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Present Perfect

Mastering the Present Perfect Simple.
Eessential for discussing experiences, recent actions, and unfinished time periods—key to sounding more natural in English! This B1-B1+ level collection of learning resources will help you understand, use, and pronounce this tense correctly, with clear explanations, engaging exercises, and real-world practice.

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State & Action Verbs

What do you think? What are you thinking? What's the difference?? Learn all about State & Action verbs here. Get confident in choosing the correct form and discover some subtle differences in interpretation.

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Futures

A collection of Modules investigating the tricky area of talking about the future correctly in English. Did you know that English doesn't actually have a 'Future Tense'? Get to grips with how we use a range of forms to indicate the future. You won't be making mistakes with 'will' after this course!

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Gerunds & Infinitives

4 Modules which take you from being a basic user of the ING & TO forms in English to being a confident super-user. We look forward to seeing you here!

Present Perfect Simple: Overview

Have you studied Present Perfect lately? Check out this handy overview resource to brush up on the form and its main uses.

Present Simple

A handy, free B1 level guide to using Present Simple Tense in English. Review what you already know and learn something new.

Uses of Perfect: News!

This free interactive B1 level module focuses on how we use Present Perfect tense to tell people about what has happened - i.e. giving NEWS!

Uses of Perfect: Talking about Experiences

This free B1 level module focuses on how to use Present Perfect tense to talk about EXPERIENCES in general, superlative & work-based situations

Present Perfect – Foundations – 2 – Present or Past?

This module helps to review and clarify the basic point that Present Perfect tense in English is used when we need to talk about Past events that are in some way also Present. Consolidate you knowledge of when the Past is actually Present and when it is really only Past.

ING or TO 4 – Continuous, Perfect & Passive Forms

Learn all about the use of Passive Gerunds, Perfect Infinitives and more. Really take your expressive power up a level.

ING or TO 3 – Tricky Verbs! Stop, Try, Regret…

'TRY learning' or 'TRY to learn'? Get clarity here about the trickiest verbs: those which use both ING & TO but with different meanings!

ING or TO 2 – Building On The Basics

Building on Module 1, here you'll learn some nuance and acquire useful expressions with ING forms. You'll discover the range of Infinitive forms that refer to future actions.

ING or TO 1 – The Basics

Learn which verbs are followed by the ING form and which by the TO form. And what about Bare Infinitives? They are covered too. Boost you knowledge of the other most common reasons to use ING & TO forms.

Predictions: Will vs Going to & more

In this free interactive module you'll learn all about making predictions in English. You're going to understand when to use Will & when to use Going to. You'll also learn other forms commonly used when predicting and talking about likelyhood.

The 3 Main Future Forms: Will/Going to/Present Continuous

Learn why "What will you do tomorrow?" is generally incorrect in English. Gain mastery over the 3 most commonly used Future Forms: Will, Going To & Present Continuous.

Present Perfect – Foundations – 1 – Perfect POVs

Why are Perfect tenses called Perfect tenses? Get clarification here and investigate the implications. Gain practice with the use of the most frequently used point of view signals, words like Since, So Far, Up To, By & Before.

States & Actions

Learn about the differences between State and Action verbs. At B1 level you know the basics, but take a deeper dive here