Grammar: tenses: present simple and present continuous, past simple and past continuous, present perfect (with for and since) and past simple, past perfect simple; future forms: going to, will and present continuous; verb patterns: to + infinitive; positioning adverbs of frequency; comparatives and superlatives, as ... as, comparative modifiers; quantifiers – with countable and uncountable nouns; articles: a/an, the or no article; prepositions of place and movement; conditionals: zero, first and second; defining relative clauses; modals: had to and would; subject questions; the passive: present and past simple; reported speech – changes to tense, reporting verbs – say and tell; used to; anywhere, everyone, nobody, something; giving advice; imperatives – must/mustn’t.

 

Vocabulary: word-building: suffixes, compound nouns, verbs and nouns, synonyms, dependent prepositions, -ed/-ing adjectives, word families, forming negatives, verbs with two objects; collocations with do, play and go; functional: describing jobs, giving instructions, using phones, reporting crimes, facts and figures, dealing with banks; general: medical problems, sport and games, environmental issues, life events, celebrations, extreme weather, character and habits, stages of education.