• Ask and answer simple questions on very familiar topics.

• Use simple phrases and sentences to describe where you live and people you

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

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

• 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.

• 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 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.

• Read very short, simple texts.

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

• Understand short simple personal letters.

• 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.

• 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 common, basic or job-related language.

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

• Write simply about familiar topics.

• Write personal letters describing experiences and impressions.

• Speak regularly with native speakers.

• Discuss familiar topics in detail.

• Give your opinions and explain advantages and disadvantages.

• 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.

• Read articles and reports about common topics

• Understand modern novels.

• 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.

• Understand long complex speech.

• Understand most television programmes and films.

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

• Understand specialised articles and long technical instructions.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.