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Book 1 content

Grammar Points Topics

1. The verb „to be” in the singular and plural

2. The plural of basic regular and irregular nouns

3. The Present Simple Tense 4. Verbs in the infinitive 5. Expressions: “there is” and “there are” 6. Cardinal numbers 7. Basic rules about the use of the articles

“a” and “the” 8. Names of the letters in the alphabet 9. Countable and uncountable nouns 10. The Present Continuous Tense 11. Ordinal numbers 12. Possessive adjectives (my, your, her,

etc.)

Greetings and pleasantries

Basic names of people and objects (man, teacher, desk, etc.)

Basic names of jobs

Basic verbs (I live, I speak, etc.)

Names of countries and nationalities

Prepositions (on, under, in, above, etc.)

Colors

Clothes

Frequency adverbs (always, often, usually, etc.)

Parts of the body

Describing the weather

Names of the days of the week

Names of animals

Book 2 content


1. Possessive pronouns (mine, yours, hers, etc.)

2. The expression “neither…nor” 3. Asking about a person’s age 4. “tall/short” versus “high/low” 5. Sentences in the Present Simple and the

Present Continuous 6. Talking about quantity – expressions

“much” and “many”, “few” and “little” 7. Expressions “some” and “any” 8. The imperative 9. “something”, “anything”, “nothing” 10. The Past Continuous Tense 11. The Future Continuous Tense 12. Frequency adverbs (once, twice, etc.)

Names of countries and nationalities – continuation

The family

Names of the months of the year

Seasons of the year

Names of basic kinds of food and drinks

Names of meals

Means of transport

The senses

Times of the day

Asking about the time

Describing the different kinds of rooms (classroom, living room, etc.) and their furnishings

Kinds of shops



Book 3 content


1. Ordinal numbers – continuation 2. Dates 3. Comparison of regular adjectives 4. Comparison of the irregular adjectives

“good” and “bad” 5. The Past Simple Tense 6. The past form of the verb “to be” 7. Irregular verbs – introduction 8. The use of “while”, “during” and “when”

in sentences 9. The plural of nouns ending in “f” and

“fe”

The family – continuation

Musical instruments

Measurements (meter, centimeter, etc.)

School subjects

Cardinal directions (North, South, etc.)

Describing the weather – continuation

Talking about health

Names of jobs – continuation

Talking about holidays

Giving directions how to get to a place

Christmas and Easter vocabulary

Book 4 content

Grammar Points Selected Topics

1. The Future Simple Tense 2. The expressions “I’m sorry” and “excuse

me” 3. Irregular verbs – continuation 4. The verbs “must” and “have to” 5. The word order in English sentences 6. The expression “to be going to” in the

present and in the past 7. The difference between “gold” and

“golden” 8. The expressions “would you like” and

“would you prefer” 9. Sentences in the First Conditional 10. The difference in use between “wear”

and “carry” 11. Making nouns from verbs (teach-er,

sing-er, driv-er, etc.) 12. Sentence constructions with “may” and

“might” 13. “Can”, ”to be able to”, ”could” 14. The Present Perfect Tense 15. The Past Participle form of verbs 16. Comparison of the Present Perfect and

the Past Simple Tense

Thanksgiving

Mines

Cooking recipes

Soldiers, battles and wars

The sense of humor

Musical instruments – continuation

Public transport

Stairs and lifts

Offense, crime, robbery

The basement and the attic

Salaries and wages

Accent and pronunciation

Keeping promises

Employers and employees

Princesses

Teenagers

Heroes and cowards

Business competition

Casinos

Drug dealers

Cemeteries



Book 5 content


1. Irregular verbs – continuation 2. The expression “to have something

done” 3. Uncountable nouns 4. “Hang” as regular and irregular verb 5. Sentences in the Second Conditional 6. Talking about movement direction

(“upwards”, “downwards”, etc.) 7. Rules of using the definite article “the”

Hurricane, avalanche, snowstorm, earthquake

To sink and to drown

Stubborn and clever

My friend wants to be a priest

The armor

Fencing

Household electric equipment

Canned food

Beauty parlors

Job advertisements

Mammals, reptiles and amphibians

The truth and a lie

TV commercials

Marriage proposal

Batteries and electricity

Reviews

Illnesses, diseases and medications

Inventors

Pension and retirement

We need oxygen to live

Football matches

The Independence Day

Scientific discoveries

About the work of a servant

Cotton, velvet and silk

Mortgage

Printers

Vice and virtue

Neighbors and neighborhood

A Velcro, a zip or just buttons?

