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Canadian Language Benchmark 4
Speaking: Basic Level
Global Performance Descriptor
- Learner can take part in short routine conversations about needs
and familiar topics of personal relevance with supportive listeners.
- Can communicate basic needs and personal experience.
- Can ask and respond to simple familiar questions.
- Can describe a situation, tell a simple story, describe the process
of obtaining essential goods (e.g., purchasing, renting) or services
(e.g., medical). Uses a variety of short sentences.
- Demonstrates control of basic grammar (basic structures and tenses).
- Uses correct past tense with many common verbs.
- Demonstrates adequate vocabulary for routine everyday communication.
- Clear evidence of connected discourse (and, but, first, next, then,
because).
- Pronunciation difficulties may impede communication.
- Needs only a little assistance.
- Can use the phone only for very short, simple, predictable exchanges,
communication without visual support is very difficult for him or her.
Performance Conditions
- Interaction is face to face, with one person at a time or in a familiar
supportive group.
- Interaction on the phone is rare and brief.
- Speech rate is slow to normal.
- Verbal communication is strongly supported by gestures and other
visual clues.
- Instructions and directions have only three to four steps and are
sometimes supported with hand gestures.
- Learner’s speech is guided by specific questions from the interlocutor
if needed.
- Interaction is empathetic and supportive.
- Topics are about common everyday matters.
Competency Outcomes and Standards
I. Social Interaction |
What the person can do
Open, close and respond to short casual small talk.
Introduce two persons.
Take leave appropriately.
Answer the phone.
Leave a short simple message. |
Examples of tasks and tests
Nice to see you. How are you doing? Nice day. Have a good day.
See you soon. This is Ela, my sister. Sorry, you’ve got the
wrong number. Vi is not home. Can you call later?
Leave a simple voice mail message: This is … Please call me back.
My number is … Thank you. |
Performance Indicators
Opens, develops and closes short small-talk conversation, as appropriate
to the situation (casually or more formally).
Introduces a person to one or two individuals.
Handles basic phone situations and standard replies. |
II. Instructions |
What the person can do
Give sets of simple everyday instructions and directions. |
Examples of tasks and texts
Tell someone where to find something or someone; give directions how
to get there.
Give instructions on how to set an alarm clock, use a tape recorder
and play a video. |
Performance Indicators
Gives simple directions.
Listener can follow the directions. |
III. Suasion (getting things done) |
What the person can do
Request, accept or reject goods or services, assistance or offer in
a service or sales situation.
Respond to warnings. |
Examples of tasks and texts
Obtain a service or purchase; return or exchange goods in a transaction.
Respond to warnings on simple by-law violations (e.g., You can’t
park here. Please remove your car. Smoking is not allowed.). |
Performance Indicators
Responds to openings, routine questions and closings in a service
or sales transaction discourse.
Provides required information/description of item. Asks relevant questions
about price, availability, location, appearance, function.
Responds to warnings. |
IV. Information |
What the person can do
Relate a story about an everyday activity.
Express preference, satisfaction/dissatisfaction. |
Examples of tasks and texts
Yes, this is right. It is okay. That’s fine. No, I’m
sorry, this is not right. I don’t like this; I prefer that.
Tell a story about obtaining goods or services (e.g., about registering
a child in a daycare or going to the doctor). |
Performance Indicators
Relates the story about an everyday activity in a coherent narrative
(connected discourse).
Listener can follow the story.
Expresses need, preference, satisfaction/dissatisfaction. |
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