Communicative Aims

– Show understanding by responding appropriately to the examiner
– Communicate a variety of facts, ideas and opinions, and account for these, about a chosen topic linked across a series of extended turns
– Engage in discussion of the topic
– Handle interruptions or requests for clarification
– Take control over an interaction
– Maintain the discourse by asking for information and making comments
– Help the discussion along by inviting comments
– Take and give up turns when appropriate to do so
– Share the responsibility for the maintenance of an interaction
– In case of a breakdown in communication, show awareness and take basic steps to remedy it

Language functions

– Giving advice

– Expressing possibility and uncertainty

– Making suggestions and expressing agreement and disagreement

– Describing past habits

– Highlighting advantages and disadvantages

– Eliciting further information and expansion of ideas and opinions

Grammar

– Revision of grammar from Trinity 6

– Modals and phrases used to give advice and make suggestions, e.g. shoud/ought to, could, you’d better

– Modals and phrases used to express possibility and uncertainty, e.g. may, might, I’m not sure

– Second conditional

– Used to

– Modals connected to the functions listed above

– Simple passive

– Relative clauses

– Discourse connectors, e.g. because of, due to

Lexis

– Phrases and expressions relating to the language functions listed above

– National customs

– National and local produce and products

– Phrases and expressions relating to the language functions listed above

– Education

– Early memories

– Pollution and recycling

– Appropriate words and expressions to Indicate interest and show awareness of the speaker, e.g. Really? Oh dear! Did you?

– Phrases and expressions relating to the language functions listed above

– Village and city life

Phonology

– The correct pronunciation of vocabulary specific to the topic and subject areas

– Rising intonation to indicate interest and surprise as appropriate

– Falling intonation to indicate the end of a turn

– Intonation and features of connected speech beyond sentence level