Level 3
CEFR: B1.1
ACTFL: Intermediate Mid–Intermediate High |
Listening
- Always understand the main idea in messages and presentations on a variety of topics related to everyday life and personal interests and academic contexts.
- Usually understand a few details of what is overheard in listening situations, even when something unexpected or unfamiliar is expressed.
- Sometimes follow what is heard about events and experiences in various time frames.
| Reading
- Always recognize the main idea of texts related to everyday life, personal interests, and academic contexts.
- Usually follow texts about events, experiences, and academic contexts in various time frames.
- Recognize higher frequency vocabulary in the Academic Word List.
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Speaking
- Make presentations in a generally organized way on academic contexts discussed.
- Produce natural language related to contexts in various time frames with some errors in transition.
| Writing
- Write coherent and organized paragraphs to include clear topic sentences, relevant details, expanded explanations, and concluding sentences.
- Always write simple sentences correctly, and make mostly successful attempts to write compound and complex sentence structures.
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Level 4
CEFR: B1.2
ACTFL: Advanced Low |
Listening
- Recognize the main idea and most supporting details in organized speech on a variety of topics of personal and general interest.
- Follow stories, descriptions, and academic contexts at length and in various time frames.
- Recognize information presented in a variety of genres on familiar topics, even when something unexpected is expressed.
| Reading
- Recognize the main idea and almost all supporting details on a variety of topics of personal, general interest, and academic contexts.
- Follow stories and descriptions of length and in various time frames and genres.
- Annotate texts to show understanding.
- Summarize texts read in various contexts.
- Understand low-intermediate lower frequency vocabulary found in the Academic Word List.
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Speaking
- Deliver organized presentations appropriate to my audience on a variety of topics.
- Present information about events, experiences, and academic contexts in various time frames.
| Writing
- Write on general interest, academic, and professional topics.
- Write well organized and developed paragraphs about events, experiences, and academic contexts in various time frames.
- Write a basic four to five paragraph essay in the following rhetorical modes: (1) opinion, (2) classification, (3) process, and (4) comparison and contrast.
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Level 5
CEFR: B2
ACTFL: Advanced Mid |
Listening
- Easily follow narrative, informational, and descriptive speech.
- Recognize discussions on most topics that deal with special interests, unfamiliar situations, and abstract concepts.
- Sometimes follow extended arguments and different points of view.
| Reading
- Recognize the main idea and all supporting details in texts on a variety of topics of personal and general interest, as well as some academic contexts.
- Easily follow stories and descriptions of considerable length and in various time frames.
- Demonstrate understanding of texts written in a variety of genres, even when unfamiliar with the topic.
- Recognize mid-intermediate lower frequency vocabulary found in the Academic Word List.
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Speaking
- Deliver well-organized, detailed presentations on concrete social, academic, and professional topics.
- Present detailed information about events, experiences, and academic contexts in various time frames usually with accuracy, clarity and precision.
- Debate using a discourse of summary, validation, and critique.
| Writing
- Write on a wide variety of general interest, professional, and academic topics.
- Write well-organized, detailed essays in various time frames using (1) cause and effect, (2) summary-response, and (3) argumentative rhetorical modes.
- Integrate texts read and individual research into writing at a basic level.
- Use proper formatting (MLA, APA, etc.) and cite sources correctly.
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