7 levels of English proficiency.. What level are you?

There are 7 levels of English proficiency

Level 1—Beginning/Preproduction
A student shall be classified level 1 if the student does not understand or speak English with the exception of a few isolated words or expressions.

Level 2—Beginning/Production
A student shall be classified level 2 if all of the following criteria are met:
(a) The student understands and speaks conversational and academic English with hesitancy and difficulty.
(b) The student understands parts of lessons and simple directions.
(c) The student is at a pre-emergent or emergent level of reading and writing in English, significantly below grade level.

Level 3—Intermediate
A student shall be classified level 3 if all of the following criteria are met:
(a) The student understands and speaks conversational and academic English with decreasing hesitancy and difficulty.
(b) The student is post-emergent, developing reading comprehension and writing skills in English.
(c) The student's English literacy skills allow the student to demonstrate academic knowledge in content areas with assistance.

Level 4—Advanced Intermediate
A student shall be classified level 4 if all of the following criteria are met:
(a) The student understands and speaks conversational English without apparent difficulty, but understands and speaks academic English with some hesitancy.
(b) The student continues to acquire reading and writing skills in content areas needed to achieve grade level expectations with assistance.

Level 5—Advanced
A student shall be classified level 5 if all of the following criteria are met:
(a) The student understands and speaks conversational and academic English well.
(b) The student is near proficient in reading, writing, and content area skills needed to meet grade level expectations.
(c) The student requires occasional support.

Level 6—Formerly Limited-English Proficient/Now Fully-English Proficient:
A student shall be classified level 6 if all of the following criteria are met:
(a) The student was formerly limited-English proficient and is now fully English proficient.
(b) The student reads, writes, speaks and comprehends English within academic classroom settings.

Level 7—Fully-English Proficient/Never Limited-English Proficient:
(a) native speaker

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From my own assessment cause I still didn't take any English proficiency exam yet. I think I'm standing between Intermediate stage and Advanced Intermediate, cause I understand conversational English, speak with apparent difficulty thou I can understand most of English materials that I read.

I'm doing my best to get to level 6. I'm studying grammar and pronunciation using online resources. For pronunciation the best site to go to is YOUTUBE.COM. You can't just read how to pronounce words. You need to see how to maneuver your mouth properly, the mouth and tongue position.

Read Online English magazines

 NOW,  I recommend to read online magazines to develop your sense of familiarity of how to construct English sentence and update what English words are currently using nowadays. I am not into grammar anymore, I usually features website that teaches grammar. But it's not really working for me, because of the range of sentence their using, one sentence at a time.                       

E.g., I have a car
     then, the past tense is I had a car.

About this stuff, I can say that I knew it already and need not to know this more.

I'm using English since pre-school and now, I am in my last college year. That's the reason I need to improve this language more, for my future employment. So, I need some intense English training.
Then, I decided to look around the internet and I wrote on the Google search bar "ENGLISH TEACHING WEBSITE" then thousands of results flashes on the screen.But when I open it, unfortunately, it didn't satisfies my need. Out of nowhere I accidentally open an online magazine, about sports. BOOM. Now I know the material that soothes for me the best.

All in all, If you're just starting to learn this language visit the sites I featured before.
But If you are more advance I recommend to go to online magazines available to your country. I can't give links because it usually has a viewer restriction.

LEO network, Learn English Through Pictures

If you are a visual learner like ME, this site can help you to learn some of the grammar rules and can develop your vocabulary at the same time. What I like about this site is its simpleness, not so many unnecessary button to click. I really gets annoy when a website is very hard to navigate, when you need to click lots of next button just to read their entire article or whatsoever. OK, now let's begin.

They offer lots of categories:

Example post about adjectives:

                                                        I enjoy this website, Great for beginners.

English visual dictionary

This visual dictionary can help you to know what specific word to use when pointing out any object, andWhen you know what something looks like but not what it’s called, or when you know the word but can’t picture the object, The Visual Dictionary has the answer. In a quick look, you can match the word to the image.

 Enjoy these Visual dictionaries that I collected from different sources online :

  Technology:

Body parts

Kitchen wares

                                            Motor parts

                                              SPORTS

COLORS

                                                AIRPORT

                                       RANDOM(VISUALS)

                 If you want more of these visit :
                       visual.merriam-webster

Grammar girl from quick and dirty tips TM

                                                   

                                           QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS  

This site isn't all about grammar, It has almost everything from technology, health care and etc. What I like about this site, is their child friendly environment. They are using cartoons and friendly catching names for their different article sections. 

It has a section for Grammar usage called Grammar girl 

The good thing about this Grammar girl it provides podcast. (A Podcast is an audio program, like a homemade radio show, that is made by someone and then posted to the Internet )

She will read it for you :) and her voice is very sexy :) It helps you to determine how to pronounce the words while you reading the article Isn't that cute and wonderful? This site is Awesome for me. Very helpful.

You'll gonna love this site. Trust me !

Grammar girl also has a community in Google+ and Facebook.

And a free downloadable chapters.

basics: telling time

Let me explain this concept of telling time.

We use a.m. to talk about the time from 12 at night to 11.59 in the morning

We use p.m. to talk about time from 12 in the afternoon to 11.59 at night

o'clock can only be use when you want to tell a whole hour like 6 o'clock, two o'clock

A quater past to 3 - means 3.15 never include p.m., a.m., or o'clock

add 15 minutes to the whole hour

A quater to 3- means 2.45 same rule applied.

half past 3- means 3.30 same rule applied.

use "past" when you want to tell a minutes after the recent hour, and  "to" minutes before the next hour.

(minutes)past recent hour

(minutes)to next hour.

Use more convenient one.

Englishleap.com Free Online English tutorial

Check this another English tutorial website that I'm using it's quite familiar.

Their Grammar section is free. And their way of teaching is quite impressive. So simple to understand and they gave exercises before and after the concept.

 I am enrolled here for 2 weeks now.

 As you can see I have red status out there, They are strict on giving grades you must perfect all the exercises, no room for one mistake cause If you have one, your status will be red and you must try another round to get that green one.

Try it and enjoy!!