Council of
Europe
GRAMMAR
Levels
- Adjectives, including word order
A1+A2 - Adverbial phrases of time, place and
frequency, including word order
- Adverbs, including word order
- Adverbs of frequency, including word
order
- Adverbs of place: here, there...
- Adverbs of time: now, today,
yesterday, already, just, yet, for, since,
ever, never...
- Articles: a/an/the
- Articles: with countable and
uncountable nouns
- Comparatives and superlatives,
including irregular forms
- Conditionals: zero and 1st
- Countables and Uncountables,
including how much/how many
- Demonstratives: adjectives+pronouns
- Future Tenses: will and going to
- Genitive: use of ‘s, s’ + double
genitive + whose
- Gerunds: after verbs and prepositions
- Gerunds: as subjects and objects
- Imperatives
- Indefinite adverbs:
somewhere/anywhere/nowhere...
- Indefinite pronouns:
somebody/anybody/everybody...
- Infinitives: after verbs and adjectives
- Intensifiers: very basic
- Interrogative pronouns
- Have got
- Let’s/shall/why don’t
- Linkers: and, but, or, because, if,
when, where...
- Modals: can/can’t/could/couldn’t
- Modals: have to/don’t have to
- Modals: may
- Modals: must/mustn’t
- Modals: need/needn’t
- Causative have/get
B1 - Comparatives and superlatives:
extended
- Conditionals: 2nd and 3rd
- Connecting words expressing cause
and effect, contrast etc.: unless/while/
although/whereas...
1
- Modals: shall
- Modals: should/shouldn’t
- Modals: would/wouldn’t
- Numbers: cardinal and ordinal
- Participles: as adjectives
- Passive: basic forms
- Past continuous
- Past simple: to be
- Past simple: regular and irregular
verbs
- Personal pronouns: subject and
object
- Phrasal verbs: common
- Possessives: adjectives+pronouns
- Plurals, including irregular forms
- Prepositional phrases (place, time
and movement)
- Prepositions
- Prepositions of place: behind/near/
opposite...
- Prepositions of time: at/in/on/till/
before/until/during...
- Present continuous
- Present continuous for future
- Present simple
- Present simple for future
- Present simple vs present
continuous
- Present perfect
- Quantifiers: some/any/much/
many/little/few/a little/a few/a lot of...
- Relative pronouns: who/which/that
- There is/There are
- There was/There were
- To be
- To have
- Verb + ing: like/hate/love/enjoy/
mind/look forward to...
- Verb + infinitive: want/would like...
- Wh-questions
- Past perfect
- Past simple: extended
- Phrasal verbs: extended
- Prepositions: due to/in order to/
owing to...
- Present perfect continuous
- Present perfect vs past simple
 - Gerunds vs infinitives
- Indirect and embedded questions
- Infinitive of purpose
- Intensifiers: enough, such, too...
- Modals: be able to
- Modals: can’t/must (deduction)
- Modals: have to vs must
- Modals: may/might/will (probability)
- Modals: ought to
- Modals: should have/might have...
- Modals: used to
- Passive: extended
- Past continuous: extended
- Past continuous vs past simple
- Present perfect vs present perfect
continuous
- Question tags
- Reciprocal pronouns: each
other/one another
- Reflexive and emphatic pronouns
- Relative pronouns: whom/
whose/where/omitted pronoun
- Reported speech, including tense
changes etc.
- So/neither/nor with auxiliaries
- Will and going to for prediction
- Will: as an offer

TOPICS / AREE LESSICALI

• abbigliamento
• ambiente
• animali e il mondo naturale
• cibo, bevande e ristoranti
• colori e forme
• corpo umano
• data e ora
• famiglia
• fare la spesa/comprare
• hobby e attività di svago
• i media (TV, giornali ecc.)
• identificazione personale
• indicazioni stradali
• intrattenimento
• istruzione
• la casa
• lavoro
• le arti
• lingua/linguaggio
• luoghi ed edifici
• mezzi di trasporto
• nazioni e nazionalità
• numeri cardinali e ordinali
• parti del giorno, giorni della settimana, mesi, stagioni
• rapporti sociali
• salute
• scienza e tecnologia
• scuola e studio
• sentimenti, opinioni ed esperienze personali
2
• servizi
• sport
• tempo libero
• tempo meteorologico
• vacanze e viaggi
• vita quotidiana

Nota: pur trattandosi di un valido strumento per la

preparazione dei contenuti di grammatica e di lessico, il
presente documento non è da intendersi come esaustivo.

Recommended books / Materiale consigliato

Camesasca, E., Gallagher, A., & Martellotta, I. (n.d.). Working with grammar gold edition.
Harlow, UK: Longman.

Eastwood, J. (n.d.). Oxford practice grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McCarthy, M., & O’Dell, F. (n.d.). English vocabulary in use: Elementary. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

Murphy, R. (n.d.). English grammar in use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Murphy, R. (n.d.). Essential grammar in use (edizione italiana). Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

Redman, S. (n.d.). English vocabulary in use: Pre-intermediate & intermediate.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Vince, M., & Pallini, L. (n.d.). English grammar practice for Italian students. Basingstoke,
UK: Macmillan.

NB: per i testi di grammatica e di lessico non è stato indicato un anno di

pubblicazione, lasciando libertà di scelta, ma si consiglia di scegliere un’edizione
con le soluzioni.