B1 · Learning outcomes

Builds on the learning outcomes for A2.

Language use

Word formation

  • Recognise related words

Nouns

  • Number and animacy

Nominative

  • Identify people and their roles

Genitive

  • Quantity, possession and absence
  • Source, reason and purpose

Dative

  • Recipients and personal states
  • Direction and repeated occasions

Accusative

  • Direct objects in context
  • Duration, destination and route

Instrumental

  • Roles, means and agents
  • Position and company

Prepositional

  • Location, subject and circumstances

Adjectives

  • Agreement in noun phrases
  • Descriptions and comparisons

Pronouns

  • Track who a pronoun refers to
  • Negation and reference

Numbers

  • Numbers in noun phrases

Adverbs

  • Time, manner and degree

Verb forms

  • Verb forms and time
  • Verb patterns and reflexive forms

Verb aspect

  • Action and result

Verb mood

  • Requests and imagined situations

Verbs of motion

  • Direction, frequency and transport
  • Stages of a journey

Participles and adverbial participles

  • Recognise active participles
  • Recognise passive participles
  • Recognise linked actions

Sentence structure

  • Personal and impersonal statements
  • Connect descriptions and reported ideas
  • Time, reasons and purpose
  • Conditions, contrasts and comparisons
  • Report what someone said

Connecting ideas

  • Emphasis and connections

Reading

  • Find the main point
  • Follow details and events
  • Understand reasons and attitudes
  • Choose an accurate summary

Listening

  • Stress and sentence meaning
  • Understand a connected account
  • Follow spoken details
  • Understand the other speaker
  • Connect a reply to its reason

Writing

  • Write a connected account
  • Summarise and respond
  • Write for a stated purpose
  • Explain a personal view

Speaking

  • Manage a practical exchange
  • Ask for clarification
  • Retell an event or experience
  • Give a view and reasons

Sources

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