Course Outline
This A1 Syllabus contains an overview of what a student is expected to know at the A1 level.
After completing the A1 level course, you should be able to accomplish the following:
-> Greet people
-> Talk about yourself
-> Talk about where you live
-> Talk about your family members
-> Talk about your likes and dislikes
-> Engage in a simple buy-and-sell situation
-> Ask about the day, the time and the date
-> Accept and refuse
-> Read simple notices, posters and catalogues
-> Fill in a simple form
-> Write a simple postcard
A1 Vocabulary Topics
Based on the A1 Syllabus, here’s a list of A1 Vocabulary Topics that you are expected to know.
| -> Alphabet -> Numbers -> Family name & Given Name -> Residence -> Personal items -> Classroom objects -> Nationalities -> Professions -> Marital status (married / single) -> Countries & Cities -> Hobbies -> Family -> Time -> Prices -> Weather / Climate -> Date -> Days of the week -> Descriptions (small, big, old, young, etc) -> Colours -> Seasons -> Places |
This A2 Syllabus contains an overview of what a student is expected to know at the A2 level.
After completing the A2 level course, you should be able to accomplish the following:
-> Talk about yourself, your educational background, your job, your family, your neighbourhood
-> Talk about your hobbies and daily activities
-> Ask for goods in a shop where goods are displayed
-> Order a meal in a restaurant if dishes are either displayed or illustrated on the menu
-> Book a hotel room (face to face)
-> Ask for basic services in a post office or bank
-> Indicate the nature of a medical problem to a doctor
-> Make inquiries about a journey at a travel agency
-> Use public transport (buses, trains and taxis)
-> Ask your way and give directions
-> Buy tickets
-> Read notices, posters, catalogues, timetables, brochures, menus, advertisements, signs
-> Write notes and simple messages
-> Note down times, dates and places from notice boards and announcements
-> Note down instructions and requests such as client orders and delivery dates.
-> Describe events and daily activities
Vocabulary
- Family words
- Life events: verbs and nouns
- Speak, talk and say
- Furniture
- Rooms and objects in them
- Adjectives to describe and evaluate interiors
- Clothes
- Adjectives to describe clothes
- Clothes shopping vocabulary
- Parts of the body
- Health problems and symptoms
- Exercise instructions
- Using adverbs
- Aches and pains
- Lose, waste, spend and pass
- Time-wasting activities
- Waste
- Language of approximation: roughly, precisely, about, …
- Charity vocabulary
- Physical exercise and fitness
- Geographical features
- Countries, nationalities and languages
- Vocabulary to describe language
- Word types
- Describing change: verbs and adverbs
- Describing fluency
- Moon vocabulary
- Hotel and holiday vocabulary
- Expressions with the word moon
- Travel and journeys
- Travel equipment
- Time expressions
- Animals
- Adjectives
- Animal expressions: as free as a bird,
- Reporting verbs
- Punctuation terminology
- Happiness; fun, funny, smile, …
- Health and illness: headache, flu, ill, …
- Keep and stay
- Different meanings of keep
- Job application vocabulary
- Career stages and event
- Work nouns
- Job noun modifiers: laboratory technician, pharmaceutical company, …
- Organisations, departments, people and products
- Home appliances
- Verbs and nouns: appliances and electronic equipment
- Compound nouns: microwave oven, mobile phone, …
- Phone vocabulary
- Parts of the face
- Verbs associated with the face
- Words describing things that are true or real, or not: false, artificial, fake, …
- Verb tell: tell if someone is …
- Adjectives describing character
- Cinema vocabulary
- Types of films
- Positive and negative adjectives to express opinions
- Dependent prepositions: set in, directed by, based on, …
- Things that go wrong: miss a bus, have an argument, …
- Home appliances
- Crime vocabulary: burgle, steal, thief,…
- Things that go wrong: Break, stop working, …
- Phrasal verbs with break
- Money and prices
- Shopping vocabulary
- Types of shops
- Things people buy
- Expressions with money
- Borrow vs. lend
- Homemade toys
- Ways of joining things
- Vague or generic language: object, stuff, thing, …
- Types of problems
- Negative feelings: miss, regret, jealous, …
- Give + noun
- Matter, problem, trouble, …
- Blame vs. fault
- Real and fictitious animals
- Animal parts
- Expressions with sight
- Evidence: track, sign, proof, …
Grammar
- Possessive ‘s
- Tense review – present simple, present continuous and present perfect
- For and since with present perfect
- Questions with how long
- Revision of past participles of irregular verbs
