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At a weekend clothes swap, a fast-fashion fan and a friend who hasn't bought new clothes in a year debate whether one wardrobe really matters.
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The structures this recording uses most, with the exact words you will hear:
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| Second conditionalAdvancedif + past, would + verb — an imagined situation now or in the future |
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| Conditional sentencesAdvancedif + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result |
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| Passive voiceIntermediatebe + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it |
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| Past perfectIntermediatehad + past participle — an action finished before another past moment |
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| Present perfectIntermediatehave/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now |
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| Although / though / despiteIntermediatealthough/even though + clause, despite/in spite of + noun or -ing — a contrast |
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| ComparativesBeginner-er than / more … than — comparing two things |
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| “Be supposed to / about to / likely to”Intermediatebe supposed/about/likely to + verb — expectation, the near future, or probability |
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| Spoken sentence framesIntermediateThe thing is…, What I mean is…, It's worth -ing — set phrases that frame a sentence |
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| Comparative + much / a bit / farIntermediatemuch better, a bit cheaper, far more expensive — how big the difference is |
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| Future with “will”Beginnerwill + verb — a decision, promise or prediction |
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| Phrasal verbsIntermediategive up, find out, end up, come up with — a verb + particle with its own meaning |
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| Present continuousBeginneram/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now |
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| Future with “going to”Beginnerbe going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming |
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| Obligation: must / have to / need toBeginnersaying that something is necessary |
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| Verb + to-infinitiveIntermediatedecide / manage / seem / try + to-verb — verbs followed by to |
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| By vs untilIntermediateby + time (no later than), until + time (all the time up to), by the time… |
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| Past simple (irregular verbs)Beginnerwent, saw, took… — a finished action in the past, with an irregular verb |
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| Ability with “can / could”Beginnercan/could + verb — what someone is able to do, or could do in the past |
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| Questions with do / does / didBeginnerdo/does/did + subject + verb — asking a question in the simple tenses |
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| Reflexive pronounsBeginnermyself, yourself, themselves, by myself, each other — the same person as the subject |
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| QuantifiersBeginnera few / a little, much / many, a lot of, plenty of, none of — saying how much or how many |
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| Prepositions of time: at / on / inBeginnerat 7 o'clock, on Monday, in the morning / in 2020 — which word goes with which time |
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