Nivel C2

I can follow extended speech even when it is not clearly structured and when relationships are only implied and not signalled explicitly.

I can understand a wide range of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms, appreciating shifts in style and register.

I can extract specific information from even poor quality, audibly distorted public announcements, e.g. in a station, sports stadium etc.

I can understand complex technical information, such as operating instructions, specifications for familiar products and services.

I can understand lectures, talks and reports in my field of professional or academic interest even when they are propositionally and linguistically complex.

I can, without too much effort, understand films employing a considerable degree of slang and idiomatic usage.

I can understand fairly long demanding texts and summarize them orally.

I can read complex reports, analyses and commentaries where opinions, viewpoints and connections are discussed.

I can extract information, ideas and opinions from highly specialized texts in my own field, for example research reports.

I can understand long complex instructions, for example for the use of a new piece of equipment, even if these are not related to my job or field of interest, provided I have enough time to reread them.

I can read any correspondence with occasional use of a dictionary.

I can read contemporary literary texts with ease.

I can go beyond the concrete plot of a narrative and grasp implicit meanings, ideas and connections.

I can recognize the social, political or historical background of a literary work.

I can keep up with an animated conversation between native speakers.

I can use the language fluently, accurately and effectively on a wide range of general, professional or academic topics.

I can use language flexibly and effectively for social purposes, including emotional, allusive and joking usage.

I can express my ideas and opinions clearly and precisely, and can present and respond to complex lines of reasoning convincingly.

I can use linguistic resources to ascertain veracity or otherwise of information.

I can easily follow and contribute to complex interactions between third parties in group discussion even on abstract, complex and unfamiliar topics.

I can give clear, detailed descriptions of complex subjects.

I can orally summarise long, demanding texts.

I can give an extended description or account of something, integrating themes, developing particular points and concluding appropriately.

I can give a clearly developed presentation on a subject in my fields of personal or professional interest, departing when necessary from the prepared text and following up spontaneously points raised by members of the audience.

I can outline an issue or problem clearly, speculating about causes and consequences and weighing advantages and disadvantages.

I can use fluently a variety of appropriate expressions to preface my remarks in order to get the floor, or to gain time and keep the floor while thinking.

I can relate own contribution skilfully to those of other speakers.

I can substitute an equivalent term for a word I can’t recall without distracting the listener.

I can express myself in writing on a wide range of general or professional topics in a clear and user-friendly manner.

I can present a complex topic in a clear and well-structured way, highlighting the most important points, for example in a composition or a report.

I can present points of view in a comment on a topic or an event, underlining the main ideas and supporting my reasoning with detailed examples.

I can put together information from different sources and relate it in a coherent summary.

I can give a detailed description of experiences, feelings and events in a personal letter.

I can write formally correct letters, for example to complain or to take a stand in favour of or against something.

I can write texts which show a high degree of grammatical correctness and vary my vocabulary and style according to the addressee, the kind of text and the topic.

I can select a style appropriate to the reader in mind.

Also, you will have studied and practiced the following language structures: (See Grammar)

Time and tense

Inversion with negative adverbials

Infinitives and ‘-ing’ forms

Describing typical habits

Compound phrases

Adverbs

Adding emphasis with auxiliaries

Future forms

Describing trends

Noun phrases

Ellipsis and substitution

Patterns with as…as + verb

Expressing quantities imprecisely

Wordspot: Just

Comment adverbials

Wordspot: Well

Computer terms

Expressing surprise and disbelief

I can keep up with an animated conversation between native speakers.

I can understand a wide range of recorded and broadcast audio material, including some nonstandard usage, and I can identify finer points of detail including implicit attitudes and relationships between speakers.

I can understand standard spoken language, live or broadcast, on both familiar and unfamiliar topics normally encountered in personal, social, academic or vocational life.

Only extreme background noise, inadequate discourse structure and/or idiomatic usage influence my ability to understand.

I can obtain information, ideas and opinions from highly specialized sources within my field.

I can understand in detail a wide range of lengthy, complex texts likely to be encountered in social, professional or academic life, identifying finer points of detail including attitudes and implied as well as stated opinions.

I can understand in detail lengthy, complex texts, whether or not they relate to my own area of specialty, provided I can reread difficult sections.

I can summarize long, demanding texts.

I can use language flexibly and effectively for social purposes, including emotional, allusive and joking usage.

I can take an active part in an informal discussion in familiar contexts, commenting, putting my point of view clearly, evaluating alternative proposals and making and responding to hypotheses.

I can give elaborate descriptions and narratives, integrating sub-themes, developing particular points and rounding off with an appropriate conclusion.

I can easily follow and contribute to complex interactions between third parties in group discussion even on abstract, complex unfamiliar topics.

I can give clear, systematically developed descriptions and presentations, with appropriate highlighting of significant points, and relevant supporting detail.

I can express myself fluently and spontaneously, almost effortlessly only hindered by a conceptually difficult subject.

I can plan what is to be said and the means to say it, considering the effect on the recipient/s.

I can write clear, detailed, well-structured and developed descriptions and imaginative texts in an assured, personal, natural style appropriate to the reader in mind.

