This zone contains a large range of resources that focus on aspects of language that require drill and practice, such as grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
Resources in this zone support two key CEFR principles:
(1) Students should be encouraged to be less teacher-dependent and take more responsibility for their own learning.
(2) Language learning is a lifelong process worth investing in, not just something that stops after reaching exit level.
To support increased learner autonomy, ECOSTAR’s independent learning resources are freely available for all learners, whether or not they are registered for English courses.
These resources were curated by the ECOSTAR team and include:
– over one hundred grammar-related interactive exercises with teaching points and feedback.
– over 1800 vocabulary exercises that explain and provide practice for 300 CEFR words that also appear on other high-frequency academic lists (see Roads to Academic Reading http://Roadscefr.iucc.ac.il ).
– resources that students may require after graduation – how to write a CV, how to make a business appointment, etc.
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Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken * Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Reception/Listening
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken * Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken * Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Production/Writing
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing
Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices.
Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information.
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex.
Orthographic control:
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
Phonological control:
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12).
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes.
Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clear explanations and examples.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Exercises with hints and feedback.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations of future perfect tense.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing
Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks.
Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Additional rules on use of commas.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Additional rules on use of commas.
Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs.
Level: All Levels
Skill/Activity: All
Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking
Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates.
Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate)
Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples.
Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses,
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence
Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains correct use of dashes.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible.
Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Explains correct use of commas.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes.
Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence
Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study.
Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between
paragraphs.
Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence:
Level: A2
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences:
Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking
Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises.
Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971).
Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences.
Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma.
Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles.
CEFR Academic Domain
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles.
Not connected to can-dos.
CEFR Academic Domain
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams.
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: All Levels
Skill/Activity: All
Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels.
Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know.
For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence
Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs.
Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B2
Skill: Production/Speaking
Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test.
Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision.
Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
Level: A2/B1
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B2
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice.
Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications.
Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics.
Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph.
Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint.
Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers.
Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguisitic Competence
Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy:
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active.
Grammatical Accuracy:
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary.
Vocabulary Range:
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics:
- Accommodation
- Description of people
- Description of places
- Holidays
- Transport
- Weather
- General Quiz
Vocabulary Range:
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast.
Can-do:
- Can read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/her field and interest with a satisfactory level of comprehension, i.e., understand most main ideas and supporting details.
- Can scan / read selectively in order to find desired information.
- Can recognize significant points in straightforward articles on familiar subjects.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback.
Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast.
Can-do:
- Can read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/her field and interest with a satisfactory level of comprehension, i.e., understand most main ideas and supporting details.
- Can scan / read selectively in order to find desired information.
- Can recognize significant points in straightforward articles on familiar subjects.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken * Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Production/Speaking
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing
Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices.
Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information.
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex.
Orthographic control:
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
Phonological control:
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12).
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes.
Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clear explanations and examples.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Exercises with hints and feedback.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations of future perfect tense.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing
Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks.
Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Additional rules on use of commas.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Additional rules on use of commas.
Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs.
Level: All Levels
Skill/Activity: All
Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking
Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates.
Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate)
Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples.
Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses,
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence
Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains correct use of dashes.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible.
Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Explains correct use of commas.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes.
Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence
Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study.
Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between
paragraphs.
Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence:
Level: A2
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences:
Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking
Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises.
Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971).
Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences.
Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma.
Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles.
CEFR Academic Domain
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles.
Not connected to can-dos.
CEFR Academic Domain
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams.
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: All Levels
Skill/Activity: All
Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels.
Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know.
For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence
Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs.
Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B2
Skill: Production/Speaking
Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test.
Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision.
Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
Level: A2/B1
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B2
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice.
Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications.
Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics.
Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph.
Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint.
Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers.
Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguisitic Competence
Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy:
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active.
Grammatical Accuracy:
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary.
Vocabulary Range:
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics:
- Accommodation
- Description of people
- Description of places
- Holidays
- Transport
- Weather
- General Quiz
Vocabulary Range:
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast.
Can-do:
- Can read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/her field and interest with a satisfactory level of comprehension, i.e., understand most main ideas and supporting details.
