Satura rādītājs:
Teorija
| Numurs | Nosaukums | Apraksts |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Building Connections | This vocabulary list helps students learn and practise words and expressions for meeting people, forming new connections, developing trust, and maintaining different kinds of relationships. |
| 2. | Describing Relationships | This vocabulary list helps students learn and practise words for describing the type, quality, duration, and nature of different relationships. |
| 3. | The Power of Communication | This vocabulary list helps students learn and practise words and expressions for sharing ideas and feelings, responding to others, giving support, and understanding how communication can positively or negatively affect relationships. |
| 4. | Ups and Downs | This vocabulary list helps students learn and practise words and expressions for dealing with disagreements, describing emotional reactions, taking responsibility, apologising, and finding ways to solve problems and repair relationships. |
| 5. | Same Message, Different Style | This theory section helps students revise and practise formal and informal language for adapting the same message to different people and situations, including clarifying meaning, giving advice, apologising, expressing opinions and choosing appropriate words and phrases. |
Uzdevumi
| Numurs | Nosaukums | Tips | Grūtības pakāpe | Punkti | Apraksts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dictionary Editor | 1. izziņas līmenis | zema | 3 p. | Practises recognising and distinguishing vocabulary for people, social groups, relationships, and connections. Task description: students choose from a drop-down list the word or phrase that best matches each definition. |
| 2. | Communication Toolbox | 1. izziņas līmenis | zema | 3 p. | Practises recognising English vocabulary for communication, emotional responses, conflict, support, and problem-solving and connecting each item with its correct Latvian meaning. Task description: students listen to individual words or phrases and match each one with the correct translation. |
| 3. | Vocabulary Upgrade | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Practises replacing general language with more precise vocabulary for relationships, social connections, trust, and communication. Task description: students rewrite the underlined part of each sentence using an appropriate word or phrase from the vocabulary bank while keeping the original meaning. |
| 4. | Between Facts and Assumptions | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Practises applying vocabulary for describing relationships by making careful, evidence-based conclusions from short situations. Task description: students read a brief description of a relationship or interaction and choose the conclusion that is best supported by the information given. |
| 5. | Voices in Context | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Practises understanding and applying vocabulary for communication, reactions, and conflict in short spoken situations. Task description: students listen to brief everyday dialogues and choose the word or phrase that best describes the communication behaviour, reaction, or situation they hear. |
| 6. | Inside an Argument | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Practises reading comprehension by identifying key ideas, causes, reactions and solutions in a text about disagreements and relationship problems. Task description: students read the text and choose the answer that is best supported by the information given. |
| 7. | Language in Real Life | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Practises reading comprehension by matching interview responses with the questions that logically lead to them. Task description: students read responses from an adapted interview with linguist Deborah Tannen and match each response with the correct question. Three extra questions are included. |
| 8. | Medieval Connections | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Practises reading comprehension and vocabulary related to people and social groups through a non-fiction text about everyday relationships in medieval society. Task description: students read the text and identify the modern English word or phrase that best matches each description. |
| 9. | Living Close, Far from Home | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Practises reading comprehension and vocabulary related to relationships through a non-fiction text about people living and working in extreme environments. Task description: students read about life in Antarctic research stations, on the International Space Station and aboard submarines, then decide whether statements are true, false or not mentioned according to the text. |
| 10. | Communication Dictation | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Practises accurate listening and written language through short sentences about communication and relationships. Task description: students listen to individual sentences and write exactly what they hear, paying attention to vocabulary, grammar and spelling. |
| 11. | More Than Silence | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Practises listening comprehension and vocabulary through a factual podcast about Deaf communication, sign languages and respectful interaction. Task description: students listen to information about Deaf culture and communication and decide whether each statement represents a myth, a fact or advice. |
