You can assess your own level for our language courses using the guide below:
Stage 1
- No previous knowledge is necessary
- Suitable for rusty beginners
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Stage 2
Suitable if you can:
- Give and ask for personal information about yourself and family
- Order food and drink
- Give and ask the time
- Ask for directions
- Book a hotel room
- Recognise and use the present simple tense
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Stage 3
This stage is suitable if you can:
- Give information about yourself and your daily activities;
- Describe people and places
- Make enquiries in public places
- Make arrangements to go out;
- Talk about hobbies and interests
- Use the present, past and future tenses of verbs
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Stage 4
This stage is suitable if you can:
- Develop your understanding of the main points of standard texts, both in listening and reading.
- Develop strategies for dealing with most situations that are likely to arise while travelling in the countries where the language is spoken.
- Expand your vocabulary and structures necessary to describe experiences, events, plans and ambitions.
- Write letters giving news, describing experiences and impressions, expressing feelings or giving or requesting detailed information(e.g. replying to an advertisement, applying for a job).
- Use confidently the main tenses of the verb, as well as nouns, adjectives and pronouns correctly.
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Stage 5
This stage is suitable if you can:
- Understand authentic, long passages of some complexity (e.g. interviews, adverts, news broadcast etc.)
- Participate in authentic conversation with native speakers deploying a good and appropriate range of generally accurate language and argue a viewpoint convincingly
- Understand authentic texts (e.g. articles from the press, literary extracts etc.) with ease
- Write extended texts using a wide range of language and vocabulary accurately (e.g. reports, essays, letters and emails)
- Confidently use a wide range of grammar structures including conditional and subjunctive tenses, pronouns etc.
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