English Verb Tenses, Vocabulary, and Grammar
Mastering English Verb Tenses
Present Simple
- Affirmative: I run
- Negative: I don’t run
- Interrogative: Do they run?
Present Continuous
- Affirmative: We are reading
- Negative: She isn’t reading
- Interrogative: Are they reading?
Past Simple
- Affirmative: I walked to school yesterday
- Negative: You didn’t run yesterday
- Interrogative: Did he run yesterday?
Past Continuous
- Affirmative: He was going
- Negative: They weren’t going
- Interrogative: Were you going?
Past Perfect
- Affirmative: She had left the station
- Negative: They hadn’t traveled far
- Interrogative: Had you bought a ticket?
Present Perfect Simple
- Affirmative: She has gone home
- Negative: We haven’t seen him
- Interrogative: Have you been there?
Present Perfect Continuous
- Affirmative: She has been living in the US
- Negative: We haven’t been studying French
- Interrogative: Have you been reading?
Future Continuous
- Affirmative: She will be having lunch at one o’clock
- Negative: We won’t be having dinner at 6 PM tomorrow
- Interrogative: Will you be having breakfast at this time tomorrow?
Future Perfect
- Affirmative: She will have had lunch by 3 PM
- Negative: We won’t have finished the exam by half past 9
- Interrogative: Will you have done your homework by 9 PM tonight?
Adverbs and Expressions of Frequency
Habits and routines:
- He is always cheerful
- They rarely eat
- Once, twice, three times a day/week/month/year
Vocabulary
Personality Adjectives
Clever, confident, friendly, funny, hard-working, impatient, lazy, nervous, nice, patient, quiet, reliable, selfish, serious, shy, talkative, tidy, unfriendly, untidy, arrogant, bossy, calm, cheerful
Phrasal Verbs
Break down, check in, get away, get in, get into, get on, set off, take off
Travel
Arrivals, cancel, catch, coach, delay, departures, fare (tarifa), ferry, hot air balloon, lorry (camión), luggage (equipaje), return, tram, van, yacht
Extreme Adjectives
Ancient, boiling, dreadful, enormous, filthy, freezing, packed, silent, stunning, tiny
Housing
Block of flats, bungalow, city center, cottage (cabaña), detached house (casa unifamiliar), factory, flat, outskirts (afueras), port, semi-detached house (adosados), skyscrapers, square, suburbs, terraced house
Food
Cream, semi-skimmed milk, fruit, peach, plum, chicken, lamb, prawn, tuna, turkey, pancake, pie, carrot, lettuce, olive, pea, sweetcorn, dessert, dish, main course, oil, rice, snack, starter
Describing Food
Baked, boiled, fast, fresh, fried, frozen, healthy, raw, roast, spicy, stale, tasty
Prefixes
Cooperate, disadvantage, international, misunderstand, overbook, overcooked, precooked, recooked, redo, undercooked, underestimate
School Subjects
Architecture, art, biology, business studies, chemistry, computer science, drama, engineering, geography, history, law, media studies, medicine, music, PE, physics, psychology
Academic Terms
Assessment (evaluación), assignment (proyecto), coursework, essay, fail, mark, scholarship, terms, timetable, resit (recuperación)