11/12/2014 CEFR Grammar levels Grammar to study at each CEF level The table below shows you the grammar areas that you should be studying at each of the CEF levels: A1 Adjectives: common and demonstrative Adverbs of frequency (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_adverbs_of_frequency_place_time.htm) Comparatives (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/a2_comparative_adjectives.htm) and superlatives (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_superlative.htm) Going to (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_going_to.htm) How much/how many and very common uncountable nouns (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_Uncountable_nouns.htm) I’d like (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_would_like.htm) Imperatives (+/­) (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_imperative.htm) Intensifiers (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_intensifiers.htm) ­ very basic Modals: can/can’t/could/couldn’t (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_can_could.htm) Past simple of “to be” (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/be.htm) Past Simple (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_past_simple.htm) Possessive adjectives Possessive s (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/possessive_'s.htm) Prepositions, common Prepositions of place (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_prepositions_of_place.htm) Prepositions of time, including in/on/at (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_prepositions_of_time.htm) Present continuous (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_present_continuous.htm) Present simple (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/present_simple.htm) Pronouns: simple, personal Questions (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_questions.htm) There is/are To be, including question+negatives Verb + ing: like/hate/love (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/like_ing.htm) A2 http://www.examenglish.com/CEFR/cefr_grammar.htm 1/6 11/12/2014 CEFR Grammar levels Adjectives – comparative (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/a2_comparative_adjectives.htm), – use of than and definite article Adjectives – superlative (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_superlative.htm) – use of definite article Adverbial phrases of time, place and frequency – including word order (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_adverbs_of_frequency_place_time.htm) Adverbs of frequency (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_adverbs.htm) Articles – with countable and uncountable nouns (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/a2_articles.htm) Countables and Uncountables: much/many (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_Uncountable_nouns.htm) Future Time (will (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_will.htm) and going to (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_going_to.htm)) Gerunds (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_Gerund_infinitive.htm) Going to (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_going_to.htm) Imperatives (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_imperative.htm) Modals – can/could (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_can_could.htm) Modals – have to (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_have_to.htm) Modals – should (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_ShouldOught.htm) Past continuous (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_past_continuous.htm) Past simple (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_past_simple.htm) Phrasal verbs – common (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_phrasal_verbs_inseparable.htm) Possessives – use of ‘s, s’ (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/possessive_'s.htm) Prepositional phrases (place, time and movement) Prepositions of time: on/in/at (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_prepositions_of_time.htm) Present continuous (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_present_continuous.htm) Present continuous for future Present perfect (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_present_perfect.htm) Questions Verb + ing/infinitive: like/ (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/like_ing.htm) want­would like (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_would_like.htm) Wh­questions in past Zero (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_zero_conditional.htm) and 1st conditional (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_First_Conditional.htm) B1 Adverbs (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_adverbs.htm) Broader range of intensifiers such as too, enough (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_intensifiers.htm) Comparatives (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/a2_comparative_adjectives.htm) and superlatives (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_superlative.htm) Complex question tags (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_question_tags.htm) Conditionals, 2nd (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_second_conditional.htm) and 3rd http://www.examenglish.com/CEFR/cefr_grammar.htm 2/6 11/12/2014 CEFR Grammar levels (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_3rd_conditional.htm) Connecting words expressing cause and effect, contrast etc. (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_connectors.htm) Future continuous (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_future_continuous.htm) Modals ­ must/can’t deduction Modals – might, may, will, probably (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_may_might.htm) Modals – should have/might have/etc (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_should_have.htm) Modals: must/have to (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_have_to.htm) Past continuous (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_past_continuous.htm) Past perfect (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_past_perfect.htm) Past simple (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_past_simple.htm) Past tense responses Phrasal verbs, extended Present perfect continuous (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_presperf_continuous.htm) Present perfect/past simple (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_presentperfect_pastsimple.htm) Reported speech (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_reported_speech.htm) (range of tenses) Simple passive (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_simple_passives.htm) Wh­ questions in the past (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_questions.htm) Will and going to, for prediction (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/going_to_will_prediction.htm) B2 Adjectives and adverbs (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_adverbs.htm) Future continuous (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_future_continuous.htm) Future perfect (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/future_perfect.htm) Future perfect continuous (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/future_perfect_continuous.htm) Mixed conditionals (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/mixed_conditionals.htm) Modals – can’t have, needn’t have Modals of deduction and speculation Narrative tenses Passives (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_simple_passives.htm) Past perfect (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_past_perfect.htm) Past perfect continuous (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/past_perfect_continuous.htm) Phrasal verbs, extended (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_phrasal_verbs_separable.htm) Relative clauses (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/d_relative_clauses.htm) Reported speech (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_reported_speech.htm) Will and going to, for prediction (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/going_to_will_prediction.htm) Wish (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/wish_if_only.htm) Would expressing habits, in the past (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/used_to_would.htm) C1 http://www.examenglish.com/CEFR/cefr_grammar.htm 3/6 11/12/2014 CEFR Grammar levels Futures (revision) Inversion with negative adverbials Mixed conditionals in past, present and future (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/mixed_conditionals.htm) Modals in the past Narrative tenses for experience, incl. passive Passive forms, all Phrasal verbs, especially splitting Wish/if only regrets (http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/wish_if_only.htm) CEFR CEF Levels (http://www.examenglish.com/CEFR/cefr.php) Grammar by CEF Level (cefr_grammar.htm) Check your CEF level (http://www.examenglish.com/leveltest/index.html) Exams at CEF levels (http://www.examenglish.com/examscomparison.php) A2 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