Can You Pass This A2 English Test? 15 Questions

Hi. It's Jennifer. Do you want to know your English level? Are you A1, Low Beginner, A2, High Beginner, or B1, Low Intermediate? Take this test. Answer 15 questions. I'll explain the answers to help you learn. Let's start. 1. Jennifer enjoys... The answer is... We use ENJOY plus the ING form. A gerund. 2. Do you like... The answer is... We can also ask... We can use LIKE plus ING. A gerund. Or LIKE plus the infinitive. 3. It was good to see you. What do you reply? The answer is... This is a common way to say goodbye. 4. How often... Jennifer's videos. The answer is... The question word is HOW OFTEN. The answer can be sometimes, often, every day, never. To form a question in the simple present, we need the helping verb DO or DOES. Compare. How often does Flavia watch Jennifer's videos? 5. Flavia, Andrea, and Jennifer... on the sofa. The answer is WERE. They were on the sofa. We use the past tense form WERE for a plural subject. More than one. We use the past tense form WAS for a singular subject. One. Compare. Andrea's cat was on the sofa. 6. Andrea's birthday... May 13th. The answer is... ON. Note. In everyday American English, speakers sometimes drop ON and simply say, Her birthday is May 13th. Do you know the ordinal numbers for 11 to 21? Let's review. 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st. In American English, we can also drop that middle T and say 20th and 21st. 7. Your house is... than mine. The answer is... Your house is cleaner than mine. With short adjectives, we use the ER ending to make a comparison. Cleaner. Shorter. Taller. Faster. Slower. With longer adjectives, we use MORE before the adjective. More interesting. More difficult. 8. Fall is... season in New England. The answer is... Fall is the most beautiful season in New England. With short adjectives, we use THE plus the adjective with the ending EST to form the superlative. We're comparing one thing to many. The tallest. The fastest. The prettiest. With longer adjectives, we use THE MOST before the adjective. The most interesting. The most difficult. 9. What... after college? Answer. What will you do after college? WILL is for future actions and events. In statements, we have the subject, then WILL plus the main verb. In questions, we need to change the word order. So we have WILL plus subject plus the main verb. We use the base verb. What will you do? What will you study? Where will you work? When will you go? 10. Do you have plans for the weekend? What... Answer. What are you going to do? In faster, relaxed English, this will sound like, What are you going to do? We can use BE GOING TO plus a base verb for future actions and plans. 11. What... yesterday? Answer. What happened yesterday? For regular verbs, we use the ending ED or D to form the past tense. 12. My grandmother... to bake. Answer. My grandmother taught me to bake. TEACH is an irregular verb. The past tense is TAUGHT. Many verbs in English have irregular past tense forms. Let's review five common ones. Teach. Taught. Know. Knew. See. Saw. Give. Gave. Have. Had. 13. Why didn't you answer the phone? I... Answer. I was sleeping. We use the past progressive to talk about a past action in process. We use WAS or WERE plus the ING form. 14. I don't like scary movies. Answer. Me neither. In everyday conversational English, we can use ME NEITHER to agree with a negative statement. We use ME TOO to agree with an affirmative statement. Compare. I like happy endings. Me too. 15. Andrea can ride a bike, but Flavia... Answer. Can't. CAN'T is a contraction for CANNOT. The full idea is she can't ride a bike. But we can simply say she can't. And it's understood. We can use CAN and CAN'T for abilities and skills. We use CAN or CAN'T plus the base verb. For example, I can speak Russian. I can't speak German. How about you? What languages can you speak? What's your score? Mistakes are okay. We learn from mistakes. Here are my suggestions. If you made 8 or more mistakes, your level is A1. Low beginner. You can watch lessons 1 to 65 first. Then you can watch lessons 66 to 120. If you made 4 to 7 mistakes, your level is probably A2. High beginner. You can watch lessons 66 to 120. If you made only 1 or 2 mistakes, your level is probably B1. Low intermediate. You can watch my other playlists, like Oral Reading Fluency. I also have playlists on verb tenses and pronunciation and conversation. If you made no mistakes and this test was super easy for you, your level is probably B2 or higher. You can watch my other playlists. Most of my videos are for intermediate and advanced students. Thank you for taking the test. I'll see you again soon. Happy studies!