understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at satisfying concrete needs.
Students can...
understand and communicate simple and routine tasks requiring a straightforward exchange of information on familiar topics and activities.
Students can...
participate in conversations on familiar topics, handle travel situations, produce straightforward texts, and describe experiences, events, hopes, and opinions.
Students can...
understand the main ideas of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics, interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity with native speakers, and produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects.
Students can...
understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions, and use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic, and professional purposes.
Students can...
understand with ease virtually everything heard or read, summarize information from different spoken and written sources, and express themselves spontaneously, very fluently, and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex situations.