1.

Giving out factual information

B1 B2 C1
• identifying/specifying
• correcting positive and negative statements
• narrating
• describing
• asking questions to obtain confirmation or denial
• asking questions to obtain information
• asking questions to obtain descriptions
• asking questions to obtain specifications
• responding to requests for confirmation
• responding to requests for information
• responding to requests for identification
• comparing
• reporting
• explaining
• stating

2. Expressing and finding out attitudes

2.1 Factual: agreement etc

B1 B2 C1
• Expressing agreement with a statement
• Expressing disagreement with a statement
• Expressing views with reasons
• Enquiring about agreement and disagreement
• Denying statements
• Expressing agreement reluctantly or with reservation
• Conceding, demurring
• Inviting agreement or disagreement
2.2 Factual: knowledge
B1 B2 C1
• Expressing one’s knowledge or ignorance of a person, thing or fact
• Enquiring about another’s knowledge or ignorance of a person, thing or
fact
• Stating whether one remembers or has forgotten a person, thing, fact or
action
• Enquiring whether another remembers or has forgotten a person, thing,
fact or action
• Expressing degrees of probability
• Enquiring about degrees of probability
• Expressing or denying necessity (including logical deduction)
• Enquiring about necessity
• Expressing one’s certainty or uncertainty of something (strong/positive/
intermediate/weak/negative)
• Enquiring about another’s certainty or uncertainty of something
• Reminding someone
• Asserting knowledge or ignorance
• Expressing doubt, incredulity
• Expressing bewilderment
• Classifying
• Generalising
• Defining
• Hypothesising
• Asking for definitions
• Speculating
• Negotiating

2.3 Factual: modality

B1 B2 C1
• Expressing ability or inability
• Enquiring about ability or inability
• Expressing one’s obligation (or lack of) to do something
• Enquiring about one’s obligation to do something
• Granting permission
• Denying permission
• Seeking permission
• Responding to granting of permission
• Expressing permissibility
• Enquiring about permissibility

2.4 Volitional
B1 B2 C1
• Expressing want, desire or need (positive and negative)
• Enquiring about want, desire or need
• Expressing intention (positive and negative)
• Enquiring about intention
• Expressing and responding to preference
• Enquiring about preference

2.5 Emotional
B1 B2 C1
• Expressing liking, with reasons
• Expressing dislike, with reasons
• Enquiring about likes and dislikes
• Expressing pleasure, happiness with reasons
• Expressing displeasure, unhappiness with reasons
• Enquiring about pleasure, happiness/ displeasure, unhappiness
• Expressing hope
• Expressing satisfaction
• Expressing dissatisfaction
• Enquiring about satisfaction
• Expressing disappointment
• Expressing gratitude
• Expressing feelings
• Expressing interest
• Expressing lack of interest
• Enquiring about interest or lack of interest
• Expressing surprise
• Expressing lack of surprise
• Expressing fear
• Giving reassurance
• Enquiring about fear/worry
• Reacting to an expression of gratitude
• Expressing regret/sympathy/condolence
• Expressing fellow-feeling, empathy
• Expressing pain, anguish, suffering
• Enquiring about pain, anguish, suffering
• Expressing relief
• Expressing indifference
• Expressing fatigue, resignation

2.6 Moral
B1 B2 C1
• Offering an apology
• Accepting an apology
• Granting forgiveness
• Expressing approval
• Expressing appreciation
• Expressing regret
• Expressing indifference
• Expressing moral obligation
• Expressing disapproval
• Enquiring about approval/disapproval
• Expressing regret/sympathy
• Denying blame

3. Getting things done

B1 B2 C1
• Responding to a request
• Requesting something
• Requesting someone to do something
• Inviting someone to do something
• Giving instructions or orders
• Accepting an offer or invitation
• Declining an offer or invitation
• Enquiring whether an offer or invitation is accepted or declined
• Advising others to do something
• Warning others to take care or to refrain from doing something
• Offering assistance
• Asking for assistance
• Insisting politely
• Persuading
• Suggesting a course of action
• Agreeing to a suggestion
• Encouraging someone to do something
• Asking for advice
• Responding to advice
• Rejecting advice with reason
• Making/agreeing plans and arrangements
• Compromising
• Prohibiting
• Complaining
• Asking for suggestions
• Responding to suggestions
• Rejecting suggestion with reason/alternative
• Refusing to do something
• Expressing defiance
• Giving encouragement
• Pleading

4. Socialising
B1 B2 C1
• Attracting attention
• Greeting people
• Responding to greetings
• Responding to offers or invitations
• Expressing thanks
• Addressing friends and strangers
• Making formal and informal introductions
• Reacting to being introduced
• Congratulating
• Proposing a toast
• Taking leave
• Hesitating
• Praising
• Complimenting
• Making someone welcome
• Giving constructive criticism
• Responding to criticism
• Offering someone something
• Rebuking

