What you can understand people say at Superior level

Here are some things you can understand people say at Superior level:

• Unspoken emotional nuances of speakers in most communication situations
• A detailed description of a complex object or procedure
• A discussion of an abstract professional topic
• Hypotheses about what might happen in a certain situation
• Debates on both sides of an issue
• Personal points of view on a controversial subject
• Reasons someone gives for acting in a certain way
• Unspoken messages, when people hedge, evade an answer, or try to get out of a commitment
• Speeches or academic lectures
• The dialogue in films
• Media coverage

• Generic module: What you can understand people say at Superior lev...
• In overview module: What you can understand people say at different pr...
• In overview module: What you can do at different proficiency levels
• In overview module: Information to help you check your progress
• In modular book: Managing Your Language Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 17 September 1998

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