A2ELEMENTARY
Everyday English
Build confidence with essential grammar, everyday vocabulary, and practical communication.
3 sections · 22 units
- 1 Present simpleLearn how to describe routines, repeated actions, facts, and permanent situations.
- 2 Present continuousDescribe actions happening now and temporary situations.
- 3 Present simple or continuousLearn when to choose the present simple over the present continuous, and avoid common mix-ups.
- 4 Family vocabularyLearn useful vocabulary to talk about relatives, relationships, and different kinds of families.
- 5 Talking about your familyTalk naturally about relatives, family relationships, similarities, routines, and family life.
- 6 Stative verbsRecognise verbs that describe states, not actions, and see why they aren't normally used in the continuous form.
- 7 Adverbs of frequencyUse adverbs like always, usually, and never to say how often something happens.
- 8 The Watchman of SkarvikFollow a Viking watchman through a tense morning and practise reading, listening, and present-time language in context.
- 1 Past simpleTalk about completed actions, past events, and finished situations using regular and irregular verbs.
- 2 There is and there areDescribe what exists in the present and the past using there is, there are, there was, and there were.
- 3 Clothes and costumesLearn everyday clothes and surprising costumes, from helmets and armour to diving suits, capes and rags.
- 4 Countable and uncountable nounsDistinguish between countable and uncountable nouns and use them correctly.
- 5 QuantifiersUse common quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns to talk about quantities, amounts, and enough or too much of something.
- 6 Daily routines and habitsDescribe daily routines and habits with useful expressions for activities, times, frequency, and sequences.
- 7 Past continuousDescribe actions that were in progress at a specific moment in the past.
- 8 Medieval bestiaries reviewReview past events and actions in progress, descriptions, clothes, quantities, and routines through the world of medieval bestiaries.
- 1 Going toTalk about future plans, intentions, and predictions based on present evidence with going to.
- 2 Prepositions of place and movementDescribe where people and things are and how they move through space using common prepositions.
- 3 Prepositions of timeTalk about when things happen using common prepositions of time such as at, on and in.
- 4 Travel and holidaysTalk about holidays, transport, accommodation, travel problems and simple experiences.
- 5 Infinitives and GerundsUse infinitives and gerunds after common verbs, expressions and prepositions.
- 6 WillMake predictions, promises, offers and spontaneous decisions using will.