• Certificate of Achievement and e-certificate are available in 3 (online) or 10 (face-to-face) business days.
• Results are sent to candidates via the Test Centre.
• Digital badges are available on the same day as results and are sent by email.
• Hard-copy certificates are sent to the candidate through the Test Centre shortly after results are released.
• Certificates include the score for each skill and the overall grade reported as a CEFR level.
• The overall grade of the four-skill certificate represents the average of the four skills, not the lowest CEFR level achieved in any one skill.

LTE A1 – CEFR A1

• Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases satisfying practical needs in connection with education, training and social roles.
• Can introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as possessions, address and people known.
• Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.

LTE A2 – CEFR A2

• Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance such as basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment, education, training, and social roles.
• Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a direct exchange of information, feelings, and opinions on familiar and routine matters.
• Can engage in conversation to establish shared understanding about familiar topics.

LTE B1 – CEFR B1

• Can understand the main points of clear standard communication on matters regularly encountered in social roles, work, school, leisure, education, and training.
• Can convey information, feelings, and opinions on familiar topics, using appropriate formality.
• Can engage in discussion in a familiar situation making relevant points and responding to reach a shared understanding.
• Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken.
• Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes, and ambitions and briefly give explanations for opinions and plans.

LTE B2 – CEFR B2

• Can understand the main ideas of complex communication on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialisation.
• Can communicate with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes interaction quite possible without strain for either party.
• Can adapt to take account of the listener(s), the context and the medium.
• Can engage in discussion in familiar and unfamiliar situations making clear and relevant contributions.
• Can communicate clearly and in detail on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

LTE C1 – CEFR C1

• Can use the language fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions.
• Can respond to extended information and narratives, follow detailed explanations and complex instructions, adapting response to audience, medium and context.
• Can engage in discussion in a variety of situations making clear and effective contributions.
• Can use language flexibly.
• Can communicate ideas and opinions effectively, appropriate to purpose, content and audience.

LTE C2 – CEFR C2

• Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex situations.

Explore our resources

• Practice Paper 3 - LTE Speaking A1-C2
• Practice Paper 4 - LTE Speaking A1-C2
• Speaking test sample video (Wang)
• Speaking test sample video (Wang) – Comments on the test-taker’s performance
• Speaking test sample video (Emre)
• Speaking test sample video (Emre) – Comments on the test-taker’s performance
• Speaking test sample video (André)
• Speaking test sample video (André) – Comments on the test-taker’s performance
• Speaking test sample video (Maya)
• Speaking test sample video (Maya) – Comments on the test-taker’s performance
• Qualification Handbook (Speaking)

Vocabulary books

• Edwards, L. & Redman, S. (2017) English Vocabulary in Use: Pre-intermediate and Intermediate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Emmerson, P. (2007) Business English Handbook: Advanced. London: Macmillan
• Emmerson, P. (2009) Business Vocabulary Builder: Intermediate to Upper-Intermediate. London: Macmillan.
• Emmerson, P. (2011) Essential Business Vocabulary Builder: Pre-intermediate to Intermediate. London: Macmillan.

Grammar books

• Brieger, N. & Sweeney, S. (2011) Business Grammar and Practice: Pre-Intermediate. London: Collins
• Emmerson, P. (2010) Business Grammar Builder: Intermediate to Upper-intermediate. London: Macmillan.
• Murphy, R. (2019) English Grammar in Use: Intermediate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Swan, M. & Walter, C. (2011) Oxford English Grammar Course: Basic. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Swan, M. & Walter, C. (2015) Oxford English Grammar Course: Intermediate. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Swan, M. & Walter, C. (2019) Oxford English Grammar Course: Advanced. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Business English Course Books

• Cosgrove, A. (2017) English at Work: Practical Language Activities for Working in the UK. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Cotton, D., Falvey, D., & Kent, S. (2011) Market leader: Upper Intermediate Business English course book. Harlow: Pearson Longman.
• Cotton, D., Falvey, D., Kent, S. & Rogers, J. (2016) Market leader: Pre-intermediate Business English Flexi Course book 1. Harlow: Pearson Longman.
• Hughes, J. & Naunton, J. (2016) Business Result: Intermediate. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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