CICLO PREPARATORIO DE INGLÉS- PROFESORADO UNIVERSITARIO DE INGLÉS

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
DESCRIPTORS

LISTENING

INTERMEDIATE- APPROPRIATE TO START FIRST YEAR SUBJECTS

IN ENGLISH
At this stage, listeners are able to understand with ease and confidence the overall meaning
or intent of short and simple texts. However, they understand, with some effort, moderately
complex messages relying heavily on redundancy, restatement, paraphrasing, and
contextual clues.
● Listeners can identify main ideas, specific details and implied meanings in everyday
situations of personal relevance and job-related topics.
● Listeners are able to understand monologues and presentations up to 5 minutes
provided there is visual support and they are clearly structured when the topic is
unfamiliar or the situation is not predictable.
● Listeners are able to understand much of everyday conversation and discussion
when the delivery is relatively slow and clear, and in a familiar variety.

CPI- PRE INTERMEDIATE STAGE (TRAYECTO B)

At this stage, listeners are able to understand, with considerable effort, simple formal and
informal communication on topics of personal relevance provided it is delivered slowly and
clearly.
● Although listeners may need some assistance (such as repetition, paraphrasing,
speech modification or explanation), listeners can understand short descriptive or
narrative communication on topics of personal relevance.
● Listeners can follow a very simple, well-structured presentation or demonstration on
a familiar or predictable topic, provided it is illustrated with slides, concrete examples
or diagrams, and it is delivered slowly and clearly.
● Listeners can understand a topic of discussion and some implied meanings provided
contextual clues are present when it is conducted slowly and clearly.

CPI- BEGINNER STAGE (TRAYECTO A)

At this stage, listeners are able to recognise concrete information on familiar topics
encountered in everyday life, provided it is delivered slowly and clearly in simple and short
phrases and related to immediate personal and practical needs.
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● Listeners can understand familiar information being explained in simple messages

and announcements in a predictable situation.
● Listeners are able to understand short and simple instructions and directions.
● Listeners can recognise words provided the object is in the immediate environment,
exploiting visual information and general knowledge.
● Listeners can understand key words when they are similar to their native language,
and high frequency commands that are highly contextualized and predictable.
● Listeners recognise meaning based on familiar phrases and show a developing
understanding of simple sentences and structures, although repetition, paraphrasing
or slow rate speech are required.

WRITING

INTERMEDIATE- APPROPRIATE TO START FIRST YEAR SUBJECTS

IN ENGLISH
At this stage writers can produce relatively short, simple to moderately complex descriptions,
narrations, and communications. Topics are personally relevant, familiar and concrete,
related to daily life and experience.
● Writers produce simple structures with ease although they may have difficulty with
complex structures.
● Writings at this stage show an adequate knowledge of form and paragraph structure.
● Writers can produce texts with detailed descriptions on a range of familiar subjects
within their field of interest.
● Writers can summarise, report and give their opinion about factual information on a
topical subject of personal interest. Certain notions of non-factual information can
appear.
● Writers can produce formal or informal texts, intended for a familiar or clearly defined
audience in moderately demanding contexts.

CPI- PRE INTERMEDIATE STAGE (TRAYECTO B)

At this stage writers can produce a series of basic phrases and sentences linked with simple
connectors describing everyday aspects of their environment.
● Writers can produce simple texts on familiar subjects of interest with an adequate
range of vocabulary and an adequate control of simple structures.
● They can write short, simple connected texts about personal preferences and daily
routines, grammatically and lexically simple.
● Writers show evidence of control of basic sentence structure. However, they may
have difficulty with word order and word forms which sometimes interfere with
comprehensibility.
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● Writers can give their impressions and opinions about topics of personal interest
using basic everyday vocabulary and expressions.
● Writers can produce simple and informal narratives, intended for a familiar audience
in non-demanding contexts.

CPI- BEGINNER STAGE (TRAYECTO A)

At this stage writers can produce simple sentences about familiar information related to
personal experience and everyday situations. Phrases and sentences are simple and
isolated about highly familiar information related to immediate needs.
● Writers are able to provide limited formulaic information focused on common
elements of daily life.
● Writers can reproduce practiced material in short phrases to convey the most simple
messages using limited vocabulary.
● Writings at this stage show a developing knowledge of the language and a
developing range of simple everyday vocabulary.
● Writers need guidance in order to reproduce short simple texts about matters of
personal relevance with expected language errors.
● Writers are able to recombine learned vocabulary and structures to create simple
sentences on very familiar topics.
● Writers can produce simple sentences, intended for a highly supportive and familiar
reader in non-demanding contexts.

