothes, fashion
- household articles
- prices
- ethical shopping
- retail therapy
- consumerism
Food and drink
- eating habits
- sourcing food locally
- fast food
- organic food
- year round availability
- diets
- food fashions
- genetically modified food
- cookery
Services
- communications
- financial services
- emergency services
- leisure facilities
- care for the elderly
- IT in the community
- diplomatic services
- employment agencies
- government
Places & Location
- satellite navigation systems
- World Heritage sites
- locating motorways and airports
- protecting open spaces
- how geography affects people
- alternative places to live e.g. underwater, on Mars
- living in hostile environments
Language
- foreign language ability
- accents and dialects
- preserving minority languages
- bilingualism
- universal languages e.g. Esperanto
- body language
- language and culture
Weather
- climate and weather
- weather forecast
- climate change
- extreme weather
- weather and mood
- effect of weather on lifestyle
Measures and shapes
- statistics
- importance of maths in everyday life
- design
Education
- schooling
- subjects
- qualifications and examinations
- education systems
- teaching and learning
- knowledge versus skills
- a basic human right
The enviroment
- recycling
- pollution
- global warming
- endangered species
- future of the planet
- individual’s/society’s
- responsibilities
Beliefs
- the paranormal & supernatural
- superstitions
- unexplained phenomena e.g.
- UFOs, coincidences etc.
Arts
- modern art, theatre, architecture
- classical art, theatre, architecture
- literature
- popular culture
- youth culture
Science & Technology
- scientific development
- space exploration
- power of the computer
- important inventions
- genetic modification
- ethics
- animal testing
- the limits of human endeavour
Society
- individual rights
- family life
- parental responsibilities
- social responsibilities
- equal opportunities
- human rights
- citizenship
- the global village
- world events
- world economy
Personal environment
- asking for and giving personal information
- describing where one lives (accommodation, area, etc.)
- asking and answering questions for confirmation, information, identification
- describing people, places, things
- correcting information
- explaining routines
- narrating and describing past, present and future events
- comparing things, people
- reporting facts, actions
- stating facts, actions
- giving descriptions and specifications.
Expressing thoughts, feelings and attitudes
- expressing and asking about agreement or disagreement
- denying something
- expressing agreement reluctantly or with reservations
- conceding, demurring
- expressing views and feelings with reasons
- asserting and asking about knowledge or ignorance of something or someone
- stating whether a person, thing or action is remembered or forgotten
- enquiring of someone else whether a person, thing or action is remembered or forgotten
- stating and asking about degrees of probability
- expressing, denying or asking about necessity (including logical deduction)
- stating and asking about one’s certainty or uncertainty of something
- reminding someone to do something
- expressing doubt, incredulity, bewilderment
- hypothesising
- speculating
- stating and asking about one’s ability or inability to do something
- stating and enquiring about one’s obligation (or lack of) to do something
- seeking, granting or denying permission
- stating and asking about the permissibility of doing something
- expressing and asking about wishes, hopes, expectations
- expressing and asking about wants, desires, needs
- stating and asking about intention
- stating, responding to and asking about preference
- expressing and asking about likes and dislikes, with reasons
- expressing and asking about (dis)pleasure, (un)happiness
- expressing and asking about satisfaction or dissatisfaction
- expressing disappointment
- expressing gratitude
- expressing and asking about interest or lack of it
- expressing surprise or lack of it
- expressing and asking about fear, anxiety
- giving reassurance
- expressing regret, sympathy, condolence
- expressing fellow-feeling, empathy
- expressing and asking about pain, anguish, suffering
- expressing relief
- expressing indifference
- expressing fatigue, resignation
- offering and accepting an apology
- granting forgiveness
- expressing and asking about approval, appreciation or disapproval
- expressing moral obligation
- expressing regret
- accepting, attaching or denying blame for something.
Making things happen
- responding to a request
- requesting something, or requesting someone to do something
- inviting someone to do something
- accepting or declining an offer or invitation
- giving instructions or orders
- giving and asking for advice
- responding to or rejecting advice, with reasons
- warning others to be careful or to stop doing something
- offering and requesting assistance
- insisting politely
- persuading someone to do something
- suggesting a course of action
- asking for, responding to, agreeing to or rejecting suggestions with reason/alternative
- making and agreeing plans and arrangements
- encouraging someone to do something
- reaching a compromise
- negotiating a result
- prohibiting someone from doing something
- making a complaint
- refusing to do something, expressing defiance
- pleading with someone to do something.
Social contact
- getting someone’s attention
- greeting people and responding to greetings
- expressing thanks
- addressing somebody
- making and responding to formal and informal introductions
- opening, closing a formal or informal conversation
- congratulating someone
- praising someone
- paying someone a compliment
- asking someone’s opinion
- making someone feel welcome
- giving and responding to constructive criticism
- indicating lack of understanding
- giving and asking for clarification, explanation or definition of something
- confirming one’s own or another’s understanding
- asking someone to repeat all or part of something
- asking someone to speak more slowly
- asking for help in finding words or phrases
- asking for and giving the spelling and meaning of words
- counting and using numbers
- asking for and telling people the time, day, date
- interrupting politely
- objecting, protesting
- exemplifying or emphasising a point
- classifying, generalising, defining something
- encouraging another speaker to continue
- indicating a wish to continue or finish speaking
- summing up
- taking leave
- observing telephone conventions
- observing letter-writing conventions.
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