DELF B1 – Learning Objectives
What should you be able to do at B1 level?
Communication
Describe experiences, events, people and situations in detail.
Narrate past events and explain their circumstances.
Express feelings, wishes, regrets and future intentions.
Give advice, make recommendations and explain problems.
Express opinions and justify them with reasons and examples.
Compare different viewpoints, agree, disagree and make hypotheses.
Organize a simple argument with an introduction, development and conclusion.
Participate in conversations, ask for clarification and report what others have said.
Grammar
Passé composé, imparfait and plus-que-parfait.
Future, conditional present and conditional past.
Present subjunctive to express obligation, feelings and possibility.
Conditional sentences with si to express hypotheses and regrets.
Passive voice, reported speech and sequence of tenses.
Relative pronouns (qui, que, dont, où) and double object pronouns.
Gerund (en + present participle).
Comparatives, superlatives and restrictive negation (ne… que).
Logical connectors expressing cause, consequence, opposition and purpose.
Expressions of time, duration and chronological order.
Vocabulary
Personal experiences, emotions and relationships.
Education, studies, employment and professional life.
Travel, cities, countryside and the environment.
Media, television, newspapers and the internet.
Culture, cinema, literature and artistic activities.
Social issues and familiar current events.
Expressions used to give opinions, explain arguments and participate in discussions.