Anexxe IV. KET language specifications

ANEXXE IV. KET LANGUAGE SPECIFICATIONS.

Language purposes

Carrying out certain transactions: making arrangements Making purchases ordering food and drink Giving and obtaining factual information: personal non - personal (places, times, etc) Establishing and maintaining social and professional contacts: meeting people extending and receiving invitations proposing / arranging a course of action exchanging information, views, feelings and wishes.

Language functions

There are six broad categories of language functions (what people do by means of language): Imparting and seeking factual information Expressing and finding out attitudes Getting things done Socializing Structuring discourse Communication repair

Inventory of functions, notions and communicative tasks

The realizations of these functions, notions and communicative tasks will be in the simplest possible ways. InvFN&CT1 Greeting people and responding to greetings (in person and of the phone) InvFN&CT2 Introducing oneself and other people

InvFN&CT3

Asking for giving personal details: (full) name, age, address, names of relatives and friends, etc. InvFN&CT4 Understanding and completing forms giving personal details InvFN&CT5 Describing education InvFN&CT6 Describing people (personal appearance, qualities) InvFN&CT7 Asking and answering questions about personal possessions InvFN&CT8 Asking for repetition and clarification InvFN&CT9 Re-stating what has been said InvFN&CT10 Checking on meaning and intention InvFN&CT11 Helping others to express their ideas

InvFN&CT12 Interrupting a conversation InvFN&CT13 Asking for and giving the spelling and meaning of words InvFN&CT14 Counting and using numbers InvFN&CT15 Asking and telling people the time, day and/or date InvFN&CT16 Asking for and giving information about routines and habits InvFN&CT17 Understanding and giving information about everyday activities InvFN&CT18 Talking about what people are doing at the moment

InvFN&CT19 Talking about past events and stated in the past, recent activities and completed actions

InvFN&CT20 Understanding and producing simple narratives InvFN&CT21 Reporting what people say InvFN&CT22 Talking about future situations InvFN&CT23 Talking about future plans or intentions. InvFN&CT24 Making predictions

InvFN&CT25 Identifying and describing accommodation (houses, flats, rooms, furniture, etc.) InvFN&CT26 Buying things (costs and amounts) InvFN&CT27 talking about food and ordering meals InvFN&CT28 talking about the weather InvFN&CT29 talking about one's health InvFN&CT30 following and giving simple instructions InvFN&CT31 understanding simple signs an notices InvFN&CT32 asking the way and giving directions InvFN&CT33 asking for and giving travel information InvFN&CT34 asking for and giving simple information about places

InvFN&CT35 identifying and describing simple objects (shape, size, weight, color, purpose or use, etc.) InvFN&CT36 making comparisons and expressing degrees of difference InvFN&CT37 expressing purpose, cause and result, and giving reasons InvFN&CT38 making and granting / refusing simple requests InvFN&CT39 making and responding to offers and suggestions InvFN&CT40 expressing and responding to thanks InvFN&CT41 giving and responding to invitations InvFN&CT42 giving advice InvFN&CT43 giving warnings and stating prohibitions InvFN&CT44 asking / telling people to do something InvFN&CT45 expressing obligation and lack of obligation InvFN&CT46 asking and giving / refusing permission to do something

InvFN&CT47 making and responding to apologies and excuses

InvFN&CT48 expressing agreement and disagreement, and contradicting people paying compliments InvFN&CT49 sympathizing

InvFN&CT50 expressing preferences, likes and dislikes (especially about hobbies and leisure activities) InvFN&CT51 talking about feelings InvFN&CT52 expressing opinions and making choices InvFN&CT53 expressing needs and wants InvFN&CT54 expressing (in)ability in the present and in the past InvFN&CT55 talking about (im)probability and (im)possibility InvFN&CT56 expressing degrees of certainty and doubt

Inventory of grammatical areas Verbs

Gr1 regular and irregular forms

Modals

Gr2 can (ability; requests; permission) Gr3 could (ability; polite requests) Gr4 would (polite requests) Gr5 will (future) Gr6 shall (suggestion; offer) Gr7 should (advice) Gr8 may (possibility) Gr9 have (got) to (obligation) Gr10 must (obligation) Gr11 need (necessity) Gr12 needn't (lack of necessity)

Tenses

Gr13 Gr14

Gr15 Present perfect simple: recent past with just, indefinite past with yet, already, never, ever; unfinished past with for and since

Gr16

Gr17 Past continuous: parallel past actions, continuous actions interrupted by the past simple tense

Gr18 Future with going to Gr19 Present simple: states, habits, systems and processes and with future meaning (and verbs not used in the continuous form) Present continuous: present actions and future meaning

Past simple: past events

Future with will and shall: offers, promises, predictions, etc.

