Communicative Abilities for the pre Al and Al Level According to CEFR. Look up the descriptors for the Mindmap in the document below.
Examples of A1 Descriptors for Communicative Abilities
Sociolinguistic (A1)
Can establish basic social contact by using the simplest everyday polite forms of: greetings and farewells; introductions; saying please, thank you, sorry etc.
Examples
Can introduce myself and other people.
I can greet and respond to a greeting.
I can apologise. I can say thank you.
I can say please and thank you.
I can say hello and goodbye to my teachers and classmates.
I can ask for permission (to leave the classroom, to go to the toilet, to speak in the classroom).
I can make and reply to simple requests.
Pragmatic
Coherence and cohesion (A1)
Can link words or groups of words with very basic linear connectors like ‘and’ or ‘then’.
Propositional Precision
Can communicate very basic information about personal details in a simple way. (Pre-A1)
Can communicate basic information about personal details and needs of a concrete type in a simple way. (A1)
Spoken Fluency
Can manage very short, isolated, rehearsed utterances using gesture and signalled requests for help when necessary. (Pre-A1)
Can manage very short, isolated, mainly pre-packaged utterances, with much pausing to search for expressions, to articulate less familiar words, and to repair communication. (A1)
Linguistic (A1)
Can use isolated words and basic expressions in order to give simple information about him/herself. (Pre-A1)
Has a very basic range of simple expressions about personal details and needs of a concrete type. (A1)
Vocabulary (A1)
Has a basic vocabulary repertoire of words and phrases related to particular concrete situations. (A1)
Examples
I can understand some short sentences with names of people, animals, objects, plants and flowers, parts of the body, food, clothes, days of the week, months of the year, seasons of the year, means of transport, holidays and festivities, jobs.
I can understand the days of the week.
I can recognize the names of other countries in the world.
I can understand the names of some animals and plants.
Grammatical Accuracy
Can employ very simple principles of word order in short statements. (Pre A1)
Shows only limited control of a few simple grammatical structures and sentence patterns in a learnt repertoire. (A1)
Phonological Control (A1)
Pronunciation of a very limited repertoire of learnt words and phrases can be understood with some effort by interlocutors used to dealing with speakers of the language group concerned. Can reproduce correctly a limited range of sounds as well as the stress on simple, familiar words and phrases. (A1)
Sound Articulation (A1)
Can reproduce sounds in the target language if carefully guided. (A1)
Prosodic Features (A1)
Can use the prosodic features of a limited repertoire of simple words and phrases intelligibly, in spite of a very strong influence on stress, rhythm, and/or intonation from other language(s) he/she speaks; his/her interlocutor needs to be collaborative.
Orthographic Control
Can copy familiar words and short phrases e.g. simple signs or instructions, names of everyday objects, names of shops and set phrases used regularly. (A1)
Examples
I can copy simple words and short sentences.
I can copy words and short sentences.
I can copy words from the board.
I can copy words for colours and shapes from the board.
I can copy words about transport from the board.
I can copy sentences about seasons and festivals from the board.
Teach following role plays to another group. After that discuss: What communicative abilities do these role plays target? What kind of reading, writing, speaking (interaction), and listening skills do they target?
To teach the following role plays do the following procedure:
1) Act out the demonstration and confirm the meaning.
2) Create your own, original one, act it out, and confirm the meaning.
3) Practice the key structures: (e.g. I’m from …..)
4) Have your students make their own role plays and act them out. To do a role play, students have to pretend to be someone else.
5) Discuss the types of CEFR abilities and skills this is targetting.
A. Where are you from?
B. What’s your favorite TV show?
C. Where were you yesterday?
D. What will you go?
E. Where did you buy it?
F. What time do you usually start?
G. Where do you live?
H. Where were you?
I. Have you seen a movie lately?
Reflection
As a reflection write the following:
What communicative skills did the role play you try target?
What communicative skills are you strong at and what communicative skills are you weak at?
