LANGUAGE PROFILE NAME DATE LEVEL SEE REVERSE FOR EXPLANATION SPEAKING INTERACTION SPEAKING PRODUCTION LISTENING BUSINESS

WRITING A2 Pre-intermediate Speaking

You can state simple requirements within your own job area and pass on simple messages

A2

B1

B1+

B2

B2+

C1

C1+

C2

You can exchange opinions with colleagues as long as the topic is predictable. You can pass on messages and offer advice to clients within their own area of expertise.

B1 Intermediate

You can take some limited part in a meeting. You can give detailed information and state detailed requirements within a familiar topic area. You can, if supported, give a presentation or demonstration. You can take and pass on messages. You can carry out simple negotiations.

B2 Upper intermediate

You can contribute effectively to meetings and seminars within your own area of work. You can give a presentation or demonstration. You can argue a point persuasively, and ask questions which go outside your own immediate area of responsibility or expertise. You can use the telephone for most business purposes. You can understand most of what takes place in presentations, meetings and seminars within your own area of work. You can follow arguments unless they are very complex or abstract. You can write letters and emails of familiar types, such as enquiry, complaint, request and application. You can write reports although they would need checking by a native speaker. You can make notes in meetings, while continuing to follow discussions and arguments.

C1 Advanced

You can handle a wide range of non-routine as well as routine situations arising out of dealings with colleagues and outside contacts. You can participate in discussions and arguments in meetings in the same way a native speaker would. You can argue a case effectively, justifying demands and specifying needs clearly. You can follow presentations and demonstrations as a native speaker would, with a little time to adjust to accent.

C2 proficient

Listening

You can understand simple instructions. You can receive a simple phone message in a familiar and predictable context.

You can understand the gist of presentations of a factual nature if they relate to a visible, physical object such as a product. You can take part in exchanges of opinions on familiar, predictable matters. You can understand routine and the general meaning non-routine letters. You can understand short reports or articles on predictable topics. You can understand instructions and product descriptions within your own area of work, but only the general meaning of more theoretical material without access to dictionaries. You can read and act on standard letters which fall within your own work area. If you are given enough time, you can understand a report on a familiar topic. You can understand instructions and product descriptions, provided that the language is simple and the subject matter predictable.

You can follow presentations or demonstrations of a factual nature if they relate to a visible, physical object such as a product.

Writing

You can write a message or request to a colleague of a simple routine type. You can note down instructions and requests such as clients orders and delivery dates.

You can produce a range of written documents but may need to have these checked by a native speaker if accuracy and register are important. You can take and pass on messages, but may have difficulty if these are lengthy or complex. You can take dictation if the pace is fairly slow, and there are opportunities for checking.

Reading

You can identify standard letters such as orders and enquiries. You can understand basic information from factual texts within your own area of expertise. You can understand short, standard notices (e.g. No Smoking).

You can write a straightforward routine letter or e-mail, although this will need to be checked by a colleague. You can write a short note of request. You can record a routine order. You can make notes during a meeting for your own purposes.

You can understand instructions, articles and reports, as long as, in most of these cases, the topic area is within your own field, and no particularly complex concepts and arguments or unusual vocabulary are involved.

You can write any type of letter or e-mail demanded by your area of work. You can write reports without taking much longer than a native speaker. You can write a set of instructions with little risk of error, even when complex or sensitive issues are involved. In meetings, you can make full and accurate notes while continuing to follow discussions and arguments and participate in them. You can understand all kinds of correspondence, even where specialist areas of knowledge are involved. Reports and articles are also fully accessible, with the possibility of difficulties only where very complex or technical points are being made.