Expected Competences
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Detailed Competences
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Procedure of evaluating the pre-acquired competences
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UNDERSTANDING
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LISTENING
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BA to recognise familiar words and very basic phrases concerning themselves, their family and immediate concrete surroundings when people speak slowly and clearly.
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- To understand when someone speaks very slowly and articulates carefully, with long pauses for them to assimilate meaning.
- To understand simple directions how to get from X to Y, by foot or public transport.
- To understand questions and instructions addressed carefully and slowly to them and follow short, simple directions.
- To understand numbers, prices and times.
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Given a map of a city area, they will listen to people (recording) giving them instructions about how to get to certain places on the map, opening times and ticket prices which they will take note.
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READING
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BA to understand familiar names, words and very simple sentences, for example on notices and posters or in catalogues.
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- To understand information about people (place of residence, age, etc.) in newspapers.
- To locate an event on calendars of public events or posters and identify where it takes place and at what time it starts.
- To understand a questionnaire (entry permit form, hotel registration form) well enough to give the most important information about themselves (name, surname, date of birth, nationality).
- To understand words and phrases on signs encountered in everyday life (for instance “station”, “car park”, “no parking”, “no smoking”, “keep left”.
- To understand the most important orders in a computer programme such as “PRINT”, “SAVE”, “COPY”, etc.
- To follow short simple written directions (e.g. how to go from X to Y).
- In everyday situations to understand simple messages written by friends or colleagues, for example “back at 4 o’clock”.
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Given a set of brochures, they will have to answer the questions asked about the brochures by taking note on a computer with the target language.
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SPEAKING
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SPOKEN INTERACTION
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BA to interact in a simple way provided the other person is prepared to repeat or rephrase things at a slower rate of speech and help them formulate what they are trying to say.
BA to ask and answer simple questions in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics.
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- To introduce somebody and use basic greeting and leave-taking expressions.
- To ask and answer simple questions, initiate and respond to simple statements in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics.
- To make themselves understood in a simple way but being dependent on their partner to repeat more slowly and rephrase what they say and to help them to say what they want.
- To make simple purchases where pointing or other gestures can support what they say.
- To handle numbers, quantities, cost and time.
- To ask people for things and give people things.
- To ask people questions about where they live, people they know, things they have, etc. and answer such questions addressed to them provided they are articulated slowly and clearly.
- To indicate time by such phrases as “next week”, “last Friday”, “in November”, “three o clock”.
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They will have to answer very simple personal questions as in a job interview in front of a panel.
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SPOKEN PRODUCTION
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BA to use simple phrases and sentences to describe where they live and people they know.
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- To give personal information (address, telephone number, nationality, age, family, and hobbies).
- To describe where they live.
- To say that they don’t understand.
- To ask somebody very simply to repeat what they said.
- To ask somebody very simply to speak more slowly.
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They will have to answer very simple personal questions as in a job interview in front of a panel.
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WRITING
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BA to write a short, simple note.
BA to fill in forms with personal details, for example entering their name, nationality and address on a hotel registration form.
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- To fill in a questionnaire with their personal details (job, age, address, hobbies).
- To write a note to tell somebody where they are or where they are to meet.
- To write sentences and simple phrases about themselves, for example where they live and what they do.
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They will have to fill in their own Europass CV in the target language.
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