- Can scan / read selectively in order to find desired information.
- Can recognize significant points in straightforward articles on familiar subjects.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback.
Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast.
Can-do:
- Can read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/her field and interest with a satisfactory level of comprehension, i.e., understand most main ideas and supporting details.
- Can scan / read selectively in order to find desired information.
- Can recognize significant points in straightforward articles on familiar subjects.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken * Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Interaction/Written
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing
Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices.
Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information.
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex.
Orthographic control:
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
Phonological control:
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12).
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes.
Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clear explanations and examples.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Exercises with hints and feedback.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations of future perfect tense.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing
Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks.
Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Additional rules on use of commas.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Additional rules on use of commas.
Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs.
Level: All Levels
Skill/Activity: All
Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking
Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates.
Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate)
Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples.
Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses,
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence
Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains correct use of dashes.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible.
Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Explains correct use of commas.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes.
Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence
Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study.
Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between
paragraphs.
Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence:
Level: A2
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences:
Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking
Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises.
Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971).
Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences.
Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma.
Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles.
CEFR Academic Domain
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles.
Not connected to can-dos.
CEFR Academic Domain
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams.
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: All Levels
Skill/Activity: All
Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels.
Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know.
For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence
Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs.
Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B2
Skill: Production/Speaking
Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test.
Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision.
Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
Level: A2/B1
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B2
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice.
Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications.
Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics.
Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph.
Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint.
Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers.
Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguisitic Competence
Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy:
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active.
Grammatical Accuracy:
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary.
Vocabulary Range:
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics:
- Accommodation
- Description of people
- Description of places
- Holidays
- Transport
- Weather
- General Quiz
Vocabulary Range:
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast.
Can-do:
- Can read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/her field and interest with a satisfactory level of comprehension, i.e., understand most main ideas and supporting details.
- Can scan / read selectively in order to find desired information.
- Can recognize significant points in straightforward articles on familiar subjects.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback.
Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast.
Can-do:
- Can read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/her field and interest with a satisfactory level of comprehension, i.e., understand most main ideas and supporting details.
- Can scan / read selectively in order to find desired information.
- Can recognize significant points in straightforward articles on familiar subjects.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken * Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Interaction/Spoken
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing
Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices.
Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information.
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex.
Orthographic control:
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
Phonological control:
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12).
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes.
Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clear explanations and examples.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Exercises with hints and feedback.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations of future perfect tense.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing
Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks.
Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Additional rules on use of commas.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Additional rules on use of commas.
Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs.
Level: All Levels
Skill/Activity: All
Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking
Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates.
Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate)
Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples.
Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses,
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence
Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains correct use of dashes.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible.
Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Explains correct use of commas.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes.
Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence
Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study.
Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between
paragraphs.
Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence:
Level: A2
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences:
Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking
Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises.
Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971).
Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences.
Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma.
Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles.
CEFR Academic Domain
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles.
Not connected to can-dos.
CEFR Academic Domain
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams.
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: All Levels
Skill/Activity: All
Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels.
Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know.
For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence
Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs.
Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B2
Skill: Production/Speaking
Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test.
Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision.
Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
Level: A2/B1
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B2
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice.
Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications.
Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics.
Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph.
Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint.
Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers.
Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguisitic Competence
Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy:
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active.
Grammatical Accuracy:
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary.
Vocabulary Range:
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics:
- Accommodation
- Description of people
- Description of places
- Holidays
- Transport
- Weather
- General Quiz
Vocabulary Range:
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast.
Can-do:
- Can read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/her field and interest with a satisfactory level of comprehension, i.e., understand most main ideas and supporting details.
- Can scan / read selectively in order to find desired information.
- Can recognize significant points in straightforward articles on familiar subjects.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback.
Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast.
Can-do:
- Can read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/her field and interest with a satisfactory level of comprehension, i.e., understand most main ideas and supporting details.
- Can scan / read selectively in order to find desired information.
- Can recognize significant points in straightforward articles on familiar subjects.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken * Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Linguistic Competence
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing
Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices.
Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information.
