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Look Inside Learning English.

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This page lists all the modules in Learning English, and some of the key words, phrases, or ideas that you will learn about. Then you can try one of the modules, without a password, using the free-try link.

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LEARNING ENGLISH

A Look Inside Learning English.

Learning English has five main parts: Grammar, Use Of English, Comprehension, Phonetics, and Support. Each of these parts has smaller parts, or modules. Each module is about one important topic.

THE GRAMMAR MODULES

BUILDING A LANGUAGE FOR LIFE

The Grammar Modules.

The Learning English Grammar Modules explain how to use, change, and combine words to express our thoughts, feelings, and ideas, and talk about activities and events in the past, present, and future.

MODULE NAME	KEY WORD, PHRASE, OR IDEA
States, Activities, Events, and Time	state	activity	event	time
Simple and Continuous Verb Forms	time	event	ing verb	ing-less verb
Expressing Time	point	period	quantity	quality
Expressing Events	event	activity	change	effect
Future Verb Forms	will	shall	going to	short form 'll
Past Verb Forms	verb ending ed	over	finished	completed
Auxiliary Verbs	am	will	should	would
Perfect Verb Forms	have done	have been doing	had done	had been doing
The Future in the Past	would have been	could have been	should have done	was going to
The Past in the Future	will have been	will have done	shall have been	shall have done
Communication and Awareness	hear	see	listen to	look at
Appearance and Condition	am	seems	appears	looks
Expressing Possibilty	can	could	may	might
Expressing Obligation	must	should	have to	ought to
Expressing Quantity	many	much	few	less
Question Forms	? how	what when	where which	who why
Prepositions	at by	from in	of on	to with
Conditionals	if	then	whether	unless
Gerunds, or Verbal Nouns	shopping	eating	talking	sightseeing
Adjectives and Adverbs	quick	quicker	quickest	quickly

THE USE OF ENGLISH MODULES

HOW DO I SAY IT?

The Use Of English Modules.

The Learning English Use Of English Modules explain how to use, change, and combine words to express our thoughts, feelings, and ideas, and talk about activities and events.

MODULE NAME	KEY WORD, PHRASE, OR IDEA
Styles In English	written	spoken	formal	casual
Phrasal Verbs	cut up	fall through	give up	put by
Using The Verb to get	have	receive	change	turn
Possibility And Obligation	can	could	must	have to
Appropriate Responses	agree	refuse	consider	delay
Advising And Informing	help	recommend	suggest	support
Describing And Explaining	tell	express	relate	clarify
Comparing And Contrasting	as	like	than	different
Sympathising And Supporting	sorry	a pity	never mind	doesn't matter
Deducing And Interpreting	means	seems to be	therefore	thus
Estimating And Evaluating	equal	quite	more or less	approximately
Assessing And Forecasting	should	generally	specifically	as a rule
Reporting And Summarising	briefly	in fact	in short	to summarise
Agreeing And Disagreeing	yes	no	agree	disagree
Enthusing And Encouraging	of course	love to	really	well done
Expressing Preferences	like	prefer	would like	rather
Offers And Suggestions	shall	let's	what about	why don't we
Habits And Routines	regular	usual	used to	would
The Functions Of going to	plan	intend	expect	result
Idioms	ups and downs	ins and outs	meaning	style

THE COMPREHENSION MODULES

WHAT'S IN THE NEWSPAPER?

The Comprehension Modules.

The Learning English Comprehension Modules explain how to make a summary, or version, of written or spoken information, interpret diagrams and pictures, and understand meaning.

MODULE NAME

Understanding Meaning

Summarising Written Text

Summarising Spoken Text

Understanding Diagrams

Understanding Pictures

Similarities and Differences

Evaluating Information

Appreciating Text

Implications and Irony

Reading Practice

THE PHONETICS MODULES

THE SOUNDS OF SPEECH

The Phonetics Modules.

The Learning English Phonetics Modules explain how pronunciation, emphasis, intonation, and rhythm create a melody in speech which can change, or add to, meaning.

MODULE NAME

The Sounds Of Language

Vowels

Consonants

Intonation

Emphasis

The th Sound

Regional Differences

A Clear Voice

THE SUPPORT MODULES

A WEIGHT OFF YOUR MIND

The Support Modules.

The Learning English Support Modules are about punctuation, abbreviations, meeting people, telephone calls, quantities, spelling, directions, names, and addresses, and other everyday things you need to know about when you live, work, or holiday in the UK.

MODULE NAME

The Language Of Language

Punctuation, Signs, and Symbols

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Meeting People

Using the Telephone

Writing Letters

Casual Language

Humour

Quantity and Measurement

Names and Addresses

Asking for Directions

Gender

Collective Nouns

Confusing Words

Word Pairs

The Alphabet

Foreign Words

Irregular Verbs

Spelling

The Language of Business

The Time Map

WHAT DO WORDS MEAN?

I KNEW IT YESTERDAY

The Language Of Language.

To explain language, we have to use more language. Although we try to use simple explanations, there will be words that you don't know.

The first of the Support modules is called The Language Of Language. It explains the words we use to define and describe language. You can refer to it from any of the modules.