English Language Learning & Teaching

English Verb Tenses and Grammar

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Contents

Units 1–41, including the two extension lessons.

Unit 1

Unit 1: The verb be

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Unit 2: The verb have

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Unit 3: Numbers, quantities and things around us

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Unit 4: The present simple (I, you, we and they)

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Unit 5: The present simple — he, she and it

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Unit 6: Present simple in everyday life

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Unit 7: The present continuous

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Unit 7 Extension: Plans for the Near Future

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Unit 8: The Past Simple — Yesterday and Last Week

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Unit 9: Everyday English — Time, Place and the Past

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Unit 10: A Short Story — Yesterday

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Unit 11: Subject and Object Questions

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Unit 12: Say More with Verbs

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Unit 13: Present Perfect — Achievements and Experiences

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Unit 13 Extension: From the Indefinite Past to the Definite Past

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Unit 14: For and Since

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Unit 15: Present Perfect Simple and Continuous

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Unit 16: Real Possibilities — If, When and Unless

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Unit 17: Imagined Situations — The Second Conditional

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Unit 18: Auntie Annie's Advice Column

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Unit 19: Rules and Responsibilities in the Community

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Unit 20: Ability and Possibility

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Unit 21 — Choosing a Holiday | I'd prefer and I'd rather

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Unit 22 — What Was Happening? | Past Simple and Past Continuous

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Unit 23 — If Things Had Been Different | Past Perfect and Third Conditional

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Unit 24 — Comparing Things | Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

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Unit 25 — Used to, Be Used to and Usually

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Unit 26 — Gerunds and Infinitives

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Unit 27 — Reported Speech (Revised)

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Unit 28 — The Passive Voice

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Unit 29 — Relative Clauses

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Unit 30 — Getting There: Train Timetables

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Unit 31 — At the Restaurant

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Unit 32 — Guarantees and Warranties

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Unit 33 — Home Insurance: Conditions and Obligations

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Unit 34 — Public Notices and Signs

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Unit 35 — Jobs and Applications

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Unit 36 — Complaints, Requests and Apologies

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Unit 37 — News Reports

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Unit 38 — Experimental Reports

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Unit 39 — Future Plans and Predictions

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Unit 40 — Present Perfect and Past Simple

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Unit 41 — Present Perfect Simple and Continuous

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