Theme

Band
1
Listening and
speaking

Descriptor
Ask simple questions politely to obtain information
and respond to questions appropriately. Listen to
and discriminate the consonants, vowels and
diphthongs.

Theme

Band
2
Listening and
speaking

Descriptor
Participate in oral interactions by talking
appropriately. Listen to and discriminate the past
tense forms, plural forms and contractions.

Theme

Band
3
Listening and
speaking

Descriptor
Understand messages and descriptions by
identifying a few main ideas and supporting details,
and answering oral questions correctly. Listen to
texts, recall and respond to the main ideas in an
organized way.

Theme

Band
1
Reading

Descriptor
Read familiar texts and scan adequately for details,
sequence and reorganise ideas correctly.

Theme

Band
2
Reading

Descriptor
Read a variety of texts to scan adequately for
details, sequence and reorganise ideas and find
meaning of words (synonyms, antonyms,
hypernyms).

Theme

Band
3
Reading

Descriptor
Read a variety of texts and correctly scan for
simple details, sequence and reorganise ideas, find
meaning of words (synonyms, antonyms,
hypernyms), identify main ideas and supporting
details.

Theme

Band
1
Writing

Descriptor
Write some simple sentences but lack accuracy.

Theme

Band
2
Writing

Descriptor
Express ideas in simple sentences on a limited
range of topics using simple vocabulary with
minimal use of writing conventions.

Theme

Band
3
Writing

Descriptor
Write a text expressing ones opinions using a
range of simple sentence patterns with sufficient
use of writing conventions and vocabulary