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Can identify basic body parts and simple health vocabulary
A123 lessons
- Can identify basic body parts and simple health vocabularyreading
- Can express ability and inability to do thingsspoken production
- Can ask someone to repeat or clarifyspoken interaction
- Can identify immediate family members and basic physical appearance termsreading
- Can understand and express basic emotionslistening
- Can identify common food and drink itemsreading
- Can fill in a simple form with basic personal detailswriting
- Can greet people and respond to greetingsspoken interaction
- Can use basic formulas for leave-takingspoken interaction
- Can identify common hobbies and free-time activitiesreading
- Can introduce themselves and othersspoken interaction
- Can ask and answer basic questions about personal detailsspoken interaction
- Can ask for and understand simple directionsspoken interaction
- Can recognize and write numbers 1-100reading
- Can offer things and make simple invitationsspoken production
- Can express simple opinions about everyday topicsspoken production
- Can make simple requests using polite formsspoken interaction
- Can identify common daily-life objects and rooms in a homereading
- Can identify basic shopping and money vocabularyreading
- Can apologise and respond to apologiesspoken interaction
- Can express thanks and respond to thanksspoken interaction
- Can understand basic time and date expressionsreading
- Can express simple desires and intentionsspoken production
A220 lessons
- Can talk about cultural events and traditionslistening
- Can describe simple aspects of different culturesspoken interaction
- Can express opinions about cultural topicsspoken production
- Can describe recent changes in habitsspoken production
- Can talk about recent activitieslistening
- Can understand simple news items about recent eventsreading
- Can describe symptoms and understand medical advicespoken interaction
- Can describe my job and working hoursspoken production
- Can talk about daily work routinesspoken production
- Can understand simple job advertisementsreading
- Can understand simple news articlesreading
- Can describe events reported in the mediaspoken production
- Can express basic opinions about news itemsspoken production
- Can describe past events and experiencesspoken production
- Can talk about changes over timespoken production
- Can understand simple narratives about the pastlistening
- Can compare past and present situationswriting
- Can describe my studies and qualificationsspoken production
- Can talk about my educational backgroundspoken interaction
- Can understand simple academic textsreading
B118 lessons
- Can use connectors to link ideas in extended speechspoken interaction
- Can narrate events in correct temporal sequencespoken production
- Can describe cause and effect relationshipsspoken production
- Can write a simple narrative with temporal markerswriting
- Can write short reports describing experienceswriting
- Can express opinions with supporting reasonsspoken production
- Can agree and disagree politelyspoken interaction
- Can describe advantages and disadvantagesspoken production
- Can write simple opinions about current eventswriting
- Can handle most social situations while travelling in Portugalspoken interaction
- Can engage in extended conversation on familiar topicsspoken interaction
- Can express and respond to feelings and opinions during conversationsspoken interaction
- Can keep a conversation going by inviting opinions and reactingspoken production
- Can understand factual articles on topics of interestreading
- Can identify the main points in news articlesreading
- Can read simple technical information in their fieldreading
- Can write straightforward connected text on familiar topicswriting
- Can write a letter or email describing experiences and impressionswriting
B218 lessons
- Can construct a chain of reasoningspoken production
- Can justify viewpoint on topical issuesspoken production
- Can develop an argument systematically with appropriate highlighting of significant pointsspoken production
- Can sustain viewpoint by providing relevant supporting detailwriting
- Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity on familiar topicsspoken interaction
- Can take an active part in discussion in familiar contextsspoken interaction
- Can account for and sustain views by giving relevant explanations and argumentsspoken interaction
- Can clarify a detailed point of view clearlyspoken interaction
- Can understand extended speech and lectures and follow complex lines of argumentlistening
- Can understand most TV news, current affairs programmes and filmslistening
- Can understand the main ideas of complex speech on both concrete and abstract topicslistening
- Can read with a large degree of independence on familiar topicsreading
- Can understand articles and reports concerned with contemporary problemsreading
- Can recognise the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presentedreading
- Can understand the main conclusions of clearly signposted argumentative textsreading
- Can write clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjectswriting
- Can write an essay or report that develops an argumentwriting
- Can write with correct spelling and punctuationwriting
C125 lessons
- Can write a dissertation or report of substance, presenting a reasoned conclusion and engaging with the sources consultedwriting
- Can present complex content to a specialist or general audience, structuring the talk coherently and adapting it to the listenersspoken production
- Can present clear, detailed descriptions of complex subjects integrating sub-themes and developing particular pointsspoken production
- Can develop an argument systematically with appropriate highlighting of significant points and relevant supporting detail while evaluating counter-argumentsspoken production
- Can express subtle shades of meaning using a wide range of qualifying devicesspoken production
- Can sustain a viewpoint in writing by providing relevant supporting detail and evaluating counter-argumentswriting
