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    The document summarizes the language skills expected of a Senior 5 CEFR B1+ student. It outlines what students can understand and produce across listening, reading, speaking, writing and grammar. Key skills include understanding TV and film, participating in discussions, presenting on familiar topics, writing letters, short narratives and opinions on various subjects. Grammatical areas cover a range of tenses, structures, functions and topics for vocabulary development.

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    The document summarizes the language skills expected of a Senior 5 CEFR B1+ student. It outlines what students can understand and produce across listening, reading, speaking, writing and grammar. Key skills include understanding TV and film, participating in discussions, presenting on familiar topics, writing letters, short narratives and opinions on various subjects. Grammatical areas cover a range of tenses, structures, functions and topics for vocabulary development.

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    SENIOR 5

    CEFR B1+ – Independent User

    The students...
    CAN understand most TV news and current affairs programmes.
    CAN understand the majority of films in standard dialect.
    CAN predict content in a conversation, a radio interview, chat-show, etc.
    CAN understand standard spoken language, live or broadcast, on both familiar and
    LISTENING

    unfamiliar topics normally encountered in personal, academic or vocational life.


    CAN understand the main ideas of complex speech on both concrete and abstract
    topics delivered in a standard language including technical discussions in their field of
    specialisation.
    CAN understand extended speech and lectures and follow even complex lines of
    argument provided the topic is reasonably familiar

    CAN identify text type.


    CAN understand some new words in authentic texts such as magazine articles.
    CAN interpret writer’s intentions.
    CAN read correspondence relating to their fields of interest and easily understand
    the essential meaning
    CAN understand specialized articles outside their field with the help of a dictionary.
    READING

    CAN read any kinds of texts quite easily at different speeds and in different ways
    according to their purpose in reading and the type of text.
    CAN quickly identify the content and relevance of news items, articles and reports
    on a wide range of professional topics.
    CAN read articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in which the
    writers adopt particular attitudes or viewpoints.
    CAN understand contemporary literary prose.

    CAN interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular
    interaction with native speakers quite possible.
    CAN express news and views effectively, and relate to those of others.
    SPEAKING

    CAN take an active part in discussions in familiar contexts, accounting for and
    sustaining their views.
    CAN present clear, detailed descriptions on a wide range of subjects related to their
    field of interest.
    CAN explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages
    of various options.
    CAN use a variety of linking words to mark clearly the relationships between ideas
    CAN Spell and punctuate reasonably accurately.
    CAN write clear, detailed and connected text on a range of subjects related to their
    interests using the cohesive devices expected at this level.
    CAN give reasons in support of or against a particular point of view.
    CAN highlight the personal significance of events and experiences.
    WRITING

    CAN produce the following formats:


     An informal letter or email
     A formal letter or email
     A narrative
     A description of a person, place, object or event
     A review
     A short essay expressing their opinion on a topic, book or film.

    GRAMMATICAL CONTENT
    By the end of the course the students should be able to understand and
    produce the following in addition to the contents listed in the previous
    Senior syllabi.

    FUNCTIONS GRAMMAR
    Asking for specific information Subject and object questions

    Speculating about the present Must, can’t, might, may, could

    Talking about habits in the present and in Usually


    the past Used to
    Be /get used to

    Expressing conditions Zero, first, second, third conditional


    sentences

    Changing focus Passive voice – all forms


    Have/get sth done

    Comparing Revision of comparative and superlative


    forms

    Reporting Reported speech


    Indirect questions
    Talking about the present Revision of present tenses

    Talking about the past Revision of past tenses


    Talking about the future Revision of future tenses and future
    forms (will-going to-present continuous)

    Describing if something is sufficient Too and enough

    Talking about experiences, recent events, Revision of perfect tenses


    etc
    Using of Articles Articles (zero, a, the)

    Expressing quantity Quantifiers (both, neither, either, all,


    none, most, some, any, a little, a few, a
    lot, plenty of, too, not enough)
    Revision of modal verbs, permission and must, have to, mustn’t, can, can’t, don’t
    possibility have to, should, ought to, etc.
    Expressing obligation and absence of
    obligation
    Adding information Defining and Non-defining relative
    clauses

    TOPICS AND VOCABULARY AREAS

    The list below does not provide an exhaustive register of all the areas which can be taught
    at the level and it is simply meant as a guide of the most likely semantic fields the students
    may encounter. It is strongly recommendable that all the listed Topics and Vocabulary
    Areas should be addressed.

    Clothes
    Daily life, free time and hobbies
    Education
    People/Relationships/ Family
    Personal feelings, experiences and opinions
    Entertainment and the media
    Food and drink
    Health
    House and home
    Places and buildings
    School and study
    Shopping
    Social interaction
    Sport
    Environmental issues-The natural world
    Transport, travelling and holidays
    Weather
    Work and jobs
    Technology
    Music
    The verb phrase: Verb patterns: look + adjective / look like + noun phrase / look as if + clause
    Adjectives followed by prepositions
    Phrasal verbs
    Reporting verbs

    In addition to these lexical areas, students are expected to start systematizing the simplest
    aspects of word formation such as the use of prefixes, suffixes, antonyms and synonyms

    WRITING
    The candidates will be asked to produce a text of about 150 words using any of
    the following formats

     An informal letter or email


     A formal letter or email
     A narrative
     A description of a person, place, object or event
     A review
     An opinion essay
     An article

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