LFU:online

Prerequisites: B1
Goal: B1+

At this level the learner can handle a substantially wider range of information than at the B1 level in the following areas: he/she can take messages and can communicate enquiries, explain problems; he/she can provide concrete information required in an interview/consultation (e.g. can describe symptoms to a doctor) but does so with limited precision; he/she can explain why something is a problem and can summarise and give their opinion about a short story, article, talk, discussion, interview, or documentary and answer further questions of detail; he/she can carry out a prepared interview, check and confirm information, though they may occasionally have to ask for repetition if the other person’s reply is rapid or extended.

Topics:
talents; misunderstandings; learners and teachers; local knowledge; life and work; images; virtual worlds

Linguistic Goals:
talk about people’s success; to discuss and evaluate ideas; to describe and evaluate skills; to give advice; to describe events in detail; to deal with misunderstandings; to express views; to describe habits/tendencies; to participate in a decision-making discussion

Structural Goals:
the use/ function of the past tenses - to show the time of actions and their relation; the use of passive - to describe the result of an action; past participle clauses – to describe a noun or a noun phrase; conditional clauses, present and future; present and past participle clauses