• The confidence to speak with good intonation and pronunciation.

• Fluency in reading.

• Fluency and imagination in writing.

• A strong awareness of the culture of the countries where the language is spoken.

• A passion for languages and a commitment to the subject.

• The ability to use language creatively and spontaneously.

• An independence in their studies and the ability to draw upon a wide range of resources.

• understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources  

• speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through

discussion and asking questions, and continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation  

• can write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt  

• discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied.