CEFR for Languages

1. STANDARD COMPETENCE
Spoken Interaction
A1
a. Can interact in a simple way provided theother person is
prepared to repeat or rephrasethings at a slower rate of
speech and help with formulation.
b. Can ask and answer simple questions in areas of
immediate need or on very familiar topics.
A2
a. Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a
simple and direct exchange of information on familiar
topics and activities.
b. Can handle very short social exchanges, even though
he/she cannot usually keep the conversation going of
his/her own accord
B1
a. Can exploit a wide range of simple language to deal with
most situations likely to arise whilst travelling.
b. Can enter unprepared into conversation on topics that are
familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life
(e.g. family, hobbies, work, travel and current events).
B2
a. Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that
makes regular interaction with native speakers quite
possible.
b. Can take an active part in discussion in familiar contexts.
c. Can account for and sustain views clearly by providing
relevant explanations and arguments.
C1
a. Can express him/herself fluently and spontaneously.
b. Can use language flexibly and effectively for social and
professional purposes.
c. Can formulate ideas and opinions appropriately and relate
contributions skillfully to thoseof other speakers.
Spoken Production:
A1
a. Can use simple phrases and sentences to describe what
he/she does, where he/she lives and peoplehe/she knows.
A2
a. Can use a series of phrases and sentences to describe in
simple terms family and other people, living conditions,
educational background and present or most recent job.
B1
a. Can keep going comprehensibly in order to describe
experiences and events, dreams, hopes and
ambitions.
b. Can briefly give reasons and explanations for
opinions and plans.
c. Can narrate a story or relate theplot of a book or
film and describe reactions.
B2
a. Can present clear, detailed descriptions on a wide range of
subjects related to his field of interest, expanding and
supportingideas with subsidiary points and relevant
examples.
b. Can explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the
advantages and disadvantages of various options.
C1
a. Can present clear, detailed descriptions of complex
subjects integrating sub-themes, developing particular
points and rounding off with an appropriateconclusion.
C2
a. Can present a clear, smoothly flowing description or
argument in a styleappropriateto thecontext and with an
effective logical structurewhich helps the recipient to
notice significant points.

2. A1
a. Family life
b. Hobbies and pastimes
c. Holidays
d. Work and Jobs
e. Shopping
f. Leisure Activities
A2
a. Hobbies and pastimes
b. Holidays
c. Work and jobs
d. Shopping
e. Leisure activities
f. Education
B1
a. Leisure activities
b. Education
c. Film
d. Books and literature
e. News, lifestyles and current affairs
f. Media
B2
a. Education
b. Film
c. Books and literature
d. News, lifestyles and current affairs
e. Media
f. Arts
C1
a. Books and literature
b. News, lifestyles and current affairs
c. Media
d. Arts
e. Scientific developments
f. Technical and legal language
C2
a. Society
b. Progress
c. People
d. Work
e. Companies
f. Food
g. Business
h. Life

3. A1
a. Directions
b. Describing habits and routines
c. Giving personalinformation
d. Greetings
e. Telling the time
f. Understanding and using numbers
g. Understanding and using prices
A2
a. Describing habits and routines
b. Describing past experiences
c. Describing people
d. Describing places
e. Describing things
f. Obligation and necessity
g. Requests
h. Suggestions
B1
a. Checking understanding
b. Describing experiences and events
c. Describing feelings and emotion
d. Describing places
e. Expressing opinions;language of agreeing and disagreeing
f. Initiating and closing conversation
g. Managing interaction (interrupting, changing topic, resuming
or continuing)
B2
a. Critiquing and reviewing
b. Describing experiences
c. Describing feelings and emotions
d. Describing hopes and plans
e. Developing an argument
f. Encouraging and inviting another speaker to continue, come in
g. Expressing abstract ideas
h. Expressing agreement and disagreement
i. Expressing opinions
j. Expressing reaction, e.g. indifference
k. Interacting informally, reacting, expressing interest,
sympathy, surpriseetc.
l. Opinion, justification
m. Speculating
n. Taking the initiative in interaction
o. Synthesizing, evaluating, glossing info
C1
a. Conceding a point
b. Critiquing and reviewing constructively
c. Defending a point of view persuasively
d. Developing an argument systematically
e. Emphasizing a point, feeling, issue
f. Expressing attitudes and feelings precisely
g. Expressing certainty, probability, doubt
h. Expressing opinions tentatively, hedging
i. Expressing reaction, e.g. indifference
j. Expressing shades of opinion and certainty
k. Responding to counterarguments
l. Speculating and hypothesisingabout causes, consequences
etc.
m. Synthesising, evaluating and glossing information

4. A1
Discourse Markers:
a. Connecting words, and, but, because
Vocabulary:
a. Food and drink
b. Nationalities and countries
c. Personal information
d. Things in thetown, shops and shopping
e. Verbs – basic
A2
Discourse Markers:
a. Linkers: sequential – past time
Vocabulary:
a. Adjectives: personality, description, feelings
b. Food and drink
c. Things in the town, shops and shopping
d. Travel and services
B1
Discourse Markers:
a. Connecting words expressing cause and effect, contrast etc
b. Linkers: sequential past time
Vocabulary:
a. Collocation
b. Colloquial language
c. Things in the town, shops and shopping
d. Travel and services
B2
Discourse Markers:
a. Connecting words expressing cause and effect, contrast etc.
b. Discourse markers to structureformal speech
c. Linkers: although, in spiteof, despite
d. Linkers: sequential – past time– subsequently
Vocabulary:
a. Collocation
b. Colloquial language
C1
Discourse Markers:
a. Linking devices, logical markers
b. Markers to structureand signpost formal and informal speech
and writing
Vocabulary:
a. Approximating (vague language)
b. Collocation
c. Colloquial language
d. Differentiated use of vocabulary
e. Eliminating false friends
f. Formal and informal registers
g. Idiomatic expressions
C2
Discourse Markers:
a. connectors of reason and result
b. Modals
c. Linking words and phrases
d. Phrasal verbs.
e. Modals of deduction, 'must' and 'can't', and of possibility,
'might' and 'could'
f. Inversion after 'so' and 'such'
g. Futureforms
h. Conditionals and compounds with '-ever'.
i. word formation
j. Prepositions after certain verbs.
k. participles.
l. adjectives
m. infinitive
n. noun reference
Vocabulary:
a. Colloquialism
b. Regional language or unfamiliar terminology
c. Fixed phrases and idioms