Study lessons for the ECL and ALCPT
Learn a rule in a few minutes, check yourself, then practice it in the trainer. Every example can be read aloud in American English, and you can translate any word into your own language.
Grammar
Each lesson has colored rule cards, tables, common mistakes and a quick check of five or six questions.
- Lesson 1
Verb tenses
All 12 tenses with their form, their use and the time words that signal them, plus the ways to talk about the future.
- Lesson 2
Conditionals
Zero, first, second, third and mixed conditionals, plus unless, in case, wish, if only and formal inversion.
- Lesson 3
Modal verbs
Ability, permission, obligation, prohibition, advice and deduction, plus past modals such as should have and must have.
- Lesson 4
Passive voice
Active to passive in every tense, with modals, by + agent, two objects, the get-passive and "It is said that…".
- Lesson 5
Reported speech
Reporting statements, questions and orders: tense changes, pronouns, time words, say or tell, and reporting verbs.
- Lesson 6
Causative and subjunctive
Have something done, have someone do, get someone to do, make and let, plus the subjunctive after insist, suggest and demand.
- Lesson 7
Gerunds and infinitives
Verbs followed by -ing, by to + verb, or by both with a change in meaning, and the verb form after each helping word.
- Lesson 8
Relative clauses
who, which, that, whose, where and when, defining and non-defining clauses, and how to shorten them.
- Lesson 9
Questions and tags
Question word order, subject questions, embedded questions ("Do you know where…?"), tag questions and "So do I".
- Lesson 10
Adjectives and comparisons
Adjectives and adverbs, -ed and -ing adjectives, comparatives and superlatives, as… as, too and enough, so and such.
- Lesson 11
Nouns, articles and quantifiers
Countable and uncountable nouns, plural rules, a, an, the or no article, and much, many, few, little, some, any.
- Lesson 12
Pronouns
Subject, object and possessive pronouns, reflexives, each other, another and the other, and someone or anyone.
- Lesson 13
Prepositions
Prepositions of time, place and movement, plus the fixed adjective, verb and noun combinations that the ECL tests.
- Lesson 14
Linking words
Conjunctions and discourse markers: although, despite, however, therefore, because of, so that, and inversion after negative words.
Words and expressions
With flashcards, a quiz and a mode that hides the meanings so you can test yourself.
How to use the lessons
Read and listen
Read the rule cards and press the speaker button to hear each example in American English.
Check yourself
Answer the quick check at the end of the lesson. The explanation appears as soon as you answer.
Practice in the trainer
Each lesson links to the matching questions in the trainer, where your mistakes come back until you know them.
On a computer with Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge, hold the mouse over any word in a lesson to see it in your language. On any device, the Translate button opens a translation box: English to Arabic by default, and you can choose another language.