- Articles
- General rules and possessive
- Categories
- Words to learn
- Prepositions
- to/for
- in/on/at
- Other time prepositions
- Word order
- Review of affirmative and negative expressions, questions
- Subject-verb agreement in less obvious expressions
- Punctuation
- Verb tenses
- Present perfect
- Past tenses
- Past simple versus present perfect
- Perfect tenses overview
- Ways of talking about the future
- Other aspects
- Modal verbs
- Obligation and necessity
- Permission and obligation
- Possibility and probability
- The subjunctive
- Conditionals and ‘if’ sentences
- Determiners in general
- Uncountable nouns
- such/such a
- few/little/more/many
- Other confusing nouns
- another/other/others
- Defining/non defining relative clauses, which/what/that
- Possessives/noun modifiers/prepositional phrases
- Connectors: showing contrast
- Connectors: other ways of connecting ideas and paragraphs
- as/like/such as/how
- Present and past participles
- Gerunds and infinitives
- Spelling
- More false cognates
- Vocab records andd banks
- ‘Brazilian things’
- The environment
- Useful phrases and expressions for politics and diplomacy
- Commonly confused words
- Overused expressions
- Talking about increase and decrease, numbers
- Reporting, using say, tell, defend, advocate
- Adjectives
- Overview
- Adjectives ending in ‘ic’ and ‘ical’
- Comparatives and superlatives
- Making comparisons (much more than, etc)
- Adverbs
- Forming adverbs (spelling rules)
- Word order
- too and enough
- Nationalities
In addition, there will be short items on subjects that students often ask about, among them:
- Albeit or although?
- Once or since?
- Economic or economical?
- Specially or especially?
- Replace or substitute?
- Avoid or prevent?
- How do I translate ‘grande’?
- What is irony?
- Titles and honorifics
- How to write the date
- ‘a’ or ‘an’ in front of certain vowels
