Topics According with the CEFR levels.
What to teach? Any idea? Most of the schools have a syllabus, some other the coursebook, but here are some ideas according to the CEFR levels:
A1 Grammar topics
These are topics you need to study at A1 level.
• Adjectives: common and demonstrative
• Adverbs of frequency
• Comparatives and superlatives
• Going to
• How much/how many and very
• common uncountable nouns
• I’d like
• Imperatives (+/-)
• Intensifiers - very basic
• Modals: can/can’t/could/couldn’t
• Past simple of “to be”
• Past Simple
• Possessive adjectives
• Possessive s
• Prepositions, common
• Prepositions of place
• Prepositions of time, including in/on/at
• Present continuous
• Present simple
• Pronouns: simple, personal
• Questions
• There is/are
• To be, including question+negatives
• Verb + ing: like/hate/love
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A2 Grammar topics
These are topics you need to study to pass an exam at A2 level, such as Cambridge English KET, or PTE General level 1:
• Adjectives – comparative, – use of than and definite article
• Adjectives – superlative – use of definite article
• Adverbial phrases of time, place and frequency – including word order
• Adverbs of frequency
• Articles – with countable and uncountable nouns
• Countables and Uncountables: much/many
• Gerunds
• Going to
• Imperatives
• Modals – can/could
• Modals – have to
• Modals – should
• Past continuous
• Past simple
• Phrasal verbs – common
• Possessives – use of ‘s, s’
• Prepositional phrases (place, time and movement)
• Prepositions of time: on/in/at
• Present continuous
• Present continuous for future
• Present perfect
• How Questions
• Verb + ing/infinitive: like/
• want-would like
• Wh-questions in past
• Will / won't
• Zero and 1st conditional
B1 Grammar topics
These are topics you need to study to pass an exam at B1 level, such as Cambridge English Preliminary:
- Adverbs
· Both, either, neither
· Broader range of intensifiers; So, such, too, enough
· Comparatives and superlatives
· Question tags
· Conditionals, 2nd and 3rd
· Connecting words expressing
· cause and effect, contrast etc.
· Embedded questions
· Future continuous
· Modals - must/can’t deduction
· Modals – might, may, will, probably
· Modals – should have/might have/etc
· Modals: must/have to
· Past continuous
· Past perfect
· Past simple
· Past tense responses
· Phrasal verbs, extended
· Prepositions of place
· Present perfect continuous
· Present perfect/past simple
· Reported speech (range of tenses)
· Simple passive
· Wh- questions in the past
· Will and going to, for prediction
B2 Grammar topics
These are topics you need to study to pass an exam at B2 level, such as Cambridge English First:
· Adjectives and adverbs
· Future continuous
· Future perfect
· Future perfect continuous
· Mixed conditionals
· Modals – can’t have, needn’t have
· Modals of deduction and speculation
· Narrative tenses
· Passives
· Past perfect
· Past perfect continuous
· Phrasal verbs, extended
· Relative clauses
· Reported speech
· Will and going to, for prediction
· Wish
· Would expressing habits, in the past
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