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 |
