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Master List of Topics (Progression Map)

Master List

✪ Greet others: Social Exchanges
✪ Introduce yourself: Pronouns
✪ Numbers - count: Numbers
✪ Numbers - Simple math: Numbers
✪ Preposition - location: Prepositions
✪ Direction: Directions of the Wind
✪ Time - Weekdays - Months:Days of the Week / Months
✪ Seasons: Seasons
✪ Feelings: Feelings
✪ Colors: Colors
✪ Present a poem
✪ Doe a talk (topic)
✪ Explain
✪ Tell a story
✪ Ask questions about ...
✪ Describe your daily routine
✪ Explain basic needs
✪ Talk about past events
✪ Describe future plans
✪ compare and contrast objects and ideas
✪ talk about current news
✪ describe a location
✪ Give directions (From A to B)
✪ Test
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— Intermediate Ability
  • Speak with ease about daily activities
  • Detail events in any tense
  • Compare and contrast points of view
  • Detailed instructions to do something or to get somewhere

— Advanced Ability

  • Discuss views and opinions about issues with substantiation
  • Discuss world affairs and societal issues
  • Engage unfamiliar topics
  • Demonstrate a depth of cultural awareness, including cultural trivia and contextual understanding

— Master Ability

  • Expertly convince, argue, and explain viewpoints
  • Use the formal register with ease in diverse contexts
  • Customize the language to the generational level and social context

 

— Note: When you take on a complex and/or controversial topic:
  • Excellence means stating and clarifying the problem or issue
  • give context to why the problem exists or developed
  • offer well-motivated solutions
  • supported by facts and sound justification.

— The superior speaker will:
  • not start by revealing a personal view.
  • but firstly clarify the problem
  • present alternatives
  • explain the merits of each option without bias
  • present each option in its own right as a possible ideal option
  • showing insight and understanding of the diverse perspectives
  • then only do a personal assessment and preference
  • showing the advantages of each other option and the context for merit options also on the table, of why one option is preferred.
  • It is also reasonable to credit other options for their merits.