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Grammar, vocabulary, writing, speaking and pronunciation from A1 to C1. Pick a topic or follow a path.

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A2 Level A2

  1. Make or doUkrainian and Russian have one verb where English has two. When to use make, when to use do, and the fixed phrases worth learning as whole units.
  2. Say, tell, speak or talkFour English verbs for one Ukrainian or Russian idea. Which one takes a person, which one takes words, and the fixed phrases that decide the rest.
  3. Word order in English sentencesEnglish word order is fixed where Ukrainian and Russian are free. Subject, verb, object; place before time; where adverbs go; and the order in questions.

B1 Level B1

  1. False friendsEnglish words that look like Ukrainian or Russian ones but mean something else, such as magazine, fabric, accurate and sympathetic, with the word you actually need.
  2. Since and for with the present perfectWhy English says I have lived here for five years where Ukrainian and Russian use the present tense, and how to choose between since, for and ago.
  3. Prepositions that differ from Ukrainian and RussianDepend on, married to, arrive at, angry with, in the picture, on the bus. The prepositions that do not match their Ukrainian and Russian equivalents, grouped for learning.
  4. Confusing pairs of wordsBorrow or lend, learn or teach, rob or steal, bored or boring. English pairs that match one Ukrainian or Russian word, and how to tell them apart.
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