COMMUNICATIVE AIMS

1. Talking about opinions, attitudes and habits.
2. Asking and saying how often and when people do things.
3. Talking about experience.
4. Saying when something happened.
5. Talking about past habits.
6. Talking about routine activities.
7. Describing a sequence of actions.
8. Expressing permission and prohibition.
9. Talking about the possible future.
10. Expressing purpose.
11. Saying how you do things.
12. Reporting what was said.
13. Describing a process.
14. Defining people and things.
15. Talking about the future: plan and intentions.
16. Talking about likes and dislikes.
17. Talking about imaginary or unlikely situations.
18. Asking and saying how long.
19. Asking and saying how much / many.
20. Talking about recent, continuing and temporary activities.
21. Talking about personal requirements.
22. Emphasising.
23. Checking information.
24. Describing impressions.
25. Making deductions.
26. Describing people.
27. Describing places.
28. Expressing contrast.
29. Talking about degree.
30. Describing change.
31. Talking about cause and effect.
32. Making comparisons.
33. Emphasising. (2)
34. Saying where places are.
35. Talking about quantity.
36. Describing a schedule.
37. Giving opinions.
38. Expressing necessity.
39. Talking about getting things done.
40. Expressing obligation.
41. Expressing permission. (2)
42. Expressing prohibition. (2)
43. Expressing instrument.
44. Telling a story.
45. Making requests and complaints.
46. Apologising.
47. Making threats, promises, offers, predictions, decisions,
requests, invitations, refusals.
48. Talking about the future: arrangements.
49. Making predictions.
50. Sequences.
51. Talking about the future: predictions.
52. Talking about typical behaviour.
53. Speculating.
54. Describing memories.
55. Talking about past habits. (2)
56. Talking about the future in the past.
57. Giving reasons.
58. Expressing purpose.
59. Expressing belief and disbelief.
60. Expressing result.
61. Talking about imaginary situations in the past.
62. Expressing wishes for the present.
63. Expressing regret about the past.
64. Making deductions. (2)
65. Speculating. (2)

 

STRUCTURES

1. Do you ever…? How often do you…?
2. Indefinite past.
3. Past simple tense.
4. used to + infinitive.
5. Not any more / still.
6. Infinitive constructions.
7. It’s time ( for me) to go.
8. Gerund constructions.
9. Past simple of past perfect.
10. You can… You can’t… You mustn’t …
11. The first conditional.
12. Reported speech.
13. Present and past simple passive.
14. Defining relative clauses: who, which, that.
15. I’m going to…
16. I’ve decided (not) to…
17. Gerunds: after some verbs and prepositions.
18. The second conditional.
19. Present perfect continuous tense.
20. Present perfect simple tense.
21. Present perfect simple vs. present perfect continuous.
22. I like… I have to have… I need…
23. I do need…
24. What I need most is…
25. Hardly ever, hardly any.
26. Be used to + ing / noun.
27. As soon as / when + clause.
28. After/ before / until +clause /noun phrase.
29. Question tags.
30. Must / Can’t.
31. Compound adjectives.
32. Infinitive constructions after adjectives: It’s easy (for me) to
remember. I was surprised to hear that. It’s kind of you to help.
33. Prepositions and adverbs of place.
34. Defining relative clauses: without who, which, that.
35. Whereas.
36. But, although, however.
37. In spite of, despite.
38. A bit of a… a lot of…, much worse…, no better at all.
39. I’m going deaf. It’s gone yellow.
40. The more I eat, the more I drink.
41. Both, neither.
42. A little / a few or little / few.
43. Enough.
44. Adverbs before adjectives.
45. Passive infinitive.
46. Present continuous passive.
47. Present perfect passive.
48. I thought they were…
49. It needs repairing. / It needs to be repaired.
50. Causative constructions with have and get.
51. They’ll have / get it cleaned.
52. They’ll get someone to mend it.
53. I have to… I must… I had to…
54. Make + infinitive without to.
55. Let + infinitive without to.
56. I can’t… I’m not allowed to…
57. Not let + infinitive without to.
58. Phrases with make, do, have + noun.
59. With a racket, with a ball.
60. Forming compound nouns.
61. Forming nouns with the suffix –er.
62. During or while.
63. Position of adverbs of manner, place, time.
64. Could you…?
65. Do you think / I wonder if you could…?
66. Would you mind + ing?
67. I’m (terribly) sorry, I wasn’t thinking.
68. I completely forgot. I didn’t realise.
69. Phrasal verbs.
70. Will and won’t.
71. You’ll be in trouble.
72. I won’t do it again.
73. I’ll help you.
74. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.
75. I won’t eat any more.
76. Will you have dinner with us?
77. I won’t tell you.
78. He’s flying to Kiev.
79. He’s to visit Paris.
80. He’s likely to…
81. She’s expected to…
82. Future continuous tense.
83. Future perfect tense.
84. He might be at home.
85. He could be waiting.
86. Prepositional and phrasal-prepositional verbs.
87. Remember + noun / ing / noun + ing.
88. Would and used to + infinitive.
89. Was /were going to.
90. As, since, because.
91. To + infinitive.
92. In order (not to) + infinitive.
93. So that + Clause.
94. Believe in + noun, believe + noun.
95. Believe + that clause.
96. so + adjective + that.
97. such (a) + (adjective) noun + that…
98. The third conditional.
99. Wish / if only + past simple tense.
100. Wish / if only + past perfect tense.
101. He must have…
102. She can’t have…
103. She might have…
104. He could have…