General English

·         Ask and answer simple questions on very familiar topics.

·         Use simple phrases and sentences to describe where you live and people you know.

·         Communicate in simple and routine tasks on familiar topics and activities.

·         Simply describe your family and other people, living conditions, your educational background and your present or most recent job.

·         Understand familiar words and very basic phrases about yourself, your family and immediate surroundings when people speak slowly and clearly and repeats.

·         Understand phrases and common vocabulary on common areas e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, the local area, and employment.

·         Understand the main point in short, clear, simple messages and announcements.

·         Understand familiar names, words and very simple sentences, for example on notices and posters or in catalogues.

·         Read very short, simple texts.

·         Find specific, predictable information in advertisements, prospectuses, menus and timetables.

·         Understand short simple personal letters.

·         Write a short, simple postcard, for example holiday postcards.

·         Fill in forms with personal details, for example entering your name, nationality and address on a hotel registration form.

·         Write short, simple notes and messages.

·         Write a simple personal letter, for example thanking someone

·         Deal with most situations when you travel in an area where people speak English.

·         Talk about family, hobbies, work, travel and current events.

·         Talk about experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions.

·         Give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

·         Tell the story of a book or film and describe your reactions

·         Speak regularly with native speakers.

·         Discuss familiar topics in detail.

·         Give your opinions and explain advantages and disadvantages

·         Understand the main points of clear speech on work, school and leisure.

·         Understand the main point on many radio or TV programmes on current affairs or familiar topics, when the speaker speaks slowly and clearly.

·         Understand long speech and lectures and follow complex arguments if the topic is reasonably familiar.

·         Understand most TV news and current affairs programmes.

·         Understand the majority of films in common accents

·         Understand common, basic or job-related language.

·         Understand the description of events, feelings and wishes in personal letters.

·         Read articles and reports about common topics

·         Understand modern novels.

·         Write simply about familiar topics.

·         Write personal letters describing experiences and impressions

·         Write clearly and in detail about a wide range of subjects.

·         Write an essay or report.

·         Write letters about events and personal experiences.

·         Speak fluently without searching for language.

·         Communicate effectively in social and professional situations.

·         Give ideas and opinions and relate your ideas to those of other speakers.

·         Talk about of complex subjects and develop arguments

·         Take part fluently and effortlessly in any conversation and have a good familiarity with idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms.

·         Present a clear, smoothly flowing description or argument in a style appropriate to the context and with an effective logical structure.

·         Understand long complex speech.

·         Understand most television programmes and films.

·         Understand any kind of spoken language, live or broadcast, at fast native speed, when you have some time to get familiar with the accent.

·          Understand long and complex factual and literary texts, with different styles.

·         Understand specialised articles and long technical instructions.

·         Read with ease abstract, structurally or linguistically complex texts such as manuals, specialised articles and literary works.

·         Write long, clear, well-structured text to express your points of view.

·         Write about complex subjects in a letter, an essay or a report.

·         Write in an appropriate style.

·         Write clear, smoothly-flowing text in an appropriate style.

·         Write complex letters, reports or articles which present a case with an effective logical structure.

·         Write summaries and reviews of professional or literary works.