Grammar Lessons
Learn grammar through phrases you can use about yourself in IELTS Speaking and Writing. Start with the free lesson, then work through the four stages in order.
Each lesson is 99p, and every lesson is a fillable PDF with answers.
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Present, past and future: the 8 tense lessons you need for every IELTS answer. Plus free Present Simple.
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Free Lessons
Talk about your routines, habits and facts, and use it for timetables and schedules.
Use modal verbs in Speaking and Writing to give advice, opinions and possibilities.
Practise your prepositions with 12 IELTS-style questions. Check your score, correct mistakes and try again!
Stage 1. Foundations
Choose a, an, the or no article, and avoid the most common mistakes.
Describe what is happening now and temporary situations in your life.
Talk about past events accurately, with regular and irregular verbs.
Compare places, people and data, and show how big the differences are.
Use much, many, a few, a little and a lot of correctly with any noun.
Link your ideas into longer, smoother sentences with who, which and where.
Stage 2. Building
Set the scene and tell stories naturally, using when and while to connect your ideas.
Connect ideas to add information, show contrast and give reasons and results.
Talk about your experiences and describe changes that connect the past to now.
Learn 20 useful verb patterns to talk about your likes, your plans and people who have helped you.
A common source of mistakes. Choose the right tense and mix both accurately and naturally.
Use modal verbs in Speaking and Writing to give advice, opinions and possibilities.
Use will, going to and present tenses for plans, arrangements and predictions.
Stage 3. Extending
Talk about ongoing actions and how long they have lasted, with for and since.
Form and use the passive in every tense and with modal verbs, for Speaking and Writing.
Describe processes and changes clearly – essential for Task 1 Writing.
Say more in fewer words with -ing and -ed clauses.
Combine past tenses to tell stories clearly and show what happened first.
Talk about facts, real possibilities and imaginary situations correctly.
Stage 4. Higher-Level Grammar
For B2 and above: the structures that help you reach Band 7 and higher in Speaking and Writing.
Stop repeating nouns: use it, this, such and the former clearly, and fix comma splices.
By 2030, I’ll have finished… This time next year, I’ll be living… Plans and predictions.
Should have, must have, might have: regret, guess and imagine the past.
Third and mixed conditionals for regrets, lucky moments and past choices.
Never have I…, Not only…, Had I known…: high-band emphasis, used sparingly.