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex.
Orthographic control:
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
Phonological control:
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12).
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes.
Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clear explanations and examples.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Exercises with hints and feedback.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations of future perfect tense.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing
Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks.
Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Additional rules on use of commas.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Additional rules on use of commas.
Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs.
Level: All Levels
Skill/Activity: All
Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking
Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates.
Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate)
Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples.
Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses,
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence
Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains correct use of dashes.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible.
Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Explains correct use of commas.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes.
Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence
Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study.
Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between
paragraphs.
Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence:
Level: A2
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences:
Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking
Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises.
Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971).
Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences.
Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma.
Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles.
CEFR Academic Domain
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles.
Not connected to can-dos.
CEFR Academic Domain
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams.
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: All Levels
Skill/Activity: All
Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels.
Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know.
For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence
Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs.
Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B2
Skill: Production/Speaking
Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test.
Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision.
Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
Level: A2/B1
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B2
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice.
Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications.
Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics.
Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph.
Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint.
Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers.
Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguisitic Competence
Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy:
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active.
Grammatical Accuracy:
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary.
Vocabulary Range:
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics:
- Accommodation
- Description of people
- Description of places
- Holidays
- Transport
- Weather
- General Quiz
Vocabulary Range:
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast.
Can-do:
- Can read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/her field and interest with a satisfactory level of comprehension, i.e., understand most main ideas and supporting details.
- Can scan / read selectively in order to find desired information.
- Can recognize significant points in straightforward articles on familiar subjects.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback.
Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast.
Can-do:
- Can read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/her field and interest with a satisfactory level of comprehension, i.e., understand most main ideas and supporting details.
- Can scan / read selectively in order to find desired information.
- Can recognize significant points in straightforward articles on familiar subjects.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken * Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Pragmatic Competence
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing
Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices.
Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information.
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex.
Orthographic control:
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
Phonological control:
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12).
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes.
Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clear explanations and examples.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Exercises with hints and feedback.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations of future perfect tense.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing
Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks.
Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Additional rules on use of commas.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Additional rules on use of commas.
Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs.
Level: All Levels
Skill/Activity: All
Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking
Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates.
Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate)
Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples.
Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses,
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions.
Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence
Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains correct use of dashes.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible.
Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Explains correct use of commas.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes.
Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence
Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study.
Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B1-B2
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between
paragraphs.
Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence:
Level: A2
Skill/Activity:
- Reception/Reading
- Production/Writing
- Pragmatic Competence
Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences:
Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking
Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises.
Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence
Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971).
Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences.
Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma.
Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles.
CEFR Academic Domain
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Production/Writing
Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles.
Not connected to can-dos.
CEFR Academic Domain
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening
Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams.
Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation.
Level: All Levels
Skill/Activity: All
Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels.
Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know.
For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice.
Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening
Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence
Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs.
Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: B2
Skill: Production/Speaking
Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test.
Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision.
Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
Level: A2/B1
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B2
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation.
Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback.
Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex.
Level: B1
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice.
Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications.
Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics.
Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph.
Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint.
Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: B1
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds.
Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Production/Writing
Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers.
Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms.
Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguisitic Competence
Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers.
Grammatical Accuracy:
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets.
Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Level: B1
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active.
Grammatical Accuracy:
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary.
Vocabulary Range:
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Level: A2
Skill: Linguistic Competence
Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics:
- Accommodation
- Description of people
- Description of places
- Holidays
- Transport
- Weather
- General Quiz
Vocabulary Range:
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast.
Can-do:
- Can read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/her field and interest with a satisfactory level of comprehension, i.e., understand most main ideas and supporting details.
- Can scan / read selectively in order to find desired information.
- Can recognize significant points in straightforward articles on familiar subjects.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Listening
Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback.
Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly.
Level: A2
Skill: Reception/Reading
Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast.
Can-do:
- Can read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/her field and interest with a satisfactory level of comprehension, i.e., understand most main ideas and supporting details.
- Can scan / read selectively in order to find desired information.
