COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE (CEFR) LANGUAGE LEVELS CCAE LEVEL
CEFR LEVEL
LISTENING
READING
SPEAKING
WRITING
Beginner Level 1
A1
Beginner Level 2
I have no or little previous knowledge of the language. I would like to...
Identify familiar words & very basic phrases concerning myself, friends, family, & surroundings when people speak slowly & clearly.
Point out familiar names, words & simple sentences, such as on posters, notes or in catalogues.
Ask & answer simple questions. Interact in a simple way with repetition & slow speech. Use simple phrases & sentences to describe familiar people.
Write a short, simple postcard &fillinformswith personal details.
Beginner Level 3
A2
Understand phrases & the highest frequency vocabulary related to areas of most immediate personal relevance. Catch the main point in short, clear, simple messages & announcements.
Read very short, Communicate in simpletexts&find routine tasks & specificinformation social interactions. in everyday material Use a series such as menus, of phrases & advertisements, sentences to & short personal describe family, letters. educational background & present work.
Write short notes, messages & personal letters relating to immediate needs.
Understand the main points of clear speech, & the main point in radio or TV programs on current events, or topics of personal or professional interest.
Understand texts with high frequency, everyday,orjobrelated language. Understand the description of events, feelings & wishes in personal letters.
Handle travel situations, enter unprepared into conversation on familiar topics, & connect phrases, give reasons & opinions, & describe plots of books or films.
Write simple texts on familiar or personal topics, such as letters describing personal experiences and impressions.
Understand extended speech & lectures & follow even complex lines of argument. Understand most TV news & current a‹airsprograms.
Read articles & reports about contemporary problems in which the writers adopt particular attitudes or viewpoints. Understand contemporary literary prose.
Interactwithuency Write on a wide & spontaneity & range of subjects, explain a viewpoint essay of support & advantages & or against a topic, disadvantages of as well as personal various options. letters highlighting Take an active part the personal in discussions. significanceof events.
Understand extended speech even when it is not clearly structured & when relationships are only implied & not signaled explicitly. Follow television programs &filmswithouttoo muche‹ort.
Understand long Use language & complex factual exibly&e‹ectively & literary texts, for social & appreciating professional distinctions of purposes. Present style. Understand clear, detailed specializedarticles descriptions of & longer technical complex subjects, instructions. integratingsubthemes.
Beginner Level 4 Beginner Conversation
Low Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate Conversation
High Intermediate Advanced
Advanced
I have achieved most of the goals of A1. I would like to...
B1
I have achieved most of the goals of A2. I would like to...
B2
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C1
I have achieved most of the goals of B2. I would like to...
Write about complex subjects in a letter, an essay or a report, underlining what I consider to be the salient issues. Select style appropriate to the reader in mind.
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