Theory and practice

A bath or a shower?

Acronyms

Pain and ache

To lend and to borrow

Qualifications

The house of my dreams

Industry and agriculture

Flood

The attendance list

Problems and troubles

Smoking cigarettes



Book 6 content


1. Irregular verbs – continuation 2. Expressions “each other” and “one

another” 3. The First and the Second Conditional –

comparison 4. Sentence constructions with the word

“would” 5. The expression “used to” 6. “would” in the expression “would like”

and as the past of “will” 7. “so” and “such” 8. “when”, “before” and “after” instead of

“if” in the First Conditional 9. “Amount” and “number” – difference in

use 10. Question tags (haven’t you?, don’t

they?, aren’t we?, etc.) 11. Reflexive pronouns (myself, yourself,

herself, etc.)

Kinds of measures

Celebrities

Graduates

The job of my dreams

Native Americans

Abbreviations (p.m., e.g., etc.)

Sport champions

Toys

Bees and hives

Motivation and determination

What is more important: intelligence or appearance

Living conditions and comfort

Car insurance

Beach fashion

Football – continuation

An appointment

Money allowance

A good coach

Jealousy

Exhibitions, galleries, masterpieces

Wounds and injuries

Healthy produce

Emperors

A good car mechanic

Parents’ expectations

An employment contract

Lawyers, judges and courts of law

Traffic and traffic jams

Mozart was a genius

Preparing a meal

The gym

Kinds of car drives

Consequences of drinking alcohol

Product quality

Conquerors

Unusual phenomena

Burglar alarm

Uncovering children’s talents

The Statue of Liberty

Amusement parks

Soldier uniforms

Challenging to a fight

Trust and honesty

Disclosing secret information



Book 7 content


1. Irregular verbs – continuation 2. The First Conditional – revision 3. “Few” and “a few” 4. The Present Perfect Continuous Tense 5. The Second Conditional – revision 6. The expressions “to be used to” and “to

get used to” 7. The difference between “little” and “a

little”

Attending a difficult client

About traffic regulations

Harvest

Books and encyclopedias

Demand in business

How to maintain (a house, a family, figure, etc.)

Extending borders

Freelancers and flexible working hours

How to keep vegetables in winter

How to serve wine

When you’re stuck in a traffic jam…

E-mail attachments

Strength and weaknesses

Betrayals and traitors

Legal sentences

Overeating

Extravagant jewellery

Downloading and uploading files

Charity organizations

Protection of endangered species

Discounts

How to discipline children

Business relationships

Advertisements

The press

Fairs

Is good English necessary to get a good job?

Suppliers and buyers

Welcome to Sydney

Jack Allen – the travel writer

Jet lag

French diet

Italian shoes export

Traffic in Europe cities

Body language

Champagne

About chocolate

Chairman’s report

Euro Tunnel

Plan of a journey



Book 8 content


1. Irregular verbs – continuation 2. Transitive and intransitive verbs 3. The Passive Voice 4. Rules of using the definite article “the” 5. Prepositions “in”, “on”, “at” in

describing the time 6. The difference in meaning between “in

time” and “on time” 7. The Past Perfect Tense 8. Indirect Speech 9. The possessive form with “-s” 10. The expressions: “alone”, “on one’s

own”, “by oneself” 11. The difference between “among” and

“between” 12. The Third Conditional 13. Examples of differences in spelling of

words in the British English and the American English

Holidays abroad

Glass production

Where does ice-cream come from?

