CONTENTS

1 GRAMMAR Present and Future Tenses 7 17 GRAMMAR Word Order, Inversion and Emphasis 135
Present Simple and Continuous; Present Perfect Simple and Continuous; Word order in sentences and questions; question tags; inversion; other ways
future tenses; be going to; be to + infinitive; expressions with future meaning of adding emphasis: cleft sentences, fronting, auxiliary verbs, reflexives
2 VOCABULARY Business and Employment 14 18 VOCABULARY Geography and Weather 142
REVIEW 1 20 REVIEW 9 148
3 GRAMMAR Past Tenses, used to / would 23 19 GRAMMAR Relative Clauses and Participle Clauses 151
Past Simple and Continuous; Past Perfect Simple and Continuous; used to, Relative pronouns and clauses; quantifying / adding to relative clauses;
would, future in the past reduced clauses; participle clauses
4 VOCABULARY Entertainment 30 20 VOCABULARY Arts and Crafts 158
REVIEW 2 37 REVIEW 10 165
5 GRAMMAR Modals, Semi-modals, Modal Perfects 40 21 GRAMMAR Connectors and Conjunctions 168
can, could, be able to, may, might, must, have to, need, should, ought to, will, Adding information; showing cause / reason; expressing purpose; concession
would, shall, used to, had better, be supposed to and contrast; sequencing ideas; making exceptions; giving examples; restating
and explaining; introducing a new subject
6 VOCABULARY Body and Mind 47
22 VOCABULARY Nutrition 174
REVIEW 3 53
7 GRAMMAR Gerunds and Infinitives 56 REVIEW 11 181
Uses of gerunds and infinitives; full or bare infinitive; verbs of perception / 23 GRAMMAR Adjectives, Adverbs, Comparison 184
sensory verbs Common ways of forming adjectives; order of adjectives; adverbs; adjectives
and adverbs with similar forms; gradable and ungradable adjectives; comparison
8 VOCABULARY Travel and Tourism 63
24 VOCABULARY Education and Assessment 191
REVIEW 4 69
9 GRAMMAR Passive, Causative Forms 72 REVIEW 12 197
Passive forms; the causative and related forms; special structures with have / get 25 GRAMMAR Countable and Uncountable Nouns, Articles, Quantifiers 200
Problems with plurals; uncountable nouns; articles: a, an, the, zero article;
10 VOCABULARY The Natural World 78
quantifiers: some, any, each, every, (a) little, (a) few, etc.
REVIEW 5 84 26 VOCABULARY Shopping and Money 207
11 GRAMMAR Reported Speech, Subjunctive 87
Reported statements, imperatives and questions; reporting verbs; subjunctive REVIEW 13 213
Appendices Grammar 216
12 VOCABULARY Language and Literature 95
Spelling 219
REVIEW 6 102 Punctuation 220
Phrasal Verbs 222
13 GRAMMAR Conditionals 105
Prepositional Phrases 224
Zero, first, second, third, mixed conditionals; temporal clauses;
Dependent Prepositions 225
inversion in conditionals; conditional sentences without if
British and American English 227
14 VOCABULARY Homes and Lifestyle 111
REVIEW 7 116
15 GRAMMAR wish, Unreal Past 119
wish; would rather / sooner, would prefer; it’s time; as if / though; imagine
16 VOCABULARY Science and Technology 126
REVIEW 8 132