- Can recognize significant points in straightforward articles on familiar subjects.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken * Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Reception/Listening
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken * Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Reception/Reading
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken * Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Production/Writing
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken * Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Production/Speaking
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken * Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Interaction/Written
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken * Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Interaction/Spoken
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Linguistic Competence * Production/Writing
Production/Speaking * Pragmatic Competence * Interaction/Spoken
Linguistic Competence
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken * Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Pragmatic Competence
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken * Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
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Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Reception/Listening
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Reception/Reading
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Production/Writing
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Production/Speaking
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Interaction/Written
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Interaction/Spoken
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Linguistic Competence
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
Pragmatic Competence
Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Helps students understand that connectors are basically transition words – provides lists of connecting words and cohesive devices. Can-dos: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: BBC site – game based on observing , recording, and understanding information. Understanding and recording information. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Using passive voice in all tenses, guidelines on when to use passive voice 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms and common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comprehensive guide to punctuation by Larry Trask, University of Sussex. Orthographic control: Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear, concise guide to pronunciation. CEFR Skills/Competences: Phonological control: Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Provides very basic explanations and interactive exercises as a first step for L2 students who need to revise basic knowledge of graphs (basic – originally designed for K-12). Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: How to get maximum benefit from lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.37 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on use and forms – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercise on future perfect, hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations (cartoon figure graphics), examples, and rules. Two interactive multiple-choice exercises, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clear explanations and examples. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on uses, forms – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future perfect continuous –positive, negative and question forms.10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Exercises with hints and feedback. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of future perfect tense. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Future continuous – common phrases, positive, negative and question forms. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use, forms, common mistakes. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Something which may happen in the future – will, won’t, might, might not. Notes on use and forms. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise in identifying the topic sentence in an 2 short paragraphs. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: 12 questions, no feedback provided. Each question is based on a short paragraph. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations and interactive quizzes. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Interactive exercises for practicing topic sentence identification. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Reports and essays – Can write short simple essays on topics of interest. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: Resource for teachers who want to learn more about which aspects of grammatical competence are typically mastered at each CEFR level.Primary source of data was the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a 55 million-word corpus comprising over 250,000 scripts from Cambridge English exams at all levels, and from over 130 countries around the world. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Speaking Description: 7 slides, all levels – expressions for discussions and debates. Can-Do: Sustained monologue putting a case (e.g., in a debate) Can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting his/her points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving advantages and disadvantages. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains the difference between active and passive voice. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Language for describing charts and graphs – includes multiple-choice exercises Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: Examples of different charts, phrases for describing charts, dealing with tenses, Can-Do: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.17 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Students read fables and fill in gaps, interactive exercises. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Notes on articles with countable and uncountable nouns – use, forms and common mistakes. 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Explanations of use and forms, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Grammatical Accuracy: Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control though may have occasional “slips” or non-systematic errors and minor flaws; mistakes do not usually lead to misunderstanding. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.28 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Use, forms and common mistakes – explanations and 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Explains correct use of commas. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. B2: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 5.26 minute clip on how to use the Cornell method to make lecture notes. Can-do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Multiple-choice questions with hints and answers for individual study. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Description: 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on uses and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because” Pragmatic communicative competence – Coherence: Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Description: Interactive exercises with answers and hints. CEFR Skills/Competences: Coherence: Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Production/Speaking Description: Clip 4.58 minutes – transcript, explanations, worksheets with exercises. