Overall oral production

Can produce simple mainly isolated phrases about people and places.​

Sustained monologue: describing experience

Can describe him/herself, what he/she does and where he/she lives.

Addressing audiences

Can read a very short, rehearsed statement - e.g. to introduce a speaker, propose a toast.

Overall written production

Can write simple isolated phrases and sentences.

Creative writing

Can write simple phrases and sentences about themselves and imaginary people, where they live and what they do.

Overall listening comprehension

Can follow speech which is very slow and carefully articulated, with long pauses for him/her to assimilate meaning.

Listening to announcements and instructions

Can understand instructions addressed carefully and slowly to him/her and follow short, simple directions.

Overall reading comprehension

Can understand very short, simple texts a single phrase at a time, picking up familiar names, words and basic phrases and rereading as required.

Reading correspondence

Can understand short, simple messages on postcards.

Reading for orientation

Can recognise familiar names, words and very basic phrases on simple notices in the most common everyday situations.

Reading for information and argument

Can get an idea of the content of simpler informational material and short simple descriptions, especially if there is visual support.

Reading instructions

Can follow short, simple written directions (e.g. to go from X to Y)​

Overall spoken interaction

Can understand everyday expressions aimed at the satisfaction of simple needs of a concrete type, delivered directly to him/her in clear, slow and repeated speech by a sympathetic speaker.
Can understand questions and instructions addressed carefully and slowly to him/her and follow short, simple directions.

Conversation

Can make an introduction and use basic greeting and leave-taking expressions.
Can ask how people are and react to news.

Can make an introduction and use basic greeting and leave-taking expressions.
Can ask how people are and react to news.
Can understand everyday expressions aimed at the satisfaction of simple needs of a concrete type, delivered directly to him/her in clear, slow and repeated speech by a sympathetic speaker.

Oriented co-operation (e.g. repairing a car, discussing a document, organising an event)​

Can understand questions and instructions addressed carefully and slowly to him/her and follow short, simple directions.
Can ask people for things, and give people things.

Transactions to obtain goods and services

Can ask people for things and give people things.
Can handle numbers, quantities, cost and time.

Information exchange

Can understand questions and instructions addressed carefully and slowly to him/her and follow short, simple directions.
Can ask and answer simple questions, initiate and respond to simple statements in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics.
Can ask and answer questions about themselves and other people, where they live, people they know, things they have.
Can indicate time by such phrases as next week, last Friday, in November, three o’clock.

Interviewing and being interviewed

Can reply in an interview to simple direct questions spoken very slowly and clearly in direct non-idiomatic speech about personal details.

Overall written interaction

Can ask for or pass on personal details in written form.

Correspondence

Can write a short simple postcard.

Notes, messages & form

Can write numbers and dates, own name, nationality, address, age, date of birth or arrival in the country, etc. such as on a hotel registration form.

Processing text

Can copy out single words and short texts presented in standard printed format.