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READING & USE OF ENGLISH: Part 1
Introduction to Part 1
1 Step
Introduction
Phrasal Verbs
6 Steps
Getting Started
Phrasal Verb Types
The Meaning of Particles
Multiple Meanings
Phrasal-Prepositional Verbs
Exam Practice
READING & USE OF ENGLISH: Part 2
Introduction to Part 2
1 Step
Introduction
Articles
5 Steps
Getting Started
What Do You Already Know?
The Indefinite Article
The Definite Article
Exam Focus
Determiners and Pronouns
8 Steps
Getting Started
Each and Every
Some and Any
No, None, Not Any
One, Other, Another
Either and Neither
All and Whole
Exam Focus
Quantifiers
6 Steps
Getting Started
Some, Any, Much, Many
Too Much and Too Many
A Few, A Little, Few, Little
More, Less, Fewer
Practice
Linking Words
9 Steps
Getting Started
Addition Linkers
Not Only … But Also …
Contrast Linkers
Adjective + As / Though
Mixed Linkers
Formal v Informal
Exam Practice
Complex Sentences
READING & USE OF ENGLISH: Part 3
Introduction to Part 3
1 Step
Introduction
Prefixes
3 Steps
Getting Started
Prefixes with Opposite Meaning
Prefixes with Other Meanings
Suffixes
5 Steps
Suffixes and What They Do
Noun Suffixes
Adjective Suffixes
Confusing Suffixes
Mixed Suffixes
Prefixes with Suffixes
4 Steps
Words with Prefixes and Suffixes
Task Practice 1
Task Practice 2
Task Practice 3
Compound Words
3 Steps
Compound Nouns
Compound Adjectives
Nouns from Phrasal Verbs
Exam Practice
3 Steps
Exam Practice 1
Exam Practice 2
Exam Practice 3
READING & USE OF ENGLISH: Part 4
Introduction to Part 4
1 Step
Introduction
Verb Patterns
7 Steps
Getting Started
Perfecting the Patterns
Verbs with More than One Pattern
Patterns with Reporting Verbs
Patterns with Prepositional Verbs
Practising the Patterns
Exam Practice
Exam Practice
Stuff
Test
Templates
Activities
Participle Clauses
7 Steps
Getting Started
What Do You Already Know?
Grasping the Grammar
Participles Practice
Further Practice
Final Practice
Participles in Narratives
Relative Clauses
7 Steps
Getting Started
What Do You Already Know?
Defining Relative Clauses
Non-defining Relative Clauses and Some Very Important Rules
Which Followed by Question Words
Nominal Relative Clauses
Final Practice
Passives
7 Steps
Getting Started
When to Use the Passive
Which Verbs to Use in the Passive
Thinking about Tense
Direct and Indirect Objects
Reporting in the Passive
The Causative and Need
Modals of Deduction
6 Steps
Getting Started
Focusing on Meaning
Focusing on Form
Practice
Focusing on Pronunciation
Exam Focus
Time and Tense
11 Steps
Getting Started: What Do You Already Know?
State and Performative Verbs
Talking about the Present
Talking about the Present and Past: Past Simple, Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfect Continuous
Talking about the Past
Talking about the Past 2
Talking about the Future: Will, Going to, Present Continuous, Present Simple, Modals, and Other Expressions
Talking about the Future: Future Continuous and Future Perfect
Talking about the Future in the Past
Talking about the Future: Mixed
Mixed Time and Tense
Conditionals and Unreal Past
8 Steps
Getting Started
Zero and First Conditional: General Truths and Future Possibilities
Second Conditional: Unlikely and Hypothetical Situations in the Present and Future
Third Conditional: Talking Hypothetically about the Past
Mixed Conditionals and Further Practice
Other Ways to Express Condition
Unreal Use of Past Tenses
Final Practice
Cleft Sentences
6 Steps
Getting Started
What and All
The Person Who, The Place Where, The Reason Why…
It Was, It Is…
What Happened Was, What Happens Is…
Exam Practice
Avoiding Repetition
6 Steps
Getting Started
Ellipsis and Substitution: Omitting and Replacing Words in Speech and Writing
Substituting with Pronouns, Such and So
Using Synonyms in Speech and Writing
Changing Word Form in Speech and Writing
Exam Practice
Inversion
4 Steps
Getting Started
Forming Sentences
Exam Practice
Using Inversion in Writing
Modal and Semi-Modal Verbs
7 Steps
Getting Started
Obligation and Necessity
Permission, Requests and Ability
Advice and Suggestions
Willingness and Refusal
Possibility and Probability
Fixed Expressions with Modals
Comparatives and Superlatives
4 Steps
Getting Started
Beyond the Basics
Exam Practice
Speaking Part 4
Reading Test 1
16 Steps
Reading and Use of English Part 5: Multiple Choice
Reading and Use of English Part 5: Multiple Choice 2
Reading and Use of English Part 5: Multiple Choice 3
Reading and Use of English Part 5: Multiple Choice 4
Reading and Use of English Part 6: Cross-Text Multiple Matching
Reading and Use of English Part 6: Cross-Text Multiple Matching 2
Reading and Use of English Part 6: Cross-Text Multiple Matching 3
Reading and Use of English Part 6: Cross-Text Multiple Matching 4
Reading and Use of English Part 7: Gapped Text
Reading and Use of English Part 7: Gapped Text 2
Reading and Use of English Part 7: Gapped Text 3
Reading and Use of English Part 7: Gapped Text 4
Reading and Use of English Part 8: Multiple Matching
Reading and Use of English Part 8: Multiple Matching 2
Reading and Use of English Part 8: Multiple Matching 3
Reading and Use of English Part 8: Multiple Matching 4
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Not only will phrasal verbs make you sound more natural, but they can also help you avoid making mistakes. For instance, a very common error is the misuse of the verb update when talking about news and current affairs:

I try to update about the news by reading articles online

I watch the news to update me on what’s going on around the world


An easy way to avoid such errors is to use keep up with instead:

I try to keep up with the news by reading articles online

I watch the news to keep up with what’s going on around the world