All sections
Foundations
The verb system
Describing and connecting
- 09 Adjectives and adverbs
- 10 Prepositions
- 11 Conjunctions
- 12 Building longer sentences
- 13 Punctuation and capital letters
Words and sounds
Practice and progress
Your plan and your progress
One hour a day, six days a week. Sunday is revision only. No new material.
Six weeks, page by page
Foundations
Part A in full. Ten sentences a day in Subject + Verb + Object order. Vocabulary words 1 to 10.
The present
Section 05, the four present tenses. Describe your daily routine aloud every morning. Words 11 to 20.
The past and the verb forms
The four past tenses, then section 06. Fifteen irregular verbs a day. Tell the story of your yesterday, out loud. Words 21 to 30.
The future, questions and modals
The four future tenses, then sections 07 and 08. Ask and answer ten questions a day with a partner. Words 31 to 40.
Describing and connecting
Part C. Take ten short sentences from week 1 and join them into five longer ones. Words 41 to 50.
Range and polish
Sections 12 to 15 and the twenty advanced words. Write one 250-word opinion paragraph a day and mark your own tense errors.
Keep an error notebook
Do not erase a mistake. Copy this four-line format into a notebook and fill it in every time a teacher corrects you. Read the notebook once a week. A mistake you have written down three times stops being a mistake.
| Line | Example |
|---|---|
| What I wrote | She go to college and she don't like the maths. |
| What is correct | She goes to college and she doesn't like maths. |
| The rule, in my own words | He / she / it adds s in the present simple, and takes doesn't, not don't. No the before a subject in general. |
| Where it is in the book | Section 01, rule 3 and Section 02, articles. |
Your progress list
Tick a line only when you can do it without looking anything up. The number on the right is the section to go back to.
- I can name the eight parts of speech and find them in a sentence.01
- I write every sentence in Subject + Verb + Object order without thinking.01
- I use a, an and the correctly, and I know when to use none.02
- I make plurals correctly, including the irregular ones.02
- I never say a / two with an uncountable noun.02
- I use I / me / my / mine in the right places.03
- I never write am, is or are in front of another main verb.04
- I can build all twelve tenses and say when each is used.05
- I know the 1st, 2nd and 3rd form of the 85 verbs in the table.06
- I can turn any statement into a question and a negative.07
- I follow every modal with the bare V1.08
- I use good / well and -ing / -ed adjectives correctly.09
- I know the fixed preposition after the twenty commonest verbs.10
- I never write although … but in the same sentence.11
- I can write a compound and a complex sentence on demand.12
- I capitalise I, names, days, months and nationalities every time.13
- I can use all 70 vocabulary words in my own sentences.14
- I can hear the difference between /t/, /d/ and /ɪd/ at the end of a past verb.15