A1 Grammar Topics

These are the grammar topics you must be sure to learn at A1 level:

  • To be, including question+negatives
  • Possessive Adjectives
  • Numbers & Phone Numbers
  • Telling Time & Dates
  • Prepositions of Time
  • Demonstrative Pronouns
  • Comparatives and Superlatives
  • Prepositions of Place
  • There is/are
  • The verb “to have”
  • The verb “to go”
  • Simple Present Tense Verb Conjugation
  • Imperatives (+/-)
  • Modal Verbs: can/can’t/could/couldn’t/would/wouldn’t
  • Adverbs of Frequency
  • Intensifiers
  • Past simple of “to be”
  • Past Simple Tense
  • Simple Future Tense
  • How much? How many?
  • Verb + ing: like/hate/love
  • Present Continuous Tense

A2 Grammar Topics

These are topics you need to study to pass an exam at A2 level, such as Cambridge English Elementary:

  • 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

C1 Grammar Topics

These are the topics to get prepared for the second most advanced grammar on the CEFR scale C1:

  • 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