General English language Course A1 to C2
This is a typical syllabus for each level. You will have a course book, plus some added materials from your
tutor which are suitable to your level, needs and interests. Learning objectives and typical syllabus.

Common European Framework
of reference (CEFR) Equivalence

A1 / A1+

- Simple present
- Nouns
- Pronouns
- Articles
- Prepositions of place
- Irregular plurals
- Conjunctions
- Possessive Adjectives
- Too /very
- Can
- Short form answers
- Going to (future plans)
- Will (Offers)
- Adverbs of frequency
- Imperatives
- Past simple
- Present Continuous
- Comparatives
- Superlatives
- Irregular adverbs

- Numbers( cardinal/ordinal) money
- Countries, nationalities and languages Times
- Days, dates, months, years and seasons
- Shops and places
- interest, sports and activities
- Jobs
- Rooms and furniture
- Colours
- Size and weight
- Body parts and appearance
- Food meals cooking
- Weather
- Transport
- Health
- Feelings and emotions
- Clothes

- Greeting and introducing
- Buying and
- asking prices
- asking about
- personal information
- describing people and objects
- Telling the time
- Talking about routines
- Talking about frequency and time duration
- Talking about likes and dislikes
- Giving opinions
- Talking about
- Inviting / refusing / accepting / thanking
- Requesting / offerings
- Asking permission
- Giving instructions
- Making suggestions
- Talking about
- future arrangements
- Applying for a job

A2

- Present Simple
- modifiers
- future Arrangements/present progressive
- Comparatives and superlative
- Present perfect
- imperatives
- Should
- Have to/need to
- Going to future
- possessive adjectives
- Linkers: And /but/or/because
- irregular plurals
- Place and time
- Request/can/could
- Be like, Description
- Irregular verbs

- Numbers (cardinal/ordinal)
- Countries, nationalities
- days, dates, seasons, months
- jobs
- Rooms, furniture
- Body parts, Appearance
- Health
- Transport
- Feelings and emotions
- Food meals, cooking
- shopping, prices
- personality
- Daily routines
- Hotel situations
- Leisure venues
- Biographical information
- Buildings / Monuments
- Clothes, accessories
- Travel and tourism
- Large numbers
- Work, carriers
- Education
- Life changes and events
- Political systems
- Animals
- Types of music
- House hold equipment
- Fitness and illnesses
- Families
- Street directions
- clothes

- Giving/ justifying opinions
- routines, habits
- Feelings
- Making comparisons
- Describing and buying things
- Making decisions
- Expressing hopes
- Saying hope and obligations
- Giving instructions
- Making offers
- Apologising
- Congratulating
- saying intensions
- Asking personal questions
- Talking about rules and obligations
- saying personal experiences
- Ordering in a restaurant
- Talking about preferences
- Making deductions
- Offering and suggesting
- Requesting

B1

- Used to infinitive
- Neither / so do i
- Reported speech
- First second conditional
- Adverbs of manner and modifiers
- Adjectives and their connotations
- Present perfect continuous
- Be able to/ can/ manage to
- Passives
- Have and have got
- Be allowed to/ be supposed to
- A/few and a/ little
- Although/ in spite of/despite
- Question tags

- Appearances
- Clothes
- Character
- Make and do
- Travel brochures
- Cooking
- Weather
- Pets and animals
- Types of books, Films, Tv programms
- Family Relationships
- Consumer services
- Illnesses
- Participles
- Affixes
- Education

- Describing location
- Stating preferences, Opinions
- Advising
- Making deductions
- Guessing
- Talking about possibilities / Probabilities
- Refusing/ Agreeing
- Describing faulty goods
- Reporting requests and orders Advising

B2

- Present perfect simple and Continuous
- Question tags
- Will, going to, Present Simple, present continuous for the future
- Future perfect
- Phrasal verbs
- Zero, first, second and conditionals
- Compounds of some, any, no, every
- Reported speech
- Conjunctions: Despite, otherwise,
Unless, although, unless
- Modals: present and perfect
- Always for frequency / + present continuous

- Affixes
- Collocations
- Work, working conditions
- Approximations with - ish
- Transport and exploration
- Festivals and celebrations
- Connotations
- Homonyms
- Idiomatic expressions
- Euphemisms Adverbs of manner and modifiers
- Geography and climate
- Colloquial expressions and slang
- Banks / money

- Giving opinion
- Drawing conclusions
- Making offers
- Emphasising
- Stating purpose
- Stating contrast
- Congratulating
- Guessing
- Conversing
- Debating
- Giving examples
- Adding information
- Describing cause and effects
- Summarising
- Expressing regret

C1 / C2

- Uses of continuous tenses
- Articles
- Modal verbs
- Use of would
- Order of adverbs
- Order of adjectives
- Question tags
- Future continuous
- Mixed conditionals
- Passive
- Inversions and negative adverbials
- Past perfect
- Ellipsis and elisions

- Coincidences and experiences
- Learning and educational systems
- Age and cultural differences
- Diet and health
- Types of communication
- Moral and personal dilemmas
- Architecture
- Environmental issues
- Advertising
- Road and home
- Safety and risk
- Astrology and religions
- Current affairs
- Creativity
- Gender
- Nostalgia

- Instructing
- Describing
- Advising
- Contradicting
- Checking and clarifying information
- Paraphrasing
- Expanding and exemplifying
- Expressing annoyance
- Speculating
- Expressing regrets
- Comparing and Contrasting
- Describing people, things and situations
- Expressing opinions Formally and informally
- Persuading
- Debating