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SLE Levels & Expectations (Students should be able to...)

Please use this chart to explain to the students what they can expect from the level you are

giving them.

Level/Book Functions Language Structures

Level 1

Book 1A Introduce yourself

Tell time

Refer to days and dates

Describe preferences

Express likes & Dislikes

Discuss weather and seasons

Describe friends & family

Talk about clothing & appearance

Express ability

Present progressive tense

Countable/uncountable

nouns

Simple future tense

Simple past tense

Prepositions of location

Level 2

Book 1B Talk about frequency & duration

Describe objects, similarities & differences

Make recommendations

Speak briefly on the phone

Make, get and decline invitations

Ask for and give directions

Making complaints.

Discuss hobbies and sport

Talk about transportation

Talk about social events,

restaurants & social occasions.

Causative verbs

Modals for:

a) speculation

b) necessity

c) precaution

d) prohibition

Past progressive tense

Gerunds & infinitives

Level 3

Book 1C Respond to difficult/unclear

questions

Express your opinions confidently

Find out detailed information

Ask for and decline favours / permission

Describe changes over time.

Ask for and give advice

Talk about shopping, dating, work and jobs, money and prices,

friendship.

Present perfect simple and progressive.

Superlatives

Passive & active voice

Reported speech

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Level/Book Functions Language Structures

Level 4

Book 2A Understand how to use

formal/informal questions

Describe jobs & qualifications

Making suggestions and demands

Giving/receiving advice

Describing feelings and

emotions/personalities

Making decisions

Describing personalities

Discussing health

Indirect questions

Tag questions

Comparatives/superlatives

Cause and effect

First/second conditionals

Active & Passive voice

Present perfect

Reflexive pronouns

Level 5

Book 2B Being vague & precise

Checking * confirming

information

Resolving misunderstandings.

Expressing levels of importance (modals)

Interpreting and using non-verbal

communication.

Expressing degrees of certainty & uncertainty.

Talking about regret and remorse.

Discussing living situations.

Making contrasts

'Used to' & 'didn't use to'

Go + verb + ing and Go + to

Prepositions of time

Past speculation (modals)

Even though + although

Relative pronouns

Adjective clauses

Imperatives

Future speculation (modals)

Level 6

Book 2C Describing & defining abstract

concepts.

Raising considerations

Negotiating & compromising

Describing responsibilities &

expectations

Stipulating conditions

Discussing resolutions for complex problems

Euphemism, exaggeration and stress.

Expressing scepticism

Making inferences.

Strength of opinion using for

and to.

- ever words

Be supposed to and be expected to.

Even if, only if, and unless -

Order of adjectives

Using the verb 'to wish'

Gerunds as subject.

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Level/Materials Topics Functions

Level 7 Marketing

Predictions

Jobs

Habits

Personality

Clothing

Media

Decisions

Reality

Superstition

Food

Heroism

Regrets

Romance

Travel

Beverages

Driving

Perspectives

Communication

Education

Topics and questions are designed to

lead to interactive and spontaneous

communication between two or

more people who are following rules

of etiquette. Conversation is light,

surface-level communication.

Level 8 Appearance

Bad habits

Friendship

Priorities

Television

Marriage

Moving

Crime

Parenting

Food

Money

Housing

Romance

Technology

City life

Culture

Inventions

Advertisement

Annoyances

Intelligence

Topics and questions are designed to

lead to a focused and deeper level of

communication. Discussions involve

the sharing of varied and

increasingly complex feelings,

opinions, and experiences about

subjects brought up in light

conversations.

Advanced

Changes daily and monthly

Native level vocabulary,

pronunciation and rhythm, with no

set language points.

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