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Introductory questions
What do you do- do you work or study?
What experience do you have of English? Any certificates?
How they answer this question should give you an approximate idea of their level. Go
to the questions for that level.
Explain that you want the student to answer in complete sentences, demonstrating the
appropriate grammar if possible.
If interviewing more than one student, after asking a student a question, ask him/her to
ask another the same question.
To study a course at a particular level, a student should be relatively comfortable
answering the majority of the questions from the previous level.
A1 Level (Beginner)
Questions
Grammar/Function
Verb to be
Possessives
Adverbs of frequency
A2 Level (Elementary)
Questions
Grammar/Function
Past Simple
Describing people
Going to
Describing places
Grammar/Function
First Conditional
Recounting a story
Zero Conditional
Second Conditional
Grammar/Function
Short Answers
Future Continuous
Past Perfect
Future Perfect
Third Conditional
C1 Level (Advanced)
Questions
Grammar/Function
Mixed Conditionals
Wish/if only
Past Modals