The exam tests not only the knowledge acquired in courses VYA006 and VYA007, but also the ability to handle oral and written communication in everyday situations at the relevant level, i.e. B1 according to the CEFR.

The exam consists of a written test and an oral part.

WRITTEN PART

Grammar: Present simple and continuous, past simple and continuous, present perfect simple, future forms (will, going to, present continuous), definite and indefinite articles, personal, possessive, object and independent pronouns, prepositions of place and time, there is / there are structures, adverbs of degree and their position in a sentence, word order in affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences, irregular verbs, first and second conditional, comparison of adjectives and adverbs, countable and uncountable nouns: much, many, few, little, a lot, enough, passive voice, gerunds and infinitives, used to, indefinite and negative pronouns (somebody, anybody, nobody), modal verbs: can, could, would, should, must, have to, may, might

Vocabulary: Word completion based on definitions on topics from the English File Pre-intermediate textbook: describing people, personal qualities, clothes, holidays, housework, shopping, describing a city, opposites, phrases with get, animals, prepositions of movement, phrasal verbs

Writing: A short text (approx. 35 words) based on a given prompt

Reading: Choosing suitable responses in a dialogue; filling in missing words in a short text

Listening: Three short listening exercises

ORAL PART

Lasts 5 to 10 minutes. The conversation focuses on topics practiced in courses VYA006 and VYA007.

Introductory questions, picture description, conversation