* Final Oral Examination is not included in training hours. Trainees are required to sit for the final oral examination beyond training hours.

• Initiate conventional conversational topics by using a batch of commonly used vocabulary and expressions

  - greetings, introductions, leave taking
  - social enquiries/requests and replies
  - apologies, thanks, invitations
  - changing jobs and promotion
  - workplace and l eisure experience
  - evaluating a current event

• Maintain conversational topics by taking turns according to social convention and using polite and appropriate verbal and non verbal responses

  - suggestions, offers, persuasion

  - preference, expression of emotions
  - explanation, clarification
  - argument, evaluation, agreement/ disagreement
  - description, narration
  - hand gestures, nodding, eye contact
  - interruption, diverting/ changing topics