Ask questions to clarify understanding when appropriate.

Ask questions to clarify understanding when appropriate. This objective is about clarification questioning: students need to ask a precise question when meaning, instruction or feedback is unclear. Its distinctive vocabulary is clarify, uncertainty, respectful, dialogue, question, understanding, check, meaning, prompt, precision. These words keep the revision task separate from neighbouring spoken-language objectives. Evidence of success comes from clarification phrase, respectful tone, exact uncertainty and improved understanding; the common trap is pretending to understand and giving an inaccurate response. Practise asking: 'Do you mean...' or 'Could you clarify...' before answering. In Listening and responding, finish by checking that the answer still suits Presenting and responding and the AQA GCSE English Language spoken endorsement.