9.L5 recognise the opinion of the speakers in supported extended talk on a range of general and curricular topics 9.S6 begin to link comments with some flexibility to what others say at sentence and discourse level in pair, group and whole class exchanges 9.S8 recount some extended stories and events on a growing range of general and curricular topics 9.R2 understand specific information and detail in texts on a range of familiar general and curricular topics