Prime Time 8. Coursebook plus Semester Self-checks, Schulbuch

Listening • • Can understand recordings in standard dialect likely to be encountered in social, professional or academic life and identify speaker viewpoints and attitudes as well as the information content. (B2) – Unit 2, Unit 9 • • Can follow extended speech […] provided the topic is reasonably familiar, and the direction of the talk is signposted by explicit markers. (B2) – Unit 4 • • Can understand most radio documentaries and most other recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect […]. (B2) – Unit 7 Reading • • Can scan quickly through long and complex texts, locating relevant details. (B2) – Unit 1, Unit 2 • • Can understand articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems […]. (B2) – Unit 5, Unit 9 • • Can obtain information, ideas and opinions from highly specialised sources within his/her field. (B2) – Unit 10 Spoken interaction • • Can express his/her ideas and opinions with precision, present and respond to complex lines of argument convincingly. (B2) – Unit 7, Unit 9 • • Can communicate spontaneously with good grammatical control without much sign of having to restrict what he/she wants to say, adopting a level of formality appropriate to the circumstances. (B2) – Unit 8 • • Can take an active part in informal discussion in familiar contexts, commenting, putting point of view clearly, evaluating alternative proposals and making and responding to hypotheses. (B2) – Unit 10 Spoken production • • Can present clear, detailed descriptions on a wide range of subjects […]. Can explain a viewpoint on a topical issue […]. (B2) – Unit 3 • • Can give clear, detailed descriptions and presentations on a wide range of subjects related to his/her field of interest, expanding and supporting ideas with subsidiary points and relevant examples. (B2) – Unit 6 Writing • • Can express news and views effectively in writing, and relate to those of others. (B2) – Unit 1, Unit 5, Unit 8 • • Can write an essay or report that develops an argument systematically with appropriate highlighting of significant points and relevant supporting detail. (B2) – Unit 2, Unit 6 • • Can write clear, detailed descriptions of real or imaginary events and experiences marking the relationship between ideas in clear connected text, and following established conventions of the genre concerned. (B2) – Unit 3 • • Can write clear, detailed texts on a variety of subjects related to his/her field of interest, synthesising and evaluating information and arguments from a number of sources. (B2) – Unit 4, Unit 10 • • Can synthesise information and arguments from a number of sources. (B2) – Unit 7 CEFR*-Descriptors (Check-out pages) * CEFR = Common European Framework of Reference for Languages GERS = Gemeinsamer Europäischer Referenzrahmen für Sprachen © http://www.coe.int/T/DG4/Portfolio/documents/All%20scales%20CEFR.DOC 206  Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv