Interact in spoken Gagana Sāmoa to share and respond to information, ideas, and opinions
This assessment asks you to have a real conversation in Gagana Sāmoa where you can share information and respond to what someone else says. You'll be talking about things that matter to you—your life, events, experiences—in an unrehearsed chat (not reading from a script). The conversation should cover things happening now, in the past, or in the future, and examiners will focus on whether you can communicate your message overall, even if you make some mistakes along the way.
You can have a simple conversation in Gagana Sāmoa about your own life and experiences, using relevant vocabulary and structures, and the listener understands your main message despite some mistakes.
You guide the conversation smoothly using questions and responses that show understanding, use a good variety of words and sentence types, and build on what the other person says, with mistakes that don't get in the way of being understood.
You manage the conversation with skill—asking follow-up questions, picking up on what the other person says and going deeper into those points, switching topics naturally, and using a wide range of language accurately so errors barely affect understanding.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.