What you can understand people say at Advanced level

Here are some of the things you can understand people say at Advanced level:

• An account of an event that happened in the past
• Events someone expects will happen in the future
• A description of a simple process
• A brief summary of facts about a subject
• Oral instructions on how to do something
• Advice
• The advantages and disadvantages of a course of action
• A description of a place you have never visited
• Someone comparing or contrasting two objects or places
• Familiar topics beyond your immediate situation
• Most news broadcasts and factual reports on television and radio
• Information someone asks you in an interview
• Short lectures on familiar topics

• Generic module: What you can understand people say at Advanced 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.]

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