Focus on Assessment - Entry 2
Phase 1
Listen and Respond
The candidate can usually listen and respond to spoken language and follow short, straightforward explanations and instructions, responding appropriately to the interlocutor’s questions and instructions and participating in discussion with their partner.
Speak to Communicate
The candidate can usually communicate information, feelings and opinions on familiar topics through a range of expressions, speaking clearly for meaning to be understood, including appropriate features of stress and intonation. The candidate can usually express and seek information through questions and/or statements, handling a range of structures, functions and topics appropriate to Entry 2* and sequencing using discourse markers.
Phase 2
Listen and Respond
The candidate can usually listen and respond to spoken language and follow short, straightforward explanations and instructions, responding appropriately to the interlocutor’s questions and instructions and to recorded texts and participating effectively and appropriately in discussion with their partner.
Speak to Communicate
(as in Phase 1)
Engage in Discussion
The candidate can usually take part in straightforward exchanges in familiar situations, expressing and elaborating on feelings and opinions, giving reasons, indicating strength of feeling, seeking, listening and responding to their partner’s feelings and opinions and indicating agreement or disagreement.
*(see Adult ESOL Core Curriculum)