Main verb forms

• Present continuous and present simple : I am doing and I do
• Present continuous or simple? I am doing or I do?
• State verb or action verb? I think or I am thinking?
• The present perfect : I have done
• The past simple : I did
• Present or past simple? I have done or I did?
• Past continuous or simple? I was doing or I did?
• Present perfect continuous: I have been doing
• I have been doing or I have done?
• Past perfect :I had done
• Past perfect continuous : I had been doing
• Review of present and past tenses
• Be going to and will
• Be going to or will?
• Present tenses for the future
• Will be doing and will have done
• Review of the future
• Have and have got
• The action verb have
• Short forms, e.g. ‘s, ‘ve

Negatives, Questions and Answers

• Negative statements
• Questions
• Subject/object questions, e.g. who saw you? / Who did you see ?
• Who, what or which?
• Short answers, e.g. Yes, it is.
• Questions tags, e.g. it’s nice, isn’t it?
• The patterns So/Neither do I and I hope so/not

Modal Verbs

• Can, could and be able to
• Can, may, could and be allowed to
• Saying something is possible or certain: may, could, must etc.
• Must and have to
• Mustn’t or needn’t / don’t have to?
• Requests,offers and suggestions: Would you….? Shall I ….? Etc.
• Should, ought to, had better and be supposed to
• It may/ could/ must have been etc.
• Review of will, would, shall and should

The passive

• Passive verb form
• Active and passive? I did it or it was done?
• Special passive patterns: I was given…, it is said…and he is said to…
• Have /get something done
• To be done and being done

Infinitive and ing-form

• Verb+ infinitive or verb + ing-form? (want to play/ enjoy playing)
• Start ,like etc. +to-infinitive/ing-form
• Verb + object +to-infinitive, e.g. invite a friend to stay
• Infinitive with and without to
• Question word + to-infinitive, e.g. I know what to do
• For with the to-infinitive, e.g. wait for you to finish
• Verb / adjective + preposition + ing-form, e.g. think of going
• Afraid to do or afraid of doing?
• Used to do or used to doing?
• Preposition or linking word + ing-form, e.g. before leaving
• Go shopping and do the shopping
• See it happen or see it happening?
• Some patterns with the ing-form, e.g. I lay in bed reading

Talking about Grammar

• Word classes: noun, adjective etc.
• The parts of a sentence: subject, object etc.

Nouns and Articles (a/an/the)

• Count nouns(e.g. a cup) and mass nouns(e.g. milk)
• Count or mass/e.g. a cake or cake?
• Agreement, e.g. my foot hurts/my feet hurt
• Singular or plural: clothes, news, means etc.
• Pair nouns(e.g. trousers) and group nouns(e.g. team)
• a/an and the
• General statements, e.g. cars or the cars, money or the money?
• Go to school, stay in bed etc.
• On Thursday , for lunch, by car etc.
• Quite, such and what with a/an
• Place names and the
• Direct and indirect objects, e.g. give me the money

Demonstratives, Possessives and Quantifiers

• This, that, these and those
• My, your etc; mine, yours etc.
• The boy’s name or the name of the boy?
• Some and any
• A lot of , many, much, a few and a little
• All, most, some, every, each, both and none

Pronouns

• Personal pronouns, e.g. I, you
• There and it
• Reflexive and emphatic pronouns, e.g. myself, yourself
• Review of pronouns and possessives
• The pronoun one/ones
• Everyone, something etc.

Adjectives and Adverbs

• Adjectives and word order, e.g. a cold day
• Exciting or excited?
• Adjectives + preposition, e.g. full of water
• Adjective + to-infinitive, e.g. ready to go
• Adjective or adverb? Nice or nicely?
• Comparative and superlative forms, e.g. taller, tallest
• Comparative and superlative patterns, e.g. taller than, as tall as
• Much faster, faster and faster etc.
• Adverbs and word order
• Yet, still and already
• Adverbs of degree, e.g. very, quite
• Quite and rather
• Too and enough

Prepositions

• Prepositions of place, e.g. to, off, near
• In, on and at (place)
• In, on and at (time)
• For, since, ago and before
• During or while? By or until? As or like?
• Preposition + noun, e.g. on holiday
• Noun +preposition, e.g. the answer to the question

Verbs with Prepositions and Adverbs

• Prepositional verbs, e.g. wait for
• Verb + object + preposition, e.g. thank them for their help
• Phrasal verbs, e.g. go out, turn around
• Verb + adverb + preposition, e.g. catch up with

Reported Speech

• Direct and reported speech
• Changes in reported speech
• Reported questions
• Reported requests, offers etc.

Relative Clauses

• Relative clauses with who, which and that
• The relative pronoun as subject e.g. the letter that I wrote
• Prepositions in relative clauses, e.g. the letter that I was looking for
• Relative patterns with whose, what and it
• The use of relative clauses
• People arriving early, people left behind and the first people to arrive

If-Clauses

• Patterns with if
• If, when, unless and in case
• Wish and if only

Other Linking Words

• But, although and in spite of
• To, in order to, so that and for
• Review of linking words