VC2E5LY01

use interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to personal experience or to a text, and present and justify an opinion or idea

• participating in pair, group, class and school speaking and listening situations, including informal conversations, discussions and presentations
• asking specific questions to clarify a speaker’s meaning, making constructive comments that keep a conversation moving, reviewing ideas expressed and conveying tentative conclusions
• using strategies for discussion, such as speaking clearly, pausing, asking questions and linking students’ responses to the contributions of others
• choosing vocabulary and sentence structures for particular purposes, including formal and informal contexts, to report and explain new concepts and topics, to offer an opinion and to persuade others