| Beginners' |
No prior knowledge required. |
- Introduce themselves
- Ask and answer others about their jobs, family and interests
- Understand simple questions and instructions
- Understand and use basic grammar structures
- Get by in a native speaking environment
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| Lower Intermediate |
Students have completed Year 1/Beginners or equivalent course at another institution.
Students can use and understand simple phrases and sentences on familiar topics
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- Improve spoken and written skills i.e. expressing simple opinions/requirements in a familiar context e.g. shopping, ordering a meal, booking a room
- Understand and use relevant grammatical rules
- Improve understanding of the language
- Communicate and interact at relevant level i.e. survival language skills for everyday needs
- Express opinions about current topics (TV, weather)
- Students will have reached approx GCSE/NVQ Level 1
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| Intermediate |
Students have completed Year 2/Lower Intermediate or equivalent course at another institution or have reached approximately GCSE/NVQ Level 1 standard.
Students can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling and can describe experiences, events, plans and hopes.
Students have survival skills for everyday needs.
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- Use more complex oral structures e.g. start, and maintain, a simple face-to-face conversation on topics of personal interest.
- Understand the language on a higher level eg understand main points in short articles about familiar topics
- Read different types of text and appreciate different styles
- Engage in discussions both orally and in written form.
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| Upper Intermediate |
Students who have completed Year 3/Intermediate.
Students who have a very good knowledge of the language at an intermediate level
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- Show a good command of all verb tenses with a focus on the subjunctive
- Use confidently some work place and business related vocabulary
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| Language Club, Intermediate |
Students who have completed Year 4/Upper Intermediate or equivalent course at another institution.
Students have lived in the country.
Students can follow/give a talk on a familiar topic or keep up a conversation on a fairly wide range of topics.
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- Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics.
- Interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party.
- Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
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| Language Club Advanced |
Students who have a diploma or degree level in in the language or who have lived in the country. |
- Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognise implicit meaning.
- Express him/herself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions.
- Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes.
- Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.
- Understand and have the ability to discuss films, radio and TV news and programmes, both orally and in writing.
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