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English -- Descriptores Generales -- A2+

Nivel	Actividad o Competencia	Tipo de comunicación	Destreza	Descriptor
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral comprehension	Overall oral comprehension	Can understand enough to be able to meet needs of a concrete type, provided people articulate clearly and slowly.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral comprehension	Understanding conversation between other people	Can generally identify the topic of discussion around them when it is conducted slowly and clearly.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral comprehension	Understanding conversation between other people	Can recognise when people agree and disagree in a conversation conducted slowly and clearly.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral comprehension	Understanding as a member of a live audience	Can follow the general outline of a demonstration or presentation on a familiar or predictable topic, where the message is expressed slowly and clearly in simple language and there is visual support (e.g. slides, handouts).
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral comprehension	Understanding announcements and instructions	Can understand and follow a series of instructions for familiar everyday activities such as sports, cooking, etc., provided they are delivered slowly and clearly.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral comprehension	Understanding announcements and instructions	Can understand straightforward announcements (e.g. of a cinema programme or sports event, that a train has been delayed), provided the delivery is slow and clear.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral comprehension	Understanding audio (or signed) media and recordings	Can understand the most important information contained in short commercials concerning goods and services of interest (e.g. CDs, video games, travel).
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral comprehension	Understanding audio (or signed) media and recordings	Can understand in an interview what people say they do in their free time, what they particularly like doing and what they do not like doing, provided they speak slowly and clearly.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Audio-visual comprehension	Watching TV, film and video	Can identify the main point of TV news items reporting events, accidents, etc. where the visuals support the commentary.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Audio-visual comprehension	Watching TV, film and video	Can follow a TV commercial or a trailer for or scene from a film, understanding what topic(s) are concerned, provided the images are a great help in understanding and the delivery is clear and relatively slow.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Reading comprehension	Overall reading comprehension	Can understand short, simple texts on familiar matters of a concrete type which consist of high frequency everyday or job-related language.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Reading comprehension	Reading correspondence	Can understand a simple personal letter, e-mail or post in which the person writing is talking about familiar subjects (such as friends or family) or asking questions on these subjects.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Reading comprehension	Reading correspondence	Can understand basic types of standard routine letters and faxes (enquiries, orders, letters of confirmation, etc.) on familiar topics.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Reading comprehension	Reading for orientation	Can find specific information in practical, concrete, predictable texts (e.g. travel guidebooks, recipes), provided they are produced in simple language.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Reading comprehension	Reading for orientation	Can understand the main information in short and simple descriptions of goods in brochures and websites (e.g. portable digital devices, cameras).
A2+	Communicative language activities	Reading comprehension	Reading for information and argument	Can identify specific information in simpler material they encounter such as letters, brochures and short news articles describing events.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Reading comprehension	Reading for information and argument	Can follow the general outline of a news report on a familiar type of event, provided the contents are familiar and predictable.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Reading comprehension	Reading for information and argument	Can pick out the main information in short news reports or simple articles in which figures, names, illustrations and titles play a prominent role and support the meaning of the text.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Reading comprehension	Reading for information and argument	Can understand the main points of short texts dealing with everyday topics (e.g. lifestyle, hobbies, sports, weather).
A2+	Communicative language activities	Reading comprehension	Reading instructions	Can understand regulations, for example safety, when expressed in simple language.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Reading comprehension	Reading instructions	Can understand short instructions illustrated step by step (e.g. for installing new technology).
A2+	Communicative language activities	Reading comprehension	Reading as a leisure activity	Can understand enough to read short, simple stories and comic strips involving familiar, concrete situations described in high frequency everyday language.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Reading comprehension	Reading as a leisure activity	Can understand the main points made in short magazine reports or guide entries that deal with concrete everyday topics (e.g. hobbies, sports, leisure activities, animals).
A2+	Communicative language strategies		Identifying cues and inferring (spoken, signed and written)	Can use an idea of the overall meaning of short texts and utterances on everyday topics of a concrete type to derive the probable meaning of unknown words/signs from the context.
A2+	Communicative language strategies		Identifying cues and inferring (spoken, signed and written)	Can exploit their recognition of known words/signs to deduce the meaning of unfamiliar words/signs in short expressions used in routine everyday contexts.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral production	Sustained monologue: describing experience	Can tell a story or describe something in a simple list of points.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral production	Sustained monologue: describing experience	Can describe everyday aspects of their environment e.g. people, places, a job or study experience.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral production	Sustained monologue: describing experience	Can give short, basic descriptions of events and activities.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral production	Sustained monologue: describing experience	Can describe plans and arrangements, habits and routines, past activities and personal experiences.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral production	Sustained monologue: describing experience	Can use simple descriptive language to make brief statements about and compare objects and possessions.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral production	Sustained monologue: describing experience	Can explain what they like or dislike about something.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral production	Sustained monologue: putting a case (e.g. in a debate)	Can explain what they like or dislike about something, why they prefer one thing to another, making simple, direct comparisons.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral production	Addressing audiences	Can give a short, rehearsed presentation on a topic pertinent to their everyday life, and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions, plans and actions.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral production	Addressing audiences	Can cope with a limited number of straightforward follow-up questions.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Written production	Creative writing	Can describe everyday aspects of their environment e.g. people, places, a job or study experience in linked sentences.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Written production	Creative writing	Can give very short, basic descriptions of events, past activities and personal experiences.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Written production	Creative writing	Can tell a simple story (e.g. about events on a holiday or about life in the distant future).