- Prepositions of place
- Give advice: imperatives and will and might to describe possibility
- Describe habitual actions: prefer, still, always, …
- Describe likes and dislikes
- Modal verb review: modal verbs and different functions
- Might, could and can for possibility
- Spend/waste time doing
- Questions with How long
- It takes me … to do
- Future forms: present simple
- Information questions
- Tense review: present simple vs. present continuous
- Say and tell
- Would for hypothesis
- Verb patterns: verbs of planning and organising
- Noun phrase subjects: Tourists with lots of money …
- Past simple vs. past passive forms
- Sentence topic passives: Each time she was discovered …
- Infinitive of purpose
- Past simple vs. past continuous
- Sequencing words: first, after that, finally, …
- Forming adverbs from adjectives
- Punctuation: Using capital letters
- Possessive ’s vs. of constructions
- Can (theoretical statement) vs. could (possibility)
- Review question forms
- Review tenses
- Past simple vs. present perfect for finished vs. unfinished actions or situations
- Expressing obligation: have to, need to, should
- Expressing no obligation: don’t have/need to
- Preposition review
- Separable phrasal verbs
- Verbs associated with the five senses
- Pronouns with indefinite reference
- Use it and this to refer back
- Verb pattern: find it difficult to …
- Emphasise with even, far, and still
- Contrast with however, but and although
- Link ideas: after all, what’s more, …
- Present perfect for recent events with a result now
- Passive and present perfect passive constructions
- Time expressions: ages ago, recently, lately, …
- Dependent prepositions
- Adjective order
- Sequence instructions, Once the shapes are cut, put them …
- Explain why: so that
- Give advice: should, ought to, Why not…?, Consider ….
- Conditional sentences: real vs. imaginary situations
- Negation.
- Use even to express surprise
- Speculating about past
- Expressing possibility
- present perfect
Here’s a list of DUTCH B2 Grammar Topics that you are expected to know.
Vocabulary
- Newspaper Vocabulary
- Name vocabulary: initials, surname, nickname, …
- Words and phrases associated with naming: named, termed, so-called, …
- Notice, realise, be aware of …
- Jobs and related vocabulary
- Career events
- Work and time
- Work and money
- Work, career, job, …
- Vocabulary of sea mammals
- Synonyms
- Verbs about speaking: speak, talk, pronounce, …
- Collocations with make, tell, give and say
- House and building vocabulary
- Building materials and processes
- House metaphors
- Collocations with make, take, do
- Vocabulary of geographical features and for giving directions
- Travel nouns
- Travel verbs
- Prepositions after verbs
- Sports and sports people
- Sporting equipment
- Word families: adjective/verb/noun
- Verbs expressing benefit: gain, improve, enhance, …
- Extreme sports
- Physical actions
- Compound words naming activities
- Word building: verb/ adjective/noun
- Phrasal verbs: give up, get away with, give up, …
- Review animal vocabulary
- Australian animals
- Describing shapes: adjectives and nouns and -shaped
- Describing types of lines
- Television programmes
- People who work in television
- Television culture
- Word building: verb/ adjective/noun
- Home appliances
- Environmental problems and solutions
- Compound nouns: eco-friendly, energy-saving, …
- Word building: adjectives and verbs, verbs and nouns
- Verbs describing change
- Types of photos
- Phrases describing parts of photos
- Describing distance
- Things people collect
- Collocations and phrasal verbs with take
- Synonyms of lose and find
- Joke types and conventions
- Ways of laughing
- Word families: research-findings, …
- Fun vs. funny
- Word formation: root words
- Verb + at and other prepositions
- Shops and shopping vocabulary
- Words with shop
- Money-related words
- Phrasal verbs with knock
- Words associated with accidents
- Sports and games
- Sports equipment
- Sports verbs
- Word formation
- Religion
- Parts of the body
- Animals
- Animal actions
- Noun formation
- Adjective synonyms
- Compound adjectives
- Language terms
- Phrasal verbs with get
- Quantifiers:
- Baby stages
- Baby vocabulary
- Problem behaviour
- Ways of seeing
- Phrasal verb patterns: using pronouns
- Compound adjectives and nouns with numbers: five-year-old boy
- Trees
- Word frequency and academic words
- Word families
- Education systems
- Collocations with education
- Qualifying adverbs
- Compound words with line
- Word formation and repetition
- Dependent prepositions
- Idioms with at
- Vocabulary of machines and gadgets
- Word formation
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