Picnic

Sources of happiness

Laughter clubs

Microwave dinners

Natural medicine

IKEA furniture

The lucky ones

Started business when retired…

Computer viruses

Shark attack

Slimming center

Alain Roberts – the skyscraper climber

Success of the Nike

Leap year

Chocoholics

Fast food chains

The history of Coca-Cola

Gossip

Electronic gadgets for children

Hispanics in New York

Life without a car

Against tests on animals

Boston

May I have your autograph, please…

Love at first sight

More than just a gym

Penelope Cruz

Russell Crowe

Esperanto

Bilingual children

The history of English language in America

The story of Aron Ralstron

Football for women

American English versus British English

The Beatles

Drugs legalization



Book 9 content


1. Irregular verbs – continuation 2. Sentence constructions with the verb

“prefer” 3. Sentence constructions with “I would

rather” 4. Rules of reading the dates 5. Comparison of “all the” and “the whole” 6. Acronyms 7. Use of “wish” in sentences 8. The expressions “I’d better, you’ better” 9. Causative “have” 10. The word “unless” 11. Differences in use of “there” and “it”

Leonardo da Vinci

Thomas Edison

The job of a pilot

What London and New York have in common

The greatest world corporations

Silence as a means of communication

Against globalization

DNA tests for employers

The first impression

The new Mercedes model

Computer rage

What to pack on a business journey

Naming and shaming

E-mails

Canterbury ghosts

Giving money to charities

Natural environment protection

Revenge

Murphy’s Law

Should we ban smacking children

Vegetarians

Pheasant hunting

Why don’t men want to marry?

Airbus

Tourism in Argentina

The right to vote

Slang

Sexual harassment

Against the war in Vietnam

The story of impolite robber

Win-win negotiations

Business plan

The longest mustache in the world

Job sharing

Sumo fighters

The Muslim veil

Homelessness

Part of speech by Martin Luther King



Book 10 content


1. Irregular verbs – continuation 2. Making nouns from verbs by adding the

“-ness” particle 3. The word order in English sentences –

continuation 4. The Past Perfect Continuous Tense 5. Idioms 6. End constructions 7. Use of auxiliary verbs with “so” and

“neither” 8. Defining and non-defining relative

clauses 9. Relative clauses with “whose” and

“whom” 10. Use of “I am to do something, You are to

do something” when talking about future plans

11. Sentences of the type “I saw him cross …” and “I saw him crossing…”

Poverty

Smoking as a habit

Books

Happiness

Is TV good or bad

Cleaning up the world

Rubbish food

Insurance companies

Drought

Ancient Sparta

Nikola Tesla

The Beaufort scale

The Ivory Coast

SETI

American Rodeo

Around the world by bicycle

The Sphinx and the Egyptian pyramids

Coincidents

Life in the depths of the ocean

Buying a birthday present

Definitions of intelligence

Eating healthy in a fast food restaurant?

Narcolepsy

Genealogy as a hobby

Army divisions

New Zealand

The meaning of sound

Rowan Atkinson

Sickness absence

Karl Lagerfeld’s chocolate hotel

About the British pronunciation

Fears and phobias

History of prison

Adoption

Antipersonnel land mines

Giving names

American SAT tests



Book 11 content


1. Irregular verbs – continuation 2. Idioms – continuation 3. The Future Perfect Continuous Tense 4. Making adjectives with the use of “un-”

prefix

Relaxation through breathing

Fragment of Bill Clinton’s speech

Writing a cv

Gunpowder

How to make a presentation

The famous Coca-Cola …

America – the land of hopes?

TV reality shows

The Rubic’s cube

The art of caricature

Cyberspace

Postal services today

School uniforms

Patron saints

British wedding

The legend of Godiva

Loch Ness

Fools and follies

Traditional English cooking

The Remembrance Day

Alfred Nobel and his invention

Intelligence as secret information

Graffiti

English breakfast

The legend of Robin Hood

War deserters

How to survive the heat wave

Wimbledon tennis matches

Taking the time off

Recipe for successful business

The undertaker’s job

Couch potatoes