Grade 6

B1.2 CEFR

Examination format

Total examination time: 10 minutes

The examination consists of two assessed phases:

Discussion of a topic prepared by the candidate (up to 5 minutes)

Conversation on two subject areas selected by the examiner (up to 5 minutes).

Candidate performance

In addition to the items listed for the previous grades, the candidate is expected to demonstrate the

following communicative skills and meet the language requirements listed below during the examination.

Communicative skills In the Topic phase

Show understanding of the examiner by responding appropriately to questions

Give information about the prepared topic in a series of sustained turns about the six discussion points on the Topic form

Make the sequence of events clear by referring back to previous events and forward to forthcoming events Answer

questions on the prepared topic, and participate in informal discussion of the topic,responding to the examiner’s requests

for more information, facts or details  ask the examiner at least one question about the topic area.ake the opportunity

provided to include samples of the language functions and language items  listed opposite, where appropriate

In the Conversation phaseShow understanding of the examiner by responding appropriately to questions  Provide

information and offer opinions where appropriate

Start to play a limited part in initiating and maintaining the conversation

Ask the examiner at least two questions about the subject areas

Grade 6

Language requirements

Language functions

Expressing and requesting opinions and impressions

Expressing intention and purpose

Expressing obligation and necessity

Expressing certainty and uncertainty

Describing past actions over a period of time

Grammar

Zero and first conditionals, using if and when

Present continuous tense for future use

Past continuous tense

Modals connected to the functions listed above, e.g. must, need to, might, don’t have to

Infinitive of purpose

Lexis

Vocabulary specific to the topic area

Vocabulary specific to the subject areas

Further expressions relating to future time, e.g. the day after tomorrow, in a year’s time,

in … years’ time

Common phrasal verbs

Phrases and expressions relating to the language functions listed above

Phonology

The correct pronunciation of vocabulary specific to the topic and subject areas

Sentence stress to clarify meaning

Basic intonation and features of connected speech at sentence level

Intonation patterns of more complex question forms

Avoidance of speech patterns of recitation

Subject areas for the Conversation phase

Two subject areas will be selected by the examiner from the list below.

Travel

Money

Fashion

Rules and regulations

Health and fitness

Learning a foreign language

Please note Grade 6 candidates should not select their topic from the list of subject areas above

(see guidance notes on page 21).

Grade 6 communicative skills and language requirements have been mapped to B1.2 in the CEFR.