OXFORD SCHOOL OF ENGLISH SYLLABUS – Level B1

Grammar and Structures

All the Grammar and Structures of Levels A1 and A2 plus

VERBS
Past Perfect Simple (narrative/reported speech)
Make + obj + vb (e.g. “Make him stop”)
Let + obj + vb (e.g. “Let him come”)
So/Nor/Neither + auxiliaries (e.g. So can I - Nor/Neither can I)
Want/ask/get somebody to do something
Verb + back (e.g. go back, pay back, give back etc.)
Passives - Present, Present Perfect and Past Simple forms

VERY COMMON PHRASAL VERBS

SIMPLE REPORTED SPEECH

Statements/questions/commands/requests (say/tell/ask)

MODALS
May/might/could + be (deduction/possibility)
Can’t + be (deduction/impossibility)
Must + be (deduction/certainty)
Should/Ought to (suggestion/admonition)
Have (got) to (obligation)
Used to + vb (past habits)

CONDITIONALS
Type 2 (including subjunctive of be – “If I were you”, etc.)

PRONOUNS
Reflexive and emphatic
Indefinite and Quantitative (some/any/no/every + thing/body/one/where etc.)

ADJECTIVES ending in –ed or -ing

PREPOSITIONS
Owing to/due to/like/as
To + ing (e.g. “I look forward to seeing you / hearing from you…”)

CONNECTORS
So that /( in order) to
so…that / such…that
although / though / while / despite / in spite of / even if / even though
As / since / so / therefore

Note – Candidates for the OXSET B1 Examination will encounter forms additional
to these (e.g. in reading texts) on which they will not be directly tested.

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