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.