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"VOCATIONAL COMMUNICATION" PROJECT: TABLE OF SKILLS

CATEGORY A: ORAL COMMUNICATION
Be heard		Be understood		Adopt a mode of behaviour appropriate to the situation
A-11	Control your voice: volume, intensity speed, fluency enunciation intonation.	A-21	Say what you see, what you hear, what you understand.	A-31	Take into consideration space and environment.
A-12	Establish social contact: Start up a contact socially Start up a contact for administrative purposes Introduce yourself to someone.	A-22	Deliver a coherent message using correct syntax; use the simple structures of oral speech; practise questions and answers.	A-32	Control body language: sitting postures gestures facial expressions.
A-13	Manage listening and speaking time: Listening: Listen to others Listen without selecting or interpreting Manage speaking time: Get a message across in a given time Speak while taking into account what the other says; share speaking time	A-23	Choose a language register appropriate to the situation and to the person spoken to.	A-33	Breathe, be relaxed, take into consideration your own affective and emotional reactions.
		A-24	Initiate and sustain a coherent dialogue; make sure the message gets across and that communication is maintained.	A-34	Be in a group and speak in front of a familiar audience to manage stress and "stage fright".

CATEGORY B : FIND OUT - COLLECT INFORMATION
Level	Find documentary information		Classify information		Use information
1.	B1-11	ix objectives before collecting information; use the knowledge you already have; ask yourself the right questions.	B1-21	Use a simple classifying system.	B1-31	Find discrepancies between the questions asked and the answers given.
	B1-12	Take into consideration your own representations and expand them prior to the initial questioning.	B1-22	Classify documents according to one single criterion.	B1-32	Ask questions about a simple document: Find and note down specific information in a simple document in order to answer yes/no questions.
	B1-13	Find any differences between the initial questions and the answers given.
2.	B2-11	Master the general principles of documentary organisation using classification tools (codes, references catalogues, files, dictionary, telephone directory or Internet).	B2-21	In a given set of documents, find links of opposition, similarity, inclusion and exclusion, and where they meet.	B2-31	Consult documents giving practical and vocational information.
	B2-12	Adopt a system of documentary questions appropriate to the situation and to the reference documents.	B2-22	Organise a series of documents supplied in the wrong order (chronology, unity of meaning, etc.)	B2-32	Find the discrepancies between answers given in different documents on the same subject.
			B2-23	Make up sets in a given document; combine documents according to several criteria.	B2-33	Put documents together to inform or to explain.
3.	B3-11	Do research requiring the use of several documentary tools and find the relevant information.	B3-21	Classify a series of information (for/against; negative/positive; causes/consequences; inclusion/exclusion; informative document /illustrative document; etc.).	B3-31	Find and note down specific information in a document in order to answer open questions.
	B3-12	Do research requiring the use of Internet.			B3-32	Analyse and exploit the specific sections in the press.
					B3-33	Take notes from simple information.

CATEGORY C: UNDERSTAND A MESSAGE
Level	Analyse a message		Grasp the meaning of a message		Appropriate a message
1.	C1-11	Recognise the essential parts of a simple message.	C1-21	Answer questions about the overall meaning of a given message (Multiple Choice Questions).	C1-31	Compose a message from given elements.
	C1-12	Find the elements which show the meaning of a simple message.	C1-22	Transpose a simple message from one code to another (iconic, gestural, written or oral) to show you have understood the message.	C1-32	Orally explain the meaning of a gesture, a mimic, a photograph, an advertisement, a simple text, etc.
	C1-13	Order and classify the elements of a simple message.
	C1-14	Understand instructions.
2.	C2-11	Recognise the essential parts of a message.	C2-21	Answer questions about a message (open questions).	C2-31	Sum up a message from elements found.
	C2-12	Find the elements which characterise a situation.	C2-22	Transpose a message from one code to another.	C2-32	Pass on given instructions and/or information.
	C2-13	Order and classify the elements of a message.	C2-23	Put together the elements found in the analysis of a message.	C2-33	Explain a technical description, instructions or a recipe, etc. to someone else.
	C2-14	Understand instructions.
3.	C3-11	Recognise the parts of a complex message.	C3-21	Compare messages and find the common and different elements to answer open questions.	C3-31	Structure a message from elements found, and formulate it in a summary or a short presentation.
	C3-12	Find the elements in denotation and connotation.	C3-22	Transpose a message from one code to another.	C3-32	Pass on given instructions and/or information.
	C3-13	Recognise the different types of message.			C3-33	Explain a technical description, instructions or a recipe, etc. to someone else.
	C3-14	Recognise the structure of a document.			C3-34	Quote your sources, in a message received orally or in writing.
	C3-15	Recognise the elements of communication in a document.

