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German Continuers Level

The typical performance in this band:

Band 6

  • initiates and sustains conversation through the exchange of relevant information and ideas appropriate to context, audience and purpose

  • demonstrates a sophisticated command of a wide range of vocabulary and language structures

  • manipulates language structures in a creative, authentic and fluent manner, with minor errors

  • structures and sequences ideas and information effectively and creatively

  • demonstrates a comprehensive global and detailed understanding of German by analysing, processing and responding to spoken and written texts

Band 5

  • communicates effectively through the exchange of relevant information and ideas appropriate to context, audience and purpose

  • demonstrates a very good command of a broad range of vocabulary and variety of language structures

  • manipulates language structures in a creative, natural and fluent manner,although there may be occasional inconsistencies and errors

  • structures and sequences ideas and information effectively

  • demonstrates a substantial global and detailed understanding of German processing and responding to spoken and written texts

Band 4

  • communicates quite effectively through the exchange of relevant information and some ideas in spoken and written German

  • demonstrates a good command of a range of vocabulary and language structures

  • manipulates language structures with reasonable proficiency, although there may be lexical and syntactical errors

  • links ideas and information effectively

  • conveys a reasonable global and detailed understanding of spoken and written texts by identifying gist and some specific detail

Band 3

  • demonstrates the ability to sustain spoken and written communication at a basic level

  • demonstrates a basic knowledge of vocabulary and language structures, although with reliance on English syntax and frequent grammatical errors

  • links some ideas and information

  • demonstrates the ability to identify the general gist and some specific details from spoken and written German

Band 2

  • demonstrates the ability to communicate a limited range of ideas and information, using single words or simple phrases with frequent errors�

  • communicates with frequent reliance on English syntax and anglicisms in spoken and written German

  • demonstrates a limited knowledge of vocabulary and language structures

  • demonstrates a limited ability to identify relevant detail from spoken and written texts

Band 1

 

 

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