Communicative Aims
– Communicate facts, ideas, opinions and explain viewpoints about a chosen topic linked across a series of extended turns
– Maintain coherence and cohesion by organising discourse
– Handle interruptions by using recovery strategies
– Respond to requests for further information, clarifications and explanations
– Take control over an interaction
– Maintain the discourse by asking for information and commenting on the responses obtained
– Help a discussion along by encouraging comment and opinion from the listener
– Take, give up and offer turns when appropriate to do so
– Follow up on comments in order to develop a conversation
– In case of a breakdown in communication, take steps to repair it
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Language functions
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– Persuading and discouraging
– Expressing feelings and emotions
– Expressing impossibility
– Reporting the conversation of others
– Speculation
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Grammar
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– Revision of grammar from Trinity 7
– Present perfect continuous tense
– Past perfect tense
– Linking expressions, e.g. even though, in spite of, although
– Third conditional
– Cohesive devices, e.g. so to continue, in other words, for example
– Reported speech
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Lexis
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– Phrases and expressions relating to the language functions listed above
– Appropriate words and expressions to encourage further participation
– Personal values and ideals
– National environmental concerns
– Phrases and expressions relating to the language functions listed above
– Society and living standards
– Public figures past and present
– Phrases and expressions relating to the language functions listed above
– The world of work
– Unexplained phenomena and events
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Phonology
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– The correct pronunciation of vocabulary specific to the topic and subject areas
– Rising and falling intonation to indicate giving up and offering turns
– Stress, intonation and pitch relevant to the language functions listed above
– Stress and intonation to indicate emotion
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