A2+	Communicative language strategies		Compensating	Can use an inadequate word/sign from their repertoire and use gestures to clarify what they mean.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Overall oral interaction	Can interact with reasonable ease in structured situations and short conversations, provided the other person helps if necessary. Can manage simple, routine exchanges without undue effort; can ask and answer questions and exchange ideas and information on familiar topics in predictable everyday situations.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Understanding an interlocutor	Can understand enough to manage simple, routine exchanges without undue effort.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Understanding an interlocutor	Can generally understand clear, standard speech/sign on familiar matters directed at them, provided they can ask for repetition or reformulation from time to time.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Conversation	Can establish social contact (e.g. greetings and farewells, introductions, giving thanks).
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Conversation	Can generally understand clear, standard language on familiar matters directed at them, provided they can ask for repetition or reformulation from time to time.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Conversation	Can participate in short conversations in routine contexts on topics of interest.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Conversation	Can express how they feel in simple terms, and express thanks.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Conversation	Can ask for a favour (e.g. to borrow something), can offer a favour, and can respond if someone asks them to do a favour for them.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Informal discussion (with friends)	Can generally identify the topic of discussion around them when it is conducted slowly and clearly.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Informal discussion (with friends)	Can exchange opinions and compare things and people using simple language.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Informal discussion (with friends)	Can discuss what to do in the evening or at the weekend.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Informal discussion (with friends)	Can make and respond to suggestions.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Informal discussion (with friends)	Can agree and disagree with others.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Formal discussion (meetings)	Can generally follow changes of topic in formal discussion related to their field which is conducted slowly and clearly.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Formal discussion (meetings)	Can exchange relevant information and give their opinion on practical problems when asked directly, provided they receive some help with formulation and can ask for repetition of key points if necessary.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Goal-oriented co-operation (cooking together, discussing a document, organising an event, etc.)	Can understand enough to manage simple, routine tasks without undue effort, asking very simply for repetition when they do not understand.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Goal-oriented co-operation (cooking together, discussing a document, organising an event, etc.)	Can discuss what to do next, making and responding to suggestions, and asking for and giving directions.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Obtaining goods and services	Can deal with common aspects of everyday living such as travel, lodging, eating and shopping.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Obtaining goods and services	Can interact in predictable everyday situations (e.g. post office, station, shop), using a wide range of simple expressions.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Obtaining goods and services	Can get all the information needed from a tourist office, as long as it is of a straightforward, non-specialised nature.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Information exchange	Can understand enough to manage simple, routine exchanges without undue effort.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Information exchange	Can deal with practical everyday demands: finding out and passing on straightforward factual information.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Information exchange	Can ask and answer questions about habits and routines.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Information exchange	Can ask and answer questions about pastimes and past activities.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Information exchange	Can ask and answer questions about plans and intentions.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Information exchange	Can give and follow simple directions and instructions, e.g. explain how to get somewhere.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Interviewing and being interviewed	Can make themselves understood in an interview and communicate ideas and information on familiar topics, provided they can ask for clarification occasionally, and are given some help to express what they want to.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Interviewing and being interviewed	Can describe to a doctor very basic symptoms and ailments such as a cold or the flu.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Oral interaction	Using telecommunications	Can use telecommunications with their friends to exchange simple news, make plans and arrange to meet.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Written interaction	Correspondence	Can exchange information by text message, by e-mail or in short letters, responding to questions from the other person (e.g. about a new product or activity).
A2+	Communicative language activities	Written interaction	Notes, messages and forms	Can take a short, simple message provided they can ask for repetition and reformulation.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Online interaction	Online conversation and discussion	Can introduce themselves and manage simple exchanges online, asking and answering questions and exchanging ideas on predictable everyday topics, provided enough time is allowed to formulate responses, and that they interact with one interlocutor at a time.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Online interaction	Online conversation and discussion	Can make short descriptive online postings about everyday matters, social activities and feelings, with simple key details.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Online interaction	Online conversation and discussion	Can comment on other people’s online postings, provided they are written/signed in simple language, reacting to embedded media by expressing feelings of surprise, interest and indifference in a simple way.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Online interaction	Goal-oriented online transactions and collaboration	Can use formulaic language to respond to routine problems arising in online transactions (e.g. concerning availability of models and special offers, delivery dates, addresses).
