Syllabus – ENGLISH B2
Functions
• asking and answering questions about personal possessions
• asking and giving/refusing permission to do something
• asking and telling people the time, day and/or date
• asking for and giving information about routines and habits
• asking for and giving personal details: (full) name, age, address, names of relatives
and friends occupation etc
• asking for and giving simple information about places
• asking for and giving the spelling and meaning of words
• asking for and giving travel information
• asking for repetition and clarification
• asking the way and giving directions
• buying and selling things (costs, measurements and amounts)
• changing the topic
• checking on meaning and intention
• counting and using numbers
• criticising and complaining
• describing people (personal appearance, qualities)
• describing simple processes
• describing, education qualifications and skills
• drawing simple conclusions and making recommendations
• expressing ability/inability in the present and in the past
• expressing agreement and disagreement and contradicting people
• expressing and responding to thanks
• expressing degrees of certainty and doubt
• expressing needs and wants
• expressing obligation and lack of obligation
• expressing opinions and making choices
• expressing preferences, like and dislikes (especially about hobbies and leisure
activities)
• expressing purpose, cause and result and giving reasons
• following and giving simple instructions
• giving advice
• giving and responding to invitations
• giving warnings and prohibitions
• greeting people and responding to greetings (in person and on the phone)
• helping others to express ideas
• identifying and describing accommodation (houses, flats, rooms, furniture etc.)
• identifying and describing simple objects (shapes, size, weight, colour purpose or
use etc.)
• interrupting
• introducing oneself and other people
• making and granting/refusing simple requests
• making and responding to apologies and excuses
• making and responding to offers and suggestions
• making appointments and arranging to meet
• making comparisons and expressing degrees of difference
• making predictions
• paying compliments
• persuading and asking/telling people to do something
• reporting what people say
• re-stating what has been said
• resuming the topic
• starting a new topic
• sympathising
• talking about food and ordering meals
• talking about how to operate things
• talking about one’s health
• talking about physical and emotional feelings
• talking about probability/improbability and possibility/impossibility
• talking about the weather
• talking and writing about future or imaginary situations
• talking and writing about future plans or intentions
• talking and writing about past events and states in the past, recent activities and
completed actions
• talking and writing about what people are doing at the moment
• understanding and completing forms giving personal details
• understanding and producing simple narratives
• understanding and writing diaries and letters giving information about everyday
activities
• understanding and writing letters giving personal details
• understanding simple signs and notices
Skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing and interaction)
• understanding signs, notices,and texts of a factual nature
• understanding and writing diaries, faxes and letters (job applications, apologies,
complaints, advice..)
• skimming and scanning (newspapers, brochures, magazines, biographies,
narrative...)
• understanding and writing imaginative or emotional texts
• talking and writing about emotions, reactions, events, hopes, regrets etc.
• talking and writing about objects, people, places etc
• reporting events (film/book review, current affairs...)
• writing notes
• giving information
• asking and understanding questions and responding to them
• understanding and expressing opinions (advantages, disadvantages)
• understanding interaction (dialogues, conversation, anecdotes..)
• understanding short turns (phone, announcements, ..)
• understanding professional long turns (speeches, talks, stories, radio
programmes...)
• interacting in social and professional situations
Vocabulary groups
• current affairs
• daily life
• education
• entertainment
• environment
• feelings
• food and drink
• free time
• health and body
• house and home
• language
• personal information
• places
• relations with other people
• services
• shopping
• travel
• weather
Pronunciation
• stress patterns, rhythm and prominence; reduced speech, intonation patterns, vowel
reduction, vowel length, final consonants and consonant clusters for the listening skill
• appropriate stress patterns and linking in everyday speech (interactional)
• intonation patterns (questions, echo questions, statements, agreeing and
disagreeing, checking and confirming..)
• stress patterns, reduced speech, linking and intonation in longer turns
• difficulty areas for Italian students
Structures
• abstract nouns
• adjectives (predicative and attributive)
• adjectives (colour, shape, size, quality, nationality)
• adverbs of definite time
• adverbs of degree
• adverbs of direction
• adverbs of frequency
• adverbs of indefinite time
• adverbs of manner
• adverbs of place
• adverbs of sequence
• article a/an
• article the
• both, either, neither
• comparative and superlative forms of adjectives
• comparative and superlative forms of adverbs
• compound adjectives
• compound nouns
• conditional sentences type 0
• conditional sentences type 1
• conditional sentences type 2
• conditional sentences type 3
• connectors (although, while)
• connectors (and, or, but, either.or)
• connectors (because, since, so, for..)
• connectors (if, unless)
• connectors (so that, to)
• connectors (so.that, so, such .that)
• connectors (when, while, until, before, after, as soon as..)
• connectors (where)
• could ( polite requests)
• countable and uncountable (some, any)
• demonstrative adjectives (this, that, those, these)
• double genitive (a friend of theirs)
• future with going to
• future with present continuous and present simple
• future with will and shall (offers, promises predictions etc)
• genitive 's and s'
• gerunds (-ing form) after verbs and prepositions
• gerunds as subjects and objects
• have to (obligation)
• how, how much, how many, how often, how long etc.
• imperatives
• in case
• indirect / embedded questions (know wonder)
• infinitives after verbs and prepositions (with or without to)
• may (possibility)
• might (possibility)
• must (obligation)
• mustn't (obligation)
• need (necessity)
• needn't (lack of necessity)
• not. any more/longer
• numbers (cardinal and ordinal)
• order of adjectives
• ought to (obligation)
• participles as adjectives
• passive forms (present and past simple)
• past continuous ( parallel actions, continuous action interrupted by past simple)
• past perfect simple (narrative, reported speech)
• past simple (past events)
• phrasal verbs / verbs with prepositions
• position of adverbs
• possessive adjectives
• possibility, ability (can, be able to)
• prepositional phrases (at the beginning of, by means of.)
• prepositions (like, as, due to, owing to .)
• prepositions after nouns (afraid of.)
• prepositions after verbs (ask for laugh at.)
• prepositions before nouns and adjectives (by car, for sale, at last)
• prepositions of direction
• prepositions of instrument
• prepositions of place
• prepositions of time
• present continuous (future plans, future activities, present actions)
• present perfect continuous (unfinished actions, continuous action recently finished)
• present perfect simple (recent past, indefinite past, unfinished past, just, yet,
already, never, ever, for, since)
• present simple (states, habits, systems and processes)
• pronouns (demonstrative)
• pronouns (impersonal)
• pronouns (indefinite)
• pronouns (personal - subject, object, possessive)
• pronouns (quantitative)
• pronouns (reflexive and emphatic)
• pronouns (relative)
• quantitative adjectives (some, any, much, many, a few, a lot of, all, other, every etc.)
• question tags
• regular and irregular forms of adverbs
• relative clauses (defining and non-defining)
• reported commands/requests (say, ask, tell)
• reported questions (say, ask, tell)
• reported statements (say, ask, tell)
• shall (suggestion, offer)
• short answers
• should (advice)
• singular and plural
• so/nor with auxiliaries
• used to + infinitive (past habits)
• verb + object + infinitive with or without to (make, let, allow)
• verb + object + infinitive + direct/indirect object (give, take, send, bring, show)
• what, what + noun
• when
• where
• who, whose, which
• why
• will (offer)
• would (polite requests)
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