Can give a clear, systematically developed presentation, with highlighting of significant points, and relevant supporting detail.

Watching TV, films, video: Can follow films employing a considerable degree of slang and idiomatic usage.

Can catch the main point in short, clear, simple messages and announcements.

Identifying cues and inferring: Can use a variety of strategies to achieve comprehension, including watching out for main points and checking comprehension by using contextual clues.

Can describe their family, living conditions, educational background, present or most recent job.

Can describe people, places and possessions in simple terms.

Addressing audiences: Can take follow-up questions, but may have to ask for repetition if the delivery is rapid.

Can substitute an equivalent term for a word/sign they can’t recall, so smoothly that it is scarcely noticeable.

Monitoring and repair: Can start again using a different tactic when communication breaks down.

Overall oral interaction:

Can use the language fluently, accurately and effectively on a wide range of general, academic, vocational or leisure topics, marking clearly the relationships between ideas. Can communicate spontaneously with good grammatical control without much sign of having to restrict what they want to say, adopting a level of formality appropriate to the circumstances.

Overall oral interaction:

Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction, and sustained relationships with users of the target language, quite possible without imposing strain on either party. Can highlight the personal significance of events and experiences, and account for and sustain views clearly by providing relevant explanations and arguments.

Understanding an interlocutor:

Can understand everyday expressions aimed at the satisfaction of simple needs of a concrete type, delivered directly to them clearly and slowly, with repetition, by a sympathetic interlocutor.

Conversation:

Can enter unprepared into conversations on familiar topics.

Informal discussion (with friends):

Can exchange opinions and compare things and people using simple language. Can discuss what to do in the evening or at the weekend. Can make and respond to suggestions. Can agree and disagree with others.

Interviewing and being interviewed:

Can make themselves understood in an interview and communicate ideas and information on familiar topics, provided they can ask for clarification occasionally, and are given some help to express what they want to.