English learning guides

Gerunds and Infinitives: Common Verb Patterns

Learn common -ing and to-infinitive patterns, verbs after prepositions and purpose with to. Compare stop doing with stop to do in six explained checks.

B1 Grammar Guide

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Second Conditional: Imagining Different Situations

Use if + past form and would + base verb to imagine present or future alternatives, offer advice, and complete six explained checks.

B1 Grammar Guide

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Past Simple vs Past Continuous

Understand past events and background actions, when and while, and was/were + -ing with timelines and six explained checks.

A2 Grammar Guide

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Imperatives: Clear Instructions with Verb, Don't and Let's

Give clear instructions, say what not to do and make shared suggestions. Includes a four-step visual and six explained checks.

A1 Grammar Guide

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Too and Enough: Describing Limits and What You Need

Learn too and enough with adjectives, adverbs and nouns. Explain limits, compare very with too and practise six checks with answers and explanations.

A2 Grammar Guide

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Hedging and Degrees of Certainty

Calibrate English claims to evidence with may, likely, appear and tend to. Distinguish findings, interpretations and forecasts without over-hedging.

C1 Reading Guide

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Polite Disagreement and Diplomatic Language

Disagree clearly and respectfully in English. Acknowledge concerns, explain reasons, offer alternatives and keep necessary boundaries.

B2 Listening Guide

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Cohesive Paragraphs: Reference, Substitution and Linking Ideas

Build clear B2 paragraphs with reliable reference, useful substitution and logical connectors. Practise editing and compare explained models.

B2 Grammar Guide

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Clarifying and Checking Understanding in English

Ask focused questions, repair names and numbers, and confirm instructions with useful B1 English conversation patterns.

B1 Listening Guide

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Connected Speech: Weak Forms and Linking

Hear familiar English words in natural speech. Learn weak forms, consonant-to-vowel linking and a practical listen-and-shadow routine.

B1 Listening Guide

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Passive Voice: Describing Processes and What Happens

Learn present and past simple passives, choose useful agents, and practise changing focus with six explained checks.

B1 Grammar Guide

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Past Simple: Regular and Irregular Verbs

Learn past simple forms, did and was/were, spelling rules and three -ed sounds, with recorded examples and six explained checks.

A2 Grammar Guide

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Must, Have To and Should: Rules and Advice

Learn must, have to and should for rules and advice. Compare mustn’t with don’t have to, practise past obligation and try six explained checks.

A2 Grammar Guide

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Subject, Object and Possessive Pronouns

Choose I or me, my or mine, and clear pronoun references. Includes a visual reference, six explained checks and a practical self-check.

A1 Grammar Guide

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Future Time Clauses: When, Until, Before and As Soon As

Connect future events with when, before, after, until and as soon as. Learn the time-clause pattern and its question exceptions with 12 explained checks.

B1 Grammar Guide

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Present Perfect Simple or Continuous? Results, Activities and Duration

Choose present perfect simple or continuous from the intended focus: completed results, activity, duration and present evidence. Includes 12 explained checks.

B1 Grammar Guide

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Advanced Comparisons: Much Better, Twice as Fast and The More

Express the size of a difference, proportion and linked change accurately.

B2 Grammar Guide

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Past Perfect: Show What Happened Before Another Past Event

Use past perfect to look back from a past event. Learn had + participle, compare clear past-simple sequences and practise 12 explained checks.

B1 Grammar Guide

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Embedded Questions: Do You Know Where It Is?

Put questions inside requests, statements and reports using statement order and whether/if.

B1 Grammar Guide

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Adjective or Adverb? Describe People, Things and Actions

Choose adjectives for people and things and adverbs for actions. Practise linking verbs, good/well, fast and hard/hardly in twelve explained checks.

A2 Grammar Guide

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Subject–Verb Agreement: Find the Subject, Choose the Verb

Find the subject head before choosing is/are, has/have, do/does or present-simple endings. Includes twelve explained checks and a two-pass proofreading routine.

B1 Grammar Guide

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Compound Nouns: Coffee Cups, Bus Stops and Other Everyday Things

Understand everyday compound nouns by finding the head, checking purpose versus contents and forming clear plurals. Includes ten explained checks.

B1 Grammar Guide

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Reporting Verbs: Suggest Doing, Advise Someone To and More

Choose a reporting verb that preserves the speaker’s intention and use its correct complement pattern.

B2 Grammar Guide

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Both, Either and Neither: Talking About Two Choices

Use both, either and neither to include, choose between or exclude two options. Includes noun patterns, paired connectors and ten explained checks.

B1 Grammar Guide

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