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Asahi Konno
4 years ago
I enjoyed quiz about CEFR.
岩渕李奈
4 years ago
I can’t speak English fluently because I speak English a little a week. I think if I want to speak English fluently, I have to speak many times.I week at vocabulary.
Name of role play
B
Student number
E0220005
Last edited 4 years ago by 岩渕李奈
大槻建空
4 years ago
I think that a skill to talk about fluently is necessary.
Name of role play
where are you from?
Student number
e0120018
watabe jun
4 years ago
Kahoon Quiz is so difficult so my team can only get 1 points, however I reconfirm CEFR therefore I can recheck last week contents.
I role play Practice C . I understand my english vocabulary shortage. I feel need to study vocabulary from now on.
Student number
e0120095
Haruna Kamon
4 years ago
I enjoyed playing English games with my partner.
Name of role play
G. Where do you live?
Student number
E0120027
Einosuke Chida
4 years ago
I think communicative competence need vocabulary. Because if you don’t know many words, you can’t continue the conversation.
Name of role play
Where are you from ?
Student number
e0120061
Takami Yamada
4 years ago
1. sociolinguistic competence
2.strong .orthographic control
weak . grammatical accuracy
Name of role play
Where are you from?Where were you yesterday?
Student number
e0120092
Shion Tsukazawa
4 years ago
The game was so interesting.
I learnd new words, so I practice again and again.
Name of role play
G.Where do you live?
Student number
E0120064
大槻建空
4 years ago
The technique of the communication to talk about happily is pride, but is weak in a technique to take the communication fluently.
Name of role play
what’s your favorite TV show
Student number
e0120018
Ryugo Sasaki
4 years ago
I was able to communicate with my partner today .I try to do my best so that I can speak fluently.
Name of role play
Where are you from?
Student number
E0320015
suzuki riku
4 years ago
1i try where i am from tiba prefecture
2sociolinguistics
Name of role play
Where were you yesterday
Student number
e0120053
Terui Kazutaka
4 years ago
I think we need sound articulation and vocabulary. My strong point is coherence. But my weak point is spoken fluency .
Name of role play
Have you seen a movie lately?
Endo Yuma
4 years ago
1.I targeted grammatical accuracy skill.
2.Strong skill is vocabulary. Weak skill is grammatical accuracy.
Name of role play
H(Where were you?)
Student number
E0320007
mikami jota
4 years ago
TO try to tell thing about me is difficult.because I need pragmatic.I think that my week point is vocabulary. But . I think my strong point is speaking
f luency.
Name of role play
where are you from?
Student number
e0120083
Kosuke Ito
4 years ago
1. I answered my country’s characteristics.
2. I can communicate with a lot of people but it’s difficult for me to talk about tomato because I don’t like tomato.
Name of role play
Where are you from?
Student number
e0120007
yuto hoshimiya
4 years ago
1.I empathized what I wanted to convey.
2.The strength of my language ability is to be honest with what I think. The weakness of my language ability is to think deeply before speaking.
Name of role play
Where are you from?
Student number
E0120079
Sato Takamasa
4 years ago
1.I was able to convey my appeal point.
2.What can be conveyed in easy-to-understand words and I have little vocabulary.
Name of role play
Where are you from
Student number
e0120048
Iwama Non
4 years ago
1.To do this role play .I had to use coherence because only I know the future, I need consistency to get the other person to understand.
2.I’m strong at propositional precision.
Name of role play
What will you go?
Student number
E0120009
Ryota Natori
4 years ago
1.I targeted grammatical accuracy.
2.My strong skill is prosodic features and my weak shlll is vocabulary and grammatical accuracy.
Name of role play
Where were you
Student number
E0120070
Kano Abe
4 years ago
To do this role play I had to use fluency and phenological control because the grammary is very easy, so it is easy to care the pronounciation and the fluency.
Name of role play
Where are you from?
Student number
e0120002
Mina Kumagai
4 years ago
1, I tried “Where are you from?”
