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Grammar

  • Grammatical cases (przypadki) and noun declension (odmiana rzeczownika)

    The seven grammatical cases (przypadki) and their functions: kto co, kogo czego, komu czemu, kogo co, kim czym, o kim o czym, vocative (wołacz). Endings for masculine (rodzaj męski), feminine (rodzaj żeński) and neuter (rodzaj nijaki) nouns in singular and plural, stem alternations (oboczności tematu), nouns considered difficult, and declension of proper names (nazwy własne).

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

  • Declension of adjectives (odmiana przymiotnika) and pronouns (odmiana zaimka)

    Agreement of an adjective (przymiotnik) with a noun (rzeczownik) in gender (rodzaj), number (liczba), and case (przypadek). Personal, demonstrative, possessive, interrogative, indefinite, and negative pronouns, plus the reflexive pronoun, with their short and long forms.

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

  • Grammatical gender (rodzaj gramatyczny) and plural (liczba mnoga)

    Masculine personal gender (rodzaj męskoosobowy) and non-masculine-personal gender (rodzaj niemęskoosobowy), nominative plural (mianownik liczby mnogiej), plural-only nouns, and predicate agreement with a plural subject.

    B1 · B2 · 48 tasks

  • Numerals (liczebniki) and their syntax (składnia)

    Cardinal numerals (liczebniki główne), ordinal numerals (liczebniki porządkowe), collective numerals (liczebniki zbiorowe), and fractional numerals (liczebniki ułamkowe). Numeral syntax (składnia liczebnika) with nouns and verbs, masculine personal forms (formy męskoosobowe), dates, times, prices, and quantity expressions.

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

  • Tenses (czasy) and conjugations (koniugacje)

    Four conjugations (koniugacje), present tense (czas teraźniejszy), past tense (czas przeszły), simple and compound future tense (czas przyszły prosty i złożony), irregular and difficult verbs, gender forms (formy rodzajowe) of the future tense.

    B1 · B2 · 48 tasks

  • Perfective and imperfective aspect (aspekt dokonany i niedokonany)

    Aspect pairs and how they are formed, aspect and tense (czas), aspect after modal verbs (czasowniki modalne), in negation and in the imperative mood (tryb rozkazujący), plus the meaning and syntactic use of both aspects.

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

  • Imperative mood (tryb rozkazujący) and conditional mood (tryb przypuszczający)

    Forming the imperative (rozkaźnik), the conditional mood (tryb przypuszczający), real and unreal conditional sentences, wish clauses, and constructions with "niech".

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

  • Passive voice (strona bierna) and impersonal forms (formy bezosobowe)

    Constructions with „być” and „zostać” plus the passive participle (imiesłów bierny), subjectless sentences (zdania bezpodmiotowe), forms ending in -no and -to, constructions with „się” and their range of use.

    B2 · C1 · 48 tasks

  • Participles (imiesłowy)

    Active and passive adjectival participles (imiesłowy przymiotnikowe czynne i bierne), simultaneous and anterior adverbial participles (imiesłowy przysłówkowe współczesne i uprzednie), sentence equivalents (równoważniki zdań), and changing subordinate clauses into participial constructions.

    B2 · C1 · 48 tasks

  • Comparison (stopniowanie) of adjectives (przymiotniki) and adverbs (przysłówki)

    Simple (stopniowanie proste), periphrastic (stopniowanie opisowe), and suppletive comparison (stopniowanie supletywne), comparative constructions with „niż” and „od”, and phrases such as „coraz”, „im ... tym”, „jak najbardziej”.

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

  • Word formation (słowotwórstwo)

    Prefixes (przedrostki) and suffixes (przyrostki), verbal nouns, agent nouns, feminine forms, names of places, adjectives from nouns and prepositional phrases, diminutives and augmentatives.

    B2 · C1 · 48 tasks

  • Prepositions (przyimki) and their government (rekcja)

    Which case (przypadek) follows which preposition (przyimek). Prepositions of place, time, direction and purpose, the pair "w" and "na" with place names, and fixed prepositional expressions (wyrażenia przyimkowe) in Polish.