CATEGORY D: COMPOSE A WRITTEN MESSAGE
Level	Produce a written message		Organise and structure a message		Write a message
1.	D1-11	Answer simple questions.	D1-21	Produce a simple message from given elements to be classified.	D1-31	Write a message using simple sentences.
	D1-12	Fill in a form.	D1-22	Structure a message from diagrams.	D1-32	Answer simple questions about an everyday event (given elements).
	D1-13	Answer precise questions on a visual message (picture, drawing or photo.).	D1-23	Write a message from a series of pictures.	D1-33	Answer simple questions about an everyday event (given elements).
	D1-14	Write a note.			D1-34	Using simple sentences, write a paragraph, then a short text.
					D1-35	Describe a document in precise detail.
2.	D2-11	Produce a message adapted to a specific audience.	D2-21	Look for and choose elements in order to give information.	D2-31	Write complex sentences.
	D2-12	Answer a questionnaire.	D2-22	Organise and structure elements in order to give information.	D2-32	Write a simple text.
	D2-13	Write a letter to ask for or give simple information.	D2-23	Organise ideas into a hierarchy.	D2-33	Write a message from a given plan.
	D2-14	Write an administrative letter.	D2-24	Construct a plan from given elements.	D2-34	Sum up a simple text.
			D2-25	Make up sets and give them a title.
3.	D3-11	Give instructions in writing.	D3-21	Give the meaning of your own message.	D3-31	Formulate ideas on a subject.
	D3-12	Give explanations in writing.	D3-22	Construct a plan.	D3-32	Produce a message from notes taken.
	D3-13	Describe a situation or an event in writing.			D3-33	Sum up a text.
	D3-14	Create a questionnaire.			D3-34	Make up a description from given elements.
	D3-15	Write a letter to order something.
	D3-16	Write a letter of complaint.

CATEGORY E: APPRAISE A MESSAGE
Level	Give meaning to your own message		Give meaning to someone else's message		Distinguish a plan of argumentation in a message		Pass judgement on a simple message
1.	E1-11	Give and explain your point of view (orally first, then in writing).	E1-21	Explain a fact in everyday life, a picture, a simple message, heard or read.	E1-31	Recognise the arguments in a given message.	E1-41	State your position from a simple message.
	E1-12	Illustrate your ideas using examples from your own life and that of other people.	E1-22	Give a title or a caption to a picture or a simple text in order to explain it.			E1-42	Answer questions like "What do you think about�? Why?"
			E1-23	Reformulate someone else's message (for example to understand it better or to reach an agreement).			E1-43	Answer questions like: "What are the different opinions that exist about �? Why?"
2.	E2-11	Justify your point of view using several arguments pertaining to your own life and that of other people.	E2-21	Reformulate someone else's message.	E2-31	Find the arguments, list them, organise them, classify them, and put them into order of importance (from a simple message).	E2-41	State your position from a message and justify your point of view.
2.			E2-22	Explain the validity of an argumentation.			E2-42	Take a critical look at a message.
3.	E3-11	Judge the quality of an argumentation.	E3-21	Reformulate someone else's message.	E3-31	Find the arguments and the process used to give conviction in a text.	E3-41	Evaluate, assess, reject, criticise the ideas expressed in a message.
3.			E3-22	Use a commentary to show the correctness and pertinence of an argumentation.			E3-42	State the shared attitudes and suggest a common ground for differences.