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Subject pronouns (I, you, he/she…)
Object pronouns (me, you, him/her…)
Verb ‘be’ – present tense (I am, you are…)
This, that, these, those
Basic prepositions (in, at, to…)
Beginner
Articles (a, an, the)
Singular/plural nouns
Possessive adjectives (my, your, his/hers…)
Possessive ‘s’
Likes and dislikes
Verb ‘be’ – present tense questions and negatives
Present simple (I walk, she walks…)
Present continuous (I’mwalking, she’swalking…)
Adverbs of frequency (sometimes, often, never…)
Elementary Possessive pronouns (mine, yours…)
Past simple, regular and irregular (play> played, go>went)
Like + -ing (I like swimming)
Want, like and would like
Telling the time
Past simple, regular and irregular verbs
Past continuous (she was going, they were walking…)
So, because, but, although
Future forms: ‘going to’/present continuous for future
arrangements/‘will/won’t’
Pre-
Present perfect + ever, never, for and since
Intermediate
Comparatives (more/less…than, as….as)
Superlatives (the most/least….)
Modals of obligation (have to, don’t have to, must, mustn’t…)
‘Used to’
‘so/neither’ + auxiliaries (so do I, neither has he…)
Intermediate Present perfect vs continuous
Past simple vs past continuous vs past perfect
Future forms: ‘going to’ vs present continuous vs ‘will/shall’
Usually vs used to
Reported speech (“I’m going to the park” > he said he was going
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to the park)
Passives (the church was painted by Michelangelo)
Relative clauses (the girl who is sat over there…)
Modals of obligation and deduction (must, may, might, can’t…)
Can, could, be able to (ability)
First conditional and future time clauses (If I pass the exam,
I’llcelebrate)
Second conditional ((If I was famous I’dgive money to charity))
The...the… + comparatives (themore you learn themore you
know…)
Using adjectives as nouns (rich people are privileged > the
rich are privileged)
Adjective order
Narrative tenses
Adverbs and adverbial phrases
Upper Passive structures (it is said that…, he is believed to…)
Intermediate Future perfect and continuous (the ice caps will have melted,
we will be using solar powered cars)
Reporting verbs (recommend, threaten, advise…)
Third conditional (if I had known, I would have come)
Past modals, ‘would rather’ and ‘had better’
Gerunds and infinitives
Used to, be used to, get used to
Structures after wish Quantifiers
Advanced Inversion for emphasis (little did he know that the dog had
escaped)
Linkers (although, nonetheless, whilst…)
Mixed conditionals (If her eyesight was better she would have
seen the squirrel)
Cleft sentences (the reason why I’ve come is…, the thing that
annoys me most is…)
Compound nouns
‘So’ and ‘such’
Gerunds and infinitives
Phrasal verbs (go up, go in, go out, go on, go for…)
Unreal uses of past tenses (it’s time we left, suppose
we opened our own shop…)
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Uses of the verb ‘get’
Participle phrases (the horse, trotting up to the fence, hopes you
have a carrot)
Passive and active voice
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