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.