| 12. | The Right Reply | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Practises listening comprehension and awareness of formal and informal language in realistic conversations. Task description: students listen to a short message and choose the reply that best matches both the speaker’s meaning and the level of formality. |
| 13. | Relationship Clues | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Practises listening comprehension and vocabulary related to people, social groups and relationships. Task description: students listen to short descriptions of different people and choose the relationship or social role that best matches each one. |
| 14. | Relationship Headlines | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Practises listening comprehension and vocabulary for describing different types and qualities of relationships. Task description: students listen to several short relationship stories and match each one with the headline that best summarises it. One headline is extra and is not used. |
| 15. | Flight Deck Signals | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Practises listening comprehension through a factual text about communication on an aircraft carrier. Task description: students listen to information about hand signals, colour-coded roles and visual communication on a flight deck, then decide whether statements are True, False or Not mentioned. |
| 16. | Best Translation | 2. izziņas līmenis | vidēja | 3 p. | Tests accurate understanding of vocabulary related to disagreements, emotions, responsibility and problem-solving by distinguishing between closely related meanings and expressions. Task description: students read a short Latvian sentence and choose the English translation that expresses its meaning most accurately. |
| 17. | From Casual to Formal | 3. izziņas līmenis | augsta | 3 p. | Practises transforming informal language into an appropriate formal register while keeping the original meaning. Task description: students read informal sentences used in different communication situations and rewrite them in formal English, changing informal expressions and word choices where necessary. |
| 18. | Beyond Words | 3. izziņas līmenis | augsta | 3 p. | Practises listening comprehension and vocabulary related to body language by identifying specific information and paraphrased details in an interview. Task description: students listen to an interview with body-language expert Joe Navarro and complete gapped sentences with 2–3 words from the interview. |
Papildu uzdevumi (slēpti no skolēniem)
| Numurs | Nosaukums | Tips | Grūtības pakāpe | Punkti | Apraksts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Silent Signals | Citi | vidēja | 3 p. | Practises reading comprehension and vocabulary related to body language by identifying specific information and meanings in a non-fiction text. Task description: students read a text about common body-language signals and complete gapped sentences with 2–3 words taken from the text. |
| 2. | The Science of Connection | Citi | vidēja | 3 p. | Practises word formation through a non-fiction text about how researchers study communication, behaviour and relationships. Task description: students complete three short sections by changing the word in brackets into the form that fits the sentence correctly. The task progresses from nouns and verbs to adjectives and adverbs and finally to mixed word forms. |
| 3. | In English | Citi | augsta | 3 p. | Tests active vocabulary knowledge and accurate language use by requiring students to express relationship and communication ideas naturally in English. Task description: students translate short Latvian sentences into English, choosing vocabulary and sentence structures that preserve the original meaning. |
Testi
| Numurs | Nosaukums | Ieteicamais ilgums: | Grūtības pakāpe | Punkti | Apraksts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Relationships in Everyday Life - I | 00:20:00 | vidēja | 18 p. | This training test assesses students’ understanding and active use of vocabulary across receptive and productive tasks. It includes definition-based vocabulary selection, interpretation of communication behaviours in short dialogues, reading comprehension, translation between English and Latvian, and formal-register transformation. The tasks evaluate both recognition of meaning in context and accurate, appropriate language production. |
| 2. | Relationships in Everyday Life - II | 00:20:00 | vidēja | 18 p. | This training test assesses students’ receptive and productive language skills through vocabulary, reading and listening tasks. It includes recognition of Latvian equivalents, matching interview responses with appropriate questions, identifying factual information in a non-fiction text, interpreting relationship roles from spoken descriptions, completing listening-based sentence gaps, and applying word-formation skills in context. The tasks evaluate comprehension, lexical knowledge and accurate use of language forms. |
Mājasdarbu testi (slēpti no skolēniem)
| Numurs | Nosaukums | Ieteicamais ilgums: | Grūtības pakāpe | Punkti | Apraksts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Relationships in Everyday Life - III | 00:40:00 | vidēja | 30 p. | This test assesses students’ vocabulary knowledge, reading comprehension and listening accuracy through a range of contextualised tasks. It includes vocabulary rewriting, interpretation of relationship descriptions, sentence dictation, selecting contextually appropriate replies, matching paragraphs with headings, and identifying whether spoken statements are true, false or not mentioned. The tasks measure both understanding of meaning in context and accurate application of language. |