Focus on Assessment - Level 1
Phase 1a
Listen and Respond
Candidate can usually listen and respond to spoken language, follow explanations and instructions of varying length, and adapt responses to speaker and context. The candidate also confirms understanding and seeks clarification and/or repetition where appropriate.
Engage in Discussion
The candidate can usually initiate and follow through interaction, making clear and effective contributions that are appropriate to both purpose and topic. The candidate usually expresses and seeks the nuance of partner’s feelings, opinions, suggestions and advice, indicates sympathy, reassurance and degree of agreement and certainty, links contributions to those of their partner and offers, takes and holds turns politely, through verbal or non-verbal means.
Phase 1b
Listen and Respond
(as in Phase 1a)
Speak to Communicate (When presenting)
The candidate can usually communicate information, ideas and opinions clearly, logically, through a range of expressions and in a variety of contexts. The candidate can usually use a range of vocabulary, structures and verb forms with accuracy, develop detailed ideas and sequence logically, and show control of speed, pausing, rhythm, word and sentence stress and intonation. In addition, the candidate can usually adapt register to the formality of the situation, including the use of discourse markers, and form sentences, as opposed to fragments and chains of clauses.
Engage in Discussion (When taking part in post-presentation discussion)
(as in Phase 1a)
Phase 2a
Listen and Respond
The candidate correctly answers questions relating to the recording.
Phase 2b
Listen and Respond
(as in Phase 1a)
Speak to Communicate
The candidate can usually communicate information, ideas and opinions clearly, logically, through a range of expressions and in a variety of contexts. The candidate can usually use a range of vocabulary, structures and verb forms with accuracy, develop ideas and show control of speed, pausing, rhythm, word and sentence stress and intonation.
Engage in Discussion
(as in Phase 1a)
The candidate also contributes to multi-party discussion independently of interlocutor prompting.
*(see Adult ESOL Core Curriculum)