What you can understand people say at Distinguished level

Here are some things you can understand people say at Distinguished level:

• Fine points of the issues debated at meetings of local government agencies, such as city councils or town councils
• Plots of dramatic presentations and the artistic merits of the script and the presentation
• Dialogues in films, including slang
• Editorials on the radio or television
• Different points of view expressed at symposia
• Points of view in academic debates
• Public policy statements
• Literary readings
• Most jokes and puns
• General conversations you overhear between mother-tongue speakers

• Generic module: What you can understand people say at Distinguishe...
• In overview module: What you can understand people say at different pr...
• In overview module: What you can do at different proficiency levels
• In overview module: Information to help you check your progress
• In modular book: Managing Your Language Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 17 September 1998

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