A1 · Learning outcomes
Language use
Noun forms
- Gender, number and animacy
Nominative
- The person doing the action
- Naming a person or object
- Addressing someone
- Describing who someone is
- Naming an event
- Saying what is there
Genitive
- Whose object it is
- Part of a place or thing
- Saying something is absent
- Nouns after small numbers
- The month in a date
- Where someone comes from
- Who has something
Dative
- Who receives the action
- Saying someone’s age
- Who needs to do something
- Going to a person
Accusative
- The object of an action
- Asking and giving names
- How long an action lasts
- Going into or to a place
- At a time or on a weekday
Instrumental
- An activity with заниматься
- A profession with быть
- Doing something with someone
- What something comes with
Prepositional
- Talking or thinking about something
- Where something is
- How someone travels
Pronouns
- Pronouns in a sentence
- Questions, ownership and reference
Adjectives
- Describing a noun
- Recognising adjective case forms
- States and obligations
Verb forms
- Matching a verb to its subject
- Present, past and future
- An action and its completion
- Requests and instructions
- Verb and dependent phrase
Verbs of motion
- Walking and travelling
- Setting off and arriving
Numbers
- Quantity and order
Word formation
- Recognising related words
Adverbs
- Where, when and how
Sentence structure
- Statements, questions and negatives
- Conditions and permission
- Joining and contrasting ideas
- When and why
- What someone says or knows
- Which person or object
- Reporting a short message
- Sentence structure
Reading
- Reading Cyrillic
- Finding practical information
- Understanding a short account
- Following people and events
Listening
- Hearing word differences
- Understanding a spoken message
- Understanding what someone wants
Writing
- Writing a personal message
- Describing everyday life
- Using information from a text
Speaking
- Speaking clearly enough to understand
- Greetings and polite exchanges
- Introducing yourself and another person
- Asking and answering everyday questions
- Requests, offers and replies
- Asking someone to repeat
- Retelling a short account
Sources
Based on published TORFL requirements. Journey milestones do not replace a full proficiency assessment.