ELT (CAE) LISTENING COMPREHENSION AND SPEAKING SYLLABUS - 2012
Teacher: Carracedo, Paula Daniela
Year: 2012
General Objectives:
To enable students to:
- Get familiarized with the components and marking criteria of the CAE Listening
Comprehension and Speaking exams.
- Develop and acquire the tools to develop listening comprehension and speaking skills
and strategies.
- Handle the grammar rules and the range of vocabulary that correspond to this level.
- Identify and interpret specific information.
- Be ready to produce and express ideas and provide explanations giving details and
accurate information.
- Understand the characteristics of the different genres.
- Comply with the requirements of the CAE Listening Comprehension and Speaking
papers.
UNIT 1
9. You live and you learn
10. I have a dream
UNIT 2
11. Read all about it
12. In a nutshell
13. Leaf through a leaflet
UNIT 3
14. Views from the platform
15. If you want to know what I think...
16. Raving and Panning
UNIT 4
17. Do it for my sake
18. May I introduce...?
UNIT 5
19. Feeding the mind
20. Answers on a postcard
UNIT 6
21. Travel broadens the mind
22. Under the weather
UNIT 7
23. I'm afraid I really must insist
24. News and views
UNIT 8
25. Powers of observation
26. Natural wonders
UNIT 9
27. The open window
28. Weighing up the pros and cons
UNIT 10
29. A testing question
30. Why should we employ you?
All throughout the different unit, the students are expected to develop the following
strategies:
Listening
 checking predictions
 identifying gist or main idea
 identifying purpose
 identifying genre
 inferring
 listening for detail or specific information
 identifying speakers' attitude through analysis of pitch, tone and stress
Speaking
 genre: identifying context (purpose and audience) to organize the information
 coping with interaction: turn taking, negotiation of meaning, sharing, interrupting
politely, etc.
 responding to cues verbally and non-verbally
 preparing a speech following certain requirements
Assessment methods
In relation to formal assessment, there will be compulsory assignments during and after
each unit and, at the end of each term, there will be a revision and a written evaluation, in
which students will show if they have successfully developed the different skills. There
will also be constant informal assessment through which the teacher will evaluate the
students' learning process. The teacher will also take into account the completion of tasks,
deadlines, presentation of work, and attitude towards learning.
Assessment criteria
In order to get a pass, students must comply with the following:
 Attendance: 80%
 Assignments: 70%
 Participation: 100%
 Formal tests (mini tests, quarterlies, etc.): above 7 in all the tests
Compulsory Bibliography
 O'Dell, F et al. (2008) Objective CAE Second Edition - Student's Book. U.K.:
Cambridge University Press.
 O'Dell, F et al. (2008) Objective CAE Second Edition - Workbook. U.K.: Cambridge
University Press.
 O'Dell, F et al. (2008) Objective CAE Second Edition - Teacher's Book. U.K.:
Cambridge University Press.
 Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English 4 (2001) U.K: Cambridge University
Press
 Material taken from different magazines, newspapers and websites.