Key grammar and vocab targets for B1 level
Fluent in Italian in 6 Months: Your Complete Learning Guide: Key grammar and vocab targets for B1 level
The key grammar and vocabulary targets for B1 level English include the following:
Grammar Targets for B1
- Present tenses: Simple present, present continuous
- Past tenses: Simple past, past continuous, present perfect, past perfect, used to/would for habits
- Future forms: will/shall, going to, and present tenses to express future time
- Conditional clauses: first and second conditionals, if and unless
- Gerunds and passive forms
- Interrogative forms (questions)
- Count and non-count nouns, noun formation, plural nouns
- Determiners: articles, demonstratives, etc.
- Adjective order, comparatives and superlatives, gradation of adjectives
- General adverbs and adverbs of degree
- Main and dependent clauses; relative clauses, coordination and subordination
Vocabulary Targets for B1
- Active vocabulary of around 1,500 to 2,500 words
- Common nouns such as accident, accommodation, achievement, account, act
- Verbs such as achieve, accept, accompany, consider, convince, cook, continue
- Important adjectives like absolute, complicated, confident, convenient, confused
- Adverbs to describe frequency, degree, and time (e.g., absolutely, frequently, recently)
- Common prepositions including by, about, during, except, through, without, around
These targets encompass essential grammar points and vocabulary considered necessary to function effectively at the B1 level, often associated with the Cambridge Preliminary English Test (PET) and equivalent certifications. 2, 3, 4, 6