Question | Answer |
CLB 1 (Listening)
Successful students will be able to understand individual greetings, introductions and goodwill expressions. | Listen and respond to a greeting from a neighbour, co-worker or classmate. (Hello. How are you?) |
CLB 1 (Listening)
Successful students will be able to understand very short, simple instructions, commands and requests related to immediate personal needs. | Listen to letters and follow instructions for spelling a word. |
CLB 1 (Listening)
Successful students will be able to understand expressions used to attract attention and to request assistance in situations of immediate personal need. | Listen and respond to expressions
used to attract attention and request assistance. (Excuse me. Hello. Can you help me? Pardon me.) |
CLB 1 (Listening)
Successful students will be able to understand very simple information about highly familiar, concrete topics. | Listen to a medical receptionist’s confirmation of personal information (such as name, address and phone number). |
CLB 2 (Listening)
Successful students will be able to understand greetings, introductions, requests, goodwill expressions and an expanding range of basic courtesy formulas. | Listen and respond to a short greeting that includes a goodwill expression from a neighbour, coworker or classmate. (How’s it going? Great. Good to see you. How's your daughter? Fine, thank you. Talk to you later. Have a good day.) |
CLB 2 (Listening)
Successful students will be able to understand short, simple, common instructions, commands, requests and directions related to immediate personal needs. | Follow instructions, directions and requests from a teacher, receptionist or sales representative. (How do you spell your name? Over there. Sign on the line. Initial here. Go upstairs. Can I see some identification?) |
CLB 2 (Listening)
Successful students will be able to understand expressions used to make and respond to requests and warnings in situations of immediate personal need. | Listen to a teacher’s request or warning during a fire drill (Leave your belongings. Close the door behind you.) and respond accordingly. |
CLB 2 (Listening)
Successful students will be able to understand simple information about familiar, concrete topics. | Listen to a classmate give simple personal details, such as spelling his/her name and giving a phone number and email address. |
CLB 3 (Listening)
Successful students will be able to understand simple social exchanges, including styles of greetings, introductions and leave-taking. | Listen and respond to an informal greeting, simple exchange and leave-taking when meeting a child’s teacher, a new colleague or
a neighbour. |
CLB 3 (Listening)
Successful students will be able to understand instructions and directions related to familiar, everyday situations of immediate personal relevance. | Follow simple instructions from a salesperson in order to locate items in various sections of a store. (The men’s section is upstairs, to the left.) |
CLB 3 (Listening)
Successful students will be able to understand expressions used in familiar everyday situations (such as requests, permission and warnings). | Listen to a teacher giving permission for a student to borrow a book. (Can I borrow that book? Sure. It's really interesting. I hope you like it. Please return it
in 2 weeks.) |
CLB 3 (Listening)
Successful students will be able to understand short, simple, descriptive communication about a person, object, situation, scene, personal experience or daily routine. | Listen to a short, simple announcement at school to inform a classmate, who is absent, of what action to take (e.g. bring food to share, arrange to stay late). |
CLB 4 (Listening)
Successful students will be able to understand short social exchanges containing introductions, casual small talk and leave-taking. | Listen to a friend or co-worker describing plans for the weekend. |
CLB 4 (Listening)
Successful students will be able to understand common, sequentially presented instructions and directions related to familiar, everyday situations of personal relevance. | Follow directions to locate items in a room, on a map or in a diagram. (Can you get me the book? It’s in the middle cabinet, on the top shelf, on the right-hand side.) |
CLB 4 (Listening)
Successful students will be able to understand short communication intended to influence or persuade others in familiar, everyday situations. | Listen to a short, simple commercial about a product or service to get the gist and enough information to decide whether the product is worth purchasing. |
CLB 4 (Listening)
Successful students will be able to understand short descriptive or narrative communication on topics of personal relevance. | Listen to a friend, colleague or classmate’s story about shopping at a particular store to decide whether or not to shop there. |