HSC Italian Beginners Supplementary Standards Material

Speaking Skills

Band 3/4 Samples

  • Sample 1
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  • Expresses relevant information and attempts to give an opinion
  • Understands most basic questions
  • Responds mainly in present tense, occasional use of infinitives
  • Repetition, at times, of questions
  • Sample 2
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  • Started with confidence
  • Basic responses with evidence of sentence structures
  • Understands and responds to basic questions
  • Repetition and rephrasing of some questions
  • Struggles to elaborate
  • Sample 3
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  • Understands most basic questions and responds to topic; however, struggles with elaboration
  • Repetition of questions
  • Some pauses when redirected
  • Some evidence of sentence structure