Basic Sentence Structures: The student can form simple sentences, usually in the present tense. For example, "I am a student. I like English."
Use of Common Verbs: The student can use common verbs like 'be', 'have', 'like', 'want', 'go' etc. correctly, albeit in their base forms.
Subject-Verb Agreement: The student shows an understanding of basic subject-verb agreement (e.g., "He is", not "He are").
Use of Common Prepositions: The student can use basic prepositions like 'in', 'on', 'at' to describe location and time, although mistakes may occur.
Nouns and Pronouns: The student can correctly use singular and plural nouns as well as personal pronouns.
Errors: Errors may be frequent, but the basic message can still be understood with some effort from the listener or reader.
Increased Sentence Complexity: The student can form sentences in different tenses (present, past simple, and future with 'will' or 'going to'). They can also use coordinating conjunctions (like 'and', 'but', 'or') to form compound sentences.
Verb Use: The student can use a wider range of common verbs and is beginning to understand and use irregular verbs.
Subject-Verb Agreement: The student mostly uses subject-verb agreement correctly, with fewer errors compared to A1 level.
Use of Prepositions: The student can use a wider range of prepositions correctly, with occasional mistakes.
Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives: The student can use possessive pronouns (like 'my', 'your', 'his', 'her') and demonstrative pronouns (like 'this', 'that') correctly. They also use common adjectives to describe things.
Errors: Errors are less frequent than at the A1 level, and communication is generally clear, although some basic grammatical errors will still be present.
Varied Sentence Structures: The student can form complex sentences, using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, and can use different simple tenses (past, present, future) flexibly and appropriately.
Use of Verbs: The student can use a variety of regular and irregular verbs, and can correctly form and use different verb tenses including simple past, present continuous, and future.
Subject-Verb Agreement: The student consistently uses correct subject-verb agreement in sentences.
Use of Prepositions: The student can use a wider range of prepositions correctly and can use prepositional phrases.
Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives: The student can correctly use a variety of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, including possessive and demonstrative pronouns and adjectives.
Errors: Errors still occur, especially in complex structures, but they do not generally interfere with communication. The message is clear and understandable without significant effort from the listener or reader.
Complex Sentence Structures: The student can use complex sentences with subordination, conditionals, and relative clauses effectively.
Advanced Tense Use: The student can use a range of tenses accurately, including perfect, continuous and past perfect tenses, and can switch between tenses seamlessly to express complex thoughts.
Use of Modals: The student can use modal verbs effectively to express ability, permission, request, possibility, and obligation.
Passive Voice: The student can use passive structures accurately when appropriate.
Pronouns and Determiners: The student can use various types of pronouns (including reflexive, demonstrative, indefinite) and determiners correctly.
Prepositions: The student can use a wide range of prepositions to express time, place, direction, cause, and other relationships.
Advanced Grammatical Concepts: The student understands and can use conditional sentences, indirect speech, and subjunctive moods where appropriate.
Errors: Errors might occur, especially in more complex structures, but they do not impede communication, and the overall grammatical control allows clear and nuanced expression of ideas.
Wide Range of Structures: The student can use a wide range of grammatical structures, including complex sentences with multiple clauses, and more sophisticated grammatical devices like conditionals, passive voice, reported speech, etc.
Sophisticated Verbs: The student can use a variety of verbs in their appropriate forms, including phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, and various tenses and moods (conditional, subjunctive, etc.).
Subject-Verb Agreement: The student consistently uses correct subject-verb agreement, even in complex sentences and with less common verb forms.
Prepositions: The student can use a range of prepositions accurately, demonstrating an understanding of the nuances of their use.
Nouns and Pronouns: The student uses a variety of nouns, pronouns, and determiners, and demonstrates understanding of more complex issues like countability and reference.
Errors: Errors are rare and do not impede communication. When they do occur, the student can often self-correct.
Complex Sentence Structures: The student can consistently use a wide variety of complex sentence structures correctly, including compound and complex sentences, conditionals, relative clauses, and passive voice.
Use of All Verb Tenses: The student has a comprehensive understanding of all verb tenses and aspects (present, past, future, perfect, continuous, etc.) and can use them accurately.
Advanced Grammar Concepts: The student can correctly use advanced grammatical structures such as subjunctive mood, inversion, and modal perfect.
Controlled Use of Prepositions: The student uses prepositions accurately and naturally, understanding nuances in their use.
Coherence and Cohesion: The student can create texts (spoken or written) that are logically structured and cohesive, using appropriate conjunctions, transition phrases, and referencing correctly.
Few Errors: Mistakes are rare, and when they occur, they usually don't hinder communication and are often related to less common expressions or complex structures.
Collocations and Fixed Phrases: The student demonstrates a natural command of English collocations and fixed phrases.