Understanding Basic Texts: Can understand very basic, short, and simple sentences in English. Can pick out familiar names, words, and basic phrases when reading.

Familiar Contexts: Shows an understanding of simple, everyday material such as advertisements, menus, schedules, or the context of signs and notices in familiar situations, if these are short and clearly structured.

Information Extraction: Able to identify specific information in simple, everyday material such as advertisements, brochures, or simple newspaper articles that are clearly structured.

Direct Comprehension: Understands simple instructions or public announcements on familiar topics or activities, provided the text is written in simple language.

Vocabulary: Understands basic vocabulary related to familiar topics such as family, shopping, geography, and daily routines.

Limited Inference: Can make basic inferences from context, but relies heavily on explicit information.

Understanding Expanded Texts: The student can understand short, simple texts related to their personal interests or everyday situations. They can comprehend the main points and details within texts, such as simple news items, messages, descriptions or narratives.

Expanded Contexts: The student can comprehend regular situations occurring in work, school, or leisure. They can understand simple personal letters or emails, short social media posts, and can gather information from simple, clearly structured webpages.

Detailed Information Extraction: The student can locate specific information in simple everyday material such as advertisements, brochures, menus, schedules, and interviews. They can understand the main points in short, simple news items or narratives about familiar subjects.

Expanded Comprehension: The student can understand straightforward instructions on familiar topics, related to their work, school or leisure activities. They can follow clearly written directions (e.g., on products or public signs).

Expanded Vocabulary: The student understands a wider range of vocabulary related to familiar topics but also more general everyday things like jobs, hobbies, and public places.

Basic Inference: The student can understand straightforward information and make simple inferences from context. They are beginning to understand the writer's attitude or intention in simple texts.

Understanding Detailed Texts: The student can understand straightforward, factual information about common, everyday or job-related topics, identifying both general messages and specific details in texts of moderate complexity.

Broad Contexts: The student can understand the description of events, feelings, and wishes in personal letters and texts of a more personal nature, recognising the relationship between ideas.

Information Extraction: The student can find and understand relevant information in everyday material such as letters, brochures, short official documents, or simple literary texts.

Indirect Comprehension: The student can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions for a piece of equipment, for example, understanding the sequence of tasks needed to complete an activity.

Extended Vocabulary: The student has a sufficient vocabulary to express themselves on most topics pertinent to their everyday life such as family, hobbies, work, travel, and current events, albeit with some circumlocutions.

Inference: The student can make simple inferences and deductions based on the text, understanding the writer's intended implications to a reasonable extent.

Understanding Complex Texts: The student can read and understand complex texts related to their work, studies or interests, even when these are not clearly structured or the topic is unfamiliar.

Abstract and Concrete Concepts: The student can understand the main ideas of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in their field of specialization.

Detailed Comprehension: The student can understand in detail lengthy texts, whether or not they relate to their field of interest. They can also understand specialised articles outside their field if they can occasionally check a dictionary.

Information Extraction: The student is capable of extracting important information from complex written documents such as research reports, contracts, or news articles.

Indirect Comprehension: The student understands indirect, implied information, argumentation, and differing viewpoints in texts.

Inference and Interpretation: The student can interpret complex, lengthy texts by recognising implicit meaning, evaluating arguments, and analysing the text for style, tone, figurative language, and underlying assumptions.

Vocabulary: The student has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may still have to check unusual or idiomatic expressions.

Comprehending Complex Texts: The student can understand long and complex factual and literary texts, appreciating distinctions of style and implicit as well as explicit meaning within the texts.

Understanding Abstract or Complex Ideas: The student can understand specialised articles outside of their field, even when these are not clearly structured and when the relations are only implied and not signalled explicitly.

Inference and Interpretation: The student is able to understand texts that employ a high degree of metaphorical, idiomatic, cultural, or literary references. They can infer, understand, and interpret information that isn't explicitly stated.

Efficiency in Information Extraction: The student can quickly scan through long and complex texts to locate relevant details and synthesise information from different parts of a text.

Understanding Different Perspectives: The student can recognise a wide range of implicit attitudes, viewpoints, and shifts in stance, even in abstract or complex texts.

Vocabulary Knowledge: The student has a large vocabulary for topics both familiar and unfamiliar, and can recognise and understand subtle nuances, idiomatic expressions, and colloquial language.

Advanced Text Interpretation: The student can comprehend, interpret, and analyse complex texts in English on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in their field of specialisation.

Wide Range of Contexts: The student can understand and interpret a wide range of demanding, longer texts, recognising implicit as well as explicit meaning.

Information Synthesis: The student can synthesise information from different sources into a coherent understanding, and critically evaluate and challenge the views expressed in the text.

Comprehending Complex Instructions: The student can understand complex instructions or arguments, even when the topic is not familiar, and can recognise and appreciate literary stylistic devices.

Advanced Vocabulary: The student understands a wide range of vocabulary, including idiomatic expressions, colloquial language, and academic and professional terminology. They can discern meaning from context and can understand almost everything read with ease.

In-depth Inference: The student can make deep inferences, recognising the underlying themes, ideas, and biases in a text. They can appreciate the nuances and subtleties of complex written material, including sophisticated literary works.