The famous Russian proverb says, "not put forward, in the wake of the Scourge are not in the middle, not pushing."But when it comes to the level of the English language, is it really so bad to be in the middle,?In this article we will give the most popular description of the level of knowledge of the English language - Intermediate.
level of knowledge of the English language is characterized by such parameters:
passive, demonstrating how well you perceive:
- speaking.
- written language (that is, how well you are reading).
activity, showing how well you perceive:
- speech.
- Letter (how well you write).
Of course, all of these skills can be opened.In this article, we will not characterize all levels of English proficiency.Intermediate - that's the level that is a very desirable goal (if you have just started to learn the language) or excellent springboard (if you plan to live, study or work abroad).
It begins with the Intermediate level is a great way to English.With this level you can already count on admission to a foreign university (the average level, of course), or qualify for a variety of positions in foreign companies.
Whoever reached Intermediate, will never forget the language.Yes, the suspension of the study will lead to the fact that you lose a part of your vocabulary, forget very complex grammatical structures, but the basic, most important, the knowledge will remain, and if you want you can always easily restore what we lost.
There is another important point.It is known that the acquisition of language occurs exponentially.Moving forward, you accelerate.The more you know, the more able to master.Intermediate level This gives you the opportunity to learn English, get a real pleasure.You can read books and magazines, interesting for you, hold a conversation on a fairly lively and deeper level, moving away from the boring phrases like: "what is your hobbies?"or "where came you from?".Yes, much remains unclear, and it will be hard to take a lecture at the university, but having a good base, you begin to sense instinctively guess new words and be able to expand your vocabulary without stress, just you doing interesting activities.
What can a person who has an average level of English?
in oral communication
you still can not carry on a conversation about the subtle matter of politics, religion or philosophy, to influence the interlocutor subtly ironic, relaxed and natural to use the idiom - all provide a high level of knowledge of English.However, your skill is enough to keep the conversation almost every meet you a native speaker.If you do not understand something, you can specify to ask again, nice to apologize.You will understand and will make you a "discount."
You can easily express your opinion or emotion, you can suggest an idea.Can you tell us about yourself and what you're interested in.Your vocabulary of about 3000 words.In everyday life, almost none of us do not consume more.
your accent is noticeable, but you speak clearly enough.You can understand fluent speech of interlocutors, you tell a native speaker from someone who just learned it well.You can watch any popular movie, is that scientific and documentary will cause difficulties.You produce grammatically correct sentences, allowing very small, rare mistakes.
The letter
You can read the original fiction, but not the most sophisticated.Classic writers will still cause difficulties abundance of words, synonyms and unusual syntax (many who have reached the level of Intermediate, discovering that the order of words in the English sentence may be indirect).It comes easily to journalism, newspaper and magazine articles, the instructions to the goods.
level of understanding written language still depends on the specifics of your education and interests.If you study the rules of English punctuation by browsing the texts of the economy, they are, of course, will not be difficult for you, but the other person with the same level as you will have difficulties.However, whatever the theme may be better understood by you, you can understand the basic theme of any text in a newspaper or magazine.
In a letter to you to express himself relatively simple but grammatically correct phrases.Your style is clear and logical.You can easily write a letter, fill out a form, to describe events, express their opinions.Your writing skills at intermediate level is sufficient to go to a foreign technical university, but not sufficient for admission to the faculty of journalism - it requires a high level of knowledge of English.
Thus, higher levels of English are required only for those who are building serious plans is going to use English for specific professional or scientific activities.For them, intermediate - it's a good, solid base.For all others, this level is more than sufficient, allowing to leave the English language courses and finally to learn the language, just using it.The level of intermediate - it really is the golden mean.
