What You Can Do :

1. You can understand standard spoken language, live or broadcast, on both familiar and unfamiliar topics normally encountered in personal, social, academic or vocational life.
2. You can understand the main ideas of propositionally and linguistically complex speech on both concrete and abstract topics delivered in a standard dialect, including technical discussions in your field.
3. You can follow extended speech and complex lines of argument provided the topic is reasonably familiar, and the direction of the talk is sign-posted by explicit markers.
4. You can read with a large degree of independence, adapting style and speed of reading to different texts and purposes, and using appropriate reference sources selectively. Has a broad active reading vocabulary, but may experience some difficulty with low-frequency idioms.

What You Should Improve :

1. You Should be able to understand enough to follow extended speech on abstract and complex topics beyond your field.
2. You can recognise a wide range of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms, appreciating register shifts.
3. You are expected to follow extended speech even when it is not clearly structured and when relationships are only implied and not signalled explicitly.
4. You are expected to understand in detail lengthy, complex texts, whether or not they relate to your own area of speciality, provided you can reread difficult sections.