Headway Level Intermediate
Lesson 01: The Tense System
THE TENSE SYSTEM
A variety of accents
1 The capital city of my country was specially designed and built with wide tree-lined streets, radiating out in all directions er… from the city centre. They join concentric ring roads, and are all pretty well identical. This is in federal territory, on the border of New South Wales and Victoria. The drawback is, that it`s almost impossible to find your way around it, even after you`ve lived there for years! (Canberra) […]
Lesson 02: Present perfect simple and continuous
PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS
AS YOU LIKE IT (by W. Shakespeare) Act II, Scene 7.
All the world`s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts, […]
Lesson 03: Verb patterns
VERB PATTERNS
My first job
I = Interviewer
L = Liz […]
Lesson 04: Question forms
QUESTION FORMS
A ghost story
S = Stephanie
R = Rob […]
Lesson 05: Narrative tenses
NARRATIVE TENSES
What happened while the train was in the tunnel?
One day, a few years ago, a train was travelling through the English countryside. This was in the days when trains had small compartments, and in one particular compartment there were four people. There was a young girl, quite pretty […]
Lesson 06: Expressing quantity
EXPRESSING QUANTITY
Changing rates of employment
West Germany had one of the lowest rates of unemployment back in 1980. It stood at just three per cent. But then over the next three years it rose quite sharply and steadily. […]
Lesson 07: Future forms
FUTURE FORMS
Sentences for completion
1 In the month just finished, Britain`s exports rose by ten per cent. In the same period, it`s […]
Lesson 08: Description
DESCRIPTION
A Victorian family
A = Annie
G = Grandmother […]
Lesson 09: Modal verbs of deduction
MODAL VERBS OF DEDUCTION
An arranged marriage
I = Interviewer
R = Raj […]
Lesson 10: Expressing habit
EXPRESSING HABIT
Johnny Morris, the animal expert
The crowd behaved like animals, just like animals. […]