A2+	Communicative language activities	Online interaction	Goal-oriented online transactions and collaboration	Can interact online with a supportive partner in a simple collaborative task, responding to basic instructions and seeking clarification, provided there are visual aids such as images, statistics or graphs to clarify the concepts involved.
A2+	Communicative language strategies		Turntaking	Can use simple techniques to start, maintain or end a short conversation.
A2+	Communicative language strategies		Turntaking	Can initiate, maintain and close simple, face-to-face conversation.
A2+	Communicative language strategies		Asking for clarification	Can ask very simply for repetition when they do not understand.
A2+	Communicative language strategies		Asking for clarification	Can ask for clarification about key words/signs or phrases not understood, using stock phrases.
A2+	Communicative language activities		Overall mediation	Can play a supportive role in interaction, provided other participants speak/sign slowly and that one or more of the participants helps them to contribute and to express their suggestions. Can convey relevant information contained in clearly structured, short, simple, informational texts, provided the texts concern concrete, familiar subjects and are formulated in simple everyday language.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Mediating a text	Relaying specific information in speech or sign	Can relay (in Language B) the point made in a clear announcement (in Language A) concerning familiar everyday subjects, though they may have to simplify the message and search for words/signs.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Mediating a text	Relaying specific information in speech or sign	Can relay (in Language B) specific, relevant information contained in short, simple texts, labels and notices (in Language A) on familiar subjects.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Mediating a text	Relaying specific information in writing	Can relay in writing (in Language B) specific information contained in short simple informational texts (in Language A), provided the texts concern concrete, familiar subjects and are composed in simple everyday language.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Mediating a text	Explaining data in speech or sign	Can interpret and describe (in Language B) simple visuals on familiar topics (e.g. a weather map, a basic flow chart) (with text in Language A), even though pauses, false starts and reformulation may be very evident.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Mediating a text	Processing text in speech or sign	Can report (in Language B) the main points made in simple TV or radio news items (in Language A) reporting events, sports, accidents, etc., provided the topics concerned are familiar and the delivery is slow and clear.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Mediating a text	Processing text in speech or sign	Can report in simple sentences (in Language B) the information contained in clearly structured, short, simple texts (in Language A) that have illustrations or tables.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Mediating a text	Processing text in speech or sign	Can summarise (in Language B) the main point(s) in simple, short informational texts (in Language A) on familiar topics.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Mediating a text	Processing text in writing	Can list as a series of bullet points (in Language B) the relevant information contained in short simple texts (in Language A), provided the texts concern concrete, familiar subjects and contain only simple everyday language.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Mediating a text	Processing text in writing	Can pick out and reproduce key words and phrases or short sentences from a short text within the learner’s limited competence and experience.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Mediating a text	Translating a written text in speech or sign	Can provide an approximate oral translation (into Language B) of short, simple, everyday texts (e.g. brochure entries, notices, instructions, letters or e-mails) (written in Language A).
A2+	Communicative language activities	Mediating concepts	Facilitating collaborative interaction with peers	Can collaborate in simple, shared tasks, provided other participants articulate slowly and one or more people help them contribute and express their suggestions.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Mediating concepts	Collaborating to construct meaning	Can ensure that the person they are addressing understands what they mean by asking appropriate questions.
A2+	Communicative language activities	Mediating communication	Acting as an intermediary in informal situations (with friends and colleagues)	Can communicate (in Language B) the overall sense of what is said (in Language A) in everyday situations, following basic cultural conventions and conveying the essential information, provided this is articulated clearly and they can ask for repetition and clarification.
A2+	Communicative language competences	Linguistic competence	General linguistic range	Has a repertoire of basic language which enables them to deal with everyday situations with predictable content, though they will generally have to compromise the message and search for words/signs.
A2+	Communicative language competences	Linguistic competence	Vocabulary range	Has sufficient vocabulary to conduct routine everyday transactions involving familiar situations and topics.
A2+	Communicative language competences	Sociolinguistic competence	Sociolinguistic appropriateness	Can perform and respond to basic language functions, e.g. information exchange and requests, and express opinions and attitudes in a simple way.
A2+	Communicative language competences	Sociolinguistic competence	Sociolinguistic appropriateness	Can socialise simply but effectively using the simplest common expressions and following basic routines.
A2+	Communicative language competences	Pragmatic competence	Turntaking	Can use simple techniques to start, maintain or close a short conversation.
A2+	Communicative language competences	Pragmatic competence	Turntaking	Can initiate, maintain and close simple, face-to-face conversation.
A2+	Communicative language competences	Pragmatic competence	Thematic development	Can tell a story or describe something in a simple list of points.
A2+	Communicative language competences	Pragmatic competence	Thematic development	Can give an example of something in a very simple text using “like” or “for example”.
A2+	Communicative language competences	Pragmatic competence	Coherence and cohesion	Can use the most frequently occurring connectors to link simple sentences in order to tell a story or describe something as a simple list of points.
A2+	Communicative language competences	Pragmatic competence	Fluency	Can make themselves understood in short contributions, even though pauses, false starts and reformulation are very evident.