Understanding Basic Words and Phrases: The student can understand familiar words, basic phrases, and very simple sentences related to immediate and concrete needs or personal relevance, such as personal details, family information, shopping, and local geography.

Recognising Common Social Conventions: The student can recognise polite phrases, greetings, farewells, and basic requests.

Following Slow and Clear Speech: The student can understand slow and clearly articulated speech.

Identifying the Subject of a Discussion: If spoken to slowly and clearly, the student can identify the general subject of a conversation that is conducted slowly and directly.

Understanding Common Vocabulary: The student can understand common vocabulary related to areas of personal relevance (e.g., basic personal and family information, shopping, employment, local geography, etc.).

Catching the Main Point in Short, Clear Messages and Announcements: They can understand the main point in short, simple messages and announcements, such as on the radio or in public places.

Following Simple Directions: The student can follow simple directions, understand short narratives or explanations as long as the language is simple and clear.

Identifying Information in Everyday Material: The student can identify relevant information in short recorded passages dealing with predictable everyday material that is delivered slowly and clearly.

Understanding Details in Simple Technical Information: Such as instructions for equipment, guidelines, etc.

Understanding Main Points: The student can understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.

Understanding Specific Information: The student can understand the main point of many radio or TV programs on current affairs or topics of personal or professional interest when the delivery is relatively slow and clear.

Comprehending Everyday Conversations: The student can understand conversations when people speak reasonably slowly and directly about topics that are familiar like work, school, or leisure activities.

Interpreting Direct Speech: The student can follow a lecture or talk within his/her field, provided the subject matter is familiar and the presentation straightforward and clearly structured.

Understanding Standard Speech: The student can understand standard speech delivered at a normal rate, often including complex language, in a broad range of contexts.

Following Extended Speech: The student can understand extended speech and lectures, and follow complex lines of argument, provided the topic is reasonably familiar.

Understanding Implicit Meaning: The student can comprehend most TV news and current affairs programming, and can understand the majority of films in standard dialect.

Comprehending Detailed Directions: The student can understand detailed directions, instructions, or explanations.

Recognising Attitudes and Relationships: The student can recognise different attitudes and relationships between speakers, and can recognise implicit as well as explicit meaning.

Understanding Extended Speech: The student can understand extended speech even when it's not clearly structured or when relationships are only implied and not explicitly stated. This includes understanding television programs and films without too much effort.

Understanding Linguistic Nuances: The student is capable of comprehending a wide range of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms, appreciating shifts in tone, style, and connotation.

Understanding Complex Details: The student can understand detailed, complex, and abstract explanations, argumentation, and discussions. This includes specialised discussions in their field of interest or profession.

Recognising Implicit Meaning: The student can understand implied or hidden meanings in a conversation and can make informed guesses about unstated facts or views.

Understanding Virtually Everything Heard: The student can comprehend natural, fast-paced conversations, radio broadcasts, news, interviews, presentations, and complex technical information related to their field of expertise without difficulty.

Understanding Implicit Meanings: The student can understand hidden meanings, innuendos, implications, and can recognise and interpret different tones, moods, and attitudes in speech.

Following Complex Lines of Argument: The student can understand complex lines of argument, such as those found in lectures, presentations, or debates, even when they are not clearly signaled and when relationships are only implied.

Understanding Different Accents: The student is comfortable understanding a wide range of accents, regional speech, colloquialisms, and idiomatic expressions.