Basic Skills Online - Level 1 - Standards

Speaking and listening - At this level, adults can:

• Listen and respond to spoken language, including information and narratives, and follow explanations and instructions of varying length, adapting response to speaker, medium and context.
• Speak to communicate information, ideas and opinions adapting speech and content to take account of the listener(s) and medium.
• Engage in discussion with one or more people in familiar and unfamiliar situations, making clear and relevant contributions that respond to what others say and produce a shared understanding about different topics.

and will be expected to:

• listen for and identify relevant information from explanations and presentations on a range of straightforward topics.
• listen for and understand explanations, instructions and narratives on different topics in a range of contexts.
• use strategies to clarify and confirm understanding (eg facial expressions, body language and verbal prompts.)
• provide feedback and confirmation when listening to others.
• make contributions relevant to the situation and the subject.
• speak clearly in a way which suits the situation.
• make requests and ask questions to obtain information in familiar and unfamiliar contexts.
• respond to questions on a range of topics.
• express clearly statements of fact, explanations, instructions, accounts, and descriptions.
• present information and ideas in a logical sequence and include detail and develop ideas where appropriate.
• follow and contribute to discussions on a range of straightforward topics.
• respect the turn-taking rights of others during discussions.
• use appropriate phrases for interruption.

in formal exchanges connected with education, training, work and social. roles.

Reading - At this level, adults can:

• Read and understand straightforward texts of varying length on a variety of topics accurately and independently.
• Read and obtain information from different sources.

and will be expected to:

• trace and understand the main events of continuous descriptive, explanatory and persuasive texts.
• recognise how language and other textual features are used to achieve different purposes (eg to instruct, explain, describe, persuade.)
• identify the main points and specific detail, and infer meaning from images which is not explicit in the text.
• use organisational and structural features to locate information (eg contents, index, menus, subheadings, paragraphs.)
• use different reading strategies to find and obtain information (eg skimming, scanning, detailed reading.)
• use reference material to find the meaning of unfamiliar words.

in reports, instructional, explanatory and persuasive texts.

Writing - At this level, adults can:

• write to communicate information, ideas and opinions clearly using length, format and style appropriate to purpose and audience.

and will be expected to:

• plan and draft writing.
• judge how much to write, and the level of detail to include.
• present information in a logical sequence, using paragraphs where appropriate.
• use language suitable for purpose and audience.
• use format and structure for different purposes.
• write in complete sentences.
• use correct grammar (eg subject-verb agreement, correct use of tense.)
• punctuate sentences correctly, and use punctuation so that meaning is clear.
• spell correctly words used most often in work, studies and daily life.
• proof-read and revise writing for meaning and accuracy.
• produce legible text.

in documents such as forms, records, e-mails, letters, narratives, instructions, reports, explanations.

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