
Typical B1/ Intermediate Grammar Topics
We can focus on these grammar topics depending on your language needs and interests.
Present and Past Tenses
- Present Simple vs Present Continuous – I eat / I am eating
- Past Simple vs Present Perfect Simple – I ate / I have eaten
- Present Perfect Simple vs Present Perfect Continuous – I have eaten / I have been eating
- Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect – I ate / I was eating / I had eaten
Future Forms
- Will – I will travel
- Be Going To – I’m going to travel
- Present Continuous (for future arrangements) – I’m travelling tomorrow
Verb Tense Reviews
- Revision of all B1 verb tenses – Understanding how and when to use them
Modal and Semi-Modal Verbs
- Have to, must, should – obligation, prohibition, necessity, advice
- Can, could, be able to – ability and possibility
- Deduction and speculation – must, might, could, can’t
- Used to, be used to, get used to
Verb Patterns and Usage
- Active and Passive Voice – She gave me the book / The book was given to me
- Gerunds and Infinitives – doing / to do
- Phrasal Verbs – carry out, check out
Conditionals, ‘If’, and ‘Wish’
- First Conditional and future time clauses
- Second Conditional – unreal or imaginary situations
- Third Conditional – past unreal situations
- Mixed Conditionals – when and how to use them
Reported Speech
- Indirect speech – reporting questions and statements
Articles
- A(n), the, or no article – and when to use each
Auxiliary Verbs
- Question tags – Aren’t you? / Don’t you?
Adjectives and Adverbs
- Comparative and superlative forms
- -ed / -ing adjectives – interested / interesting
- Adjectives formed from verbs
- Compound adjectives with numbers – a two-day trip
- Gradable and extreme adjectives – absolutely freezing
Linking Words and Expressions
- Language of contrast – although, however, in spite of, despite
- Purpose – in order to, so as to, so that
- Reason – as, since, due to
Prepositions
- Verb + preposition – depend on, believe in
- Adjective + preposition – afraid of, good at
- Time expressions – during, for, while
- Time reference – for, since, from
