A2 · Learning outcomes

Builds on the learning outcomes for A1.

Language use

Nominative

  • What someone needs
  • Naming a day or date
  • What hurts or pleases someone

Genitive

  • An amount of something
  • Absence in the past or future
  • Many, few or several
  • When an event happened
  • Being at someone’s place
  • Coming from a person
  • Reaching a destination
  • Before, during and after

Dative

  • The age of a named person
  • Who needs to act
  • Who feels or likes something
  • Moving along a route
  • A means of communication
  • The subject of study

Accusative

  • How often something happens

Instrumental

  • Working as or becoming someone
  • Being interested in something
  • Above, below and beside

Prepositional

  • In a month or during a week

Adjectives

  • Adjectives across cases
  • Comparing familiar qualities

Pronouns

  • The subject’s own possession
  • Each, all and self
  • Pronoun agreement across cases

Verbs of motion

  • Flying now or regularly
  • Carrying on foot
  • Transporting by vehicle
  • Entering and leaving a space
  • Leaving a place
  • Movement and its result

Verb forms

  • Action on someone or mutual action
  • Frequent irregular verb forms
  • Duration, repetition and result

Numbers

  • Ordinal numbers in phrases

Word formation

  • People and actions from word families
  • Related adjectives and adverbs
  • Recognising verb families

Particles

  • Questions and negative meaning

Prepositions

  • In a stated amount of time

Sentence structure

  • If one thing happens
  • Explaining a purpose
  • Reason and consequence
  • Reporting questions and requests
  • A noun inside a relative clause
  • An action without a named actor
  • What the sentence emphasises

Reading

  • Main ideas and supporting details
  • Finding a specific answer
  • Following a connected account
  • Acting on a written message

Listening

  • Understanding a longer spoken account
  • Following a conversation
  • Details needed to act
  • Meaning carried by intonation

Writing

  • Writing for a real purpose
  • Reusing the important facts
  • Writing a connected account
  • Meeting the writing task

Speaking

  • Starting and sustaining an exchange
  • Checking an uncertain detail
  • Plans, advice and permission
  • Telling an experience
  • Retelling and giving a reaction
  • Clear, appropriate spoken language

Sources

Based on published TORFL requirements. Journey milestones do not replace a full proficiency assessment.