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B1: what's new

Use perfect tenses, the passive and reported speech, and link ideas.

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# B1 · Intermediate ## Words ### Word classes - Word formation 1: suffixes ### Nouns - Uncountable traps & a piece of - Compound nouns & measurements: a ten-minute walk ### Determiners - Articles 2: places, institutions, the rich - each, every, either, neither, both, all, whole, none - Numbers & quantities: hundreds of, two-thirds, 50% ### Pronouns - Generic you, one, they; each other ### Modifiers - so & such; too & enough + to - Comparatives 2: much better, more and more, the … the - Where adverbs go - Adjective order (first steps) ### Prepositions - Dependent prepositions 1 ## Verbs ### Tenses - Present perfect or past simple? - for, since, ago, during; by or until? - Present perfect continuous - Past perfect - State verbs & action verbs - All the futures compared - Future continuous & future time clauses - used to, be used to, get used to ### Modals - Deduction now: must, might, can't - had better, ought to, be supposed to - need, be allowed to, managed to - Polite requests: Would you mind…? ### Voice - Passive 1: present & past simple - Passive 2: perfect, future & modals ### Verb patterns - Phrasal & prepositional verbs - The many uses of get - make, do, have, take, give + noun - -ing or to? Verbs that change meaning - want sb to; make, let, help sb do - -ing as a subject and after prepositions ## Sentences ### Structure - Subject & object questions - Question tags - Indirect questions - it or there? - Subject–verb agreement 1 ### Clauses - Defining & non-defining relative clauses - Purpose, reason & result - Contrast: although, however, despite - Time & place clauses: as soon as, until, wherever ### Conditionals - Second conditional - unless, as long as, in case - wish + past; wish or hope? ### Reported speech - Reported statements: say or tell? - Reported questions - Reported commands & requests ## Text ### Linking - Paired conjunctions: both … and, either … or - Linking words for writing ### Style - Commas & direct speech

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