Core Skill

 Description

Listening

Extract general and specific information from: interviews, dialogues, news reports, radio programs, short talks, stories, and lectures
Develop note-taking skills and strategies
Identify opinions

Speaking

Participate in everyday formal and informal spoken exchanges, telephone conversations, role plays and informal short oral presentations and group discussions
Develop strategies to start, maintain and end conversations
Use discourse elements and pronunciation
Compare, explain answers, give opinions and respond to complex questions
Describe processes

Reading

Extract main ideas and specific information from: Newspaper and magazine articles, questionnaires, scientific texts, book extracts
Develop strategies for guessing unknown vocabulary

Writing

Plan, write and edit a variety of text genres including: personal profiles, descriptions, paragraphs, argumentative and discursive essays, informal and formal letters, film and book reviews, article, messages and reports, letter of application, processes, graphs and trend descriptions

Grammar and Vocabulary

Develop understanding of past, present and future verbs, noun phrases, gerund, countable and plural nouns, modals, quantifiers, prefixes and suffixes, active and passive forms
Develop language to give opinions, compare and contrast and cause and effect
Recognise and use relative clauses and verb-noun combinations
Recognise and use signal language and sequence markers