This document provides a summary of an English review course taught by Nguyen Tra My. It outlines the key verb tenses, structures, and grammar points that will be covered in the course, including present, past, future and perfect tenses; modal verbs; conditionals; passive voice; reported speech; question tags; adjectives and adverbs; prepositions; and noun/adjective/verb combinations with prepositions. Students who participate in the review course will have the opportunity to practice prior exam papers and receive guidance on achieving high scores.

1. Chuong trình ôn thi Tiếng Anh
Nguyễn Trà My
Giảng viên khoa Anh
Đại học Hà Nội

2. Verb tenses
1. Present simple
• S+V
• He/She/It + V-s/es
2. Present continuous
• S + am/is/are + V-ing

3. Verb tenses
3. Present perfect
• S + have/has + V-past participle
• S + have/has + just/ already + V-past participle
• S + have/has + not + V-past participle + yet
• OR Have/Has + S + V-past participle + yet?

4. Verb tenses
• Gone to and been to
• For + a period of time and since + the start of
a period
• It’s the (first) time something has happened.
4. Present perfect continuous
• S + have/has been + V-ing

5. Verb tenses
5. Past simple
• S + V (past simple)
• It’s (a long time/ two years etc) since something
happened.
6. Past continuous
• S + was/were + V-ing
7. Past perfect
• S + had + V-past participle
8. Future simple
• S + will/shall + V

6. Verb tenses
9. Future continuous
• S + will be + V-ing
10. Future perfect
• S + will have + V-past participle
11. Used to + V

7. Modal verbs
• Can, could, must, may, might, etc
• Must is similar to have to, BUT mustn’t and
don’t have to are completely different
• Needn’t and don’t/doesn’t need to are the
same.

8. If conditionals
1. 1st conditional
• If + S + V (present simple), S + will + V.
2. 2nd conditional
• If + S + V (past simple), S + would + V.
3. 3rd conditional
• If + S + V (past perfect), S + would have + V
(past participle).

9. Passive
• To be + V (past participle)
He built this house in 1980 (active)
→ This house was built in 1980 (passive)
• Am/is/are + V-ing → Am/is/are + being + V
(past participle)
• Have/get + something + V (past participle)

10. Reported speech
• My parents are very well. → She said that her
parents were very well.
• I want to buy a car → She told me that she
wanted to buy a car.
• ‘Stay in bed for a few days’ the doctor said to
me → The doctor told me to stay in bed for a
few days.

11. Question tags
• Positive sentence + negative tag
Kate will be here soon, won’t she?
There was a lot of traffic, wasn’t there?
• Negative sentence + positive tag
They don’t like us, do they?
Tom doesn’t look well today, does he?

12. Adjectives & Adverbs
• Adjectives ending in –ing and –ed (e.g.
boring/bored, interesting/
interested, surprising/surprised, tiring/tired, e
tc)
• Many adverbs are formed from an adjectives +
-ly.
E.g.
quick/quickly, careful/carefully, bad/badly, hea
vy/heavily

13. Adjectives & Adverbs (Comparison)
• er for short words and two-syllable ones that
end in –y (y →ier); more … for longer words
E.g. cheap/
cheaper, short/shorter, lucky/luckier, happy/h
appier expensive/more
expensive, serious/more serious
• (Not) as … as
E.g. He isn’t as old as he looks. Or I got here as
fast as I could.

14. Adjectives & Adverbs (Superlatives)
• -est for short words and most … for longer
ones
E.g. longest, hottest, most difficult, most
interesting
• Irregular adjectives/adverbs
E.g. Good/well – better – best, bad/badly –
worse – worst, far – further/farther –
furthest/farthest

15. Preposition (time & position)
• For + a period of time, during + noun & while
S+V
• At, on and in (time)
• On time and in time
• At the end and in the end
• In/at/on (position + other uses)

16. Conjunctions
• Although/ though/even though, S + V
• In spite of / despite + noun/pronoun or V-
ing, S + V
• Unless
• As long as/ so long as/ provided (that)/
providing (that)
• As = because = since
• As if / as though + S + V

17. Noun/ Adjective/Verb + Preposition
• Noun + Preposition
E.g. a demand/ need for, an advantage of, a
cause of, a picture of, an increase/ a fall in, a
solution to, a relationship with, etc

18. Noun/ Adjective/Verb + Preposition
• Adjective + Preposition
E.g. nice/ kind/ good/ polite/ stupid/ silly of
somebody
Nice/ polite/ generous/ rude/ cruel to somebody
Angry/ annoyed/ furious about smt/ with smb for
doing smt
Sorry about/ for, afraid of, fond of, aware of, full
of, tired of, good/bad at, similar to, different
from, interested in, famous for, responsible for
etc

19. • Verb + Preposition
E.g. talk to smb, listen to, look at, stare at, laugh
at, talk about, read about, take care of, ask smb
for smt, apply for , wait for , look for, look
after, dream about, dream of (= imagine), think
about (= concentrate smb’s mind), think of (=
give opinion)
Accuse smb of , approve of , die of , consist of
, pay for , thank smb for, apologise to smb
for, suffer from , protect smb/smt from

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