8 - Fluent Competence in Intermediate Oral Communication

General description:

Learner can communicate orally in some unpredictable contexts and can function independently in most familiar situations. Follows formal and informal conversations on most practical, social and work topics with some unfamiliar vocabulary at a slow to normal rate of speech. Can comprehend and synthesize abstract ideas on a familiar topic.
Able to determine mood, attitudes, feelings.
Clarifies meaning by re-wording, rephrasing.
Understands and uses sufficient vocabulary, idioms and colloquial expressions to follow and relate stories of general popular interest.
Uses a variety of structures. Accuracy may still be limited but linguistic form errors do not or rarely impede communication.
In social interaction functions, learner chooses expressions more appropriately to formality level of the situation.
Discourse is fluent, of moderate to extended length, with complex and detailed information content needed for analysis, comparison and decision-making.
Uses the phone on familiar and unfamiliar matters.