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PART 1 The Verb Be

Unit 1 Tell Me Statements with Present of Be: Affirmative Avoiding be + no; avoiding
page 2 About Present of Be Statements (p.4) sentences beginning with
Yourself Present of Be: Negative be
Statements (p.8)

Unit 2 Schedules Yes/No Questions Yes/No Questions and Short Remembering capital
page 12 and School and Information Answers with Be (p.14) letters and punctuation;
Questions with Be Information Questions with avoiding contractions with
Be (p.18) short answers to yes/no
questions

PART 2 Nouns, Determiners, and Pronouns

UNIT 3 Gadgets Count Nouns; A/ Nouns; A/An (p. 24) Remembering a/an;
page 22 An; Have and Be Be with A/An + Noun (p. 27) remembering subject/verb
Have (p. 29) agreement

UNIT 4 The Demonstratives Demonstratives (This, That, Using this/that and these/
page 32 Workplace and Possessives These, Those) (p. 34) those; using possessives
Possessives and Whose
(p. 39)

PART 3 Prepositions and Adjectives

UNIT 5 Skills and Descriptive Adjectives (p. 46) Remembering where to put
page 44 Qualities for Adjectives Questions with What . . . adjectives; avoiding plural
Success like? and How + Adjective adjectives
(p. 49)

UNIT 6 Around the Prepositions Prepositions of Place: Remembering in, on,

page 54 House Things at Home and in the and at
Neighborhood (p. 56)
Prepositions of Place:
Locations and Other Uses
(p. 60)
Prepositions of Time (p. 63)

UNIT 7 Local There Is and There Is / There Are (p. 70) Using there is / there are;
page 68 Attractions There Are Yes/No Questions with avoiding contractions in
There Is / There Are (p. 75) academic writing

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PART 4 Simple Present

UNIT 8 Lifestyles Simple Present Simple Present: Avoiding do/does in negative

page 80 Affirmative and Negative statements with be; avoiding
Statements (p. 82) be with simple present verbs
Statements with Adverbs
of Frequency (p. 88)

UNIT 9 Daily Habits Simple Present Simple Present Yes / No Remembering Do/Does in
page 92 Yes/No Questions and Short simple present questions with
Questions and Answers (p. 94) have; avoiding Do/Does in
Short Answers questions with be

UNIT 10 Cultural Simple Present Simple Present Remembering do/does;

page 98 Holidays Information Information Questions avoiding -s with he/she/it
Questions (p. 100)
Questions with How
Often (p. 106)

PART 5 Conjunctions

UNIT 11 Time Conjunctions: And, But, Or (p. 110) Remembering a comma

page 108 Management And, But, Or; Because (p. 113) with conjunctions; using
Because conjunctions

PART 6 Simple Past

UNIT 12 Success Simple Past Simple Past Statements: Remembering simple past
page 118 Stories Statements Regular Verbs (p. 120) verbs to talk about the past;
Simple Past Statements: remembering the base form of
Irregular Verbs (p. 125) the verb after did not / didn’t

UNIT 13 Business Simple Past Simple Past Yes / No Remembering did + subject
page 130 Ideas Questions Questions (p. 132) + base form of the verb;
Simple Past Information avoiding the past form in
Questions (p. 135) information questions

UNIT 14 Life Stories Simple Past of Be Simple Past of Be: Using was/were;
page 138 Affirmative and Negative Remembering the correct
Statements (p. 140) form with born
Simple Past of Be:
Questions and Answers
(p. 142)

UNIT 15 Luck and Loss Past Time Past Time Clauses with Remembering the correct
page 148 Clauses with When, Before, and After spelling of when, before,
When, Before, (p. 150) and after; remembering the
and After subject in the main clause and
the time clause

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PART 7 More About Nouns, Determiners, and Pronouns

UNIT 16 Eating Habits Count and Count and Noncount Avoiding a / an with noncount
page 156 Noncount Nouns Nouns (p. 158) nouns; avoiding the plural with
Units of Measure; How noncount nouns
Many . . . ? and How
Much . . . ? (p. 164)