I think consistent, cohesive, vocabulary, and prosodic features are important in this part.
For example, when introduce my hometown in the original, it is difficult without some kind of vocabulary. Also, It is not good to be too original, and inconsistent.
2, I am good at pronounce words that I know. However, there are many words that I don’t know. In other words, vocabulary ability is weak for me. I will do my best to increase my vocabulary ability. I will using the word engine.
Name of role play
Where are you from?
Student number
E0120036
Aoi Sasaki
4 years ago
Reflection
To do this roll play I had to use propositional precision and spoken fluency, because I got a unique question and I had to make a unique reply. I found it difficult but enjoyable. I think I am strong at spoken fluency weak at cohesion.
I enjoyed all the tasks today. I had a great time.
Name of role play
D Where will you go?
Student number
e0120043
阿部 黎梨
4 years ago
1.I think spontaneity play a role and it’s necessary the best.
2.strong:fluently
weak:grammatical accuracy
Name of role play
where were you yesterday？
Student number
E0120004
Takamagi Kana
4 years ago
1.Spoken fluency
I need to be able to tell you what I’m from.
2.I’m strong at Sound articulation and weak at Grammatical accuracy.
Name of role play
Where are you from?
Student number
0120059
Ryota Yatsuda
4 years ago
I played the role Sociollnguistic. My strong skill is sound articulation and my weak skill is spoken fluency. That’s all.
Name of role play
Where are you from? A
Student number
E0120091
Shuhei Sato
4 years ago
1. I tried to speak fluently and clearly to play the role.
2. I strong at coherence and I weak at grammatical accuracy.
Name of role play
Where are you from?
Student number
E0120047
Asahi Konno
4 years ago
The grammatical accuracy skill is important for me. I want to try to improve this.
Rinka Iwakami
4 years ago
1. The communicative skills I tried target are fluency and practicality. It is a conversation that we use a lot so I think it is important to speak more fluently.
2. My strong skill is propositional accuracy because I am a little good at speaking my opinion in English. However vocabulary and grammatical accuracy is my weak skills. I want to study hard to increase my vocabulary and use the correct grammar.
Name of role play
What’s your favorite TV show?
Student number
E0420001
Koizumi Kyoko
4 years ago
1、I think Grammatical accuracy is need for role play. Because, it’s important to speak fluently.
2, my strong point is nothing. I am not good at English. So, I’ll try improve vocabulary(my weak point)
Name of role play
E. Where did you buy it?
Student number
E0120038
Shunya Ota
4 years ago
1. My try target are fluency and
propositional precision.
2. I think my strong skill is coherence and
cohesion, and my weak skills are
spontaneous and vocabulary.
I felt vocabulary was especially important to communicate. The reason why I think so is because vocabulary is the basis of communication skills. I want to improve my vocabulary.
Name of role play
Where are you from?
Student number
E0120016
木村颯太
4 years ago
１ I think that such role-playing is effective in improving sociolinguistic competence.
２ I think I’m strong at spontaneity. I can have a minimal conversation at any time.But,I’m weak at grammatical accuracy. I’m good at conversation, but I’m not good at paper test questions.
Student number
E0120031
Yuka Watanabe
4 years ago
To do that role play, especially 2 skills are necessary.
First is pragmatic. English is a language so if we cannot use it daily, we cannot communicate with other people.
Second is spoken fluency. If we can speak the language smoothly, it’s more fun to communicate with other people. So spoken fluency is necessary to enjoy talking with other people.
Name of role play
E Where did you buy it?
Student number
E0120094
中野颯人
4 years ago
1. My targets were repertoire, pragmatic, and spontaneity.
2. I’m strong at spontaneity and easily, but weak at fluency, grammatical accuracy, and phonological control. I have a lot of weak points!!
Name of role play
G. Where do you live?
Student number
E0120068
Uchida Mao
4 years ago
I think that vocabulary is necessary. The reason is that I feel I can not make conversation without vocabulary when I practiced a role play.
