Grammar level guide

Grammar level guide

This guide offers suggestions for appropriate structures to cover at each level. Pick and choose a few items from your assigned level (do not attempt to teach them all). Always remember to present grammar in context.

True Beginners

Meetings and greetings

To be: statements, yes-no questions, information questions

Subject pronouns

Singular and plural nouns

Possessive pronouns

There is/there are

Basic Subject verb-object word order

Key verbs- like, have, the modal can

The present simple: statements, yes-no questions, information questions

The present continuous

Possessive pronouns

Imperatives

Propositions of time and place

Grammar is inseparable from vocabulary building at this level - family, weather, feelings, how to tell time, jobs, colors, hobbies, and everyday objects like furniture, food, clothes, places in the city, etc.

False Beginners/Low Intermediate

Present Simple & Continuous(Progressive) contrastive approach, questions & negatives

Past Simple & Continuous(Progressive): Regular a basic irregular verbs, questions & negatives

Will Future

Question and negative formation

Word Order, Sentence Structure

Basic Modals (can, may, must)

Cardinal & Ordinal Numbers

Basic Articles

Nouns: count, non-count, irreg. plurals, much/many

Basic adjectives, formation, comparative and superlative

Prepositions

Frequency Adverbs

Subject-Object-Possessive Pronouns

Basic phrasal verbs & idioms

Intermediate

Present and Past, Continuous(Progressive) contrastive approach, questions & negatives

Present Perfect Simple & Continuous(Progressive), since, for, etc +

Future tenses

Modals tenses, functions -

Subject-Object-Possessive Pronouns

Relative Pronouns

Conditional type I & II

Used to x Be used to ing

adjectives, formation, comparative and superlative

adverbs, formation, comparative and superlative

Phrasal Verbs & Idioms

Others like: prepositions, word order, question tags, Sentence Structure, Linking words, irreg. singulars and plurals, etc.

Articles

Sequence of tenses

Upper Intermediate

Present, Past and Future, Continuous(Progressive) contrastive approach, questions & negatives

Present Perfect Simple & Continuous(Progressive), since, for, etc +

Past Perfect Simple & Continuous(Progressive), since, for, etc +

Modals tenses, functions

Phrasal Verbs

Language Registers (Formal vs. Informal: very practical, example based approach), Style and Stylistic Inversion (seldom have we, Not only did,..)

Conditionals I, II, III -

Pronouns, Adjective & Adverb

Gerund vs. Infinitive

Participles

Multiple Adjectives + their Order

Others like: Prepositions, Word Order, Question Tags, Sentence Structure, Linking Words, irreg. singulars and plurals, etc. -

Sequence of Tenses

Articles

Possibility: Focus on Advanced Skills: Presentation Skills, Job Search (CV & Job Interview Strategies), Negotiating, Effective Business Writing, Argumentation, Effective Communication to Motivate, Body Language, etc. - very practical, example based approach, video & audio tape examples

Advanced

Simple Tense

Continuous/Progressive Tense

Perfective Tense

Modals tenses, functions -

Conditionals I, II, III -

Gerund vs. Infinitive

Articles

Advanced Phrasal Verbs + Idioms

Multiple Adjectives + their Order

Pronouns, Adjective, Adverb & Participle

Sequence of Tenses

Language Registers (Formal vs. Informal: very practical, example based approach), Style and Stylistic Inversion (seldom have we, Not only did,..)

Others like: Prepositions, Word Order, Question Tags, Sentence Structure, Linking Words, irreg. singulars and plurals, etc. -

Focus on Advanced Skills: Presentation Skills, Job Search (CV & Job Interview Strategies), Negotiating, Effective Business Writing, Argumentation, Effective Communication to Motivate, Body Language, etc. - very practical, example based approach, video & audio tape examples.