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First Step

- For complete beginners to the English language.
- For children as young as five years old.
- Understanding of about 100 words...
- Match with lines, colour and draw...
- Also available as 'Adult Learner' for older beginners.

Junior

- Second Step.
- Understanding of about 200 words.
- Animals, food and transport...
- Choose answers, read and label...
- Multiple choice questions.

Primary

- Understanding 400 words.
- Topics such as weather and sport.
- Time and describing.
- Writing some words and phrases.
- Forming questions and negatives.

Preliminary

- A1 on the CEFR.
- Skills are separated and tested.
- Speaking is an optional skill.
- Candidates need an understanding of 800 words...
- Read short passages, answer questions...

Elementary

- A2 on the CEFR
- Reading, writing, listening and speaking.
- Future tenses, expressing purpose, adverbs...
- Reading text, rearrange word order...
- Ask and answer questions about past and present events.

Pre-Intermediate

- A2+ on the CEFR
- An increased vocabulary.
- The second conditional.
- Write a short informal message.
- Distinguishing between and use a variety of tenses.

Intermediate

- B1 on the CEFR
- AIM Entry Level 3 qualification.
- Reported speech, the third conditional, past perfect...
- Conjunctions and connectives
- Word transformation, gap fill, write a composition...

Advanced

- B2 on the CEFR
- AIM Entry Level 1 qualification.
- Inversion, verb/structures and the perfect infinitive...
- Collocation and Idiom.
- Two forms of correspondence

Proficiency

- C1 on the CEFR
- AIM Entry Level 1 qualification.
- Inversion, verb/structures and the perfect infinitive...
- Collocation and Idiom.
- Two forms of correspondence

Mastery

- C2 on the CEFR
- AIM Entry Level 3 qualification.
- Ofqual approved and accredited.
- Allocation of 16 UCAS tarrif points.
- Coherent presentation and full control of style, idiom, inference...

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