English Phrasal Verbs, Vocabulary, Grammar & Tenses

Unit 1 Phrasal Verbs

Break down: damaged
Clear up: order
Eat in: enter
Come over: come
Put up: to hang up
Take down: withdraw
Wash up: scrubbing

Unit 2 Phrasal Verbs

Get by: move forward
Go up: climb, rise
Let off: let go
Look after: take care of
Set up: create
Shut down: close

Unit 3 Phrasal Verbs

Make up: make nice / makeup / invent / make
Take on: agree / acquire / contract

Unit 4 Vocabulary

Application: application
Boss: boss
Care assistant: personal assistance
Cash: money
Caterer: catering staff
High-flyer: ambitious person
License: license
Skyscraper: skyscrapers
Stunt performer: specialist
Technician: technical
Apply for: request, application
Qualify: obtain a degree
Train: train, instruct
Caring: comprehensive
Cooperative: collaborator
Energetic: full of energy
Flexible: flexible
Hard-working: worker
Imaginative: imaginative
Reliable: reliable
Sociable: sociable

Unit 5 Phrasal Verbs

Call off: cancel
Join in: join, participate in
Sell out: run out
Set up: mount
Sign up: sign, contract
Turn up: arrive
Warm up: rehearsing before the concert

Verb plus preposition

Agree with: agree with
Break up: dissolve
Complain about: complain about
Help with: help
Insist on: stress
Listen for: pay attention
Listen to: listen
Participate in: participate
Recover from: recover from
Rely on: trust
Resign from: resign
Search for: search

Unit 6 Topic Vocabulary

Latest: latest
Old-fashioned: outdated
Pricey: expensive
Reasonably-priced: reasonably priced
Second-hand: second hand
Sophisticated: sophisticated
Top quality: high quality
Trendy: trendy
Ban: ban
Brand: brand
Charity shop: store linked to a charity
Designer label: designer clothing
Hooligan: thug
Mall: commercial center
Range: range
Receipt: ticket purchase
Rubbish: junk
Security guard: security guard
Shopaholic: shopaholic
Store: store

Manners

Must: obligation to do
Must not: prohibition
Have to: obligation
Had to: past obligation
Will have to: future obligation
Need not: no obligation
Should/Ought to: advice
Can: ability, permission
Cannot: inability, impossibility
Could: past ability
May: possibility
Might: lesser possibility
Be able to: be capable

Liabilities

Present Simple Passive: am/is/are + past participle
Present Continuous Passive: am/is/are + being + past participle
Future Going To Passive: am/is/are + going to be + past participle
Past Simple Passive: was/were + past participle
Past Continuous Passive: was/were + being + past participle
Present Perfect Simple Passive: have/has + been + past participle
Past Perfect Simple Passive: had + been + past participle
Modal Passive: modal + be + past participle
Have something done: subject + have (correct tense) + object + past participle

Tenses

Present Simple: usual habit, permanent state (e.g., he plays)
Keywords: always, usually, often, sometimes, seldom, never, every, like, love, hate, want, think, know, remember
Present Continuous: now, temporary, future plan (e.g., he is playing)
Keywords: now, at the moment, today, tonight, this, think about
Past Simple: started and ended in the past (e.g., drank, went, saw)
Keywords: last, when, yesterday, then, ago, while + past continuous
Past Continuous: action in progress at a past moment (e.g., I was playing)
Keywords: while, as
Present Perfect Simple: recent past action, unspecified time (e.g., I have eaten)
Keywords: for, since, yet, just, ever, still, already, how long, today
Present Perfect Continuous: action started in the past, continuing now and future (e.g., I have been swimming)
Keywords: how long, for, since
Past Perfect Simple: action completed before another past action (e.g., I had played)
Keywords: already, when + past simple, just
Future Going To: future plans, predictions based on evidence (e.g., am/is/are + going to)
Future Simple: predictions, spontaneous decisions (e.g., will, will not)
Keywords: someday, possibly, probably
Future Continuous: action in progress at a future time (e.g., will/will not be + -ing)
Keywords: by this time next…
Future Perfect: action completed before a future time (e.g., will/will not have + past participle)
Keywords: by the time…