Speaking

The candidate will be able to:

• follow extended speech delivered at natural speed even when it is not clearly structured and when the meaning may be implicit rather than explicit
• follow short conversations both formal and informal in a range of situations, understanding gist, context, purpose, function, attitude, feelings, opinions and relationships
• understand complex narratives, sequences and explanations
• recognise the function of short utterances which may contain idiomatic English (see Grammar and Functions sections)
• follow a discussion 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 interest
• follow a complex argument.

Phonological features

The candidate will be able to:

• consistently recognise how intonation, pitch and/or stress affect meaning
• consistently recognise 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 expressed through a wide range of complex grammatical structures
• understand a broad range of vocabulary including idiomatic and colloquial expressions.

Register

The candidate will be able to:

• consistently recognise degrees of formality in different types of utterances used by speakers in a wide range of situations.

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 a point or argument, 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/possibility
• 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
• 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, worry, 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, attachingor 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
• 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
• 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

ATTESTATO DI PARTECIPAZIONE

A tutti i partecipanti che completeranno il percorso formativo verrà rilasciato Attestato di partecipazione per 40 ore di formazione.

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CERTIFICAZIONE LINGUISTICA

L’iscrizione a questo corso non comprende la certificazione linguistica ma ti prepara al meglio per consentirti di superare agevolmente l’esame.

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