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P E T Language Specifications

Inventory of Functions, Notions and Comunicative Tasks

Greeting people and respond to greetings (in person and on the phone)
Introducing oneself and other people
Asking for and giving personal details: full name, age, address, names of relatives and friends, occupation etc.
Understanding and completing forms giving personal details
Understanding and writing letters, giving personal details
Describing education, qualification and skills
Describing people (personal appearance, qualities)
Asking and answering questions about personal possessions
Asking for repetition and clarification
Re-stating what has been said
Checking on meaning and intention
Helping others to express their ideas
Interrupting a conversation
Starting a new topic
Changing the topic
Resuming or continuing the topic
Asking for and giving information about routines and habits
Understanding and writing diaries and letters giving information about every day activities
Talking about what people are doing at the moment
Talking about past events and states in the past, recent activities and completed actions
Understanding and producing simple narratives
Reporting what people say
Talking about future and imaginary situations
Talking about future plans and intentions
Making predictions
Identifying and describing accommodation (houses, flats, rooms, furniture…)
Buying and selling things (costs, measurements and amounts)
Talking about food and ordering meals
Talking about the weather
Talking about one’s health
Following and giving simple instructions
Understanding simple signs and notices
Asking the way and giving directions
Asking for and giving travel information
Asking for and giving simple information about place4s
Identifying and describing simple objects (shape, size, weight, colour, purpose or use…)
Making comparisons and expressing degrees of difference
Talking about how to operate things
Describing simple processes
Expressing purpose, cause and result, and giving reasons
Drawing simple conclusions and making recommendations
Making and granting/refusing simple requests
Making and responding to offers and suggestions
Expressing and responding to thanks
Giving and responding to invitations
Giving advice
Giving warnings and prohibitions
Persuading and asking/telling people to do something
Expressing obligation and lack of obligation
Asking and giving/refusing permission to do something
Making and responding to apologies and excuses
Expressing agreement and disagreement, and contradicting people
Paying compliments
Criticising and complaining
Sympathising
Expressing preferences, likes and dislikes about hobbies and leisure activities
Talking about physical and emotional feelings
Expressing opinions and making choices
Expressing needs and wants
Expressing (in)ability in the present and in the past
Talking about (im)probability and (im)possibility
Expressing degrees of certainty and doubt.

Inventory of Grammatical Areas

VERBS: regular and irregular forms

Modals

Can (ability, requests, permission)

Could (ability, possibility, polite requests)

Would (polite requests)

Will (offer)

Shall (suggestion, offer)

Should (advice)

May, Might (possibility)

Have to (obligation)

Ought to (obligation)

Must (obligation)

Mustn’t (obligation)

Need (necessity)

Needn’t (lack of necessity)

Used to + infinitive (past habits)

Tenses

Present simple: states, habits, systems and processes (and verbs not used in the continuous form)

Present continuous: future plans and activities, present actions.

Present perfect simple: recent past with just, indefinite past with yet, already, never, ever; unfinished past with since and for.

Past simple: past events

Past continuous: parallel past actions, continuous actions interrupted by the past simple tense.

Past perfect simple: Narrative, reported speech

Future with going to.

Future with present continuous and present simple

Future with will and shall: offers, promises, predictions..

Verb Forms

Affirmative, interrogative, negative

Imperatives

Infinitives (with and without to) after verbs and adjectives

Gerund (-ing form) after verbs and prepositions

Gerunds as subjects and objects

Passive forms: present and past simple

Verb + object + infinitive give/take/send/bring/show + direct/indirect object

Causative have/get

So / nor with auxiliaries

Compound Verb Pattern

Phrasal verbs/verbs with prepositions

Conditional sentences

Type 0: an iron bar expands if/when you heat it

Type 1: if you do that again, I’ll leave

Type 2: I would tell you the answer if I knew it.

If I were you, I wouldn’t do that again

Simple Reported Speech

Statements, questions and commands: say, ask, tell.

He said that he felt ill.

I asked her if I could leave.

No one told me what to do.

Indirect and embedded questions: know, wonder

Do you know what he said?

I wondered what he would do next

Interrogatives

What, What + noun

Where, When

Who, Whose, Which

How, How much, How many, How often, How long..

Why

Nouns

Singular and plural ( regular and irregular forms)

Countable and uncountable nouns with some and any

Abstract nouns

Compound nouns

Complex noun phrases

Genitive :’s & s’

Double Genitive : a friend of theirs

Pronouns

Personal (subject, object, possessive)

Reflexive and emphatic: myself….

Impersonal: it, there

Demonstrative: this, that, These, Those

Quantitative: one, something, everybody..

Indefinite: some, any, something, one….

Relative: who, which, that, whom, whose…

Determiners

A + countable nouns

The + countable / uncountable nouns

Adjectives

Colour, size, shape, quality, nationality

Predicative and attributive

Cardinal and ordinal numbers

Possessive: my, your, his, her….

Demonstrative: this, that, these, those

Quantitative: some, any, many, much, a few, a lot of, all, other, every….

Comparative and superlative forms (regular and irregular): (not) as…as, not…enough to, too…to

Order of adjectives

Participles as adjectives

Compound adjectives

Adverbs

Regular and irregular forms

Manner: quickly, carefully…

Frequency: often, never, twice a day…

Definite time: now, last week..

Indefinite time: already, just, yet..

Degree: very, too, rather…

Place: here, there….

Direction: left, right, along…

Sequence: first, next..

Sentence adverbs: too, either..

Pre-verbal, post-verbal and end-position adverbs

Comparative and superlative forms (regular and irregular)

Prepositions

Location: to, on, inside, next to, at…

Time: at, on, in, during…

Direction: to, into, out of, from…

Instrument: by, with

Miscellaneous: Like, as, due to, owing to,..

Prepositional phrases: at the beginning of, by means of…

Prepositions preceding nouns and adjectives: by car, for sale, at last…

Prepositions following nouns and adjectives: advice on, afraid of…

Verbs: laugh at, ask for…..

Connectives

And, but, or, either….or

When, while, until, before, after, as soon as, where

Because, since, as, for

So that, in order to

So, so…that, such…that

If, unless

Although, while

TOPICS

Clothes, daily life, Education, entertainment, food and drink, free time, health, medicine and exercise, hobbies and leisure, house and home, language, people, personal feelings, opinions and experiences, personal identification, places and buildings, relations with other people, transport, services, shopping, social interaction, sport, the natural world, travel and holidays, weather, work and jobs.

Lexis

The PET examination includes items which normally occur in everyday vocabulary of native-speakers of English today.

Candidates should know the lexis appropriate to their personal requirements, for example, nationalities, hobbies, likes and dislikes.

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