Verbal Communication Objectives
- Speaking
- Can give an informal progress report capturing key milestones and highlighting risks, using complex language.
- Can express potential consequences of a series of actions or events with native-like fluency.
- Can give a detailed response to a counter-argument presented by someone else during a discussion
- Can use allegorical narrative to illustrate a point in a conversation or presentation.
- Can use parallel structure to emphasise a point in a casual conversation with one or more native speakers.
- Can contribute to group discussions even when speech is fast and colloquial
- Listening
- Can without too much effort understand films employing a considerable degree of slang and idiomatic usage
- Can recognise the use of allegorical narrative to illustrate a point in a conversation or presentation.
- Can understand a wide range of idiomatic expressions used to express a thought, opinion, or idea in a conversation with one or more native speakers.
Vocabulary Objectives
- Can use some detailed language related to environmental and social issues
- Can use general language related to the status and fortunes of a company.
- Can use stock phrases to indicate responses to counterarguments
- Can use advanced language relating to the state of the economy
- Can use advanced prepositional and phrasal verbs (e.g., crack up, pitch in, etc.)
Written Communication Objectives
- Reading
- Can understand highly colloquial language in unstructured texts that use complex structures
- Writing
- Can write a forceful but polite letter of complaint, including supporting details and a statement of the desired outcome.
- Can use parallel structure to emphasise a point in a personal communication (e.g., email, text).