Grammatical structures 4th grade (YLE MOVERS)

Welcome 2
Oxford Grammar for Schools 3
Grammatical list and structures YLE MOVERS

1. Countries and nationalities; TO BE (A/N/I)

Where are you from?
Im from (country) / Im (nationality).
I live in (country).
2. HAVE GOT (A/N/I), appearance adjectives (facial and body features);
Important cities and capitals;
s (to be/ have got/ possession) + irregular plurals (The womens hats )
Lexical category: the body and the face
3. Revision (TO BE + HAVE GOT); describing somebody: Has he got dark hair?
Is he slim?
Answering questions about yourself:
Whats your name?
Where are you from?
How old are you?
Have you got any brothers/sisters?
Have you got any friends?
Whats your favourite colour?
4. There is/There are (A/N/I) + New prepositions of place (next to, between, in front
of, behind, in, on, opposite, above, below, near);
Places and directions (bank, restaurant, supermarket, hotel, station etc. + go
along, turn left/right);
Lexical category: places and directions
Oxford 3 Unit 21 (Prepositions of place)
5. There is + singular countable nouns (a/an)
+ uncountable nouns (some) or nothing
There are + plural countable nouns
Quantifiers: how much, how many, some, any, a lot of + expressions with
containers (see Welcome 2);
Lexical category: Food and drink
Oxford 3 Unit 3 (Articles and quantifiers)
Regular and irregular plurals (Oxford 3 Unit 2 Regular and irregular plurals)
Questions:
Whats your favourite food/fruit/drink/cake?
Is there a market in your street?
Is there a bazaar in your school at Christmas?

6. Subject pronouns + object pronouns

Lexical category: the home (rooms + furniture)
Oxford 3 Unit 1 (Subject pronouns + object pronouns)
7. Possessive adjectives + possessive pronouns
Lexical categories: Clothes, family and friends, toys
8. Question words: who, whose, where, what, when, how, why (+ because) (see
why and because Welcome 2)
Oxford 3 Unit 23 (Question words)
9. Present Continuous (revision TO BE) + spelling rules
Present Continuous + time expressions
Oxford 3 Unit 8
10. Present Simple (A/N/I)
Present Simple + adverbs of frequency
Oxford 3 Unit 8
11. CAN (A/N/I) for ability + permission
New: COULD for ability and permission
Lexical category: Sports and leisure (for CAN/COULD ability)
Oxford 3 Unit 14
12. Past Simple of TO BE (WAS/WERE A/N/I)
Past time expressions
Past simple (regular verbs A/N/I)
Past Simple (irregular verbs)
Oxford 3 Unit 9
There was/ There were (A/N/I) + PLACES (greengrocers, post office, police
station etc.)
13. Demonstrative adjectives + pronouns: this, that, these, those
Lexical categories: School/clothes/family and friends/numbers 0-100/transport
Oxford 3 Unit 4
14. Ordinal numbers
15. Revision: Present Simple + time expressions
Lexical categories: school subjects/ the time/days of the week
16. Colours + shapes
Present simple + time expressions
17. Present simple (usually) vs. Present Continuous (today)

Lexical category: Jobs

Oxford 3 Unit 8
18. Verb patterns: love, like, hate, want, would like;
vb+ inf (want to)
Lexical category: sports and leisure
Oxford 3 Unit 6
19. Comparative and superlative
Lexical categories: animals/the world around us
Oxford 3 Unit 20
20. Revision HAVE GOT
SHOULD/SHOULDNT (Oxford 3 Unit 17)
MUST/MUSTNT (Oxford 3 Unit 16)
Lexical categories: health (illnesses)/clothes/body and the face
21. Revision: Past simple of TO BE (was/were A/N/I) + Adjectives (noisy, cute,
quiet, naughty, funny, clever, dirty)

22. Revision: Past Tense (regular verbs A/N/I) + vocab. (sports programme,
comedy, cartoon, quiz show, news, computer games, video) see Welcome 2
23. Revision: Past Tense (irregular verbs A/N/I)
24. Prepositions of time (Oxford 3 Unit 22)
Lexical category: Months
25. Future BE GOING TO + vb (sh. Inf.) (A/N/I)
Revision: TO BE
Oxford 3 Unit 12
Lexical categories: weather, clothes
26. Revision: adjectives and the body (sharp teeth, long neck etc.; see Welcome 2)

27. Revision: a lot of, many, much

How many ?
How much?
Not many/ A lot
Not much/ A lot
Lexical categories: food and drink, containers
28. Revision: Have got (A/N/I) + some/any

Lexical category: food and drink