5. Structuring discourse
B1 B2 C1
• Opening
• Hesitating, looking for words
• Correcting oneself
• Interrupting politely
• Enumerating
• Summarising
• Closing
• Expressing an opinion
• Asking someone’s opinion
• Exemplifying
• Emphasising
• Handing over to another speaker
• Indicating a wish to continue or finish speaking
• Encouraging someone to continue speaking
• Interacting with speaker

6. Telephone
B1 B2 C1
• Opening/announcing self
• Asking for extension, person
• Announcing new call
• Asking someone to wait
• Confirming understanding on both sides
• Signing off

7. Letter

B1 B2 C1
• Formal and informal opening
• Closing
8. Communication repair
B1 B2 C1
• Signalling non-understanding
• Asking someone to spell something
• Asking for clarification and explanation
• Responding to clarification and explanation
• Asking for repetition of sentence, word or phrase
• Asking for confirmation of understanding
• Asking someone to write something down
• Appealing for assistance
• Asking someone to slow down
• Responding to requests for clarification
• Paraphrasing
• Checking another’s understanding
• Substituting for forgotten word or phrase
• Covering hesitation while searching for word or phrase
• Objecting, protesting
Topics

1. Personal identification
B1 B2 C1
• Name
• Address
• Telephone/fax number
• Date and place of birth
• Age
• Sex
• Marital status
• Nationality
• Origin
• Occupation
• Family
• Likes and dislikes
• Physical appearance
• Email address
• Title
• First language
• Character
• Image

2. House & Home and local environment

B1 B2 C1
• Types of accommodation
• Interior design
• Local & regional services/amenities
• Regional geographical features
• Local flora and fauna
• Region-specific phenomena
3. Daily life
B1 B2 C1
• At home
• At work
• Income
• Prospects
• Stress
• Money Management

4. Free time and entertainment

B1 B2 C1
• Leisure, hobbies & interests
• TV, radio, cinema, theatre
• Computer, internet
• Intellectual/artistic pursuits
• Sports
• Press
• Music
• Exhibitions, museums
• Photography
• The written word (reading, letter-writing, diaries etc)
• Leisure/work ratio

5. Travel
B1 B2 C1
• Public & private transport
• Traffic & traffic control
• Green travel
• Holidays
• Accommodation
• Entering and leaving a country
• Common currency eg the euro
• Migration
6. Relations with other people
B1 B2 C1
• Family relationships
• Friendship
• Manners
• Social conventions
• Anti-social behaviour

7. Health and bodycare

B1 B2 C1
• Parts of the body
• Personal comfort
• Hygiene
• Ailments, accidents
• Medical services
• Exercise regimes
• Pandemics

8. Shopping
B1 B2 C1
• Shopping facilities
• Foodstuffs
• Clothes, fashion
• Household articles
• Prices
• Ethical shopping
• Retail therapy

9. Food and drink

B1 B2 C1
• Types of food and drink
• Eating and drinking out
• Eating habits
• Sourcing food locally
• Fast food
• Organic food
• Year-round availability
• Dieting
• Food fashions

10. Services
B1 B2 C1
• Communications
• Financial services
• Emergency services
• Leisure facilities
• Care for the elderly
• IT in the community
• Diplomatic services
• Employment agencies

11. Places & location

B1 B2 C1
• Asking the way and giving directions
• Location
• Satellite navigation systems
• World Heritage sites
• Locations for motorways & airports
• Protecting open spaces
• How geography affects the people
• Alternative places to live eg underwater, on Mars

12. Language
B1 B2 C1
• Foreign language ability
• Accents & dialects
• Preserving minority languages
• Bilingualism
• Universal languages eg Esperanto
• Body language

13. Weather
B1 B2 C1
• Climate and weather
• Weather forecasting
• Climate change
• Extreme weather
• Weather and mood

14. Measures and shapes

B1 B2 C1
• Digits and numbers up to 31
• Digits and numbers up to 100 and multiples of 100
• All digits and cardinal numbers
• Telephone numbers
• Height, length, weight, capacity, temperature
• Dates, times, days
• Shape
• Statistics
• Processes
• Importance of maths in everyday life
15. Education
B1 B2 C1
• Schooling
• Subjects
• Qualifications and examinations
• Education systems
• Teaching and learning

16. The environment

B1 B2 C1
• Pollution
• Global warming
• Endangered species
• Future of the planet
17. Beliefs
B1 B2 C1
• The paranormal & supernatural
• Superstitions
• Unexplained phenomena eg UFOs, coincidences etc.

18. Arts
B1 B2 C1
• Modern art, theatre, architecture
• Classical art, theatre, architecture
• Literature
• Popular culture

19. Science & technology

B1 B2 C1
• Scientific development
• Space exploration
• Power of the computer
• Important inventions
• Genetic modification
• Ethics
• Animal testing

20. Society
B1 B2 C1
• Individual rights
• Family life
• Parental responsibilities
• Social responsibilities
• Equal opportunities
• Human rights
• Citizenship
• The Global Village