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.25 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Linguistic Competence Description: Comparative adjectives, use of ‘than’ and definite article – 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971). Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Notes on commas vs. semicolons in compound sentences. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Use of commas after introductory clauses and phrases – when and when not to use a comma. Orthographic control: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Reception/Listening Description: 19 pages of very useful vocabulary, explanations and exercises for presenting different types of charts, graphs and diagrams. Can-Dos: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation. Level: All Levels Skill/Activity: All Description: The English Vocabulary Profile site provides information about which words (and importantly, which meanings of those words) and phrases are known and used by learners at each the six CEFR levels. Site contains information about words, phrases, idioms and collocations. The aim of EVP wordlists is descriptive – not prescriptive: These words reflect what learners at different levels DO know, not what they SHOULD know. For teachers and students who want to know which CEFR words (1) appear on other high-frequency wordlists and (2) are likely to appear in academic texts, ECOSTAR provides “curated” versions of CEFR wordlists. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Look at a website which gives advice about Transportation and Distribution in International Trade. Read these extracts from the website. Which links on the website (A-J) would contain this information? 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a proposal to build a solar farm near a British village called Barnley. 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Read about Parkour and freerunning, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read information on a website about a tour of Iceland. You have noted down the following questions about the Iceland tour. Is the answer available in the text above? 20 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary.Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Read about a government scheme to keep people healthy. Reading comprehension exercise with 14 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Reading comprehension exercise, with 10 multiple-choice questions. Three questions require readers to “read between the lines” and infer from the text. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Description: Index of practice tests for B2 level, can be used for reading comprehension practice. Can-Do: Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low frequency vocabulary. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.26 minutes – a teacher is giving a lesson on the effects of tourism. Listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Script and 8 questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 4.40 minutes. Listen to a radio program in which a presenter is talking to a forester about moths. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a lecture about the History of Leisure in twentieth century America. Script and 8 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a radio show about the value of a university education. Choose the statement that best represents the opinions of the 5 callers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.35 minutes. Listen to a radio journalist describing the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Script, 10 true or false questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 3.06 minutes – listen to a traffic report, script and 9 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Listening Description: 8-part listening practice, scripts and multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing, Pragmatic Competence Description: Explains coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs. Coherence: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors, such as “and”, “but”, and “because”. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: How to turn a passive sentence into an active one. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Speaking Description: Explains how to prepare a presentation. Has 6 topics – Introduction, Preparation, Equipment, Delivery, Language and The Presentation plus review and self test. Can-Dos: Addressing audiences: Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic which is clear enough to be followed presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. Can give a clear, prepared academic presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. Level: A2/B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Factsheets, worksheets and games to teach basic punctuation CEFR level dropdown: A2 and B1. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: When and how to use various marks of punctuation. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 10 listening comprehension activities for practicing listening skills. Each listening activity includes preparation and background, vocabulary, transcript and exercises. Topics include sports interviews, new inventions, how to study, unusual British festivals, Masai tribes, high-achieving teenagers, the “best job in the world” competition and a radio program about names. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 3 minute clip – two university students talk about clubs and societies. 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 4.25 minutes. Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programs in less economically developed countries. Script and 10 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a description of eco-homes. 8 multiple-choice questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of presentation which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Level: B1 Skill: Production/Writing Description: 10 writing activities provide writing skills practice. Can-do: Can write very brief reports to a standard conventionalized format which pass on routine factual information and state reasons for actions. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Lists of B1 level words, with explanations, illustrations and multiple-choice quizzes with answers. Categories of target words include: Appliances | Buildings | Clothes | Colours | Education | Entertainment and Media | Environment | Food and Drink | Health, Medicine and Exercise | Hobbies and Leisure | House and Home | Language | Personal Feelings, Opinions and Experiences | Places: Countryside | Places: Town and City | Services | Shopping | Sport | Technology and Communications. Vocabulary Range: Has sufficient vocabulary for matters connected to most general topics. Shows good control of high frequency vocabulary and of a limited repertoire of low frequency vocabulary but major errors still occur when expressing more complex thoughts or handling unfamiliar topics and situations. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 19 reading comprehension practice sets with five types of exercises. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract from a job application. Applicants are asked to describe relevant qualification, skills and experience and indicate why they are suitable for this role. 13 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Description designed to attract tourists to villages in England. 10 true/false questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on notices. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on the illness Norovirus. 14 questions with answers – choose the correct question for each paragraph. