What you need to know
Lower level (A1-A2)

Teachers, coursebooks and language schools more or less agree about what a student needs to learn at elementary level (A1)

If you already have an elementary level of English, you should be able to speak about:

• your family, interests and work or studies
• shopping, prices and holidays
• the things you like or don’t like

You should know this grammar:

• Present Simple, Present Continuous and Past Simple verb forms
• making questions incl. how much/many
• can, can’t, could and couldn’t
• I’d like, be going to
• there, my, your, his/her, our, their
• always, often, sometimes, rarely, never
• common adjectives, more, most, er/est (big, bigger, biggest)

You should know this vocabulary:

• food and drink
• countries and people
• numbers
• basic verbs
• and use ‘but’ and ‘because’

Do you know all this? If you do, congratulations because you already have a good foundation!