7 - Adequate Competence in Intermediate Oral Communication

General description:

Learner can communicate orally in unpredictable contexts and can function independently in some familiar situations.
Follows simple formal and informal conversations on practical, social and work topics with some unfamiliar vocabulary at a slow to normal rate of speech.
Participates in conversations dealing with common daily needs and with concrete information on a familiar topic.
Understands and uses everyday vocabulary and a range of common idioms.
Understands and asks open ended questions in present, past and future tenses (simple, continuous and perfect aspect). May avoid topics (gaps in vocabulary).
Requires and asks for repetitions and re-wording, clarifies meaning.
A variety of longer, compound and complex sentences appear. Linguistic/structural errors are frequent but rarely impede communication. Discourse is of moderate length, with complex and detailed information content needed for analysis, comparison and some decision-making.
When learner uses the phone on unfamiliar matters, clarifying unknown details may present communication problems.