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