BRITISH COUNCIL/EAQUALS CORE INVENTORY

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Grammar Adjectives: common and Adjectives – comparative – use of Adverbs Adjectives and adverbs Futures (revision)
demonstrative than and definite article Broader range of intensifiers such Future continuous Inversion with negative adverbials
Adverbs of frequency Adjectives – superlative – use of as too, enough Future perfect Mixed conditionals in past, present
Comparatives and superlatives definite article Comparatives and superlatives Future perfect continuous and future
Going to Adverbial phrases of time, place Complex question tags Mixed conditionals Modals in the past
How much/how many and very and frequency – including word Conditionals, 2nd and 3rd Modals – can’t have, needn’t have Narrative tenses for experience,
common uncountable nouns order Connecting words expressing Modals of deduction and incl. passive
I’d like Adverbs of frequency cause and effect, contrast etc. speculation Passive forms, all
Imperatives (+/-) Articles – with countable and Future continuous Narrative tenses Phrasal verbs, especially splitting
Intensifiers – very basic uncountable nouns Modals – must/can’t deduction Passives Wish/if only regrets
Modals: can/can’t/could/couldn’t Countables and Uncountables: Modals – might, may, will, Past perfect
Past simple of “to be” much/many probably Past perfect continuous
Past Simple Future Time (will and going to) Modals – should have/might Phrasal verbs, extended
Possessive adjectives Gerunds have/etc Relative clauses
Possessive s Going to Modals: must/have to Reported speech
Prepositions, common Imperatives Past continuous Will and going to, for prediction
Prepositions of place Modals – can/could Past perfect Wish
Prepositions of time, including Modals – have to Past simple Would expressing habits, in the
in/on/at Modals – should Past tense responses past
Present continuous Past continuous Phrasal verbs, extended
Present simple Past simple Present perfect continuous
Pronouns: simple, personal Phrasal verbs – common Present perfect/past simple
Questions Possessives – use of ’s, s’ Reported speech (range of
There is/are Prepositional phrases (place, tenses)
To be, including question+negatives time and movement) Simple passive
Verb + ing: like/hate/love Prepositions of time: on/in/at Wh- questions in the past
Present continuous Will and going to, for prediction
Present continuous for future
Present perfect
Questions
Verb + ing/infinitive:
like/want/would like
Wh-questions in past
Zero and 1st conditional
Vocabulary Food and drink Adjectives: personality, Collocation Collocation Approximating (vague language)
Nationalities and countries description, feelings Colloquial language Colloquial language Collocation
Personal information Food and drink Things in the town, shops and Colloquial language
Things in the town, shops and Things in the town, shops and shopping Differentiated use of vocabulary
shopping shopping Travel and services Eliminating false friends
Verbs – basic Travel and services Formal and informal registers
Idiomatic expressions

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Functions Directions Describing habits and routines Checking understanding Critiquing and reviewing Conceding a point
Describing habits and routines Describing past experiences Describing experiences and Describing experiences Critiquing and reviewing
Giving personal information Describing people events Describing feelings and emotions constructively
Greetings Describing places Describing feelings and emotion Describing hopes and plans Defending a point of view
Telling the time Describing things Describing places Developing an argument persuasively
Understanding and using numbers Obligation and necessity Expressing opinions; language of Encouraging and inviting another Developing an argument
Understanding and using prices Requests agreeing and disagreeing speaker to continue, come in systematically
Suggestions Initiating and closing Expressing abstract ideas Emphasizing a point, feeling, issue
conversation Expressing agreement and Expressing attitudes and feelings
Managing interaction disagreement precisely
(interrupting, changing topic, Expressing opinions Expressing certainty, probability,
resuming or continuing) Expressing reaction, e.g. doubt
indifference Expressing opinions tentatively,
Interacting informally, reacting, hedging
expressing interest, sympathy, Expressing reaction, e.g.
surprise etc. indifference
Opinion, justification Expressing shades of opinion and
Speculating certainty
Taking the initiative in interaction Responding to counterarguments
Synthesizing, evaluating, glossing Speculating and hypothesising
info about causes, consequences etc.
Synthesising, evaluating and
glossing information
Discourse Connecting words, and, but, Linkers: sequential – past time Connecting words expressing Connecting words expressing cause Linking devices, logical markers
markers because cause and effect, contrast etc and effect, contrast etc. Markers to structure and signpost
Linkers: sequential past time Discourse markers to structure formal and informal speech and
formal speech writing
Linkers: although, in spite of,
despite Linkers: sequential – past
time – subsequently
Topics Family life Education Books and literature Arts Arts
Hobbies and pastimes Hobbies and pastimes Education Books and literature Books and literature
Holidays Holidays Film Education Film
Leisure activities Leisure activities Leisure activities Film Media
Shopping Shopping Media Media News, lifestyles and current affairs
Work and jobs Work and jobs News, lifestyles and current News, lifestyles and current affairs Scientific developments
affairs Technical and legal language

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