At this level, kids are approaching a high level of fluency and are capable of using English effectively in real-world settings.
Children understand long and complex spoken texts, even when not clearly structured or when relationships are only implied. They can generally follow films, news broadcasts, and informal conversations with a wide range of accents. They can also grasp idiomatic and colloquial expressions in context. At this level, they will have exercises including listening for main ideas, details, conversations, and interviews.
They express themselves fluently and spontaneously, present clear opinions, detailed descriptions of complex subjects and explain a viewpoint, giving pros and cons of various options, engage in debates, discussions, and roleplays with good control of tone, style, and register.
They understand long, complex texts including literary works, opinion pieces, and academic articles, fiction identify subtleties in argument, tone, and implicit meaning in articles, process dense information efficiently, including scanning, skimming, and critical reading skills.
They write well-structured texts such as persuasive essays, argumentative emails, reports, articles, opinion and descriptive essays or stories using a clear style and appropriate tone. They also can develop and support complex ideas in writing with detailed examples, explanations, and linking devices. They use a variety of sentence structures and vocabulary to achieve specific effects (persuade, entertain, inform, etc.).
They use a wide range of grammatical structures with high accuracy, including advanced conditionals, inversion, cleft sentences, reported speech, and mixed tenses. They show control over subtleties like aspect (continuous vs. simple), modality (might have, should have), and complex sentence formation. They make fewer errors and self-correct naturally.
They use precise, nuanced vocabulary including idioms, phrasal verbs, collocations, and subject-specific language. They understand and use figurative and metaphorical expressions, use tone-appropriate vocabulary for formal writing, academic tasks, and informal conversations.
By the end of the Level, learners demonstrate confident, fluent, and flexible use of English across a wide range of contexts. They are able to engage critically, creatively, and independently with spoken and written language.
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