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The First Year Baccalaureate Syllabus
By the end of the first year Baccalaureate course, the students are expected to perform the following:
Speaking
Engage in conversations effectively, using suitable conversation management skills and appropriate
communication strategies
Express personal feelings and emotions (anger, happiness, doubt etc…)
Respond to direct questions, instructions, suggestions, offers, visual input etc…
Respond to factual, referential and inferential questions
Make predictions about a reading or listening material.
Make a prepared oral presentation about a topic of general and/or personal interest
React to classmates’ talks and/or presentations
Report other people’s talks (or conversations) effectively.
Listening
Identify the topic of an aural text
Identify the main ideas
Distinguish the main idea from supporting details
Respond to referential questions based on an aural text
Respond to inferential questions based on an aural text
Distinguish implicit information from explicit information
Deduce the meaning of words from the context of an aural text
Transfer information to complete forms, tables, graphs etc…
Reading
Make predictions about a reading text using the title, captions, pictures, first or last sentence of a
paragraph etc…
Identify the main idea of paragraphs or the whole text
Deduce the meaning of unfamiliar words
Scan for specific information
Skim for gist or general impression
Make inferences: informational, explanatory, prepositional and pragmatic
Recognize referents
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