OXFORD SCHOOL OF ENGLISH SYLLABUS – Level B2

Grammar and Structures

All the Grammar and Structures of Levels A1, A2, B1 and B1plus plus

VERBS
(passive continuous forms)
Past Perfect Simple
Future Continuous
Future Perfect
Be (continuous forms) – e.g. “you’re being silly”
Indirect/embedded questions (know/wonder)
FUTURES - All Forms

PHRASAL VERBS (separable/inseparable)

MORE COMMON THREE-PART PHRASAL VERBS

REPORTED SPEECH
Simple and Continuous forms
Commands / Instructions
Other Reporting Verbs (insist/require/beg/warn, etc.)
Impersonal Forms (“Many people agree that…”, “It is often thought that…”, etc.)

MODALS
Past Modal Forms
Needn’t have done / didn’t need to do
Used to + vb (past habits)
Would you mind if I + past simple / Would you mind + -ing
would rather (not)
had better [not] (suggestion / admonition)

CONDITIONALS
Type 3
It’s time + Type 2
If only + Type 3
Mixed (simple forms)
Optative Subjunctive (e.g. “I wish I were…”, “I wish you would…”)

PRONOUNS
Each other/one another
Non-defining relative clauses

Note – Candidates for the OXSET B2 Examination will encounter forms additional
to these (e.g. in reading texts) on which they will not be directly tested.

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