Unit BSL201 – BSL Receptive Skills:

To achieve this unit, learners must show they can understand routine language in everyday situations. Learners can understand specific details from, and the general meaning of, a range of information presented in sign language. They can understand standard signing, delivered at normal speed, with facial expressions, body language, etc.

Unit BSL202 – BSL Productive Skills:

To achieve this unit, learners must show that they can use routine language in everyday situations. It allows the learner to demonstrate their ability to present information in British Sign Language. Their language is generally accurate and they make only minor grammatical errors, which do not change their meaning. If they do not have the vocabulary, they find other ways of presenting information.

Unit BSL203 – BSL Conversational Skills:

This unit covers the learner’s receptive and productive skills, which will normally have been assessed in Units BSL201 and BSL202. It allows the candidate to put both skills together to demonstrate that they can understand and exchange information during a routine conversation with a BSL user.