I can expand and support points of view at some length with subsidiary points, reasons and relevant examples.

I can take detailed notes during a lecture on topics in my field of interest, recording the information so accurately and so close to the original that the notes could also be useful to other people.

Also, you will have studied and practiced the following language structures: (See Grammar)

I can qualify opinions and statements precisely in relation to degrees of, for example, certainty / uncertainty, belief/doubt, likelihood, etc.

I can select a suitable phrase from a readily available range of discourse functions to preface my remarks appropriately in order to get the floor, or to gain time and keep the floor whilst thinking.

I can consistently maintain a high degree of grammatical accuracy.

I can vary intonation and place sentence stress correctly in order to express finer shades of meaning.

I can use a broad lexical repertoire which includes a good command of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms.

Also, you will have studied and practiced the following language structures: (See Grammar)

Tense review (perfect and continuous)

Expressions with future meaning

Future in the past

Passive forms

Register

Relative clauses and relative pronouns

Use of articles

Singular, plural or uncountable?

Determiners, pronouns and quantifiers

Necessity, prohibition, advice, permission

Ability, possibility/probability, deduction

Intention, willingness, characteristics

Alternative to modals

Word-formation review

Noun clauses

Modifying gradable and ungradable adjectives

Conditionals

Alternatives to if and omission of if

Expressions with on

Phrasal verbs

Collocations: verbs+ nouns, adjectives + nouns

Near synonyms

Ways of touching

Word formation: nouns

Collocation: adjectives + nouns

Idiomatic expressions

Expressions that give emphasis

Prepositions

Expressions that are easily confused

Words for eating and drinking

I can understand a wide range of recorded and broadcast audio material, including some non-standard usage, and identify finer points of detail including implicit attitudes and relationships between speakers.

I can keep up with an animated conversation between native speakers.

I can use contextual, grammatical and lexical cues to infer attitude, mood and intentions and anticipate what will come next.

I can understand in detail a wide range of lengthy, complex texts likely to be encountered in social, professional or academic life, identifying finer points of detail including attitudes and implied as well as stated opinions.

I can understand and interpret critically virtually all forms of the written language including abstract, structurally complex, or highly colloquial literary and non-literary writings.

I can understand any correspondence given the occasional use of a dictionary.

I can use contextual, grammatical and lexical cues to infer attitude, mood and intentions and anticipate what will come next.

I can take an active part in informal discussion in familiar contexts, commenting, putting my point of view clearly, evaluating alternative proposals and making and responding to hypotheses.

I can explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

I can easily follow and contribute to complex interactions between third parties in group discussion even on abstract, complex unfamiliar topics.

I can give clear, smoothly flowing, elaborate and often memorable descriptions.

I can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting my points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples.

I can plan what is to be said and the means to say it, considering the effect on the recipient/s.

I can express myself with clarity and precision, relating to the addressee flexibly and effectively.

I can write clear, smoothly flowing, complex texts in an appropriate and effective style and a logical structure which helps the reader to find significant points.

I can produce clear, smoothly flowing, complex reports, articles or essays which present a case, or give critical appreciation of proposals or literary works.

I can express myself with clarity and precision in personal correspondence, using language flexibly and effectively, including emotional, allusive and joking usage.

I can write clear, smoothly flowing, and fully engrossing stories and descriptions of experience in a style appropriate to the genre adopted.

Also, you will have studied and practiced the following language structures: (See Grammar)

I can vary intonation and place sentence stress correctly in order to express finer shades of meaning.

I can select a suitable phrase from a readily available range of discourse functions to preface my remarks appropriately in order to get the floor, or to gain time and keep the floor whilst thinking.

I can create coherent and cohesive text making full and appropriate use of a variety of organizational patterns and a wide range of cohesive devices.

I can maintain consistent grammatical control of complex language, even while attention is otherwise engaged (e.g. in forward planning, in monitoring others reactions).

I can consistently use correct and appropriate vocabulary.

I can reformulate ideas in differing linguistic forms to give emphasis, to differentiate according to the situation, interlocutor, etc. and to eliminate ambiguity.

I can use a broad range of lexis including idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms; and have an awareness of connotative levels of meaning.

Also, you will have studied and practiced the following language structures: (See Grammar)

Emphasis with What, the thing that (the place where, the reason why, etc.)

Emphasis with It + be

Verb + ‘-ing’ or infinitive; Verb + object + to infinitive;

Verb + ‘-ing’ form/infinitive with a change in meaning

Past tenses for hypothetical meanings

Wish, if only and other expressions

Emphasis using negative introductory expressions

Emphasis through fronting parts of the sentence

Comparatives and superlatives

Other ways of making comparisons

Patterns after reporting verbs

Impersonal report structures

Participle and to-infinitive clauses

Nouns, adjectives, verbs + prepositions

Prepositions + -ing verb

Confusing pairs

Expressing opinions about the future

Word formation: suffixes

Motivation

Rephrasing

Idiomatic phrases and collocations

Words that are easily confused

Using hyphens

Verb phrases

Word formation

Similar meanings

Sounds

Animal idioms

Noun + preposition + noun phrases

Prefixes