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Future simple

 We have just this moment decided to do something

e.g. It’s getting cold; I will close the window

 To make a prediction
e.g. Don’t worry about your exam tomorrow; I’m sure
it will be easy.
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“To be going to”

 To make a prediction by using information we already

have.
e.g. Oh look at the sky; I think it is going to rain.

 To communicate a future intention; we have already

decided to do
e.g. I am going to buy a new car.
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I would prefer to stay at home.

I would rather stay at home.

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The time now is six o’clock.
In an hour (at 7 o’clock)

I’ll be back

Within an hour (at any time

between 6 and 7 o’clock)
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The future perfect tense

We are thinking about time before and up to a specific point
in the future.
e.g. Please, don’t phone me at midnight; I will have gone to
bed.

Will have gone to bed

12 a.m.

Past now future

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At 9 o’clock, I will eat my dinner
(I will start to eat at 9 o’clock)

At 9 o’clock, I will have eaten my dinner.

(My dinner will already be finished at 9
o’clock)

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Short answers with auxiliary verbs
Can you speak Spanish? Yes, I can
Have you seen David? No, I haven’t
Will she be working? Yes, she will
NOT! She will be.
Are you a student? Yes, I am
Has he got money? Yes, he has
Does he eat meat? Yes, he does
Did they finish job? No, they didn’t
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 Direct and indirect speech
Direct speech:
I said: “The room is large”

Indirect speech:
I said that the room was large.

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Direct speech:
Mr Brown said: “I like warm weather”

Indirect speech:
Mr Brown said that he liked warm
weather.

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Present simple Past simple

Present continuous Past continuous

Present perfect Past perfect

Future simple Future-in-the-past

Past simple Past simple

Past perfect
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Direct speech:
Mary said: “John will go to London”.

Indirect speech:
Mary said that John would go to London.
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Verbs from certain adjectives or nouns + “en”

Dark-darken
Short-shorten
Wide-widen-width
Long-length-lengthen
Strong-strength-strengthen
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Emphatic “do”
 To be emphatic about something
e.g. “You don’t speak English”. “Yes, I do speak English!”

 To deny something that someone has said

e.g. “You don’t eat healthy food”. “Yes, I do eat healthy
food!”

 An exclamation
e.g. “I do like this book!” “He does speak good English!”
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Making a suggestion
1. Shall we go to the cinema?

2. Let’s go to the cinema.

3. How (or what) about going to the cinema?

4. Why don’t we go to the cinema?

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Perfect continuous tenses

Present perfect continuous: I have been working.

Past perfect continuous: I had been working.

Future perfect continuous: I will have been working.

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Present perfect continuous

To say how long an action has been in progress so far.
e.g. I have been working for two hours so far.

have been working for 2 hours

9 a.m. 11 a.m.
Past now future
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Past perfect continuous

To communicate the duration of an action up to a
particular point in the past.
e.g. I had been cooking for twenty minutes when she
arrived.

had been cooking for 20 minutes

1p.m. 1.20p.m.
Past now future
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Future perfect continuous

To communicate the duration of an action up to a
particular point in the future.
e.g. At the end of this lesson, we will have been
studying for 50 minutes.

Will have been studying for 50 minutes

1p.m. 1.50 p.m.

Past now future
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Tail questions
When we believe something is true, and
we want somebody to confirm that we are
right.

You’re feeling tired, aren’t you?

You’re Mr. Brown, aren’t you?
You aren’t Mr Brown, are you?
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We form a tail question by repeating the first

auxiliary verb from the main part of the sentence, and
putting it in question form.

He is going to go out tonight, isn’t he?

She hasn’t a bag, has she?
You will come, won’t you?
You can’t sing, can you?
I speak English, don’t I?
You didn’t speak English, did you?
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To tell To say
I told David that I was going on holiday.
I said that I was going on holiday.

Or I said to David that I was going on

holiday.
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Primary auxiliary verbs

“Be”
To make the continuous tenses and the passive voice.
e.g. I am speaking English now
This book was printed in England.

“Have”
To make the perfect tenses.
e.g. He has gone to Scotland.
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“Do”
To make the present simple and the past simple.
e.g. I don’t speak Spanish
Did she eat the pasta?

Modal auxiliary verbs

Express ideas about necessity or possibility.

Can, could, will, would, may, might,

Shall, should, must, ought to.
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Change of spelling with comparison of adjectives

Big - bigger than - the biggest

Thin - thinner than - the thinnest
Hot - hotter than - the hottest
Fat - fatter than - the fattest
Wet - wetter than - the wettest
Sad - sadder than - the saddest
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Consonant + y i + er / est
Happy – happier than – the happiest
Lucky – luckier than – the luckiest
Busy – busier than – the busiest
Pretty – prettier than – the prettiest
Cloudy – cloudier than - the cloudiest
Crazy – crazier than – the craziest
Hungry – hungrier than –the hungriest
Lazy – lazier than –the laziest
Ugly – uglier than - the ugliest