Dave
28 lug 20211 min
Understanding context, meaning and function of a range of utterances
Listen twice to six short sentences: statement, explanation, description, instruction or question
FORMAT
Three-Four-option multiple choice for each utterance to choose the appropriate response.
Correct responses are always natural and common.
What you hear will include a focus on the following features of language:
register
stress/
intonation
idiomatic/ colloquial English
You need to listen to as much everyday, social English as possible.
At this level you are expected to be familiar with a wide range of idioms and colloquialisms to recognise differing degrees of formality in both what is said and how it is expressed.
Where?
Who?
Why?
How?
Where
Recognise the context of what you hear by asking yourself questions
‘Where are these people speaking?
Are they in a business meeting, in a restaurant, at the doctor’s surgery, etc?’
Who?
‘Who are the people having this conversation?
Are they colleagues, friends, a travel agent and a customer, etc?’
Why?
recognise the language function from both:-
what is being said and the tone of voice in which it is being expressed
How?
understand the importance that stress and intonation play in communication.