OXFORD SCHOOL OF ENGLISH SYLLABUS – Level A1

Grammar and Structures

VERBS
(Positive, negative, question, imperative, short answer and contracted forms)
Present Simple
Present Continuous (not with future connotation)
Can –permission/requests/ability
Have (got) – possession
Let’s go - making suggestions
Like + vb + ing
Would like + noun phrase
There is/There are
Past Simple – be, do, have, go, get – plus common regular “-ed” verbs
There was/There were
Be going to + vb (plans/predictions)

PRONOUNS
Personal (subject and object), possessive, demonstrative, interrogative
Impersonal “you”

ADJECTIVES
Colour, dimension, weight, mass, shape, quality, nationality
Possessive (including - ’s )
Demonstrative (this, that, these, those)
Quantitative (some, any. a lot [of])
Comparatives and Superlatives

CONNECTORS
And, but, or

ADVERBS
Frequency
Time

PREPOSITIONS
Location/Direction
Time (at/in/on)
Instrument (by/on/with)

DETERMINERS
A, an, the

QUESTION WORDS
What, Who, Where, When, Which, How much (price), How often

MISCELLANEOUS
Gerunds (-ing forms as nouns)
Me too
What + a/an

Note – Candidates for the OXSET A1 Examination will encounter forms additional
to these (e.g. in reading texts) on which they will not be directly tested.

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