INTENSIVE LEVEL DESCRIPTIONSPINK (Pre-Beginner: Pre A1 – A1)
PRODUCTION – Students in Pink can…
• Use a basic repertoire of words and simple phrases to answer simple questions about
personal details, very familiar topics, and immediate needs• Manage very short (often rehearsed) sentences, but they often do not have enough
vocabulary or grammar knowledge to express themselves• Understand and use familiar everyday greetings and expressions• Interact in a simple way, but communication is dependent on repetition, rephrasing,and repair following a slower rate of speech
GRAMMAR – Students in Pink should be able to grasp the following grammar points:••

I am, you areWhat’s…?; It’s…

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Is/arePrepositions ofplace
Simple presentBe going to••••

Simple past
Possessive adjectives; possessive’s••

There’s, There areCount and non-countnouns
Present continuous
A lot of, some no••

Information questions with be
Like to, want to, need to, have to••This and these
was/were••a/an; adjectives before nouns
Can and can’t for ability; wellGREEN (Beginner: A1 – A2)
PRODUCTION – Students in Green can…
• Speak using basic sentence patterns with memorized phrases and groups of a
few words and formula• Understand frequently used expressions in areas of most immediate relevance(very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, andemployment)• Interact in a simple way, but very short utterances, pauses, false starts, andreformulation are very evident• Answer questions and respond to simple statements, however they are rarely
able to understand enough to keep conversation going on their own accord
GRAMMAR – Students in Green should be able to grasp the following grammar points:••••••Have toBe like
Simple presentMaking
predictions
Presentcontinuous
Present perfect••••

Be going toDeterminers
Quantifiers
If and when••••

Be-verb statements and questions
This / that one, these / those ones
Simple past statements and questions
Possessive adjectives and pronouns•

Giving reasons with to andforRelative pronouns•

Comparatives and superlatives•RED (Intermediate: A2 – B1)
PRODUCTION – Students in Red can…
• Manage sufficient enough vocabulary to talk about topics like family, hobbies,interests, work, travel, and current events, even if unprepared• Give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans• Describe dreams, hopes, and ambitions• Speak with reasonable accuracy with frequently used routines and patterns in
predictable situations, although some hesitations and circumlocutions areevident• Initiate, maintain, and close simple conversations on familiar topics or personal
interests
GRAMMAR – Students in Red should be able to grasp the following grammar points:•Passive•

Comparisons••

Informationquestions
Indirect questions
Present perfect••

Simple past
Past continuous••••••

ArticlesModals for advice
Be going to and will
Indefinite pronouns

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Quantifiers
Phrasal verbs
Used toReported speech•••

Present perfect continuous
Modals: necessity, prohibition, &permission
Present continuous
Present and future real conditionals
Present and future unreal conditionals•

BLUE (Advanced: B1+)
PRODUCTION – Students in Blue can…
• Express viewpoints on most general topics like relationships, the media, selfimprovement and business• Grasp the language enough to share their opinion as well as advantages anddisadvantages on topical issues• Speak with a high degree of grammatical control and do not make errors whichcause misunderstanding• Can initiate discourse, take turns when appropriate, and end a conversation,although not always elegantly• Help the discussion along, especially on familiar ground• Manage stretches of language with a fairly even tempo with few noticeably
long pauses
GRAMMAR – Students in Blue should be able to grasp the following grammar points:••••••

Dynamic and stativeverbs
Real conditionals
Clauses with after, until,
whenToo and enough
Modifying comparisons
Gerund and infinitive•

Adding emphasis•••

Past perfectI wish••

Was/were going to, was/were supposedtoProhibition, permission, obligation
Modals of speculation, past probability•••

Passive
Causative verbs
Unrealconditionals•••

Reported statements and questions
Subject and object relative clauses
Substitution and referencing

ORANGE (Advanced 2: B2)

PRODUCTION – Students in Orange can…
• Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract
topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization• Interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction
with native speakers possible without strain for either party• Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain aviewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages ofvarious options• Use the language fluently, accurately and effectively on a wide range ofgeneral, academic, vocational or leisure topics, marking clearly the relationships
between ideas• Follow extended speech and complex lines of argument, provided the topic isreasonably familiar, and the direction of the talk is signposted by explicit markers• Give clear, systematically developed descriptions and presentations, withappropriate highlighting of significant points, and relevant supporting detail
GRAMMAR – Students in Orange should be able to grasp the following grammar points:• Present habits, past habits • Passives• Gerunds and infinitives• Comparatives and• Reflexive• Modal-like expressions with besuperlatives
pronouns• Non-gradable adjectives• Real and unreal• Reported speech with modal verbs
conditionals• Relative pronouns• Conditionals:• Adverbs with adjectives and adverbs
alternatives• Reduced relative clauses• Narrative tenses• Making non-count nouns countable• Present participles• Causative verbs• Adding emphasis: so…that, such…that,
even, only
• Wishes and regrets• Future forms

PURPLE (Advanced 3: C1)

PRODUCTION – Students in Purple can…
• Take part almost effortlessly in any conversation with clear, smoothly-flowing,
well-structured speech• Express themselves clearly in an appropriate style on a wide range of topics(general, academic, professional, leisure)• Use idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms to formulate ideas and opinions• Give detailed descriptions of complex subjects integrating sub-themes,
developing particular points, and rounding off with an appropriate conclusion• Take turns, reference, make allusions, and interact with ease in a conversation
GRAMMAR – Students in Purple should be able to grasp the following grammar points:• Future perfect and future• Reduced relative• Continuous infinitives
continuousclauses• Uses of will
• Clefts• Simple past for unreal situations• Uses of would• Questions words• It constructions
with -ever• Variations on past unreal• Adverbials• Subject-verb agreement
conditionals• Commenting on the past
• Phrases with get• Articles• Quantifiers and• Referencing• The present subjunctive
prepositions in relative
clauses• Perfect infinitive• Phrases with as• Participle phrases in initial position
Revised September 2023