Amlotus proficiency descriptions

Level

Descriptors

Level 1

CEFR: A1

•    Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs 

     of a concrete type.

•   Can introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where

    he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has.

•    Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.

Level 2

CEFR: A2

•   Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance

    (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).

•    Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar

     and routine matters.

•    Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of

     immediate need.

Level 3

CEFR: B1

•    Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school,

     leisure, etc.

•    Can deal with most situations likely to arise while traveling in an area where the language is spoken.

•    Can produce simple connected text on topics that are familiar or of personal interest.

•    Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for

     opinions and plans.

Level 4

CEFR: B2

•    Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions

    in his/her field of specialization.

•    Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite

     possible without strain for either party.

•    Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the

     advantages and disadvantages of various options.

Level 5

CEFR: C1

•    Can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognize implicit meaning.

•    Can express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions.

•    Can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes.

•    Can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational

     patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.

•    Can identify phonetic rules and symbols in standard American language.

Elective:
English for American Literature

Level 5 

CEFR: C1

•    Can identify inferred meaning in a linguistically complex text.

•    Can understand the double meaning of a word used in a joke.

•    Can comment on and discuss a linguistically complex text.

•    Can write a clear summary of a complex factual text, maintaining its original tone and message.

•    Can express ideas spontaneously without searching for expressions.

•    Can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational

     patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.

Elective:
English for Digital Marketing

Level 5

CEFR: C1

•    Can extract information, ideas and opinions from highly specialized sources within their field.

•    Can identify logical flaws in a presentation or lecture.

•    Can present a technically complex process in digital marketing.

•    Can write a detailed critical review.

Elective:
Current Event

Level 5

CEFR: C1

•    Can understand the use of puns, allusions, jokes in advertisements or newspaper.

•   Can understand complex arguments in a newspaper.

•    Can contribute to groups discussion even when speech if fast and colloquial.

•    Can write a clear summary of a complex factual text, maintaining its original tone and message.

Elective:
American Culture

Level 5

CEFR: C1

•    Can identify inferred meaning in a linguistically complex text.

•    Can understand the double meaning of a word used in a joke.

•    Can comment on and discuss a linguistically complex text.

•    Can write a clear summary of a complex factual text, maintaining its original tone and message.

Elective:
English for Medicine

Level 5

CEFR: C1

•    Can identify inferred meaning in a linguistically complex text.

•    Can present a technically complex process in medicine.

•    Can express ideas spontaneously without searching for expressions.

•    Can write a clear summary of a complex factual text, maintaining its original tone and message.

Academic ESL

Level 6

CEFR: C2

•    Can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read.

•    Can summarize information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in 

     a coherent presentation.

•    Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in

     the most complex situations.

Level

Descriptors

Level 5

CEFR: C1

•    Can understand a wide variety of longer texts, and recognize implied meanings.

•    Can express ideas spontaneously without searching for expressions.

•    Can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes.

•    Can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational

     patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.

Level 6

CEFR: C2

•     Can understand with easy virtually everything heard or read.

•     Can summarize information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments in a coherent

      presentation.

•     Can express ideas spontaneously, fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning.

Course

Descriptors

Business
English 1

Level 3

CEFR: B1

•         Can understand simple work-related texts, such as emails, memos and

         company postings.

•         Can recognize key points in reports, main ideas in work-related 

         documents, and scan a resume for key information.

•         Can understand conversations about rules or regulations related to the

         workplace, and the main points of a work-related recorded presentation.

•         Can use simple, fixed expressions to accept offers in a simple business

        transaction, and make and justify a simple point of view in a work-related

        document.

•         Can produce a short, simple business report, and a short report on a work-

        related task or event.

Business
English 2

Level 4

CEFR: B2

•         Can understand the main information in the agenda for a work-related

        meeting, the duties and responsibilities listed in job descriptions.

•         Can scan short, simple texts on the same topic to find specific information,

        understand the main ideas described in a company’s mission statement, and

        extract relevant details in everyday letters, brochures and short official

        documents.
 

•         Can recognize the tone and intended audience of a formal presentation,

        distinguish between ambiguity and certainty in speech, and use simple

        language to convey the basic facts about a negotiating position.

•         Can write a short, simple work-related report outlining key issues, a  simple summary of action points from a meeting, and produce an email giving some detail of work-related news and events.

Business
English 3

Level 5

CEFR: C1

•         Can extract key details from a company blog or article, recognize significant

        points in straightforward reports and business letters, understand the

        session details listed in a conference program, the main information in

        technical work-related documents, written explanations of skills needed     for career progression, and compare a resume/CV against a job posting     to  determine if key requirements have been met.

•         Can recognize indirect disagreement expressed through modifiers used  during a negotiation, and understand a course of action suggested during a negotiation.

•         Can state a basic description of professional goals. In writing, students can compose a work-related email/letter expressing thanks in detail, a short, concise formal report explaining how a product works, and provide answers to open-ended questions in a survey about familiar products or services.

Business
English 4

Level 6

CEFR: C2

•         Can understand written feedback on job performance, and a complex
form for company-offered services (e.g. medical insurance).

•         Can identify relevant articles and reports on a range of professional topics,
a list of linguistically complex written questions to ask during a job interview, distinguish between fact and opinion in complex business contexts, and comprehend linguistically complex texts in their field.

•         Can give a short, prepared update on a work-related project, and suggest a resolution to a conflict in a simple negotiation using fixed expressions.

•    Can write a cover letter addressing specific information mentioned in
a job posting, respond effectively to emails requesting work-related information, and use appropriate register in work-related written communication.

Level

Descriptors

Intro to Grammar in Use S

(Level 2)

CEFR: A2

•     Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions
related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and
family information, shopping, local geography, employment).

•    Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.

•    Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.

Advanced Grammar In Use S

(Level 3)

CEFR: B1

•     Can recognize the main points of clear standard input on
familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.

•     Can utilize present, past, future, progressive and perfect tenses.

•     Can utilize functions of modals in a context.

•     Can identify the difference between the use of gerunds and infinitives.

•     Can distinguish between comparatives and superlatives.

•    Can develop a paragraph with a clear topic sentence, a controlling idea,

and supporting examples.

Intro to Writing S

(Level 4)

CEFR: B2

•     Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and

abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of

specialization.

•    Can develop a cohesive paragraph with a clear thesis statement and

supporting details, utilizing direct and indirect quotations. 

•     Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options and presenting a relationship in cause and effect.

Advanced Writing S

(Level 5)

CEFR: C1

•     Can identify a wide range of rhetorical modes used in narration,

cause/effect, comparison, argumentation, problem/solution, and summary.

•    Can express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious

searching for expressions.

•    Can use language flexibly and effectively for social and professional

purposes.

•    Can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.

•    Can utilize appropriate grammatical structures for writing assignments.

Accent Reduction S

(Level 5)

CEFR: C1

•    Can identify phonetic rules and symbols in standard American language.