- Can appreciate the wider, implicit layers of meaning in literary texts, including allusion, irony and cultural referencereading
- Can explain a complicated issue in a way that makes it accessible to a non-expert, reformulating and simplifying without losing accuracyspoken production
- Can handle a disagreement in a conversation with nuance, adjusting the choice of expression to the interlocutor and the stakesspoken interaction
- Can make a well-structured proposal or presentation in a professional context and deal confidently with questions and objectionsspoken interaction
- Can write clear, well-structured documents on complex subjects in a formal professional register, highlighting decisive pointswriting
- Can express him/herself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressionsspoken interaction
- Can use language flexibly and effectively for social purposes in a wide range of contextsspoken interaction
- Can give elaborate descriptions and narratives, embedding sub-themes, developing particular aspects and rounding off with an appropriate conclusionspoken production
- Can express ideas and opinions without much searching for expressions, using idiomatic expressions appropriatelyspoken production
- Can keep up a fluent conversation on abstract and complex topics, using a variety of devices to structure and emphasise discoursespoken interaction
- Can understand extended speech even when it is not clearly structured and when relationships are only implied and not signalled explicitlylistening
- Can understand television programmes and films without too much effortlistening
- Can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts and recognise implicit meaningreading
- Can understand specialised articles and longer technical instructions, even when not related to their own fieldreading
- Can appreciate contemporary literary texts including idiomatic, cultural and historic allusionsreading
- Can understand complex argumentative texts and identify the author's line of argumentation, claims, evidence and conclusionreading
- Can write a convincing, coherent text on abstract and topical subjects, adapting the register to the intended readerwriting
- Can write a critical review of a film, exhibition or work, choosing the style appropriate to the intended publicationwriting
- Can write a well-structured personal narrative of a complex experience with a coherent, convincing and personal point of viewwriting
C220 lessons
- Can express him/herself clearly and fluently on complex subjects, presenting a well-structured, coherent and convincing text with effective use of a wide range of languagewriting
- Can present clear, detailed and accurate descriptions of complex subjects, integrating sub-themes and developing particular points, rounding off with an appropriate conclusionspoken production
- Can select an appropriate formulation from a broad range of language to express him/herself clearly and with precision, differentiating finer shades of meaningwriting
- Can take an active part in discussion in all its registers, contributing, developing and steering his/her own and others' points of view, and construct a chain of reasoned argument effectivelyspoken interaction
- Can read and appreciate a wide variety of complex literary texts and non-fiction, including contemporary prose, poetry, song lyrics, and opinion piecesreading
- Can write with precision and subtlety to convey an intended effect on the reader, using appropriate register, and adapting his/her style to the text and audiencewriting
- Can act as an effective intermediary between native speakers, simplifying the message appropriately and intervening skilfully to resolve misunderstandings or disagreementsspoken interaction
- Can understand all forms of written language including abstract, technically or linguistically complex factual and literary texts, grasping finer points of style and implicit meaningreading
- Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situationsspoken interaction
- Can present a clear, smoothly-flowing accurate description or argument in an appropriate style on a complex subject, givingDue prominence to each significant pointspoken production
- Can understand any kind of spoken language, whether live or broadcast, even when delivered at fast native speed, provided they have some time to get familiar with the accentlistening
- Can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read, summarising information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentationreading
- Can write clear, smoothly-flowing text in an appropriate style on a complex subject, writing an introduction, developing and supporting a central point, and producing a fitting conclusionwriting
- Can express him/herself clearly and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning on a wide range of subjects, employing an appropriate lexical repertoirespoken interaction
- Can write an excellent, well-structured summary of complex factual material and reports, selecting the most important points and presenting them clearly, using appropriate format and stylewriting
- Can express him/herself fluently, spontaneously and precisely, with near-native command of vocabulary and syntax, using language flexibly for social, academic and professional purposesspoken interaction
- Can interact with native speakers with a degree of fluency, spontaneity, confidence and precision that enables effective communication, making clear his/her position in complex discussionsspoken interaction
- Can summarise, concisely, information and different arguments from extended spoken and written sources, reconstructing the arguments and accounts in a coherent presentationwriting
- Can write clear, detailed and well-structured texts, developing and supporting arguments and hypotheses, constructing a chain of reasoned argument in appropriate format and stylewriting
- Can write with precision and subtlety, conveying an intended effect on the reader, using appropriate register and style, and adapting his/her style to the text and audiencewriting