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July 10, 2026
The English B1 curriculum is complete — 22 free lessons, from the past simple vs present perfect all the way to phrasal verbs. The last six cover both/either/neither, question tags, so/such, linkers of reason and contrast, phrasal verbs, and modifying comparatives.
July 6, 2026
Four more B1 lessons are live — defining relative clauses (who/which/whose/whom), reported speech for retelling what someone said, gerunds vs infinitives after verbs, and as...as comparisons for equal things.
July 3, 2026
Four more B1 lessons are live — the past perfect for sequencing two past events, modals of possibility (may/might/could), modals of deduction (must/can't/might), and the present and past passive.
July 1, 2026
Four more B1 lessons are live — the second conditional for imaginary situations, future time clauses, a full review of will/going to/present continuous, and the present perfect continuous.
June 29, 2026
B1 is open — four new lessons that sort out the present perfect vs past simple confusion once and for all, bring back the past through *used to*, and introduce the zero and first conditionals.
June 28, 2026
The A2 curriculum is now complete — 28 free lessons covering everything from the past simple to relative clauses, all organised in one learning path.
June 26, 2026
Four new A2 lessons on building more precise English — the right article (a, an, the, or none), prepositions of movement, relative clauses with who/which/that, and too vs enough.
June 25, 2026
Four new A2 lessons on past tenses and polite requests — the past continuous for background actions, the present perfect for life experiences and ongoing situations, and can / could / may for asking politely.
June 23, 2026
Four new A2 lessons on the small words that carry a lot of meaning — have to and must for obligation, should for advice, be able to for ability beyond can, and the infinitive of purpose for saying why.
June 20, 2026
The A2 path keeps growing — four new lessons on will for predictions and decisions, the present continuous for arrangements, adverbs of manner like quickly and well, and verbs + -ing for what you love doing.
June 18, 2026
The A2 path just grew again — four new lessons on possessive pronouns, reflexive pronouns, quantifiers like few and a little, and be going to for plans and predictions.
June 11, 2026
The grammar curriculum just grew — four new A2 lessons on comparative and superlative adjectives, countable and uncountable nouns, and some/any/much/many.
June 8, 2026
A clear, level-by-level path through English grammar — free, no login, and starting with the Past simple.
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