The future with will: I'll help you

Vocabulary

Words 301 to 310

Review session

Word Bubbles review session

Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

Vocabulary

Words 311 to 320

Phrase session

Can I try it on? In a shop

Ask for things, try clothes on, say no politely, and pay.

Vocabulary

Words 321 to 330

Common mistake

I am 20, not I have 20

Age, being right, being sure, being late: English uses am, not have.

Vocabulary

Words 331 to 340

Grammar primer

The future with will: I'll help you

Will for what you decide now, offers, promises and guesses. Will never changes: no -s, no to, and won't for not.

Grammar primer

Going to: a plan you made before

I'm going to call Mum: am, is or are + going to for a plan from before, or when you can see it coming. Then the one question: will or going to?

Grammar primer

Plans and timetables: I'm meeting Sara at six

The present continuous for a plan with a time (I'm meeting Sara at six) and the present simple for a timetable (the train leaves at nine).

Vocabulary

Words 341 to 351

Review session

Crossword review session

Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

Vocabulary

Words 352 to 361

Review session

Word Bubbles review session

Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

Grammar primer

Must, have to and should

I must go, she has to work, I had to wait, and you should see a doctor: what is necessary, and what is a good idea.

Grammar primer

Mustn't or don't have to?

You mustn't open it (do not do it) and you don't have to come (you can choose): they look alike and say very different things.

Vocabulary

Words 362 to 371

Phrase session

Is it far? Asking the way

Stop someone in the street, ask the way, and understand the answer.

Grammar primer

Irregular verbs: buy, bought, bought

The three forms of a verb, the verbs that never change (cut, cut, cut), and the big group with one new form for both: buy, bought, bought.

Grammar primer

Irregular verbs: see, saw, seen and sing, sang, sung

The verbs with three different forms (see, saw, seen), the ones whose third form is the base (come, came, come), and the i, a, u family.

Vocabulary

Words 372 to 381

Common mistake

make or do?

Many languages have one verb for both. English splits them.

Vocabulary

Words 382 to 391

Review session

Crossword review session

Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

Vocabulary

Words 392 to 400

Listen first

Listen first: A Day Together

Listen to this chapter's story before you read it. The words stay hidden until you want them. Then answer the questions.

Read a story

Story milestone: top 400 words

You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or below the rank-400 ceiling.

Arcade review

Arcade review

Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.