What you need as a Pre-Intermediate

As a PI, you need to master:

Simple Present & Pres. Cont.
The rest you'll learn or improve in this level!

Verb tenses:
  • Simple present
  • Present continuous
  • Simple past
  • Will & Going to
  • Question making
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  • Verb + gerund/infinitive: like/hate/love  ("I love swimming" / "I love to swim")
  • Infinitives for reasons ("I went to the shop TO buy a newspaper" not for buy)
  • Question words (What, where...)
  • Modals: can/could (+n't)
  • Countable & Uncountable nouns (+much/many)
  • Possessives
  • Object pronouns (me, you, him...)
  • Prepositions of place: in, under, over, next to...
  • Comparatives & Superlatives
  • There is/are