"Intermediate level"

Grammar and vocabulary needed to cover the  intermediate level.

This level consists of the B1 Intermediate and
B2 Upper Intermediate levels.

B1 - Intermediate Grammar to cover includes:

✓ More modal verbs: (should, may, might). There are too many modal verbs to teach at  
       one time,  so you should learn a few at each level.

✓ Zero conditional: If it rains, I use my umbrella.

✓ First conditional: If it rains, I will use my umbrella.

✓ Second conditional: If it rained, I would use my umbrella.

✓ Non-defining relative clauses: The man, who I thought looked great, was at the office.

✓ Gerunds and infinitives: going and to go.

✓ The verb WILL or spontaneous decisions: I’ll pay!

✓ Present perfect continuous tense: I have been singing, he has been dancing.

✓ Past perfect tense: They had seen it, you had not watched it.

B1 - Intermediate Vocabulary to cover includes:

✓ Comparing and contrasting: both, neither, whereas.

✓ Polite forms: Would you mind? I’m afraid I can’t.

✓ Expressions for generalising: On the whole, in general.

✓ Stages of life: infancy, childhood.

✓ Reviewing films, books and so on: describing the plot, characters, strengths and
      weaknesses.

B2 - Upper-intermediate Grammar to cover includes:

✓ To have something done: By now, you are used to speaking about actions you do
       yourself. With this grammatical structure you can express the idea of paying or  
       instructing other people to do things. For example: I had my house painted.

✓ Third conditional: If I had known, I wouldn’t have done it.

✓ Reported speech: She said that she . . .

✓ Defining relative clauses: The man who is standing over there is nervous.

✓ Modal verbs in the past: I could have come.

✓ Passive verb forms: The room was cleaned.

✓ The verb TO WISH: I wish I could go, you wish you were me (after wish you
       use a verb in one of the past tenses, so you have to learn this verb separately)

✓ To be used to/ to get used to: I’m used to London now but I’m still getting used to my
     new job. You may easily confuse these two grammatical structures for (a) familiar
     activities and (b) activities that are becoming familiar.

✓ Past perfect continuous tense: I had been working.

✓ Future perfect: I will have written it.

B2 - Upper-Intermediate Vocabulary to cover includes:

✓ Adjectives of personality: generous, manipulative.

✓ Medical problems: ache, bruise, sprain.

✓ Crime words: to arrest, fraud, mugging.

✓ Feelings: hurt, fascinated, relieved.

✓ Science and technology words: software, appliance.

✓ Media and communications words: broadcasting, the press.