Young Learners Level Guide

Beginners

GESE Grade 1 - 3

• colours, parts of the body, clothing 

• animals 

• classroom objects and numbers 

• household objects and rooms

• people, possessions and questions

• numbers and pets

• actions and abilities

• directions, places and jobs

• weather, routines, ordinal numbers 

• Imperatives for common actions, eg go, come, show, point, give, touch, stand up 

• Question words what? how many? how old?

• Demonstratives this, that, these, those 

• Simple adjectives, eg small, tall, green

• Determiners a, the, my, your, his, her

• Pronouns I, you, he, she, it, they 

Elementary

GESE Grade 3 - 6

• Past simple (regular and irregular verbs 

• Future plans and intentions

• Comparatives and superlatives

• Likes and dislikes

• Adverbs of manner and frequency 

• Expressions of past time, e.g. yesterday, last night

• Three different ways of pronouncing ‘ed’ past tense endings, e.g. played, walked, wanted

• Present perfect tense including use with for, since, ever, never, just

• Connecting clauses using ‘because’

• Will referring to the future for informing and predicting

• Adjectives and adverbials of quantity, eg a lot (of), not very much, many

• Expressions of preference, e.g. I prefer, I’d rather 

Intermediate

GESE Grades 7-9

• Second conditional

• Simple passive

• Used to

• Relative clauses 

• Modals and phrases used to give advice and make suggestions, eg should/ought to, could, you’d better 

• Modals and phrases used to express possibility and uncertainty, eg may, might, I’m not sure

• Discourse connectors, eg because of, due to 

• Mixed conditionals

• Verbs followed by gerund and/or infinitive, eg forget, stop, go on, remember 

• Complex forms of the passive with modals

• Should/must/might/could + perfect infinitive

• Correct verb patterns after wish and hope 

Advanced