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

  • Verb government (rekcja czasownika)

    Which case a given verb requires. Verbs with the genitive (dopełniacz), dative (celownik), and instrumental (narzędnik), verbs with prepositions, and differences in government between Polish and East Slavic languages.

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

  • Verbs of motion and prefixes

    Pairs like „iść” and „chodzić”, „jechać” and „jeździć”, „nieść” and „nosić”. Directional prefixes (przedrostki kierunkowe) przy-, wy-, do-, prze-, ob-, pod- and the changes in meaning they bring.

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

  • Negation (przeczenie) and the genitive of negation (dopełniacz negacji)

    The genitive (dopełniacz) after a negated transitive verb, double negation, negation in sentences with a modal verb, spelling „nie” with parts of speech.

    B1 · B2 · 48 tasks

  • Conjunctions and compound and complex sentences (zdania złożone)

    Compound sentences (zdania współrzędnie złożone) and complex sentences (zdania podrzędnie złożone), conjunctions of cause, purpose, result, condition and concession, multi-clause sentences (zdania wielokrotnie złożone), and punctuation with conjunctions.

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

  • Reported speech (mowa zależna)

    Transforming statements into reported speech (mowa zależna), indirect questions (zdania pytajne zależne), reporting verbs, and shifts in pronouns and adverbials.

    B2 · C1 · 48 tasks

  • Syntax (składnia) and word order (szyk wyrazów)

    Neutral and emphatic word order (szyk neutralny i emfatyczny), the position of the pronoun (zaimek) and particle (partykuła), infinitive (bezokolicznik) constructions, expanding and shortening simple sentences (zdania pojedyncze), and syntactic synonymy (synonimia składniowa).

    B2 · C1 · 48 tasks

  • Spelling and punctuation

    Spelling of ó and u, rz and ż, ch and h, capital letters (wielka litera), joined and separate spelling (pisownia łączna i rozdzielna), commas before conjunctions, colons, dashes and quotation marks in written texts.

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

Listening

  • Listening comprehension: task types and strategies

    Short statements after one listening, dialogues after two, an interview with true/false tasks, matching people to opinions, matching columns. What to do before, during, and after the recording.

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

Reading

Writing

  • Writing: text types and assessment criteria

    Short and longer text types required in the exam, the structure of each one, a phrase bank, word limits, and three assessment criteria: task completion, language resources, and linguistic accuracy.

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

Speaking

  • Speaking: format and strategies

    Presentation based on source material, discussion and defending your opinion, describing a photo or chart, polite disagreement, speaking pace, and dealing with gaps in vocabulary.

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

Vocabulary

  • Vocabulary: home, family and everyday life

    People and family, housing and furnishings, shopping and services, food, free time, weather and nature. A thematic catalog from the appendix to the regulation.

    B1 · B2 · 48 tasks

  • Vocabulary: Work and Career

    Professions and job titles, contracts and pay, job interviews, duties and working conditions, career and professional development.

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

  • Vocabulary: offices and formalities

    An application (wniosek), a certificate (zaświadczenie) and a decision (decyzja), residence and registration (meldunek), banking and insurance, renting a flat, official correspondence. The most practical section for a foreigner living in Poland.

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

  • Vocabulary: health and the body

    Parts of the body, ailments and symptoms, a visit to the doctor, the pharmacy and prescriptions, health insurance, and a healthy lifestyle.

    B1 · B2 · 48 tasks

  • Vocabulary: learning and education

    School and university, subjects and exams, diplomas and diploma recognition, language learning, student life.

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks

Common mistakes

  • Typical mistakes: interference from your native language

    Mistakes caused by similarities or differences between Polish and Ukrainian, Russian, and English: false friends, different government (rekcja), different aspect (aspekt), and syntactic or prepositional calques.

    B1 · B2 · C1 · 54 tasks