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A1 Grammar Topics (STARTERS & MOVERS)

This document outlines grammar topics that students need to study for different levels of English proficiency exams. For A1 level exams like Starters and Movers, topics include adjectives, adverbs, comparatives, modals, questions, verbs and tenses. A2 level exams like KET require additional topics such as gerunds, imperatives, phrasal verbs and conditionals. B1 level exams like Preliminary involve more complex topics including embedded questions, passive voice, question tags and a broader range of tenses. The highest level covered, B2 exams like First, covers advanced grammar including future and modal forms, relative clauses, reported speech and conditionals.

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A1 Grammar Topics (STARTERS & MOVERS)

This document outlines grammar topics that students need to study for different levels of English proficiency exams. For A1 level exams like Starters and Movers, topics include adjectives, adverbs, comparatives, modals, questions, verbs and tenses. A2 level exams like KET require additional topics such as gerunds, imperatives, phrasal verbs and conditionals. B1 level exams like Preliminary involve more complex topics including embedded questions, passive voice, question tags and a broader range of tenses. The highest level covered, B2 exams like First, covers advanced grammar including future and modal forms, relative clauses, reported speech and conditionals.

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A1 Grammar topics (STARTERS & MOVERS)

These are topics you need to study at A1 level.

 Adjectives: common anddemonstrative


 Adverbs of frequency
 Comparativesand 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
 Possessives
 Prepositions, common
 Prepositions of place
 Prepositions of time, includingin/on/at
 Present continuous
 Present simple
 Pronouns: simple, personal
 Questions
 There is/are
 To be, including
 Question – negative
 Verb + ing: like/hate/love

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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