Level 7
Conditions: In predictable situations or partially predictable situations, students understand conversations or discourse on various concrete topics. The language is standard and speech is at a normal rate.
More specifically, they can:
- follow most conversations with ease;
- follow a conversation on work or recreational activities;
- make inferences about the attitudes and emotions of speakers or about the mood of a conversation;
- understand a variety of common words and popular idiomatic expressions.
Level 8
Conditions: In predictable situations or partially predictable situations, students understand conversations and opinion discourse on various concrete topics.
More specifically, they can:
- follow most conversations in formal and informal contexts;
- understand a structured presentation given the presence of questions and answers; markers (first, etc.); and words related to a presentation or opinion (present, think, believe, etc.);
- distinguish fact from opinion;
- grasp, comparisons, contrasts, and cause and effect relationships.