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Cartoon image featuring question words 'Who?', 'What?', 'How?', and 'Why?' with a surprised character pointing at a monster, representing the theme of asking questions in English at A2 level on test-english.com.

Asking questions in English – Question forms

Cartoon of a cool character asking 'Who do you work for?' and a robot replying 'Who is asking?', from a A2 pre-intermediate grammar lesson and subject questions and questions with prepositions.

Subject questions, questions with preposition

Illustration of an alien in a spaceship with text 'I usually walk to work, but this week I'm going by spaceship', for learning Present Simple vs Present Continuous.

Present simple vs present continuous

Illustration of a piece of toast with a sad face and the text 'I woke up and I didn't know where I was. It was a toaster. I got burned.' For a grammar lesson on the form and use of the past simple.

Past simple – Form and use

Cartoon of a detective asking a skeleton, 'What were you doing at the time of the murder?' and the reply, 'I was watering my beautiful flowers? For a grammar lesson on the past continuous.

Past continuous and past simple

Humorous illustration of two characters with long hair and a rake, with text 'Rakes are used for gardening, but we use this one to comb our hair.

Expressing purpose with 'to' and 'for'

"Cartoon characters with text demonstrating the use of 'although' and 'so' in a humorous sentence about love and marriage.

However, although, because, so, and time connectors

'Will' vs 'be going to' – Future forms

Cartoon image of a child astronaut and a rocket with text 'I'm flying to Mars tomorrow morning. I'm taking the 7:30 rocket', showcasing the present continuous tense for future arrangements for A2 English level.

Present continuous for future arrangements

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Defining relative clauses – who, which, that, where

Present perfect – form and use

Present perfect – form and use

Cartoon illustration of a character answering 'Have you ever been to the jungle?' with 'Yes, I was there on holiday last year', depicting the use of Present Perfect and Past Simple tenses.

Present perfect or past simple?

Cartoon image of two toasters with one asking 'Is there anything to eat in you?' and the other replying 'There is nothing in me. I’m empty.', to illustrate the use of 'something', 'anything' 'nothing', etc.

Something, anything, nothing, etc.

Animated food characters depicting comparative and superlative adjectives: fries saying 'I'm not healthy', a chicken leg saying 'I'm healthier', and broccoli saying 'I'm the healthiest'.

Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs

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Too, too much, too many, enough

Illustration of a friendly green monster with the text 'Most people don't understand that most of my friends are the most amazing creatures,' emphasizing the grammar points 'most', 'most of', and 'the most' for A2 English level.

most, most of, the most

Cartoon image of two cars having a conversation about fuel consumption with text bubbles, 'How much fuel do you consume?' and 'Very little. I'm a hybrid!' for an A2 English grammar lesson on quantifiers.

Much, many, little, few, some, any – quantifiers

Illustration of a character pondering 'Infinitive or gerund, that is the question!' for the A2 pre-intermediate lesson on verb patterns.

Infinitives and gerunds – verb patterns

Cartoon of a jogging wolf with the caption 'I go running every morning' opposite a pig with the text 'I prefer to go to the gym,' illustrating different uses of the verb 'go' in English for an A2 level grammar lesson.

How to use the verb 'go' in English

Cartoon of a policeman saying 'You must come with me' to a businessman who replies 'But I have to go to work,' illustrating the use of 'must' for direct orders and 'have to' for personal obligations.

have to, don't have to, must, mustn't

Illustration of a cartoon squirrel and fox with the message 'You shouldn’t eat red meats', exemplifying the negative advice structure with 'shouldn’t' for an A2 English grammar lesson.

should, shouldn't

First conditional and future time clauses

First conditional and future time clauses

Subject pronouns, object pronouns, possessive pronouns, possessive adjectives

Subject and object pronouns, possessive pronouns and adjectives

Second conditional

Second conditional

Present and past simple passive: be + past participle

Present and past simple passive: be + past participle

used to, didn't use to – past habits and states

Used to, didn't use to – past habits and states

Cartoon ghost with speech bubbles saying 'Maybe' and 'It might be true, It might not be true', for A2 pre-intermediate English lesson on expressing possibility.

might, might not – possibility

Prepositions of movement – along, across, over, etc.

Prepositions of movement – along, across, over, etc.

so, neither – so am I, neither do I, etc.

So and neither – so am I, neither do I, etc.

Review of all verb tenses A2

Review of all pre-intermediate verb tenses (CEFR A2)

Past perfect

Past perfect

Reported speech – indirect speech

Reported speech – Indirect speech

Verbs with two objects

Verbs with two objects

The different uses of the verb 'get'

The different uses of the verb 'get'

Do vs Make - What's the difference?

Do vs Make - What's the difference?

Stative vs dynamic verbs (or non-action vs action verbs)

Stative vs dynamic verbs (or non-action vs action verbs)

Phrasal verbs: transitive and intransitive, separable and inseparable

Phrasal verbs: transitive and intransitive, separable and inseparable

No Longer, any Longer, anymore

No longer, any longer, anymore

On time vs In time, At the end vs In the end

On time vs In time, At the end vs In the end

Colorful grammar lesson image featuring a cartoon banana, a cool chimpanzee with sunglasses, and text examples for using 'might' and 'may.

May and might: What's the difference?