ENGLISH LANGUAGE QUALIFYING EXAM B1

Grammar

• articles
• demonstratives
• possessives and possessive ‘s
• personal pronouns
• some and any
• countable and uncountable nouns
• quantifiers
• comparatives and superlatives
• relative pronouns
• main prepositions of place and time
• indirect questions
• main conjunctions
• main phrasal/prepositional verbs
• Present Simple and Present Continuous
• Past Simple
• Past Continuous
• Present Perfect Simple
• The future (going to, will, Present Simple, Present Continuous)
• First conditional
• Time clauses and the Present Simple)
• The Passive voice (Present Simple, Past Simple, Present Perfect)
• Modal verbs (can, could, must, will, would, should)

Vocabulary

* spelling
• numbers (prices, quantities, dates, etc.)
• family
• free time activities
• house and furniture
• public places and shops
• jobs
• food and drinks
• animals
• weather
• clothes
• parts of the body and health problems
• means of transport
• everyday objects

Functions

• describing people (character and appearance)
• telling the time and dates
• describing everyday habits and routines
• ordering in a restaurant or in a hotel
• understanding notices, labels, adverts
• road directions
• describing holidays, trips, etc.
• describing objects (size, colour, shape, etc.)
• warnings and prohibitions
• obligation and absence of obligations
• agreement/disagreement
• criticisms and complaints
• talking about preferences
• describing feelings and emotions