Adult English Level Guide

BEGINNERS (A1)

Starting to learn English as a foreign language often feels challenging. Your friendly teacher will support you as you learn and practice simple vocabulary and grammar. 

• Verbs ‘to have’ and ‘to be’

• Present simple tense

• Telling the time.

• Feelings adjectives.

• Colours and numbers

• Pronouns

• Food and Clothes Vocabulary

Elementary (A1-A2)

We will build upon your existing skills, allowing you to make simple sentences and ask simple questions. You will be able to describe your likes and dislikes and talk about the past. 

• Past simple tense

• Likes and dislikes

• Question forms

• Ordering food in a restaurant

• Shopping

Pre-intermediate (A2)

At this level, the focus is on further improving your range of vocabulary and your grammatical accuracy.    

• Describing routines and plans

• Question forms

• Past simple tense regular and irregular verbs

• ’Will’ for offers, decisions and promises

• Present Perfect tense to describe experiences

• Comparative and Superlative Adjectives to compare people and objects

• Modal Verbs to express obligation

• Giving advice

• Passive tense (simple present and simple past)

• Reported speech

• Phrasal verbs

• First and Second Conditionals

• Going shopping

• Booking a hotel room

• Social Conversation

• Writing in formal and informal English

• Optional Skills on your request

Intermediate (B1)

At this level, we will consolidate and build upon your pre-intermediate knowledge and abilities, with a steady input of new vocabulary. 

• Action and non-action verbs

• Future forms to describe plans, decisions and predictions

• Present Perfect vs. Past Simple

• Articles (definite, indefinite and zero)

• Narrative tenses and discourse markers

• Used to, usually, get used to

• Passive (all tenses)

• Third conditional

• Gerund vs. infinitive

• Phrasal verbs

• Question tags to check information or make conversation

• Speaking on the phone

• Social Conversation

• Formal and Informal English

• Optional Skills on your request

Upper Intermediate (B2)

This stage represents a significant step towards full proficiency, introducing the student to more sophisticated language structures and a larger range of vocabulary.  

• Revision of question formation

• Present perfect simple and continuous

• Adjectives as nouns

• Past perfect continuous

• Quantifiers

• Defining and non-defining relative clauses

• Adverbs and adverbial phrases

• Passive revision

• Future perfect and future perfect continuous

• Conditionals and future time clauses

• Past modals of deduction

• Gerund vs. infinitive

• Reporting verbs

• Describing personality

• Business English

• Using media vocabulary 

• Optional Skills on your request

ADVANCED (C1)