| Grammar and Structures |
What are they used for? |
Some examples |
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| GP 8 >>> There is/ there are |
Identifying something/someone |
There is a book on the table
There are four girls in the kitchen. |
| GP 2 >>> Present simple |
Talking about habits, routines, facts (such as where a person lives), the actions of everyday life. |
My uncle lives in a small house.
She is thirteen years old.
I always take the bus to school. |
GP 2 >>>
The present simple with the verb ‘like’ + ‘ing’ in the third person singular and plural |
Describing what people or animals like doing |
My cat likes sleeping in the garden.
My brothers like playing football in the park. |
| GP 5 >>> Present continuous |
Talking about present actions. |
My brothers are playing football in the park at the moment. |
GP 2 + GP 5 >>>>
Interrogative forms of the above two tenses. |
Asking and answering questions about the above. |
Do they often go to the cinema?
Do you have/ Have you got a computer?
Are the children doing their homework?
Is she eating her breakfast at the moment? |
GP 2 + GP 5 >>>
Negative forms of the above two tenses. |
Making the above negative. |
Sue doesn’t like dogs.
John isn’t studying now, he is talking on the phone. |
GP 9 >>>
The modal ‘can’. |
Describing an ability or skill. |
He can play the guitar.They can cook. |
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| GP 3 >>> All personal pronouns as subject or object - I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, you, him, her, it, us, them. |
Describing and identifying people, animals and objects. |
Do you want my father?
He is in the garden.
John is with him. |
| GP 10 >>> Demonstrative pronouns – this, these, that, those. |
Asking for, and giving information. |
These are tables.
That family is rich.
Is this a kettle? |
| GP 11 >>> CONJUNCTIONS |
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| because, and, or |
Linking sentence parts and ideas |
John and Mary are in the garden because it is sunny. |
| GP 12 >>> INTERROGATIVE WORDS |
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| What, who, where, when, why |
Asking questions about people, animals and objects. |
What is this? Who is that girl?Where are Peter and Paul? |
| GP 13 >>> ADVERBS |
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Adverbs of time – today, now, at the moment
Adverbs of frequency – always, never, sometimes, often, usually, every day, every week, every month |
Describing when and how often someone does something or something happens.Discriminating between the present continuous and the present simple. |
I usually eat an egg for breakfast.
At the moment, John is playing in the park. |
| GP 7 >>> PREPOSITIONS |
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| In, on, at, to |
Talking about time, place, position |
The examination finishes at 4pm.
My brother is 10 years old in August.
I am going to Disney World on 1st August. |
| GP 14 >>> TIME EXPRESSIONS |
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| 10.15 = ten fifteen or (a) quarter past ten. |
telling the time |
ten fifteen, twenty past one, half past ten, a quarter to two, eleven forty-five, etc. |
| NOUNS |
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| GP 15 >>> Singular/pluralsimple nouns, including some common irregular ones.Countable and uncountable nouns.The names of common shapes. |
Talking about numbers of things Talking about amounts and quantities.Describing the shape of something. |
eg, book-books, box-boxes man-men, woman-women, child-children, party-parties
Can I have the butter?
Can I have two sweets?
This is a square.
That is a circle. |
| SALUTATIONS (WRITING) |
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| The formulaic salutations of informal writing in messages such as emails, postcards. |
Writing communication |
Dear
love from |
