Future Forms: Choosing the Right One
English has many ways to talk about the future, and at B2 the skill is choosing the right one for the meaning. This lesson compares the main future forms and…
Lessons
Narrative Tenses: Telling a Story in the Past
At B2 you combine several past forms to tell a story clearly. Narrative tenses are the four past tenses working together: Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, and Past Perfect…
Wh- Questions in the Past
At B1 you make clear past questions with question words (what, where, when, why, who, how) and the past form of did or was/were. The tricky part is knowing when…
Articles: a, an, the & zero article
At B1 you go beyond the basics of a/an/the and learn when to use no article (the “zero article”) and how the works with general vs specific meaning.
Used to / be used to / get used to
These three look similar but mean very different things. The key is what comes after, and whether you mean a past habit or being familiar/comfortable with something.
Embedded Questions (Indirect Questions)
Embedded (indirect) questions are questions inside a longer sentence or another question. They are more polite, and the word order changes back to normal sentence order (subject + verb).
So, Such, Too & Enough
These words add emphasis or talk about degree. so and such make things stronger; too means more than you want; enough means the right amount.
Quantifiers: much, many, a few, a little
Quantifiers tell us how much or how many. The choice depends on whether the noun is countable (books, people) or uncountable (water, time, money).
Both, Either & Neither
We use both, either and neither to talk about two people or things. The trick is the verb: both is plural, neither is usually singular, and either is singular.
The Future Continuous
The Future Continuous describes an action that will be in progress at a specific time in the future. Form: will be + verb-ing.