In this lesson, you will learn about:
How informal and formal English language can differ: complex sentences, sophisticated vocabulary, phrasal verbs, contractions and idioms
In this lesson, you will learn about:
What direct speech is and how it is used
What indirect (or reported) speech is and how it is used
What rules govern changing direct speech to indirect speech
In this lesson, you will learn about:
The uses and formation of: Zero Conditional, First Conditional, Second Conditional and Third Conditional sentences
In this lesson, you will learn about:
Two voices in the English language: active and passive
How they differ from one another
How to change from active to passive
In this lesson, you will learn about:
What the category of “determiners” comprises of
The three categories of articles in common use
The different types of determiners
In this lesson, you will learn about:
What the difference between adverbs and adverbials is.
About the types of adverbs we distinguish between:
Adverbs of time, of place, of manner, of degree, and of frequency
How comparing adverbs differs from comparing adjectives
How adverbs are formed
The position of adverbs in relation to other words in sentences (including fronted adverbials)
In this lesson, you will learn about:
the definition of a letter
graphemes and phonemes
when letters are capitalised in English
which letters are vowels
which letters are consonants
In this lesson, you will learn about:
how the plural forms differ from their singular counterparts
the rules of forming regular plurals
which nouns are considered to have irregular plural forms
In this lesson, you will learn about:
The uses and formation of: Future Simple, Future Progressive, Future Perfect and Future Perfect Progressive tenses
In this lesson, you will learn about:
What the broad category of affixes is
How affixes (prefixes and suffixes) can change the meaning of certain words
What word families are
In this lesson, you will learn about:
the uses and formation of: Past Simple, Past Progressive, Past Perfect Simple and Past Perfect Progressive tenses
In this lesson, you will learn about:
The uses and formation of: Present Simple, Present Progressive, Present Perfect and Present Perfect Progressive tenses