At Level B2 students communicate and learn English in predictable social and learning situations, understanding some de-contextualised English and expressing simple messages in basic English. They negotiate simple transactions and ask and answer basic questions on familiar topics, using familiar...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening
At Level B1 students write and present simple texts for a variety of basic classroom and personal purposes. With support, they communicate familiar ideas, events and experiences, writing simple narratives, recounts, descriptions and reports. Students use some of the basic structures and features...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B1 | Writing
At Level B2 students write for a range of purposes on familiar topics. They write simple, organised texts demonstrating a developing use of specific vocabulary and simple sentence structures. Their writing demonstrates an understanding of the purposes of common text types, and their structures...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B2 | Writing
At Level B3 students communicate for a range of purposes on a variety of familiar topics, using a basic repertoire of text types. They write sequenced and ordered factual texts, and narrative texts that maintain a cohesive storyline and characterisation. They demonstrate an awareness of how effective...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B3 | Writing
At Level BL students communicate their ideas and experiences simply through written, drawn, copied or dictated texts. They contribute to whole-class or small-group shared writing activities. They demonstrate an early awareness that written texts in English are presented according to certain conventions...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level BL | Writing
At Level C2 students read and comprehend a range of short, familiar fictional and factual texts and, when well supported, some unfamiliar texts. These texts may be print or digital texts, including handwritten, visual, multimodal and interactive texts.
Students show some comprehension beyond...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing
At Level C3 students demonstrate a basic understanding of the main ideas, issues or plot developments in a range of accessible texts from across the curriculum. These texts may be print or digital texts, including handwritten, visual, multimodal and interactive texts.
Students demonstrate...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing
At Level C4 students compare and make judgments about different texts (such as texts on the same topic by different authors) and read a wide range of accessible and culturally appropriate texts from across the curriculum with a high degree of independence. These texts may be print or digital texts...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C4 | Reading and Viewing
At Level C1 students read and comprehend a range of short, simple, familiar factual or fictional texts developed by the teacher. These texts may be print or digital texts, including handwritten, visual, multimodal and interactive texts.
Students understand a range of basic print instructions...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing
At Level C3 students listen, question and respond successfully in a wide range of social and academic contexts. They demonstrate sufficient control of stress, rhythm and intonation to be understood in most contexts. They use appropriate non-verbal language, take account of purpose and audience...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening
At Level C4 students demonstrate greater autonomy and control over their use of English, combining their expanding vocabulary with the appropriate use of a wide range of complex grammatical features including modal verbs, passive voice and tenses. They demonstrate understanding of the ways that...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C4 | Speaking and Listening
At Level C1 students write for a range of basic classroom and personal purposes, making lists and writing simple journal entries, notes, descriptions, recounts of events and instructional texts. Their basic sentences and short texts are based on well-practised spoken English and familiar contexts...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C1 | Writing
At Level C2 students write with a degree of autonomy for a range of everyday classroom and personal purposes, such as describing, explaining and recounting. They independently write some basic texts and experiment with presenting their own ideas. Their texts show varying grammatical accuracy....
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C2 | Writing
At Level C3, through guided activities, students write texts based on an extensive range of fictional and factual text types from across the curriculum, showing an awareness of purpose and audience. They consistently use the basic structures of these text types, and demonstrate consistent but...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C3 | Writing
At Level C4 students write, with appropriate support, the full range of extended fictional and factual text types undertaken across the curriculum. With support they vary their writing to be consistent with the text type, the context and the needs of the reader, presenting similar content in different...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C4 | Writing
At Level CL students read and complete simple, structured activities around a wide range of familiar, short, simple texts that use repetitive structures and features and are strongly supported by illustrations. These texts may be print or digital texts, including handwritten, visual, multimodal...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level CL | Reading and Viewing
At Level CL students communicate simply but effectively in English in familiar social and classroom contexts. They communicate using formulaic language; short, simple and well-rehearsed grammatical features; and adaptations of their emerging English repertoire. They use stress and intonation appropriately...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level CL | Speaking and Listening
At Level CL, in familiar contexts, students write short, grammatically simple texts based on well-rehearsed spoken and well-practised written English. They write for a range of basic classroom and personal purposes, such as making lists and writing simple journal entries and notes, and complete...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level CL | Writing
The Level B3 curriculum provides opportunities to enhance students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to their spoken English. Students learn to respond to and use English appropriately in a wide range of contexts. The curriculum focuses on pronunciation, stress and intonation in...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway B: Mid immersion | EAL
The Level B2 curriculum develops students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to their spoken English. Students learn to negotiate simple exchanges in English, combining their understanding of both verbal and non-verbal language. They refine and further develop a wide range of fundamental...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway B: Mid immersion | EAL
