·         Ability to listen to and understand spoken messages in an appropriate range of communicative situations (topics that are familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life).

·         Ability to initiate, sustain and conclude conversations on topics that are familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life.

·         Ability to read and understand nonspecialist written texts on a range of subjects or, in some cases, specialist texts in a familiar field and to write different types of text for various purposes in an appropriate range of situations.

·         Appropriate use of aids (for example, notes, diagrams, maps) to understand or produce written or spoken texts (for example, conversations, instructions, interviews, speeches ).

·         Ability to initiate and sustain an appropriate range of autonomous language learning activities.