Verb forms

Gr20 Affirmative, interrogative, negative Gr21 Imperatives Gr22 Infinitives (with and without to) after verbs and adjectives Gr23 Gerunds (-ing form) after verbs and prepositions Gr24 Gerunds as subjects and objects Gr25 Passive forms: present and past simple Gr26 Short questions (Can you?) and answers (No, he doesn't)

Clause types

Gr27 Main clause: Carlos is Spanish Gr28 Co-ordinate clause: Carlos is Spanish and his wife is English Gr29 Subordinate clause following sure, certain: I'm sure (that) she's a doctor. Gr30 Subordinate clause following know, think, believe, hope: I hope you're well Gr31 Subordinate clause following say, tell: She says (that) she's his sister. Gr32 Subordinate clause following if, when, where, because:

Interrogatives

Gr33 What; What (+noun) Gr34 Where; When Gr35 Who; Whose; Which Gr36 How, How much; How many; How often; How long; etc. Gr37 Why Gr38 (including the interrogative forms of all tenses and modals listed)

Nouns

Gr39 Singular and plural (regular an irregular forms) Gr40 Countable and uncountable nouns with some and any Gr41 Abstract nouns

Gr42 Compound nouns Gr43 Noun phrases Gr44 Genitive: 's & s'

Gr45 Double genitive: a friend of theirs

Pronouns

Gr46 Personal (subject, object, possessive) Gr47 Impersonal: it, there Gr48 Demonstrative: this, that, these, those Gr49 Quantitative: one, something, everybody, etc. Gr50 Indefinite: some, any, something, one, etc. Gr51 Relative: who, which, that

Determiners

Gr52 a + countable nouns

Gr53 the + countable / uncountable nouns

Adjectives

Gr54 Color, size, shape, quality, nationality Gr55 Predicative and attributive

Gr56 Cardinal and ordinal numbers

Gr57 Possessive: my, your, his, her, etc. Gr58 Demonstrative: this, that, these, those Gr59 Quantitative: some, any, many, much, a few, a lot of, all, other, every, etc. Gr60 Comparative and superlative forms (regular and irregular) Gr61 Order of adjectives Gr62 Participles as adjectives

Adverbs

Gr63 Regular and irregular forms Gr64 Manner: quickly, carefully, etc. Gr65 Frequency: often, never, twice a day, etc. Gr66 Definite time: now, last week, etc. Gr67 Indefinite time: already, just, yet, etc. Gr68 Degree: very, too, rather, etc. Gr69 Place: here, there, etc. Gr70 Direction: left, right, etc. Gr71 Sequence: first, next, etc. Gr72 Pre-verbal, post-verbal and end-position adverbs Gr73 Comparative and superlative forms (regular and irregular)

Prepositions

Gr74 Location: to, on, inside, next to, at(home), etc. Gr75 Time: at, on, in, during, etc. Gr76 Direction: to, into, out of, from, etc. Gr77 Instrument: by, with Gr78 Miscellaneous: like, about, etc. Gr79 Prepositional phrases: at the end of, in front of, etc. Gr80 Prepositions preceding nouns and adjectives. By car, for sale, on holiday, etc.

Connectives

Gr81 and, but, or Gr82 when, where, because, if

Topics

T1 Clothes

T2 Daily life T3 Entertainment and media

T4 Food and drink

T1 Health, medicine and exercise T2 Hobbies and leisure

T3 House and home

T4 Language T1 People T2 Personal feelings, opinions and experiences T3 Personal identification

T4 Places and buildings T1 School and study T2 Shopping T3 Social interaction

T4 Sport T1 The natural world

T2 Transport T3 Travel and holidays T4 Weather

Due to extension, we do not include lexis here.