English B1 · Intermediate

Connect ideas across time, talk about hypothetical situations, and handle conditionals, the passive and reported speech.

• Present perfect vs past simple
• Used to (past habits & states)
• Zero conditional
• First conditional
• Second conditional
• Future time clauses (when, as soon as, until...)
• Future forms (will, going to, present continuous)
• Present perfect continuous
• Past perfect
• Modals of possibility (may, might, could)
• Modals of deduction: present (must, can't, might)
• The passive: present & past
• Defining relative clauses
• Reported speech: statements
• Gerunds & infinitives (verb patterns)
• as ... as and comparative modifiers
• Both, either, neither
• Question tags
• So / such (emphasis)
• Linkers of reason & contrast (because, so, although)
• Phrasal verbs (introduction)
• Modifying comparatives (a bit, much, far)