Name of role play
C
Student number
E0120011
Munakata Izumi
4 years ago
It is difficult for me to think soon about what word I have to use. And my vocabulary is week point .Iwant to learn business word.
Name of role play
A
Student number
E0120086
Yasuha Mukai
4 years ago
To do this role play I had to use Phonological Control. The reason is that it is necessary to communicate exactly.
I’m strong at gesturing because I want to tell a story exactly.
I’m weak at speaking fast because I’m very nervous in front of people.
Name of role play
Where are you from?
Student number
E0120085
Dendo Mai
4 years ago
1) I think Grammatical accuracy, spoken fluency, coherence and cohesion and vocabulary are important in this part because I have to talk about amount of money and a shop I bought.
2) My strong communicative skill is coherence and cohesion. My weak communicative skill is vocabulary because I can’t speak in English very well.
Name of role play
Where did you buy it?
Student number
E0120065
Asahi Takahashi
4 years ago
To do this role play I had to use phonological control and vocabulary, the reason is phonological control and vocabulary are essential to communicate smoothly.
I’m strong at vocabulary because I study English vocabulary every day. I’m weak at grammatical accuracy because it is difficult for me to memorize rule of grammar.
Name of role play
Where are you from?
Student number
E0120054
China Murakami
4 years ago
To do this role play I had to use spoken fluency. The reason is easy to understand. There is another good point that it is easy to hear.
My strength is to try to convey as much as possible. I’m not good at speaking in English, but I try to convey it with gestures and simple English. My weakness is that I can’t speak English smoothly. I want to be able to say one sentence smoothly to the end without getting nervous.
Name of role play
Where are you from?
Student number
E0120089
Haruka Miura
4 years ago
1. To do this roll play, I targeted coherence skill. We rolled on the usually time when work start so I have to ask questions which related to this topic.
2. I strong at coherence skill. I weak at grammatical accuracy skill and spoken fluency.
Name of role play
F. What time do you usually start?
Student number
E0120082
Daiki Chiba
4 years ago
I think not only speaking English fluently but also having confidence is important. It is my strength.
But I have not so many vocabulary still.
It’s my weakness.
Name of role play
Where do you live
Student number
e0120063
Toko Oshita
4 years ago
I tried accuracy and orthografic control, but I think I can be more conscious of grammar, so I want to do my best next time.
My strong point is sound articulation, my weak points are vocabulary and spoken fluently.
Name of role play
Where were you yesterday? Where are you from?
Student number
E0120015
miyu kameya
4 years ago
1.overall phonological control
2.weak…grammatical accuracy
strong…vocabulary
Name of role play
C
Student number
e0120026
Aika Omori
4 years ago
My try target is spoken fluency. My strong skill is to understand what the other person wants to say. My weak skill is to speak fluently.
Name of role play
What's your favorite TV show?
Student number
E0120019
Makoto ogasawara
4 years ago
1 Communicative skills of the role play my try target are fluency and practicality.
2 I can speak simple words I know, but I’m not good at speaking grammar accurately and fluently.
Name of role play
Where are you from
Student number
e0120020
Kana Kurayama
4 years ago
To do this role play, I tried Spoken Fluency, but it was difficult for me. It is my weak point. I want to speak fluency more than now.
Name of role play
Where are you from?
Student number
E0120037
Ayane Kon
4 years ago
1.I targeted grammatical accuracy.
2. My strength is trying to tell the other person using the words I know. The weakness of my language ability is to think deeply before speaking.
Name of role play
Where are you from?
Student number
E0220009
Megumi Takinosawa
4 years ago
I tried to speak actively in class, and I think I weak at speaking fluency, because I’m afraid of speaking, however I want to speak English a lot, so I’d like to speak without fear next class.
Name of role play
where are you from?
Student number
e0420007
Manae Suzuki
4 years ago
1. it is coherence and cohesion skill.
2. I think I’m strong at vocabulary skill and I’m weak at grammatical accuracy and sound articulation.
Name of role play
Where are you from?