UNIT 17 Languages Quantifiers: Quantifiers: Some and Remembering many with

page 170 Some, Any, A Lot Any (p. 172) plural nouns; remembering
Of, A Little, A Quantifiers: A Lot Of, any with negative statements
Few, Much, Many A Little, A Few, Much, and some with affirmative
Many (p. 177) statements

UNIT 18 Changes and Articles: A / An Articles: A / An and The Avoiding a/an with noncount
page 184 Risks and The (p. 186) nouns; avoiding the when
Article or No Article? talking about things or people
(p. 191) in general

UNIT 19 Meals Around Possessive Possessive Pronouns Avoiding the plural with
page 196 the World Pronouns and (p. 198) possessive pronouns;
Indefinite Indefinite Pronouns remembering any + in
Pronouns (p. 203) negative statements

PART 8 Imperatives and Modals

UNIT 20 Social Imperatives Imperatives (p. 210) Avoiding no in negative

page 208 Customs imperatives; remembering an
apostrophe in don’t

UNIT 21 Making Ability and Can and Could for Avoiding -s with can and
page 218 Connections Possibility Ability and Possibility could; remembering the base
(p. 220) form with can and could
Be Able To and Know
How To for Ability
(p. 225)

UNIT 22 College Life Requests and Can, Could, and Would Remembering the correct
page 230 Permission for Requests (p. 232) word order for making
Can, Could, and May for requests; remembering the
Permission (p. 236) base form of the verb after
can, could, may, or would

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PART 9 Present and Past Progressive

UNIT 23 Body Present Present Progressive Remembering be and

page 242 Language Progressive Statements (p. 244) verb + -ing for the present
Present Progressive progressive
Questions (p. 249)
Present Progressive and
Simple Present (p. 251)

UNIT 24 Inventions Past Progressive Past Progressive (p. 258) Remembering was / were
page 256 and and Simple Past Time Clauses with Past + verb + -ing for the past
Discoveries Progressive and Simple progressive
Past (p. 263)

PART 10 Subjects, Objects, and Complements

UNIT 25 Fast Food or Subject and Subject and Object Using subject and object
page 268 Slow Food Object Pronouns; Pronouns (p. 270) pronouns; avoiding putting
Questions About Questions About the the pronoun before the noun
Subjects Subject and the Object
and Objects (p. 273)

UNIT 26 Do What You Infinitives and Infinitives (p. 280) Using infinitives and gerunds;
page 278 Enjoy Doing Gerunds Gerunds (p. 283) Avoiding wanna in writing

PART 11 The Future

UNIT 27 The Years Future with Future with Be Going To Remembering the verb be in
page 290 Ahead Be Going or Present Progressive be going to; remembering will
To, Present (p. 292) for predictions
Progressive, and Future with Will (p.297)
Will

UNIT 28 Will We Need Will, May, and May and Might; Adverbs Avoiding using can for
page 302 Teachers? Might for Future with Will (p. 304) predictions; avoiding using
Possibility; Will Offers and Promises can for certainty
for Offers (p. 309)
and Promises

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PART 12 More Modals

UNIT 29 Study Habits Suggestions and Suggestions and Advice Using should and ought;
page 312 Advice (p. 314) avoiding putting probably
Asking for and after the ought to
Responding to
Suggestions and Advice
(p. 317)

UNIT 30 Getting What Necessity and Necessity and Avoiding to after must;
page 322 You Want Conclusions Conclusions with Have avoiding need to for
To, Need To, Must conclusions
(p. 324)

PART 13 Adjective and Adverbs

UNIT 31 Making Adjectives and Adjectives and Adverbs Avoiding -ly in irregular
page 332 a Good Adverbs of Manner (p. 334) adverbs; avoiding confusion
Impression Adjectives with Linking with good and well; avoiding
Verbs; Adjectives and putting the adverb between a
Adverbs with Very and verb and its object
Too (p. 338)

UNIT 32 Progress Comparative Comparative Adjectives Avoiding more with better and
page 344 Adjectives and (p. 346) worse; avoiding that and then
Adverbs Comparative Adverbs after a comparative
(p. 351)

UNIT 33 Facts and Superlative Superlative Adjectives Avoiding the comparative

page 356 Opinions Adjectives and (p. 358) for more than two things;
Adverbs Superlative Adverbs avoiding using most and -est
(p. 363) together

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