VU22632 - Participate in a range of straightforward interactions for employment

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills and knowledge:

• vocabulary which is sufficiently broad to encompass straightforward employment-related needs;
• a range of verb tenses and aspects;
• question forms, such as to get others to clarify misunderstandings and ambiguous points;
• a range of modal forms, such as including negative form of need to and have to;
• a range of phrasal verbs;
• a variety of adjectives, adverbs and adverbial phrases;
• a range of conversation discourse markers, conjunctions;
• a range of modifying words and phrases to explain and qualify ideas and express opinions and attitudes;
• how tone, stress and intonation modify meaning;
• generally intelligible pronunciation with effective use of stress and intonation although speaking may be characterised by hesitations and circumlocution;
• register appropriate to the context;
• a limited range of colloquial and idiomatic expressions;
• recognition of some inferred meaning, such as logical, contextual, paralinguistic, for example use of voice for effect (intonation and emphasis), facial expressions;
• detect and give opinions and attitudes in oral texts, and;
• verbal communication includes meanings which are not always explicit.