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At his first dinner with his girlfriend's parents, a nervous young man tells a small lie about fishing, and her dad takes him at his word.
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The structures this recording uses most, with the exact words you will hear:
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| Present perfect with just / already / yet / everIntermediatehave just / already / never + V3, haven't … yet — how recent a finished action is, or whether it has happened at all |
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| Indirect questionsIntermediateDo you know where … is? I wonder what … — a question inside a sentence keeps statement word order |
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| Verb + -ingIntermediateenjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form |
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| Verb + person + to-infinitiveIntermediatewant/ask/tell + person + to-verb — what you want someone to do |
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| Present continuous for future plansBeginneram/is/are + -ing + a future time — something already arranged |
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| Future with “will”Beginnerwill + verb — a decision, promise or prediction |
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| Adjective + prepositionIntermediategood at, interested in, afraid of, worried about — adjectives with a fixed preposition |
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| Present continuousBeginneram/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now |
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| Preposition + -ingIntermediateby / without / before / after + -ing — a verb after a preposition takes -ing |
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| “Have got”Beginnerhave/has got + noun — having or owning something |
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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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| 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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| Questions with do / does / didBeginnerdo/does/did + subject + verb — asking a question in the simple tenses |
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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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| Past simple (irregular verbs)Beginnerwent, saw, took… — a finished action in the past, with an irregular verb |
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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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