CONTENTS

Thanks vii
To the student viii
To the teacher ix

Present and past
1 Present continuous (I am doing>
2 Present simple (I do)
3 Present continuous and present simple (1) (I am doing and I do)
4 Present continuous and present simple (2) (I am doing and I do)
5 Past simple (I did)
6 Past continuous (I was doing)

Present perfect and past
7 Present perfect (1) (I have done)
8 Present perfect (2) (I have done>
9 Present perfect continuous (I have been doing>
10 Present perfect continuous and simple (I have been doing and I have
done)
11 How long have you (been)...?
12 When...? and How long...? For and since
13 Present perfect and past (1) (I have done and I did)
14 Present perfect and past (2) (I have done and I did)
15 Past perfect (I had done)
16 Past perfect continuous (I had been doing)
17 Have and have got
18 Used to(do)

Future
19 Present tenses (I am doing / I do) for the future
20 (I‘m) going to (do)
21 Will/shall (1)
22 Will/shall (2)
23 I will and I‘m going to
24 Will be doing and will have done
25 When I do / When I‘ve done When and if

Modals
26 Can, could and (be) able to
27 Could (do) and could have (done)
28 Must and can‘t
29 May and might (1)
30 May and might (2)
31 Must and have to
32 Must mustn‘t needn‘t
33 Should(1)
34 Should(2)
35 Had better lt‘s time...
36 Can / Could / Would you..? etc. (Requests, offers, permission and
invitations)

Conditionals and ‘wish’
37 If I do... and If I did...
38 If I knew... I wish I knew...
39 If I had known... I wish I had known...
40 Would I wish … would

Passive
41 Passive (1) (is done / was done)
42 Passive (2) (be/been/being done)
43 Passive (3)
44 It is said that... He is said to... (be) supposed to...
45 Have something done

Reported speech
46 Reported speech (1) (He said that...)
47 Reported speech (2)

Questions and auxiliary verbs
48 Questions (1)
49 Questions (2) (Do you know where...? / She asked me where...)
50 Auxiliary verbs (have/do/can etc.) I think so / I hope so etc.
51 Question tags (do you? isn‘t it? etc.)

-ing and the infinitive
52 Verb + -ing (enjoy doing / stop doing etc.)
53 Verb + to... (decide to do / forget to do etc.)
54 Verb + (object).+ to... (I want (you) to do etc.)
55 Verb + -ing or to... (1) (remember/regret etc.)
56 Verb + -ing or to... (2) (try/need/help)
57 Verb + -ing or to... (3) (like / would like etc.)
58 Prefer and would rather
59 Preposition (in/for/about etc.) + -ing
60 Be/get used to something (I‘m used to...>
61 Verb + preposition + -ing (succecd in -ing / accuse somebody of -ing
etc.)
62 Expressions + -ing
63 To..., for... and so that... (purpose>
64 Adjective + to...
65 To... (afraid to do) and preposition + -ing (afraid of –ing)
66 See somebody do and see somebody doing
67 -ing clauses (Feeling tired, I went to bed early.)

Articles and nouns
68 Countable and uncountable nouns (1)
69 Countable and uncountable nouns (2)
70 Countable nouns with a/an and some
71 A/an and the
72 The (1)
73 The (2) (School / the school)
74 The (3) (Children / the children)
75 The (4) (The giraffe / the telephone / the piano etc.; the +
adjective)
76 Names with and without the (1)
77 Names with and without the (2)
78 Singular and plural
79 Noun + noun (a tennis ball / a headache etc.)
80 -‘s (the girl‘s name) and of... (the name of the book)

Pronouns and determiners
81 A friend of mine My own house On my own / by myself
82 Myself/yourself/themselves etc.

83 There... and it...

84 Some and any
85 No/none/any
86 Much, many, little, few, a lot, plenty
87 All / all of most / most of no / none of etc.
88 Both / both of neither / neither of either / either of
89 All, every and whole
90 Each and every

Relative clauses
91 Relative clauses (1) — clauses with who/that/which
92 Relative clauses (2) — clauses with or without who/that/which
93 Relative clauses (3) — whose/whom/where
94 Relative clauses (4) — ‘extra information’ clauses (1)
95 Relative clauses (5) — ‘extra information’ clauses (2)
96 -ing and -ed clauses (the woman talking to Tom, the boy injured in
the accident)

Adjectives and adverbs
97 Adjectives ending in -ing and -ed (boring/bored etc.)
98 Adjectives: word order (a nice new house) Adjectives after verbs
(You look tired)
99 Adjectives and adverbs (1) (quick/quickly)
100 Adjectives and adverbs (2) (well/fast/late, hard/hardly)

101 So and such
102 Enough and too
103 Quite and rather

104 Comparison (1) — cheaper, more expensive etc.
105 Comparison (2)
106 Comparison (3) — as … as / than
107 Superlatives — the longest / the most enjoyable etc.

108 Word order (1) — verb + object; place and time
109 Word order (2) — adverbs with the verb

110 Still, yet and already Any more / any longer / no longer
111 Even

Conjunctions and prepositions
112 Although / though / even though In spite of / despite
113 In case
114 Unless As long as and provided/providing
115 As (reason and time)
116 Like and as
117 As if
118 For, during and while
119 By and until By the time...

Prepositions
120 At/on/in (time)
121 On time / in time At the end / in the end
122 In/at/on (place) (1)
123 In/at/on (place) (2)
124 In/at/on (place) (3)
125 To/at/in/into
126 On/in/at (other uses)
127 By
128 Noun + preposition (reason for, cause of etc.)
129 Adjective + preposition (1)
130 Adjective + preposition (2)
131 Verb + preposition (1) at and to
132 Verb + preposition (2) about/for/of/after
133 Verb + preposition (3) about and of
134 Verb + preposition (4) of/for/from/on
135 Verb + preposition (5) in/into/with/to/on

136 Phrasal verbs (get up / break down / fill in etc.)


Appendix 1 Regular and irregular verbs 274
Appendix 2 Present and past tenses 276
Appendix 3 The future 277
Appendix 4 Modal verbs (can/could/will/would etc.) 278
Appendix 5 Short forms (I‘m/you‘ve/didn‘t etc.) 279
Appendix 6 Spelling 280
Appendix 7 American English 282

Additional exercises 284

Study guide 301

Key to Exercises 310
Key to Additional exercises 340
Key to Study guide 343

Index 344