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract gives readers directions about getting to and parking at a hospital. 14 multiple choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Read complaints that holidaymakers have made to holiday companies. Match the beginning to the end of each complaint. Can-Do: Can recognize the line of argument in the treatment of the issue presented though not necessarily in detail. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Extract on free time, 10 multiple-choice “choose the best title for each paragraph” questions, with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can understand clearly written, straightforward instructions. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Students read 4 reviews which different people submitted on hotel accomodation. 14 interactive questions with feedback. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Exercise on MOOCs – requires correct placing of 9 sentences, answers provided. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text describes educational opportunities for 16-year olds in England. 10 mc reading comprehension questions. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text about Easter Island with gapfill exercise. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of approx. 300 words on how colors affect us. 5 multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Text of 400 words on Battle of Banockburne in 14th century – True / false questions on a short history text. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Match which of 8 short descriptions best fit 5 people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Short description of presents – multiple-choice questions on matching presents to people. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Understanding notices – reading comprehension practice, multiple-choice questions with answers. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Multiple-choice questions on Hollywood. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: Alice in Wonderland – Multiple-choice questions on extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Can-Do: Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text to fulfill a specific task. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to a student, Marcel, discussing accommodation with the accommodation officer at a university. Choose the correct answer. Script and answers provided. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Rose and Jack are talking about holiday plans. Listen and answer true or false. 10 questions, with script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: A person on a cruise ship is describing the activities on offer to holidaymakers. Choose true or false – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to six conversations between patients and medical specialists. Identify the treatment suggested by the medical practitioner in each conversation. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to 6 short news reports about environmental problems. Match the report to the correct photo – includes script. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listening practice – listen to two students talking about the teachers at their college. Match the teacher’s names to the photos. Includes script and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Listen to eight short conversations and choose the correct answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: 5 short listening practice tests with multiple-choice questions and answers. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Interactive exercise on an art gallery – 6 multiple-choice questions. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: B1 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: Large collection of listen-and-read materials for adult learners. Books, novellas, short stories, articles, songs – some with adjustable listening speeds. Can-Do: Can understand the content of the majority of recorded or broadcast audio material delivered in standard dialect on topics in his or her field, delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Using ‘how’ to get information about dimensions, age, time and quantities.Notes on use and forms, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Production/Writing Description: Interactive exercise, 15 questions with answers. Orthographic Control: Can produce continuous writing, which is generally intelligible throughout. Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Interactive exercise, 10 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations on use and forms. Grammatical Accuracy: Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express. Level: A2 Skill: Linguisitic Competence Description: Explanations of use, forms and common mistakes – 10 multiple-choice questions, with answers. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 3.34 – transcript, explanations, worksheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Clip 4.53 minutes – transcript, explanations, work-sheets. Grammatical Accuracy: Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations. Level: B1 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: Explains how to turn a passive sentence into an active one, how to decide when to choose passive voice instead of active. Grammatical Accuracy: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Description: 50 multiple-choice questions that focus on A2 vocabulary. Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Linguistic Competence Vocabulary exercises on 7 topics: Vocabulary Range: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do: Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Listening Description: This listening comprehension activity has an introduction and 3 parts. Includes listening to simple dialogues and multiple choice questions with feedback. Can-do: Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly. Level: A2 Skill: Reception/Reading Description: 5 short texts plus ten questions with answers.Topics of texts include informal emails discussing holiday accommodation, daily routine of a marathon runner, description of a new shopping mall, educational opportunities for teenagers, a weather forecast. Can-do:
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements.
B1: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time.
B2: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence
Pronunciation of learned words and phrases can be understood with some effort by native speakers used to dealing with speakers of his/her language group . Intermediate Level – Pronunciation is generally clear enough to be understood despite a noticeable foreign influence.
with answers.
CEFR Skills/Competences:
structuring the description – Introduction, Message, Conclusion
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
paragraphs.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence.
CEFR Academic Domain
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task.
Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.
Uses reasonably accurately a repertoire of frequently used “routines” and patterns associated with more predictable situations.
Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence. Errors occur, but it is clear what he/she is trying to express.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Has a sufficient vocabulary to express him/herself with some difficulty on most topics related to everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events.
Reception/Listening * Reception/Reading * Production/Writing * Production/Speaking
Interaction/Written * Interaction/Spoken Linguistic Competence * Pragmatic Competence
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