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Learning outcomes

Elementary level students should be
able to:
• Understand and respond to basic requests and instructions
• Ask and respond to simple questions
• Use simple formulaic expressions
• Make simple comparisons
• Describe the locations and physical relationships between objects
• Recognise and use core vocabulary in key topic area

Pre-Intermediate level students should be able to:
• Use an increasing range of functional expressions in context
• Conduct a simple transaction for the exchange of goods and services
• Understand and use some common idiomatic expressions
• Correctly order words to form simple clauses sentences and utterances
• Understand ways of relating actions to time
• Recognise and use vocabulary in key topic areas

Intermediate level students should be
able to:
• Confidently use appropriate functional language in a range of situations
• Understand a range of English idioms
• Understand and express nuances of meaning relating to probability and supposition
• Understand and use a range of complex question structures
• Recognise and understand a range of register markers
• Recognise and use extended vocabulary in key topic areas

Upper-Intermediate level students
should be able to:
• Speak spontaneously and relatively fluently on a range of topics
• Express and justify opinions and beliefs
• Summarise information and ideas
• Understand and express more abstract ideas
• Recognise and use extended vocabulary in most topic areas

Advanced students should be able to:
• Demonstrate a knowledge of, and an ability to use, a range of presentation techniques
• Communicate an in-depth knowledge of chosen areas of study, including specialised and technical vocabulary
• Maintain appropriate linguistic content in relation to register and genre
• Modify contributions to express a range of modalities
• Demonstrate an ability to direct and manage conversational exchanges