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A feel-good TV news report: a family dog lost at a motorway service station turns up at home two weeks later.
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The structures this recording uses most, with the exact words you will hear:
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| Modal perfectAdvancedmust / might / should + have + V3 — guessing or judging a past event |
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| Present perfectIntermediatehave/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now |
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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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| Relative clauses with whose / where / whenIntermediatewhose + noun, the place where…, the day when…, the reason why… — more ways to describe a noun |
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| Past continuousIntermediatewas/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past |
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| Possibility with “might / may”Intermediatemight/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain |
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| ComparativesBeginner-er than / more … than — comparing two things |
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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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| For / since / agoBeginnerfor + a period, since + a starting point, a time + ago — how long, from when, how long before now |
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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 “will”Beginnerwill + verb — a decision, promise or prediction |
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| Obligation: must / have to / need toBeginnersaying that something is necessary |
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| Preposition + -ingIntermediateby / without / before / after + -ing — a verb after a preposition takes -ing |
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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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| 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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| Verb + prepositionIntermediatedepend on, listen to, wait for, deal with — verbs with a fixed preposition |
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