Student number
E0220015
Mio Tamura
4 years ago
I was not confident in vocabulary and fluency, so I enjoyed learning a lot of new words by CEFER quiz and pair / group work.
I want to fully acquire what I learned this class, so will do role play more and more.
I enjoyed quiz about CEFR.
I can’t speak English fluently because I speak English a little a week. I think if I want to speak English fluently, I have to speak many times.I week at vocabulary.
I think that a skill to talk about fluently is necessary.
Kahoon Quiz is so difficult so my team can only get 1 points, however I reconfirm CEFR therefore I can recheck last week contents.
I role play Practice C . I understand my english vocabulary shortage. I feel need to study vocabulary from now on.
I enjoyed playing English games with my partner.
I think communicative competence need vocabulary. Because if you don’t know many words, you can’t continue the conversation.
1. sociolinguistic competence
2.strong .orthographic control
weak . grammatical accuracy
The game was so interesting.
I learnd new words, so I practice again and again.
The technique of the communication to talk about happily is pride, but is weak in a technique to take the communication fluently.
I was able to communicate with my partner today .I try to do my best so that I can speak fluently.
1i try where i am from tiba prefecture
2sociolinguistics
I think we need sound articulation and vocabulary. My strong point is coherence. But my weak point is spoken fluency .
1.I targeted grammatical accuracy skill.
2.Strong skill is vocabulary. Weak skill is grammatical accuracy.
TO try to tell thing about me is difficult.because I need pragmatic.I think that my week point is vocabulary. But . I think my strong point is speaking
f luency.
1. I answered my country’s characteristics.
2. I can communicate with a lot of people but it’s difficult for me to talk about tomato because I don’t like tomato.
1.I empathized what I wanted to convey.
2.The strength of my language ability is to be honest with what I think. The weakness of my language ability is to think deeply before speaking.
1.I was able to convey my appeal point.
2.What can be conveyed in easy-to-understand words and I have little vocabulary.
1.To do this role play .I had to use coherence because only I know the future, I need consistency to get the other person to understand.
2.I’m strong at propositional precision.
1.I targeted grammatical accuracy.
2.My strong skill is prosodic features and my weak shlll is vocabulary and grammatical accuracy.
To do this role play I had to use fluency and phenological control because the grammary is very easy, so it is easy to care the pronounciation and the fluency.
1, I tried “Where are you from?”
I think consistent, cohesive, vocabulary, and prosodic features are important in this part.
For example, when introduce my hometown in the original, it is difficult without some kind of vocabulary. Also, It is not good to be too original, and inconsistent.
2, I am good at pronounce words that I know. However, there are many words that I don’t know. In other words, vocabulary ability is weak for me. I will do my best to increase my vocabulary ability. I will using the word engine.
Reflection
To do this roll play I had to use propositional precision and spoken fluency, because I got a unique question and I had to make a unique reply. I found it difficult but enjoyable. I think I am strong at spoken fluency weak at cohesion.
I enjoyed all the tasks today. I had a great time.
1.I think spontaneity play a role and it’s necessary the best.
2.strong:fluently
weak:grammatical accuracy
1.Spoken fluency
I need to be able to tell you what I’m from.
2.I’m strong at Sound articulation and weak at Grammatical accuracy.
I played the role Sociollnguistic. My strong skill is sound articulation and my weak skill is spoken fluency. That’s all.
1. I tried to speak fluently and clearly to play the role.
2. I strong at coherence and I weak at grammatical accuracy.
The grammatical accuracy skill is important for me. I want to try to improve this.
1. The communicative skills I tried target are fluency and practicality. It is a conversation that we use a lot so I think it is important to speak more fluently.
2. My strong skill is propositional accuracy because I am a little good at speaking my opinion in English. However vocabulary and grammatical accuracy is my weak skills. I want to study hard to increase my vocabulary and use the correct grammar.
1、I think Grammatical accuracy is need for role play. Because, it’s important to speak fluently.
