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B1 Level B1

  1. Present perfect continuousHow to talk about an activity that started in the past and is still going on, or has only just stopped, using have been and the -ing form.
  2. Past perfectHow to show that one past action happened before another past action, using had and the past participle.
  3. Used to and would for past habitsHow to talk about habits and situations that were true in the past but are not true now, with used to and would.
  4. Future continuousHow to describe an action that will be in progress at a particular moment in the future, using will be and the -ing form.
  5. Second conditionalHow to talk about imaginary or unlikely situations in the present and future, using if with a past form and would.
  6. Passive voice: introductionHow to put the action before the doer with be and the past participle, in the present simple and past simple.
  7. Reported speech: introductionHow to report what someone said without quoting them, with say, tell and ask, and how the tense moves back one step.
  8. Modals of deduction: must, might, can'tHow to say how sure you are about something, from certain to impossible, with must, may, might, could and can't.
  9. Question tagsHow to add a short question such as isn't it or did you to the end of a statement, and what a rising or falling voice tells the listener.
  10. Gerunds and infinitivesWhen a verb is followed by the -ing form, when by to plus the base form, and the small group of verbs whose meaning changes with the choice.
  11. Articles: the harder casesCases where a, the or no article is fixed by convention rather than by first or second mention, such as jobs, places, meals, countries and general statements.
  12. So, such, too, enoughHow so and such strengthen a description, how too and enough judge an amount against a limit, and where each word sits in the sentence.
  13. Although, despite, howeverHow to express contrast with although, even though, despite, in spite of, however and though, and what kind of words each of them can be followed by.
  14. Verbs with prepositionsVerbs that always take a particular preposition, such as depend on and listen to, and verbs that take none although their Ukrainian or Russian equivalents do.
  15. Defining and non-defining relative clausesThe difference between a relative clause that identifies a noun and one that adds extra information, why the commas matter, and which pronouns each type allows.
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