What you can write at Advanced level

Here are the kinds of things you should be able to write at Advanced level:

• Routine social correspondence
• A discourse of at least several paragraphs on familiar topics
• Stories or anecdotes about things that have happened to you
• Straightforward, informal business correspondence
• Concrete facts about special interests or fields of competence
• Lecture notes
• Cohesive summaries and resumes of things you have read or heard
• Descriptions of persons, places, and activities

• Generic module: What you can write at Advanced level
• In overview module: What you can write at different proficiency levels
• In overview module: What you can do at different proficiency levels
• In overview module: Information to help you check your progress
• In modular book: Managing Your Language Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 11 September 1997

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