The Common European Framework in its political and educational context What is the Common European Framework?

The descriptors in the Framework
In addition to the tables used in Chapter 3 to summarise the Common Reference Levels,
illustrative descriptors are interspersed in the text of Chapters 4 and 5 as follows:
Appendix B: The illustrative scales of descriptors
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Document B1
Illustrative scales in Chapter 4: Communicative activities
Spoken
• Overall listening comprehension
• Understanding Interaction between native speakers
• Listening as a member of a live audience 
• Listening to announcements and instructions
• Listening to radio & audio recordings
Written'>Audio/Visual
• Watching TV & film
Written
• Overall reading comprehension
• Reading correspondence
• Reading for orientation
• Reading for information and argument
• Reading instructions
Spoken
• Overall spoken interaction
• Comprehension in interaction
• Understanding a native speaker interlocutor
• Conversation
• Informal discussion
• Formal discussion (Meetings)
• Goal-oriented co-operation
• Obtaining goods and services
• Information exchange
• Interviewing & being interviewed
Written
• Overall written interaction
• Correspondence
• Notes, messages & forms
Spoken
• Overall spoken production
• Sustained monologue: describing experience
• Sustained monologue: putting a case (e.g. debate)
• Public announcements
• Addressing audiences
Written
• Overall written production
• Creative writing
• Writing reports and essays
Document B2
Illustrative scales in Chapter 4: Communication strategies
RECEPTION
• Identifying cues and inferring 
INTERACTION
• Taking the floor (turntaking)
• Co-operating
• Asking for clarification