ESL5 · Advanced Communication · Game Path
Ten missions to practise meaning, spelling, listening and understanding sources.
Unit 1 · Audience, purpose, register, and reformulation
Adapt S1 for a new member, an external project partner and a close colleague. Preserve four non-negotiable facts and explicitly label each conditional arrangement.
Open source dossierFollowing a stated rule or agreement.
Not final until someone explicitly confirms it.
For a limited period whose end is not yet fixed.
Introducing a distinction that might otherwise be misunderstood.
A formal request that still leaves timing to the recipient.
An informal warning or useful advance notice.
A tactful request about another person's capacity.
A formal acknowledgement of disruption.
Directing attention to essential meaning.
Introducing a plain-language explanation.
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Unit 2 · Sustained argument, evidence, and counterclaims
Build a 700–900-word case and a 4–6-minute oral argument. Map each claim to evidence, state the warrant, steelman the resource objection and make a conditional recommendation.
Open source dossierAfter weighing relevant advantages and disadvantages.
A claim that challenges the main position.
An unstated idea on which reasoning depends.
Support a claim using independent evidence.
Accept a valid part of another argument.
A benefit gained at the cost of something else.
When a relevant condition or evidence is missing.
Advice limited by stated conditions or uncertainty.
A way to challenge an unsupported inference.
Consider one factor in relation to another.
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Unit 3 · Source evaluation, misinformation, and responsible citation
Evaluate all four supplied sources, recalculate the stock flow, and write a 600–800-word briefing that separates fact, calculation, interpretation and uncertainty. Include an explicit correction note.
Open source dossierFollow a statement back to its original evidence.
People who decide for themselves to join a study or survey.
A record made directly from the event or measurement.
A missing total needed to interpret a proportion.
An interest that could influence judgement or presentation.
Checked by a party not responsible for the original claim.
A finding that remains open to revision.
Presentation that encourages an unsupported interpretation.
Publicly replace an inaccurate statement with a more accurate one.
Showing where information or an interpretation originated.
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Unit 4 · Inference, stance, assumptions, and rhetorical structure
Annotate six evidence-linked inferences, label confidence, and prepare a five-minute analysis or approximately 700-word commentary. Include a competing interpretation and a justified revision.
Open source dossierThrough suggested rather than directly stated meaning.
A proposition assumed rather than expressed.
Infer meaning using linguistic and contextual cues.
A change in the way an argument or message is presented.
A reading supported by some evidence but not established as certain.
Avoid reaching a conclusion before the evidence is adequate.
Language that carries an evaluative assumption.
The purpose suggested by available evidence.
Another interpretation of the same material.
Match certainty to the strength of the available cues.
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Unit 5 · Extended presentations and audience questions
Deliver an 8–10-minute presentation and five-minute unrehearsed Q&A using the supplied dashboard. Define the units, integrate three sub-themes and check a listener’s interpretation of the data.
Open source dossierIntroduce background needed to interpret information.
The most decision-relevant result.
Signpost a move to constraints on interpretation.
Separate a total into meaningful categories.
A question that develops or clarifies an earlier response.
Introduce a useful analytical separation.
State that a requested conclusion is unsupported.
Reformulate a point to improve understanding.
Explain that an inference depends on circumstances.
Integrate previously developed sub-themes.
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Unit 6 · Meetings, negotiation, and diplomatic disagreement
Run a twelve-minute three-role meeting. State a proposal and fallback, invite a quieter participant, code four distinct interaction moves, and produce a jointly validated decision record.
Open source dossierA condition that a workable agreement must satisfy.
An acceptable alternative if the preferred plan is unavailable.
An interest or proposition accepted by different participants.
Dependent on whether a resource is available.
Ask someone to explain a concern or qualification.
Create space or opportunity for another contribution.
An agreement that applies only when specified conditions are met.
Acknowledge another person's reasoning without accepting everything.
Present a disagreement as a more useful question.
Identify who will carry out a recorded decision.
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Unit 7 · Reports, proposals, recommendations, and executive summaries
Write a 1,000–1,200-word proposal and a separate 180–220-word executive summary. Preserve all material qualifications, respond to the review panel and retain a tracked revision rationale.
Open source dossierA concise account of purpose, main findings, recommendation and material limits.
Explicit standards used to compare options.
A possible obstacle to carrying out a plan.
Introducing a plan in bounded stages.
The time, staffing or equipment consequences of a choice.
A limit that would change a reader's interpretation or decision.
Suitable for the actual intended task.
Assess work using a specified reference or standard.
An explanation of why changes were made.
A planned response or resource for a possible problem.
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Unit 8 · Intercultural pragmatics, humour, and repair
Perform an apology, a refusal and a disagreement for three relationships. Obtain listener interpretations, record repairs and explain the choices without national-character claims.
Open source dossierA response that declines without a direct no.
A deliberately restrained description.
A gap between intended meaning and how it is understood.
Ask what someone meant before acting on an inference.
Avoid unnecessary embarrassment while resolving an issue.
An utterance that restores shared understanding.
Changing in meaning or effect with the situation.
Wording that leaves room to reject an implied interpretation.
Understand an utterance as a promise to act.
A restatement that reduces evaluative or ambiguous wording.
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Unit 9 · Mediation: sources, data, concepts, and viewpoints
Produce three audience-specific mediation products: a prospective-participant summary, a numerical committee briefing and a facilitated agreement on next-cycle measures. Retain a source-to-summary trace and recipient checks.
Open source dossierPass on essential meaning without distortion.
The total against which a proportion is calculated.
Information combined across cases or groups.
Keep a limitation attached to the main message.
Help participants understand the relevant concerns of others.
An explanation that removes unnecessary complexity while retaining meaning.
Keep two concepts separate in an adaptation.
Ask a recipient to show what they understood.
A record showing where summary statements came from.
Support a group in making sense of differing information.
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Unit 10 · C1-readiness capstone
Complete the researched presentation, unrehearsed discussion, written synthesis and reflection portfolio. Add at least four earlier artifacts; report readiness by evidence area and retain any support-use record.
Open source dossierDifferent relevant performances that support a consistent judgement.
A position that can withstand evidence-based challenge.
State what the evidence cannot establish.
Connect relevant views without erasing their differences.
A record linking claims, sources, feedback and revisions.
Give an immediate relevant response to an unexpected contribution.
A skill-by-skill account of demonstrated and developing abilities.
An evaluation grounded in analysis of one's performance.
Apply a skill beyond the rehearsed task.
A judgement that current evidence does not establish an outcome.
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