CEFR Levels
Directions
Describing habits and routines
Giving personal information
Greetings
Telling the time
Understanding and using numbers
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
Food and drink
Nationalities and countries
Personal information
Signs and notices
Things in the town, shops and shopping
Verbs – basic
Family life
Hobbies and pastimes
Holidays
Leisure activities
Shopping
Work and jobs
Describing habits and routines
Describing past experiences
Describing people
Describing places
Describing things
Obligation and necessity
Requests
Suggestions
Technical instructions
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"
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 continuous
Present continuous for future
Present perfect
Questions
Verb + ing/infinitive: like/ want-would like
Wh-questions in past
Zero and 1st conditional
Adjectives: personality, description, feelings
Food and drink
Signs and notices
Things in the town, shops and shopping
Travel and services
Education
Hobbies and pastimes
Holidays
Leisure activities
Shopping
Work and jobs
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
Collocation
Colloquial language
Things in the town, shops and shopping
Travel and services
Books and literature
Education
Film
Leisure activities
Media
News, lifestyles and current affairs
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 disagreement
Expressing opinions
Expressing 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
Collocation
Colloquial language
Arts
Books and literature
Education
Film
Media
News, lifestyles and current affairs
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 hypothesizing about causes, consequences etc.
Synthesizing, evaluating and glossing information
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
Approximating (vague language)
Collocation
Colloquial language
Differentiated use of vocabulary
Eliminating false friends
Formal and informal registers
Idiomatic expressions
Arts
Books and literature
Film
Media
News, lifestyles and current affairs
Scientific developments
Technical and legal language