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TalkShop Intermediate Learner
Profile and Learning Focus
| Writing |
Profile:
- Able to use simple and compound sentences, attempts complex sentences
- Uses basic tenses: simple present, past and future and continuous forms
- Uses logical connections between ideas
- Able to write 15-20 sentences about topic using mostly appropriate specific vocab.
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Focus on:
- Complex sentence structures
- Logical sentence connectors
- Clear, logical support for ideas
- Writing for different purposes
- Editing
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| Reading |
Profile:
- Able to distinguish fact from fiction
- Able to extract information and state main idea
- Able to read 1-2 page text of familiar nature
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Focus on:
- Skimming and scanning
- Identifying main ideas
- Analyzing writing style/purpose
- Using visual clues: charts, headings, tiltles, font, etc.
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| Speaking |
Profile:
- Able to talk about events of interest to them
- Able to ask and respond to questions about their past other's past
- Uses tenses appropriately
- Uses mostly appropriate stress and intonation patterns
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Focus on:
- Small talk
- Stating opinions and supporting them
- Asking for and giving information
- Scheduling and making appointments
- Body language
- Stress and intonation patterns
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| Listening |
Profile:
- Able to follow instructions and directions
- Listens to media works for specific info.
- Able to understand 2-3 min. narratives on familiar topics
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Focus on:
- Listening strategies: main ideas, focused listening, extracting simple information
- Media works (ads, video, public announcement)
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| Grammar |
Profile:
- Able to use complex sentence structures but with frequent errors
- Uses basic tenses accurately and present perfect tense vs past approp.
- Uses present tense of most modals
- Good grasp of word order but frequent word form errors
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Focus on:
- Present perfect tenses
- Modals
- Adjective and adverb phrases
- Clauses: time, adjectives, dependent, independent
- Word order in complex sentence structure
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