READING

INTERMEDIATE- APPROPRIATE TO START FIRST YEAR SUBJECTS

IN ENGLISH
At this stage, readers can understand some moderately complex, relatively short texts in
predictable, practical and relevant situations.
● Readers mostly understand concrete, factual and descriptive texts about social,
educational and work-related topics.
● Readers can easily understand simple texts, formal or informal, that employ high
frequency everyday language about familiar contents.
● Readers recognise some abstract or specialized vocabulary and occasional
high-frequency idioms in moderately demanding contexts.
● Readers are able to understand complex sentences and structures with some effort
and often require rereading.
● Readers can identify purpose, main ideas, important details and links between
paragraphs in narrative or descriptive texts.
● Readers can understand texts on subjects related to their professional interest or of
current affairs.
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CPI- PRE INTERMEDIATE STAGE (TRAYECTO B)

At this stage, readers can understand short, simple texts on familiar matters of a concrete
type in non-demanding contexts.
● Readers can find specific information in practical, concrete, predictable texts
provided they are produced in simple language, clearly organized and easy to read.
● Readers can understand the main information in short and simple descriptions about
people, places, everyday life and culture, etc., provided they use simple language.
● Readers are able to understand short, non-complex texts that convey basic
information and deal with basic personal and social topics. Texts include simple,
concrete and factual language with a few common idioms, and are normally limited to
common and concrete vocabulary.
● Readers can identify purpose, main ideas, some specific details and links between
paragraphs.

CPI- BEGINNER STAGE (TRAYECTO A)

At this stage, readers can understand very short, simple texts, picking up familiar names,
words and basic phrases in the most common everyday situations provided language is
predictable.
● Readers can identify a general idea from simple, concrete and short descriptions,
especially if there is contextual or extralinguistic support.
● Readers can recognize basic vocabulary when relying on graphics and other visual
clues.
● Readers can understand, fully and with relative ease, simple learned phrases and
some very short, simple sentences related to immediate needs across a range of
highly contextualized texts.
● Texts include very simple, concrete and factual language, and they are very sparse
and clearly organized in non-demanding contexts.

SPEAKING

INTERMEDIATE- APPROPRIATE TO START FIRST YEAR SUBJECTS

IN ENGLISH
At this stage, speakers can communicate with some confidence on familiar routine and
non-routine matters related to their interests and professional field.
● Speakers can keep relatively long conversations going by adding spontaneous
exchanges on subjects of common interest.
● Speakers can follow the main points of argumentations and discussions on familiar or
predictable topics, provided the points are made in relatively simple language and/or
repeated, and opportunity is given for clarification.
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● Speakers are able to successfully handle a variety of uncomplicated communicative

tasks in straightforward social situations and start producing some complex
structures.
● Speakers are able to express personal meaning showing clear evidence of
connected discourse by combining known elements and creating with the language.
● Speakers can follow much of what is said that is related to their field, provided
interlocutors articulate clearly.
● Speakers are adequately fluent for some moderately demanding contexts.

CPI- PRE INTERMEDIATE STAGE (TRAYECTO B)

At this stage, speakers can communicate information about common everyday activities,
experiences, wants and needs, using simple descriptive language.
● Speakers’ conversations are restricted to concrete exchanges and predictable topics
in familiar situations and they may require repetition.
● Speakers attempt to explore with the language and so their speech may be
characterized by frequent pauses, ineffective rephrasing and self-corrections
therefore communication may be impeded.
● Speakers can give a short, rehearsed presentation on a topic pertinent to their
everyday life, in predictable situations and non-demanding contexts.
● Speakers’ fluency is adequate for simple conversations with one person at a time
although slow with some pauses or hesitations.

CPI- BEGINNER STAGE (TRAYECTO A)

At this stage, speakers can produce short, simple, isolated phrases on highly predictable,
everyday topics that affect them directly, usually in response to questions.
● Speakers pause frequently as they search for simple, limited or basic vocabulary
about routine situations. They frequently resort to repetition, words from their native
language, or silence. Their speed of production may be slow and even quit slow.
● Speakers' speech may include combinations of learned phrases and formulaic
expressions prepared in advance.
● Conversations are restricted to predictable topics that respond to immediate needs.
They normally rely on gestures, questions and prompts, supported by visual cues in
non-demanding contexts.