2, my strong point is nothing. I am not good at English. So, I’ll try improve vocabulary(my weak point)
1. My try target are fluency and
propositional precision.
2. I think my strong skill is coherence and
cohesion, and my weak skills are
spontaneous and vocabulary.
I felt vocabulary was especially important to communicate. The reason why I think so is because vocabulary is the basis of communication skills. I want to improve my vocabulary.
１ I think that such role-playing is effective in improving sociolinguistic competence.
２ I think I’m strong at spontaneity. I can have a minimal conversation at any time.But,I’m weak at grammatical accuracy. I’m good at conversation, but I’m not good at paper test questions.
To do that role play, especially 2 skills are necessary.
First is pragmatic. English is a language so if we cannot use it daily, we cannot communicate with other people.
Second is spoken fluency. If we can speak the language smoothly, it’s more fun to communicate with other people. So spoken fluency is necessary to enjoy talking with other people.
1. My targets were repertoire, pragmatic, and spontaneity.
2. I’m strong at spontaneity and easily, but weak at fluency, grammatical accuracy, and phonological control. I have a lot of weak points!!
I think that vocabulary is necessary. The reason is that I feel I can not make conversation without vocabulary when I practiced a role play.
It is difficult for me to think soon about what word I have to use. And my vocabulary is week point .Iwant to learn business word.
To do this role play I had to use Phonological Control. The reason is that it is necessary to communicate exactly.
I’m strong at gesturing because I want to tell a story exactly.
I’m weak at speaking fast because I’m very nervous in front of people.
1) I think Grammatical accuracy, spoken fluency, coherence and cohesion and vocabulary are important in this part because I have to talk about amount of money and a shop I bought.
2) My strong communicative skill is coherence and cohesion. My weak communicative skill is vocabulary because I can’t speak in English very well.
To do this role play I had to use phonological control and vocabulary, the reason is phonological control and vocabulary are essential to communicate smoothly.
I’m strong at vocabulary because I study English vocabulary every day. I’m weak at grammatical accuracy because it is difficult for me to memorize rule of grammar.
To do this role play I had to use spoken fluency. The reason is easy to understand. There is another good point that it is easy to hear.
My strength is to try to convey as much as possible. I’m not good at speaking in English, but I try to convey it with gestures and simple English. My weakness is that I can’t speak English smoothly. I want to be able to say one sentence smoothly to the end without getting nervous.
1. To do this roll play, I targeted coherence skill. We rolled on the usually time when work start so I have to ask questions which related to this topic.
2. I strong at coherence skill. I weak at grammatical accuracy skill and spoken fluency.
I think not only speaking English fluently but also having confidence is important. It is my strength.
But I have not so many vocabulary still.
It’s my weakness.
I tried accuracy and orthografic control, but I think I can be more conscious of grammar, so I want to do my best next time.
My strong point is sound articulation, my weak points are vocabulary and spoken fluently.
1.overall phonological control
2.weak…grammatical accuracy
strong…vocabulary
My try target is spoken fluency. My strong skill is to understand what the other person wants to say. My weak skill is to speak fluently.
1 Communicative skills of the role play my try target are fluency and practicality.
2 I can speak simple words I know, but I’m not good at speaking grammar accurately and fluently.
To do this role play, I tried Spoken Fluency, but it was difficult for me. It is my weak point. I want to speak fluency more than now.
1.I targeted grammatical accuracy.
2. My strength is trying to tell the other person using the words I know. The weakness of my language ability is to think deeply before speaking.
I tried to speak actively in class, and I think I weak at speaking fluency, because I’m afraid of speaking, however I want to speak English a lot, so I’d like to speak without fear next class.
1. it is coherence and cohesion skill.
2. I think I’m strong at vocabulary skill and I’m weak at grammatical accuracy and sound articulation.
I was not confident in vocabulary and fluency, so I enjoyed learning a lot of new words by CEFER quiz and pair / group work.
I want to fully acquire what I learned this class, so will do role play more and more.