A1-C1 Base Syllabi

Functions A1

Grammar A1

Discourse Markers A1

Vocabulary A1

    • Directions
    • Describing habits and routines
  • Giving personal information
  • Greetings
  • Telling the time
  • Understanding and using number
  • Understanding and using prices

 

  • 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
  • Connecting words, and, but, because

 

  • Food and drink
  • Nationalities and countries
  • Personal information
  • Things in the town, shops and shopping
  • Verbs – basic

Topics:

  • Family life
  • Hobbies and pastimes
  • Holidays
  • Leisure activities
  • Shopping
  • Work and jobs

 

Functions A2

Grammar A2

GrammarA2 (continued)

Vocabulary A2

  • Describing habits and routines
  • Describing past experiences
  • Describing people
  • Describing places
  • Describing things
  • Obligation and necessity
  • Requests
  • Suggestions
  • Adjectives – comparative, – use of than and definite article
  • Adjectives – superlative – use of definite article
  • Adverbial phrases of time, placeand frequency – including word order
  • Adverbs of frequency
  • Articles – with countable and uncountable nouns
  • Countables and Uncountables:much/many
  • Future Time (will and going to)
  • 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 continuousPresent continuous for future
  • Present perfect
  • QuestionsVerb + ing/infinitive: like/ want-would like
  • Wh-questions in past
  • Zero and 1st conditional
  • Adjectives: personality, description, feelings
  • Food and drink
  • Things in the town, shops and shopping
  • Travel and services

Topics:

  • Education
  • Hobbies and pastimes
  • Holidays
  • Leisure activities
  • Shopping
  • Work and jobs

Discourse Markers:

  • Linkers: sequential – past time

Functions B1

Grammar B1

Discourse Markers B1

Vocabulary B1

  • Checking understanding
  • Describing experiences and events
  • Describing feelings and emotion
  • Describing places
  • Expressing opinions; language of agreeing and disagreeing
  • Initiating and closing conversation
  • Managing interaction (interrupting,
  • changing topic, resuming or continuing)

 

  • Adverbs
  • Broader range of intensifiers such as too, enough
  • Comparatives and superlatives
  • Complex question tags
  • Conditionals, 2nd and 3rd
  • Connecting words expressing cause and effect, contrast etc.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Connecting words expressing cause and effect, contrast etc
  • Linkers: sequential past time

 

  • Collocation
  • Colloquial language
  • Things in the town, shops and shopping
  • Travel and services

Topics:

  • Books and literature
  • Education
  • Film
  • Leisure activities
  • Media
  • News, lifestyles and current affairs

 

Functions B2

Grammar B2

Discourse Markers B2

Vocabulary B2

  • Critiquing and reviewing
  • Describing experiences
  • Describing feelings and emotions
  • Describing hopes and plans
  • Developing an argument
  • Encouraging and inviting another speaker to continue, come in
  • Expressing abstract ideas
  • Expressing agreement and disagreementExpressing opinionsExpressing reaction, e.g. indifference
  • Interacting informally, reacting, expressing interest, sympathy, surprise etc.
  • Opinion, justification
  • Speculating
  • Taking the initiative in interaction
  • Synthesizing, evaluating, glossing info
  • 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
  • Connecting words expressing cause and effect, contrast etc.
  • Discourse markers to structure formal speech
  • Linkers: although, in spite of, despite Linkers: sequential – past time – subsequently
  • Collocation
  • Colloquial language

Topics:

  • Arts
  • Books and literature
  • Education
  • Film
  • Media
  • News, lifestyles and current affairs

 

Functions C1

Grammar C1

Discourse Markers C1

Vocabulary C1

  • Conceding a point
  • Critiquing and reviewing constructively
  • Defending a point of view persuasively
  • Developing an argument systematically
  • Emphasizing a point, feeling, issue
  • Expressing attitudes and feelings precisely
  • Expressing certainty, probability, doubt
  • Expressing opinions tentatively, hedging
  • Expressing reaction, e.g. indifference
  • Expressing shades of opinion and certainty
  • Responding to counterarguments
  • Speculating and hypothesising about causes, consequences etc.
  • Synthesising, evaluating and glossinginformation

 

  • Futures (revision)
  • Inversion with negative adverbials
  • Mixed conditionals in past, present and future
  • Modals in the past
  • Narrative tenses for experience, incl. passive
  • Passive forms, all
  • Phrasal verbs, especially splitting
  • Wish/if only regrets

 

  • Linking devices, logical markers
  • Markers to structure and signpost formal and informal speech and writing

 

  • Approximating (vague language)
  • Collocation
  • Colloquial language
  • Differentiated use of vocabulary
  • Eliminating false friends
  • Formal and informal registers
  • Idiomatic expressions

Topics:

  • Arts
  • Books and literature
  • Film
  • Media
  • News, lifestyles and current affairs
  • Scientific developments
  • Technical and legal language

 

       
       

 

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