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
Language functions |
– Persuading and discouraging – Expressing feelings and emotions – Expressing impossibility – Reporting the conversation of others – Speculation |
Grammar |
– 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 |
Lexis |
– 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 |
Phonology |
– 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 |
