IELP 066 - IELP Listening and Speaking: High-Intermediate

• Use a wide range of strategies to identify central ideas or themes in oral presentations and spoken and written texts.
• Analyze the development of the themes/ideas in oral presentations and spoken and written texts.
• Summarize key points and evidence from lectures and discussions.
• Participate in conversations and extended discussions about a range of substantive topics, texts, and issues.
• Express ideas clearly and persuasively.
• Ask and answer questions that probe reasoning and claims.
• Deliver oral presentations.
• Adapt language choices and style according to purpose, task, and audience with ease in various social and academic contexts.
• Apply techniques to identify and correct individual pronunciation issues.
• Apply techniques to improve overall speaking skills, e.g. clarity and appropriate pace, volume, intonation, tone, and body language.
• Use a wide variety of academic and content-specific words and phrases.
• Use complex and varied transitions to link the major sections of speech and text and to clarify relationships among events and ideas.
• Using context, questioning, and consistent knowledge of English morphology, identify the meaning of general academic and content-specific words and phrases, figurative and connotative language, and idiomatic expressions in spoken and written texts about a variety of topics, experiences, or events.
• Use complex phrases and clauses when speaking.
• Produce and expand simple, compound, and complex sentences.

1. Topics are selected using College Career and Readiness Standards (CCRS) for Speaking and Listening: Intonation, stress, articulation, conversation skills, and listening comprehension are taught in cultural context from dialogues, songs, listenings, formal/informal speeches and lectures, and short narratives.