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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.

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Following 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.

Check your interpretation

Choose your answers, then check the explanations.

Which source corrects an earlier false message?
Does S1 guarantee a late collection appointment?
Which details in S2 protect against an unintended promise?
Why would replacing “request” with “reservation” distort the notice?

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.

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After 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.

Check your interpretation

Choose your answers, then check the explanations.

Why cannot the exit form estimate unique member support?
Which cost is excluded from the low direct cost?
Which alternative has not been confirmed?
Where do all three sources share common ground?

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.

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Follow 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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Recalculate October estimated use.
Which population does S3 describe?
Does disclosure of the campaign lead’s interest establish dishonesty?
How does S4 preserve accountability?

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.

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Through 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.

Check your interpretation

Choose your answers, then check the explanations.

Identify two cues supporting scepticism in S2.
Which uncertainty does S3 preserve about the table?
Where does S2 leave room for a positive outcome?
What is the difference between an omitted detail and evidence of dishonesty?

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.

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Introduce 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.

Check your interpretation

Choose your answers, then check the explanations.

How many requests were unfulfilled at the requested time?
Why does the audiovisual loan total understate occupancy?
Who is missing from the satisfaction cards?
What listener check does S3 require?

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.

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A 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.

Check your interpretation

Choose your answers, then check the explanations.

Why can the large room not host ninety practical learners?
Is the smaller room already confirmed?
Which alternative changes the learning objective?
What information should be excluded from public minutes?

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.

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A 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.

Check your interpretation

Choose your answers, then check the explanations.

What is the actual first priority?
What is the unpriced option?
Why is “conservation risks resolved” unsupported?
Which trial errors show the need for end-to-end quality checks?

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.

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A 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.

Check your interpretation

Choose your answers, then check the explanations.

What did “ambitious” mean for the designer in S1?
What commitment did the volunteer actually make in S2?
What practical recommendation emerges from the joke in S3?
What makes the repair non-stereotyped?

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.

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Pass 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.

Check your interpretation

Choose your answers, then check the explanations.

Calculate submission among enrolled participants.
Can the follow-up form show that nonrespondents did not use the skill?
What does the Thai source say about previous experience?
Can these self-selected groups establish that timetable caused the difference?

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.

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Different 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.

Check your interpretation

Choose your answers, then check the explanations.

Why cannot 120 enquiries be reported as 120 people?
What proportion of invited members responded to the questionnaire?
What kind of extra source is prohibited by S4?
What does the exit decision not provide?