BENCHMARK TEST A ADMINISTERED BY:
Laura Sofia Giraldo Arana
Test submitted on: 12/06/2024
Institution: Unidad Central del Valle del Cauca
Current capabilities
OVERALL SCORE
The student can understand language related to familiar, everyday activities. They can
understand basic factual statements relating to pictures or simple texts, and short
simple messages. They can understand basic information about people, and follow
simple directions and everyday transactions if spoken slowly and clearly. They can ask
and answer simple questions appropriately on personal information, and interact in
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basic exchanges. They can write simple sentences about people or familiar objects. CEFR: A1
Please note your overall score assesses your English proficiency across all skills displayed on this report as well
as enabling skills such as Grammar and Vocabulary.
This explains why your overall score is not an average of your individual skills scores.
Scores for each skill
Overall
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CEFR GSE LISTENING READING SPEAKING WRITING
26 33 24 34
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Listening: 26
PERFORMANCE SUMMARY
The student can recognise simple words and phrases related to familiar topics, and in short basic
descriptions (e.g. of people, places and objects) if delivered slowly and clearly. They can generally
understand basic information and questions relating to daily routines, and hobbies. They can understand
simple spoken commands (e.g. in a game or sport), simple directions (on foot or public transport).
RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES
Let students work in pairs asking each other questions about their likes/dislikes or what they do in their
free time. Give students practice at identifying common objects from descriptions, and identifying key
information (e.g. prices, times, dates, places, names) in short simple dialogues.
SUGGESTED GSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Can understand basic questions about free time activities.
Can understand basic information about prices, times, and dates in familiar contexts, if spoken slowly and
clearly.
Can recognise key information (e.g. place, time) about everyday events, if spoken slowly and clearly.
Reading: 33
PERFORMANCE SUMMARY
Students at this level can generally understand basic sentences describing people's physical appearance
(e.g. eye/hair colour, height), and everyday activities. They understand short simple messages on
postcards, emails, and social networks, simple questions in questionnaires on familiar topics. They can get
the gist of short simple illustrated narratives but struggle to fully understand them in detail.
RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES
Practice a variety of reading subskills e.g. scanning, skimming and guessing the meaning of unfamiliar
words. Skim reading: give them a short text and ask them to read it quickly in order to get an overall
understanding of it. Use materials such as leaflets, timetables, menus, tickets, posters, and ask them to
locate specific information e.g. a number, date, time, place, name or price. Use several texts, remove one
sentence from each text and ask them to look at the removed sentences and predict which text they think
they have been removed from.
SUGGESTED GSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Can get the gist of short, simple narratives, with visual support.
Can understand short, simple texts about everyday activities.
Can find specific, predictable information in everyday materials (e.g. menus, timetables).
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Speaking: 24
PERFORMANCE SUMMARY
The student can describe everyday objects in a basic way (e.g. colour and size). They can ask and answer
simple questions on personal information. They can interact in basic exchanges (e.g. ordering food,
buying a ticket on public transport) using basic fixed expressions, but may sometimes require the other
person to repeat or rephrase. They can use simple phrases to indicate time e.g. 'next week', 'last Friday', '
in December', ' three o'clock.
RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES
Use basic role-plays to help them practice set fixed phrases, new vocabulary and structures using
different situations e.g. food shopping, introducing a new student to the class etc.
SUGGESTED GSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Can agree to simple requests using a few basic fixed expressions.
Can ask and answer simple questions in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics.
Can ask for and give very basic information about the home.
Writing: 34
PERFORMANCE SUMMARY
The student can generally write simple sentences about themselves (their likes and dislikes), giving
personal details, objects, possessions or household pets. They can write simple descriptions of people
physical appearances given a model, or make simple comparisons between people, places and things.
They struggle to write about the topics that go beyond their immediate world. Functional language is still
fairly limited in range.
RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES
Give the student practice in independent writing on topics of interest, providing models where
appropriate. Provide practice of new verb tenses, within a greater range of relevant topic areas. Begin to
use student generated functional language e.g. brainstorm ways to give instructions, directions, etc.
SUGGESTED GSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Can write short, simple descriptions of people’s physical appearance using basic connectors, given
prompts or a model.
Can write short texts about their likes and dislikes using basic fixed expressions.
Can write a simple text (e.g. an invitation to a party) containing key information, given a model.
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