Preliminary level

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Preliminary level

Het vierde niveau is "Preliminary level"

Het volgende moet je beheersen, om examen te kunnen doen op dit niveau:

Preliminary level

Grammar and Structures List for the Preliminary Level examination:

Grammar and Structures	What are they used for?	Some examples
VERBS
Past Simple including common irregular past forms as well as regular forms, interrogative and negative	Taking about past events.	We watched a football match on TV last night. I drove to the hotel. Did John drink all the orange juice?
Present Perfect Simple interrogative and negative	Talking about actions only recently completed. Talking about experiences.	The man has just eaten the sandwich. Have you ever been to London? I have never seen a dolphin.
ADJECTIVES
Basic adjectives	For descriptive purposes, including expressing opposites.	My father bought a new car yesterday.
Comparatives and superlatives	Talking about comparisons between people and things.	John isn’t as tall as Jane. Sue is the tallest/ the most beautiful girl in our class. My rabbit is older than/more beautiful than my friend’s rabbit.
POSSESSIVES
The possessive form	Expressing ownership.	That sandwich is Jane’s.
mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs	Talking about ownership, possessions, who things belong to.	My bicycle is newer than yours. That book is mine.
QUANTIFIERS
much - many – a lot – a lot of	Talking about amounts of things which can and cannot be counted.	How much money have you got? I've got a lot of it! It rains a lot in England. How many brothers has she got?
some – any	Talking about things which can and cannot be counted, in the positive and negative.	There is some bread. There isn’t any butter.
PREPOSITIONS
by, with, next to	Talking about where things are	The children are standing next to the clock.
ADVERBS
ever, never, ago, yet, just	Talking about when things happen	I went to Paris six years ago.

Common irregular verbs are tested, e.g. be, go, buy, have, sit, make, catch, drive, try, understand, come, write, read, swim, send, see, eat, drink, meet, fly, give, tell, feel, do, take, say, run, find.

Irregular plurals

All the plurals tested are irregular. They are not the same high frequency irregular plurals used in the Primary Level paper, but more difficult ones, e.g. sheep, tooth, mouse, shelf, country, party, dictionary, scarf, foot, fly, butterfly, thief, life, wife, knife, city, factory, monkey, snowman, fireman, postman, fairy, leaf, beach, lorry, chimney, tomato.

Oefeningen voor dit niveau zijn te vinden op:

http://bovenbouw.kennisnet.nl/vakken/engels

http://www.anglia.nl/kidspage/index3.php

http://www.digischool.nl/en/index.html

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